Games you wrote off before, but grew to love

Jedi Knight II is also very good, though I find it hard in some points, since, after all, I have zero experience with FPS. Metroid Prime was sort of the same case for me. I absolutely love Super Metroid, with a passion, and was really disappointed while no new Metroid came out. Fusion and Zero Mission, I liked a lot, but I was very upset that an american studio was making an FPS out of Metroid. Boy, was I wrong - I played it once, and for just a short while, and was absolutely amazed. I still do not own it but I'm getting a system to run it, just for that game (and F-Zero). I need those games...

Come to think of it, and if I recall correctly, I didn't exactly like Super Metroid the first time I played it. Having never played the original Metroid, and being a 16 bit game addict back in 1994, I sort of expected an action-platformer, like Mega Man or something. Once I got used to the rhythm of play and the absolutely gigantic world, and the free exploration (Super Metroid was probably one of the first, and still one of the only, games to get that right), I was absolutely hooked. Hell, I still play Super Metroid to this day, regularly.

 

I didn't really care for Morrowind. It was fun for a few months, but I found the main quest boring and the game just didn't do anything for me after my character was at godlike levels. I say try out Arena (free download at Bethesda's site) and Daggerfall if you don't mind older games. Daggerfall is my favorite, but you'll be paying a fair bit for that one if you decide to buy it.

Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II is one of my favorite games. I never played much of the first one, and the sequel (Jedi Outcast) is dissappointing.

I was skeptical about Katamari Damacy after my friend told me what it was about, but I started playing it at his house one night. I went out a bought a copy for myself the next day .

 

I used to not like FPSs, either, but I grew to like them, mainly because of Goldeneye 64.

 

Now that's a game that never grew on me. I don't like Mario Kart either, any of its iterations. I loved Killer Instinct when I got it, but ended up hating it and avoiding it like the plague.
The N64 itself, I grew to love recently. I never really did have one (yup, I'm part of the "Nintendo to Sony" bandwagon) until about a year ago, but some years ago I borrowed my friend's machine and it wasn't that bad. I love StarFox 64, and Rogue Squadron on it, and, of course, F-Zero X - games I never would have owned or even played because of the system, some years ago (Even if I did own and love the Super Nes versions of StarFox and F-Zero).

 

Hell yeah, I used to string about 6 or 7 hit combos. One thing I really liked about the game was the enemies. Their animations were some times hilarious [a lot of times stupid]. My favorite guy was spike, "because I'm gonna STICK IT TO YA" :smt042

 

I recently started playing Neverwinter Nights after writing it off for about 2 years. I really love the game now, especially being evil to the peasants.

 

Ultimate blasphemy: Final fantasy III (SNES) ME: "What is this game you keep playing all the time?! (puzzled look) Soon I was hooked like a tuna.

 

so many of the games i love today i wrote off when i first played them, a lot of the time it happens when i play, say game x, don't really care for it, then play another similar game or another one in the same series and then go back to game x and love it the second time around.
here are three that come to mind:

megaman legends/rockman dash: before i played it all i knew of the game was that it was in 3d so i was expecting a game that followed the previous series formula; pick a stage and fight a boss. what i found really just confused the hell out of me. i didn't appreciate this one until i played the second. it was the only megaman series were i really payed attention to the story, and before playing the second one a lot of the first really didn't make sense to me. first i couldn't tell what rock was, was he a robot? human? i think it was because i was dwelling on this, and how the series related on the others, was what really distracted me from the rest of the game. anyway things became much clearer after the second where you learn what rock is and how he came to be, that's when all the events in the first one come together and make sense. i now love this series, and think it's quite imaginative in contrast to the others and how it's related, as keiji inafune has stated the game does in fact take place in the normal timeline, just really far ahead in the future (classic, x, zero, dash).

ikaruga: when i first played it i felt like it was too much puzzle game and not enough shooter. i sucked at chaining, so after a lot of frustration at one point i stopped trying and just decided to blast everything i saw and beat the game, that way i felt like i could move onto another game (i like to at least finish a game before i move onto another) i didn't come back to the game for nearly a year, but the second time around was when i began noticing more and more places were i could improve on chains, and better ways to keep them, and that's when the game really became fun for me.

nights: i played it the week it came out at blockbuster for about an hour before an employee told me to rent something or get out. i wasn't crazy about it because at first i apparently sucked at it, because i couldn't get better than a c rank on any of the stages. i later bought the game several years later, and sucked at it again at first, but then i noticed you could fly over the gate after you destroy that octopus looking thingy you need to destroy on each level, and it turned out i just didn't realize that you were supposed to keep on going thru the level collecting points until the time ran out, ha i felt soo noob for that.

 

I used to not like Mystical Ninja starring Goemon for the N64, but it was so hilarious that I started to love it!
Here is a sample of the bizzare humor from that game...
http://www.rpgclassics.com/~onlinelife/Impact.html

 

Exactly the same with me. Initially, I was a bit disappointed with it, but now it's my favourite game of all time.