Games that required you to mature first to enjoy.

[Prime_Hunter_H01]

Basically its those games you may have gotten as a child that you did not like but randomly picked up at a later date and realized you needed time to mature to appreciate what they were.

For me this is Gran Turismo 3. Picked it up randomly out of my PS2 collection and decided I should give it another chance because I remembered I got bored with it as a kid, and now I can find fun in it since I now have the patience for the realistic racing. Also its straining my adult patience to pass those damn licence tests, my kid self had no chance.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

I'd go with Conker's Bad Fur Day, and Silent Hills 2&3.

I mean I got the humor and/or metaphors, but I never understood them. For example, as a 10 year old playing SH2, I thought, at the time, that rape simply meant ripping a woman's clothes off.
Never occurred to me that it was sexual because that wasn't a concept yet. My mom at some point set me straight, and when I replayed SH2, oh man...
Suddenly vaguely creepy/annoying was legit scary.

And the entirety of Silent Hill 3, which I hold as my favorite game of Hills series, is all about rape. And playing it again...there is a level of fear and desperation I never understood as a kid before.
Truly a great game!!

Also Conker. Giant tits to bounce on. As an 11 year old, it was funny. Now? Well...its even more funny, but I get that its sexual!!
And fellatio! Oh man!

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

I wouldn't call my 13 year old self "mature" but that's when I played FFVII after first trying it when I was 9 and not comprehending what the hell I had to do (not a native English speaker) so I guess that's a good one for me. Beyond that, I was pretty good at playing "demanding" games as a young kid. I just didn't understand English well enough to properly play a text-heavy game such as FFVII at the time. I remember my first Cloud was named something like "10932ufo2fu321!!E(@!". I literally didn't understand what I had to do and I just kept hitting letters until the game automatically moved the cursor to "end". You can imagine, with a name like that, the not very sensical story of FFVII made just that much less sense.


I got stuck in the place where you need a chocobo to get past a swamp and never could move past it. I even beat that damn snake once out of just grinding there for AGES (since I thought it was just a hard boss) but when you do that it freaking RESPAWNS! I was so happy but then it respawned and murdered my exhausted party that had barely killed his brother. That was where I quit for a few years. Getting revenge on that snake sure was sweet after a few years.

 

[sageoftruth]

Most stealth games. It wasn't until I got older that I learned the joy of pure stealth runs without kills or knockouts.

Also Doom. As a kid, I was too scared of everything to play through it without the iddqd cheat.

 

[freakonaleash]

Shadow of the colossus, I couldn't appreciate a lot of that game until I got older.

 

[thoughtwrangler]

RPG's in general. I tried Dragon Warrior IV when I was way too young to know what was going on. I just knew that dragons were awesome, and warriors were pretty rad too. My 10 year old brain stretched to try mesh that totally awesome(TM) imagery with being attacked by a picture of a smiling blue droplet and having to hit "fight" even though I should just be able to mash the button to hit the monster.

I remember a couple months later, I got to play the arcade version of Cadash at a grocery store and thought to myself "Now THIS game should have been called Dragon Warrior!"

 

[Pinkilicious]

Basically its those games you may have gotten as a child that you did not like but randomly picked up at a later date and realized you needed time to mature to appreciate what they were.

For me this is Gran Turismo 3. Picked it up randomly out of my PS2 collection and decided I should give it another chance because I remembered I got bored with it as a kid, and now I can find fun in it since I now have the patience for the realistic racing. Also its straining my adult patience to pass those damn licence tests, my kid self had no chance.

I still can't do that. I got it on sale and both then and now I can't frickin' handle the license tests.
Which is odd because I tended to go for lengthy strategy titles like PTO and Fantasy General. So I think not only patience is a factor. Never been much good at anything that asked you to grind or practice much at all. (It's why the only two NIS games I like are La Pucelle and Phantom Brave)

 

[Ryallen]

Shadow the Hedgehog, only for the opposite. When I was in elementary school, every kid in my class loved the game. Why? Because it had guns and therefore it was cool. It was one of the coolest games to these little assholes, all because of every reason that everyone hates the game now: because you play as an edgy hedgehog with guns who's edgy and cool because he's dark and edgy.

