Concepts You Didn't Like (At First)

[cojo965]

I am not subtle with my thoughts of the Godzilla series here, so when I heard that the upcoming 2014 film was going to have a big human focus, I was pissed. Now, however, I've warmed up to it, despite the last attempt being incredibly stupid and forced. To explain why, let me ask a question: did any of the main characters need to be in the middle of Zilla's attack? Not really. For example, in the first engagement with Zilla in the movie, did Nick need to be there? Well how engaging would it be to just watch the battle from that ops room? He was only there to have a reason to have the camera be in the fight. Every reason to have the characters of the '98 film in the same shot as a monster was a contrived excuse to show the creature as no one made any significant contribution to the scenes with the monster. Fast forward to now and the line of thinking to put main characters in the same scene as Godzilla is to make one or more of them people who will be on the front lines anyway. Yes, the confirmed most main character is a US Marine stationed in Japan.

So what concepts did you not like at first but eventually warmed up to?

 

[Hero of Lime]

The touch controls of the two DS Zelda games. I thought that the touch only controls could never replace traditional controls(I still prefer traditional Zelda controls) but they work well and are very easy to master.

Metroid Prime 3's controls were very unpleasant to me at first, I did not like the manual pointer aiming controls for Wii games at the time, so I felt that these controls were a step down in feeling right. I do prefer the Gamecube Metroid Prime controls, but I like the Prime 3 ones too now.

 

[Saelune]

Wii and DS. Though to be fair I did not own either and just bought a Wii U and 3DS, but they have backwards compatibility. But its mostly due to the early games being gimmicky. Phantom Hourglass is a terrible game and is basically a DS tech demo with Link. Newer games tend to use the system features better to enhance the games without relying on them to the point of ruining the experience. Definatly like the stylus for certain functions.

 

[Korolev]

Mortality. I thought it would be terrible to die - I wanted to be immortal. Then I thought that if I was immortal, I would see everyone around me die. I would also see my species go extinct, all life on earth wither and die, and the oceans boil as the sun expands in 1 billion years time due to the loss of mass from its fusion of hydrogen. If I was truly immortal, I would be the only living being on a dead, dry husk of a planet slowly being enroached upon by an expanding sun. And if I was truly immortal, I would survive that, survive the engulfment of my planet by the sun, survive the sun slowly losing mass and becoming a dwarf star, and I would be stuck on a charred, cold, dead planet that was in perpetual night or semi-night. As the galaxies moved ever further away, and as more stars died, I would see the entire universe lose all the lights in the sky, and I would have no choice but to wait billions upon billions of years in cold, dark silence, losing what little light there was left. Eventually, as the universe entered its heat-death, and as all the protons, over billions of years, decay I would alone in a void, drifting, with not even the smallest bit of tangible matter to hold. Forever.

So, I'm glad I am not truly immortal. Because the couple of hundred thousand or million years you have to taught people about how you will live forever do not make up for the billions, if not trillions or eternity of solitude, lonliness and boredom.

 

[Legion]

I used to absolutely hate certain anime tropes (still despise the term tropes though), such as the way characters exaggerate responses or have facial features and such change depending on their mood or reaction.

Spoiler: Examples:

While I wouldn't say that I now "like" them, I no longer have a strong dislike of them unless I feel that they are out of place.

 

[The Wykydtron]

I used to absolutely hate certain anime tropes (still despise the term tropes though), such as the way characters exaggerate responses or have facial features and such change depending on their mood or reaction.

Spoiler: Examples:

While I wouldn't say that I now "like" them, I no longer have a strong dislike of them unless I feel that they are out of place.

Dude! How could you ever dislike that?! Kawaii Kawaii desu desu... So on and so forth. Those sort of standard anime designs are part of the reason i'm in the anime gig. You could have the most generic anime ever, have an artstyle like that, add a decent Tsundere character and suddenly i'm goddamn hooked. It's one of my greatest weaknesses really... Especially if the Tsunere ratio is 2:1 or more in the Tsun's favour.

OT: I guess handhelds? I still don't like them and must have such a huge incentive to buy one but I really like the Ace Attorney games on DS which made me understand they aren't completely without merit. Luckily I hijacked my mother's DS so not a single penny was spent on the system itself

By "huge incentive" I mean it only took me a few minutes before I decided to not buy a Vita just to play Persona 4: Golden. That's freaking huge for me since Persona 4 on PS2 is my favorite game ever by leaps and bounds and how could I ever get a bigger reason to consider buying a Vita? Unless they make Persona 5 a Vita exclusive then it's fucking checkmate.

 

[tippy2k2]

Digital Downloading

"Why would you ever want to download a game? You can't resell it and it just sits there forever. What happens when your system breaks?!?!" -past Tippy2k2

While some of those are problems that still slow me down, I realized that I rarely resell my games. I decided to dip my toe into the digital library by getting Tomb Raider on my 360 during that big 360 sale a month or so ago.

...this is pretty freaking convenient. The full game was downloaded and I never have to change the disc; at any time I can change to my game and just start playing. Now I still would never buy a digital downloaded game at full price but I'm warming up to having a digital library.

Laziness for the win

 

[MrHide-Patten]

Taking a cock in my ars- no.

Playing games through a PC and by extention using an Xbox controller.
My dislike of PC comes from a bad history of trying to play games on my old cruddy machines that would struggle to run them, and if they didn't struggle to run they just didn't at all. So I had a certain distrust of PC Gaming, and 60 fps looks weird to guy coming from a PS3.

Still prefer my PS3 though, I still associate computers with work too much, Sheldon Cooper syndrome. But it's great to play games that are only on Xbox Live and Steam (Mark of the Ninja and Bastion, etc).

Still wrapping my head around the Xbox Controller though, to me it's some inbreed southern hick from the US of A, with an Arm growing out where it's leg should be and vice versa. I still find the Dualshock more comfortable for my tiny girly hands.

 

[Nouw]

E-books. I had a silly aversion for them despite not actually owning an e-reader/tablet. Yeah, I was in the camp that e-books just can't beat the real thing, the touch of paper and all. This all changed when I wanted to read A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin. Issuing it from the library was not an option because there were literally thousands of other people waiting for it and buying it paper-back like I did with A Clash of Kings was out too because the book's proportions were absolutely awful to read and hold. Out of desperation, I opted for an e-book and let me tell you that was the best Amazon.com purchase I made. You can highlight passages, bookmark stuff, change font-size, change the colour of the 'e-paper' and more. I am currently chugging through A Feast for Crows, although Cersei is really getting on my nerves.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

Metroid Prime 3's controls were very unpleasant to me at first, I did not like the manual pointer aiming controls for Wii games at the time, so I felt that these controls were a step down in feeling right. I do prefer the Gamecube Metroid Prime controls, but I like the Prime 3 ones too now.

I'm half-with you.
I didn't really wnat to do the whole aim-and-shoot thing because the wii-mote only ever does what you want it to half the time. Then I actually picked it up and it ran pretty smoothly. The reason I'm only half-with you is because I don't really prefer either one.
Anyway.
The Cabin In The Woods. At the time, I didn't really know the name "Joss Whedon" so to me, the very title screamed "generic-horror-slasher".
And then I saw the movie.
I still don't care about the movie too much (mostly because every time I see it I remember how hard I got hit by my friends telling me "WE TOLD YOU SO!") but I can't deny that it's a pretty great movie.

 

[Cretgren]

Games with real-time 3rd-person combat. Silly, I know, but as a little kid, they scared the crap out of me. Proably because the only games I'd played to that point were the Harry Potter Game Boy Color games (similar to Final Fantasy).