Games you hated the first time you played them.

[GonzoGamer]

Fallout 3 was mine.

I got it for 360 shortly after it was released, played it for 2-3 hours, thought "well this sucks" and never played it ever again on the Xbox.

2 or so years later I discovered it on Amazon for PC GOTY Edition for £13, so I thought I'd give it another chance (2 years before this point I didn't have a gaming PC to play it on). I ended up completing the main story, a bunch of the side missions, and the only DLCs I missed were Mothership Zeta and The Pitt, because Fallout DLC is just the worst in my opinion, but that's not relevant here.

Didn't play Point Lookout and Broken Steel did ya? You know, the ones actually worth it .

Point lookout was a great value for $10 (on the PC; on the console it broke the game) but Broken Steel felt like they were selling us the ending to the game. The core game had enough content to be worth at least $60 but Broken Steel keeps making me wonder if it was originally intended to be part of the game but was lopped off the end so they could sell 5 dlc packs instead of 4.

OT - I didn't get into GTA Vice City until I played Vice City Stories. After that, went back to it, and loved it...even if it was missing Phil Collins.

 

[kickyourass]

For me there was Starcraft along with the vast majority of RTS games I've played, but that was mostly a matter of 7-13 year old me not understanding why spamming the huge fuck everyone units that took roughly an hour each to train (while training NO OTHER UNITS AT ALL) was a bad strategy.

After that there was Ace Combat 6, I tried it a few times and thought it was A: too difficult, and B: dull as shit. But then I tried it again a while ago, stayed in the Tutorial until I had it down pat and found that it was actually pretty awesome. Now I can't find it and thus can't finish it.

 

[Scrustle]

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. I didn't "hate" it at first, I just didn't get on with it. I usually find side scrolling beat-em-ups to be too simple and too picky about collision detection. But then after playing the game again round a friend's house I really liked it, so I went and bought it shortly after. Still got some of the niggling problems I usually have with the genre, but I gained a whole new appreciation for the game and I am really enjoying it overall.

 

[zuro64]

Borderlands!
I thought it was so boring and bland the first time i saw it and later when i played it was still the same!
Then a friend bought it and we played together it was better but still bland but when we had passed the first few missions and got to make our own choises, man... then it came to life and i have loved that game ever since.

 

[Wayneguard]

I bought and sold (in disgust) the Resident Evil remake on gamecube at least 3 times before I finally realized how to play. It is now one of my favorite games of all time.

I hated bioshock at first too. I love it now though.

 

[putowtin]

Assassin's Creed

I was used to run in and kill everything games, the idea of finding out where patrols would be bored the hell out of me, so played the first city then left it. Six months later I ran out of games to play and no cash to buy new ones, dug it back out and gave it it's dues.

Am now in love with the AC games.

 

[217not237]

Okay, there's Metal Gear Solid 3 (now one of my fav 5 games), Portal (now one of my fav 5 games), Bioshock (now one of my fav 10 games), and Metal Gear Solid 4 (still hate it more than Satan).

 

[Byere]

FF XI was mine... but I'm not a fan of MMOs.

As for normal games, I think Resident Evil 5 would be the latest one I can think of. The game itself wasn't bad. I even liked what little of the story I saw. It's just that god awful forced two-player gameplay that got to me. I play single player because of just that, I like to play on my own. I don't want some other character getting in the way of my shots, using all my ammo and then whining about getting beat up because the AI is so terrible. Worst part is that if I don't bother going off to save her, it's a game over. It's a major handicap on me as I have to waste time and healing item to protect this stupid bint who can't even aim right. [/rant]

 

[LordSchucker]

prototype, gears of war 2, call of duty 4-black ops, resident evil 5, and overlord 2