 

[Xeros]

Honestly, all of them. I'd also say it applies to everything outside of games, as well. Games, film, music; I never caught little side jokes, or adult references as a kid. I never really appreciated the subtle art of atmosphere. It wasn't until I was older that I understood subtle nuances such as those, and began to appreciate them.

 

[Emanuele Ciriachi]

XCom Enemy Unknown on Impossible Ironman. Whatever you think of your abilities, you are not ready.

 

[Flutterguy]

Dark Souls. I was bad so I sold it. Now I love it.

I loved Zelda:OoT before I could read half of the text, and Morrowind before I could even kill a Kwama Cuttle (I died to a worm, a few times). Do I love them anymore now I understand them? I don't think so.

 

[ommadawnyawn]

Point & Click Adventures. Still find a lot of the classics heavily flawed though.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I got Metal Gear Solid for Christmas of 1998 along with Final Fantasy VIII I was 10 at the time and would be 11 a month and a half later. Anyway I immediately jumped onto Final Fantasy but when it came to Metal Gear, I took more tentative steps. I made it relatively far too and may have beaten it back then but I played it without taking in the true experience of the game. I played the game and enjoyed it but I remember being stuck inside of the bunker, unable to call someone. The Colonel told me to check on the back of the CD case for someone's number but after fighting Ocelot, I didn't get any new items...they couldn't mean...?

A couple of years later, I played Metal Gear Solid again because I knew a sequel was on the way but I wasn't going to get a PS2 in time for it. So I wanted to experience MGS1, which I remember as being fun but I didn't take in the plot...that next time though, a few years later, was the first time I ever really cared about a game's plot...and the first time I was made to feel...emotional...about game characters. I wasn't ready to play MGS1 at first but I'm glad I went back to it.

 

[Aedwynn]

The Original UFO: Enemy Unknown - It was a bit too complicated for me when I first saw it. I'd actually played Rebel Star on the 'Speccy, but something about UFO's interface was just too much for me - and the graphics were not very good even for their time. But it's a great experience and I'm glad I finally found the patience to play it through - just in time for the remake to come out, as it happened.

 

[visiblenoise]

I was pretty young when I first got a SNES and tried to play Super Mario RPG. I got stuck pretty early on, and gave up on it.

Then a while after, I went back to it with the maturity of knowing that you can talk to Toad by facing him and pressing the A button. It became one of my favorite games of all time.

 

[ExDeath730]

It depends on how you view maturity, it is the adolescent type of "maturity" (i can't do childish things!) or the adult view of maturity (i can pay my own bills, so i can do what i wish in my spare time!).

In the first, it's just anything "Xtreme" or that it's violent, or pushes something that it's perceived as adult or mature. GTA games usually are in this situation, even if most of them are really good games, the idea is to appeal to this kind of person, usually teens or young adults.

In the second situation, you see more niche titles, and even some younger audiences oriented ones. An adult have no problem saying he loves Zelda, Mario or most of the Nintendo IPs, while someone trying to pretend to be mature would try it's best to not like it. So, in this i can actually put anything.

Now, if by "mature" you're saying more complex? Titles like Silent Hill 2 fit the bill perfectly, most well written psychological horror games do. Some strategy games as well, because they require patience, i don't expect that most 14 year olds would like to play something like Europa Universalis IV (Crusader Kings 2 is crazy enough that they would find enjoyment in the wackiness).

 

[Syzygy23]

Point & Click Adventures. Still find a lot of the classics heavily flawed though.

Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

I find them unstimulating. They're basically a book, except if want more of the story you have to waste your time dicking around with stupid ass moon-logic puzzles.

Like the Submachine series are really cool and have an interesting story. But... some of those puzzles...