Games You're Giving A Second Chance

[Blank Kold]

I gave fallout 3 a second chance, still hated it. So no, I'm replaying prototype, or trying to at least.

 

[TestSubject4]

I'm Giving Contra 3 another shot. Pulling out the old SNES for nostalgic fun. I gave up on it years ago. Now I'm finding it's insane level of difficulty refreshing.

 

[Defense]

As soon as I get the money, I'll give Fallout 3 and Mass Effect a second chance. I'm sure they're great, interesting games, but they both bored me to tears after about an hour. Same with Bioshock, although I think I'll play Bioshock first since I actually own it. This is mostly to know what the hubbub is about since they are known as great RPGs.

I should give all of my PS2 games another go once I fix my PS3. Dragon Quest VIII, Final Fantasy XII, Kingdom Hearts, Okami, Xenosaga I & II, and even Killzone, despite the sniper giving me a headache.

 

[NeutralDrow]

I might try to give Do You Like Horny Bunnies? 2 another shot. See if my perception of it being crushingly dull in the first half-hour has changed.

I don't usually stop games in the middle, so there aren't many more examples. Metroid Prime is a success story, in that case; I found it confusing and frustrating when I first played it, incredibly engaging a year later.

 

[SimuLord]

I tried to like The Witcher and KOTOR, I really did...but I'm way past the point where those games could ever redeem themselves with me. I simply didn't find either game to be any fun.

I might give Cities XL 2011 another chance---my first impression of it was "great, it's like trying to graft SimCity Societies' people-management elements onto a bad SimCity 4 clone. Not only have I seen these game mechanics before, I didn't even like them the first time."

But SC4 really is showing its age, so it'd be nice if I could find a city-builder that's a bit more modern yet didn't suck.

how far did you get in the witcher? i didnt feel like it really picked up until chapter 3 and i loved how much the storyline changed, depending on decisions that seemed so unimportant at the time. also the alchemy system made a huge difference on the game.

completely agree about kotor though and im glad to see im not the only one who hated those games. it took all i had to make it through that game once and i was bored and unsatisfied the entire time. fortunately i didnt have the same problem with kotor 2...because the game was so buggy that it became literally unplayable after about 2 hours

I hear a lot about "it didn't really pick up until Chapter 3"...if you're making your player suffer through that many hours of gameplay before it gets good, your game sucks. I put a good four or five hours into it bored out of my mind, there are other, better games I can play!

I understand a need for a game to be a bit dull while it sets itself up, but this should never take more than, at most, two hours of the player's time, and even that's pushing it. Vault 101 takes about half an hour, and then only if you don't just blast through "Escape!" at Warp 5---I'm so committed to stealth that I sneak-attack everything I can even though yes, I'm powerful enough to just rush them.

Doc Mitchell asks for maybe 10 minutes out of your life in New Vegas to set your stats. Even lets you loot his house leaving little more than the bare walls.

Even Final Fantasy 7 makes that five-hour slog through Midgar interesting. When it really picks up after you're released out into the overworld, you haven't been bored to death first.

The Witcher? I just don't have the patience to wait through two-fifths of the game with no indication that it will ever get interesting.

 

[DirgeNovak]

I'm currently giving FF XIII a second chance and not regretting it. Now that I have a better feel for the combat mechanics I really, really enjoy it.

 

[00slash00]

stalker. i have tried to play that game twice and both times i ended up uninstalling it the same day i installed it. i want to like the game so badly but i just cant

final fantasy 12 i had 5 years before i finally finished it. i only finished it, by the way, because my friend bet me that i never would

arcanum i finally finished last year. i kept getting sidetracked by other things or my computer hardware would fail or things like that. for whatever reason, it took me a long time to finish the game

 

[00slash00]

I hear a lot about "it didn't really pick up until Chapter 3"...if you're making your player suffer through that many hours of gameplay before it gets good, your game sucks. I put a good four or five hours into it bored out of my mind, there are other, better games I can play!

I understand a need for a game to be a bit dull while it sets itself up, but this should never take more than, at most, two hours of the player's time, and even that's pushing it. Vault 101 takes about half an hour, and then only if you don't just blast through "Escape!" at Warp 5---I'm so committed to stealth that I sneak-attack everything I can even though yes, I'm powerful enough to just rush them.

Doc Mitchell asks for maybe 10 minutes out of your life in New Vegas to set your stats. Even lets you loot his house leaving little more than the bare walls.

Even Final Fantasy 7 makes that five-hour slog through Midgar interesting. When it really picks up after you're released out into the overworld, you haven't been bored to death first.

