Best Game You Gave a Second Chance

[PatrickXD]

Arx Fatalis. I played it for about 2 hours, was horrifically confused and promptly stopped playing it. A few months later I was determined to enjoy it, and really came ot enjoy discovering the nuances of the game, and really felt like I was improving and discovering new things along with my character.

 

[ToffeeMC]

CoD: WaW
Mainly because I'd got XBL and tried this again, but playing local sucked because of the split screen size, and the campaign was nothing special to begin with. Then I thought it was good when I got real multiplayer. Nothing spectacular, mind, but I don't give many things second chances, let alone games.

Captcha: narrow-minded
Not for this game, buddy

 

[Lt._nefarious]

Bioshock... Hated when I first got it but went back a couple months later and now its my most played game...

 

[aba1]

I am actually surprised nobody mention MGS1 yet. I played it and got stuck at the part when they ask you to get Meral's codec number from the back of the box. I came back to it over a year later and finally understood because I had rented it the first time and played the hell out of it 4 times. The same sorta thing happened to most of my friends.

 

[Dethenger]

Dragon Age: Origins. Didn't get very far the first time around, got bored, lost interest. Came back to it almost a year later and thoroughly enjoyed it.

 

[Yokillernick]

Oblivion

At first I was too overwhelmed by the idea of a whole open world RPG as I was used to mostly being led by the nose by FPS's *looks at CoD* so without being able to shoot something for more than half an hour I put it down. Then one day I picked it up again and found out you can break in people's houses steal their stuff and murder them in their beds and then join an assassin group. and so I told CoD and other FPS's to face the fucking wall and got hooked up on Oblivion having around 100 hours before moving on to mass effect and dragon age.

 

[Luca72]

Final Fantasy Tactics. I played it at a friends request on PSOne, and generally liked the gameplay. Then a few levels in it started getting HARD. I'd have to grind monsters in between every level, I didn't feel like my characters were progressing very fast, so I didn't seem to have many customization options, and the story was so poorly translated that I couldn't follow it. I dropped it after maybe the Dorter Slums level.

Then I tried the PSP update (mostly because the art design for the new cutscenes was so damn beautiful), and couldn't put it down. I read up on the game mechanics, and before long I had a superfast archer that could SHOOT POTIONS, an armored monk that was basically Goku, and a time mage/healer with a rifle.

 

[Ithera]

Star wars the old republic. Bought it during a steam sale, and played it for about 10 minutes? Decided it was rubbish and did something else. Fast forward to a rainy day and I'm bored out of my skull, i dust it off and hop on in. I play for a while and keep at it, and whoopsy I'm hooked.

Turns out it was a really good game. I just needed to get into things.

 

[Sewa_Yunga]

Dragon Age: Origins. Didn't get very far the first time around, got bored, lost interest. Came back to it almost a year later and thoroughly enjoyed it.

I think i gotta retry this one too. I played as a 2h melee char on high difficulty the first time and when a friend suggested I should start over as a mage I had already lost interest...

Right now I'm rediscovering Sacred 2+Addon. I reinstalled it when I couldn't play D3 due to server issues. So now that I'm sated with D3 for the time being, I'm playing it full on again.
Of course it also helped that I found a simple yet effective workaround for its RAM leak issue.

 

[Jinjer]

Heroes of Might and Magic 3 - my brother used to play it a lot and I tried it on his computer. But I was still a kid back then and didn't really get the intricacies of strategy. After getting wiped out over and over I gave up on it as a lost cause. Years later I tried again and now it's a permanent addition to my gaming life - it's one of those games I break out on rainy days I have it installed on 3 computers Just In Case.

 

[xshadowscreamx]

im really glad and went back and finished the ps1 game 'galarilians' a few years ago on my ps3...i wasent to smart enough to even get passed the 1st disk when i first got it all those years ago, the 90's

 

[A_Play_On_Words]

Metal Gear Solid 2 or Mass Effect 2. It's a tie, but I'd proboably give teh edge to MGS2 since I'm currently playing it.

 

[Iszfury]

Dragon Age: Origins. I'm replaying it right now and I was fairly bleh about it the first time, enough so that I didn't bother even finishing it. But I'm having an absolute blast as is and thoroughly enjoying it. I think time had tainted my opinion and made me remember the poorer elements (which there are a few of) rather than the overall effect.

This, for the exact same reasons as well. I guess I just wasn't particularly into the genre at the time.

 

[BleedingPride]

mine was the witcher 2. idk i just got bored quickly, then i loved it but now since the enhanced edition upgrade i cant play

 

[puff ball]

the only one i can think of is eternal darkness, sanity's requiem. i rented it when i was liked 13, played for about an hour quit tried it a day later got an error message saying there was no save data and promptly returned it. found out 3 years later that the game was just messing with me and decided to give it another shot, loved it.

 

[Fenra]

Silent Hill 2... I know, dont look at me that way! When I first played it, it was the first SH game I'd ever played and the opening didnt really set it up well for me, I couldnt stand it, I got to the appartments and then dropped it.

Fast forward 2 years and I picked up the PC version cheap to give it another shot and got really sucked in and adored it. Good thing too as it led me to play the rest of the series which for better and worse at times throughout the games has been a highlight of my gaming "career" so to speak