Which One Piece games to play if I have no interest in watching or reading the series?

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I have never watched the series and at this point I never will because quite frankly I don't have the time to sit through 1000+ chapters when even a 13 chapters one takes me about a week, so here is the question: Which games do I play if I want to understand most of the series without ever having to watch a single chapter?
 
Obviously if the point is you actually trying to completely understand the series, i'm gonna say there's technically no game series that adapt One Piece completely unlike Naruto with its Storm Series for example.

But considering that you just want to know the Story then, the closest for this One Piece Kaizoku Musou series, you can roughly get atleast 70% of the plot without the nuance just playing that series of a game, but beware it definitely cannot substitute with you watching or reading the series directly.
 
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Oh definitely, I believe the only series that you can realistically play through the entire plot and not miss anything is Dragon Ball. You can play through the original series on both Origins games on the DS, Z has Kakarot and Xenoverse which also covers some of Super arcs so I guess you are missing some GT stuff but that one is only 64 episodes so not that bad to watch. l will take a look at the Musou series, I also don't expect it to have the most recent stuff but that's fine.
 
Unofficial mobile game called: OP:Sailing Kingdom. On the Google store.
 
I recommend One Piece Odyssey. It is my entry point to the series.

Sidenote: I played it because my wife is a One Piece fan and she isn't good at playing RPGs, but wants to know the game's story, which is supervised by the original author.
 
Also, all you need to know is JoyBoy(White Haired Luffy) is the strongest in the series.
 
Any of the Grand Battle games. They're fighting games. The JP-only 3DS one is very good. You can also play the Pirate Warriors musou games, though there's some story to those.
 
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One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4. But don't expect it to cover all of the arcs.
 
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One Piece Treasure Cruise on mobile. It has a story mode that takes you from island to island/arc to arc in order and between stages it has a super abridged version of the events that are going on. You won't get most of the small details (if any), but you definitely know who's who and why they're doing what they're doing. I'm not sure how long it would take to go through it, but I'm pretty sure you could do it quicker than any of the musou games and definitely quicker than Odyssey.
 
That action adventure for GBA. Pirate Warriors musou is okay too.
 
I have yet to play the games but I am like 980+ episodes into one piece.
 
All I know from One Piece comes from Pirate Warriors 3 and 4 and the Unlimited Cruise games.

I don't think there is a game that helps to really discover the story correctly.
 
None lmao, better off just watching a youtube vid to get the story without reading it.
 
None? I mean, why do play a game based on a manga/anime you never read/watched? If you don't know the characters, there is no use in playing it.
 
None? I mean, why do play a game based on a manga/anime you never read/watched? If you don't know the characters, there is no use in playing it.

Because the gameplay is fun and the characters and universe interesting enough but not to the point of reading / watching the whole thing.
 
Because the gameplay is fun and the characters and universe interesting enough but not to the point of reading / watching the whole thing.
But what's the point in playing a game where you don't know any of its characters?
 
Couldn't you say that about any game?
It's not like playing Tekken or Soul Calibur. When it comes to anime based videogames it's different, because you're supposed to play them knowing the original source. I would never play the JoJo games seen I never watched the anime, the same for the Gundam or Attack on Titan.
 
It's not like playing Tekken or Soul Calibur. When it comes to anime based videogames it's different, because you're supposed to play them knowing the original source. I would never play the JoJo games seen I never watched the anime, the same for the Gundam or Attack on Titan.
What an odd restriction to put on yourself. You didn't know any Tekken characters the first time you played it either, and what if you came across a game first without knowing that there's an anime for it? Like if you first encountered Jojo as a game... how is it different?
 
What an odd restriction to put on yourself. You didn't know any Tekken characters the first time you played it either, and what if you came across a game first without knowing that there's an anime for it? Like if you first encountered Jojo as a game... how is it different?
I don't know how else to put it. No one know a videogame's roster if it's his/her first one, like Tekken indeed. From my point of view, you play Dragon Ball FighterZ because you like the manga or the anime and want to try one of the many videogames based on it.
 
I don't know how else to put it. No one know a videogame's roster if it's his/her first one, like Tekken indeed. From my point of view, you play Dragon Ball FighterZ because you like the manga or the anime and want to try one of the many videogames based on it.
That's fair, but I've seen the opposite happen too. Heck, there was even a podcast I listened to where some guys did a DBZ watchalong show solely because they tried FighterZ and wondered what was up with these guys screaming and blowing up mountains, heh.
 
That's fair, but I've seen the opposite happen too. Heck, there was even a podcast I listened to where some guys did a DBZ watchalong show solely because they tried FighterZ and wondered what was up with these guys screaming and blowing up mountains, heh.
Makes sense to me, playing Jump Superstars with my younger brother made me look up Gintama to see what those characters were about, turned into something I enjoyed reading for awhile.
 
But what's the point in playing a game where you don't know any of its characters?

Again, the gameplay. And even if you don't watch the anime or read the manga, you can appreciate the characters and / or the universe.

Never read or watched One Piece, yet One Piece Unlimited Cruise is one of my favorite games, and Pirate Warriors 3 one of my favorite musou.
I enjoyed Gintama Ramble. Never read the manga.
Same with Arslan.
Same with Cyborg 009.
Same with the Bleach fighting game on game boy advance.
Same with Ghost Sweeper Mikami.

List goes on. And it's a VERY long list.

Knowing the source material is rarely a prerequisite to enjoy a licensed game.
 

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