The Witcher? I just don't have the patience to wait through two-fifths of the game with no indication that it will ever get interesting.

its a lot more story based than most games and because of that it takes longer to get into. honestly, i was hooked by chapter 2 which you should arrive at pretty soon unless you dont understand how the game works. chapter 3 is just when it becomes a lot more intense so when i say it gets better by chapter 3 i mean that, if you dont love it by the time youre that far, you probably arent going to love it. basically the intro was just to introduce you a bit to your character, chapter one introduces you to how to really play the game, chapter two introduces you to the real story of the game. i would definitely say its more for people who place a lot of importance on story. i also loved how the moral choices werent as black and white as most games. so many games make it so obvious which is the good and evil path, "do you want to donate a kidney to the dying orphan, or do you want to burn down the orphanage?" in the witcher, most of the moral choices are both good and evil in their own ways. i know i sound like a huge fanboy for the witcher, and maybe i am to an extent. mostly, i just feel like everyone is a lot harder on the witcher than it deserves. however, i will admit that they definitely could have made the gameplay more enjoyable. i was very sick of all the "bring me 10 monster testicles" side quests, by the end of the game

 

[Durxom]

I might try to give Do You Like Horny Bunnies? 2 another shot. See if my perception of it being crushingly dull in the first half-hour has changed.

I don't usually stop games in the middle, so there aren't many more examples. Metroid Prime is a success story, in that case; I found it confusing and frustrating when I first played it, incredibly engaging a year later.

Lol, why are you always the odd one out in these sorts of things, NeutralDrow?

Everyone is saying stuff like MW2, Final Fantasy, and the like and then you come out here with Horny Bunnies =P

But back on topic, I'm going to have to say the same with Metroid Prime. I got really frustrated with it at first, but finally after the like....3rd time? I finally really got into it and finished it.

Final Fantasy 12 was another one too which I instantly grew to love the 2nd time around and lastly....probably Guilty Gear XX(just generalizing here), ohh I got so pissed off at how hard it was when I first tried it.

 

[EvanJO]

I've yet to been able to get into Dragon Age or Mass Effect, and I'm an avid lover of deep RPG games.

 

[NeutralDrow]

I might try to give Do You Like Horny Bunnies? 2 another shot. See if my perception of it being crushingly dull in the first half-hour has changed.

I don't usually stop games in the middle, so there aren't many more examples. Metroid Prime is a success story, in that case; I found it confusing and frustrating when I first played it, incredibly engaging a year later.

Lol, why are you always the odd one out in these sorts of things, NeutralDrow?

Everyone is saying stuff like MW2, Final Fantasy, and the like and then you come out here with Horny Bunnies =P

What? I can't help it if I'm years behind all you people. So the game I need to try again was released in 2004. A lot of my games are like that. I think I've only played, like, three games from the past two or three years.

 

[migo]

I'm planning on giving Infinite Undiscovery another chance. The story seems quite interesting, and it has some quirky aspects despite gameplay issues.

Devil May Cry 4 on the other hand isn't. It just has nothing on Bayonetta, so there's really no point.

 

[Cogwheel]

STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, here. Hopefully I'll have more patience for it this time.

 

[Gigano]

BlazBlue: Continuum Shift.

Got it as a bonus, and it's an incredibly technical fighter with a so far unintelligible story (and I've seen Umineko no Naku Koro ni...). I've kind of given up on for now due to exams, but it's absurdly awesome enough that it warrants another look when I've got the time and energy.

 

[ethaninja]

I'm giving Dead Space a second chance. This time I'm not playing it for the "scares" as that was just a let down. No, this time it's for the gore And the Story line.

 

[Asuka Soryu]

Gave Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron a second try. First time I was turned off by the controls, I picked up again recently and man, once you get used to the horrible camera control(wich could be fixed easily if the PSP had a second analog stick) it gets really fun to play. Though... the Space ship battles feel to akward 'cause of the controls, wich is helped by Locking on to the enemy and letting Auto-pilot guide you to them.

 

[Nikolaz72]

Dawn of War.. I discarded it at first.. Found it Ok later.

 

[badgersprite]

Fallout NV. I loved Fallout 3 so I'm not sure why I didn't have a good first impression of it. I know there's a game I'll love in there somewhere, but I think I just got that sandbox problem of running around because NPCs are telling you this is where the story is instead of going off to find quirky places on my own. Bugginess may also have been an issue, since I had quests that didn't work right, and other stiff

For me it just felt like more of the same with very slight improvements, not really enough to hold my attention. :/

That's one of the reasons I think I stopped playing, since I had replayed FO3 in anticipation. That's also why I feel like I might have been unfair and unable to enjoy it on its own merits. I think having gone a while without playing either should make it easier to appreciated it instead of getting bogged down in feeling like, "Hang on, I just did this..."