Surprise! It's not total shit.

[ohgodalex]

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Core game enthusiasts are maybe the most treacherous assholes I've ever had the pleasure of meeting in my entire life. I've never seen an entire community of people so ready to take up arms against, say, a game developer that they once loved. Don't deny it. I've seen it happen when the price tag for ODST was announced, when paid DLC is released for any game shortly after it becomes available to the public, when sequels are announced, and so on. We're generally a very petty, fickle bunch.

However, let's not concentrate on all that. We're intelligent, thinking people. We are more than capable of revising our opinions, redacting earlier statement, forming new impressions of things.
I want to know, when has a game successfully changed your opinion from dislike to like?

This thread inspired by my own incredulity after falling in love with Halo Reach, despite my hatred for its beta.

 

[Nikolaz72]

Bioschok. I thought Rapture looked meh, but Infinite's City in the Skies? Eppppiiic.

 

[Space Spoons]

The Sims. That is, the Gamecube port of the original one. I couldn't understand why everyone was going on and on about how awesome The Sims was. To me, it sounded like all the unglamorous tedium of everyday life, only smaller and more pixilated. When my sister rented the game one weekend, I watched her play for awhile and got to thinking, "Hey... I was absolutely right about this game! So why does it look like so much fun?"

I still think The Sims is little more than a caricature of daily life, and I still can't understand why it's a fun game in spite of that. Still, it definitely changed my opinion, somehow.

 

[Meggiepants]

Halo 3. I always heard all the "Halo is only for frat boys and jock assholes. No one else plays that stupid game." insults, and never really gave the game a try.

But then when 3 came out, my brother convinced me to try multiplayer campaign with him, and it was actually pretty fun to play a four player shooter online. While I don't think it's the greatest game ever, it is fun enough that I picked up Reach on launch day.

 

[Rensenhito]

For me, it was WoW. See, I started out playing Everquest 2 with my girlfriend in middle school, and we hated WoW. That was part of what brought us together, really. But then we broke up, and my cousins started playing. They convinced me to play, too. I rolled a Human Mage and was hooked. It's a fun game if you have people to play with.

 

[Verlander]

Yeah, WoW. I was a late starter (not been playing for a year yet), always playing Guild Wars or something similar. My missus played it, gave it to me with all expansions for Christmas, and it's actually really good.

If you don't like it though, that's fine. I can see why certain people don't

 

[The Real Sandman]

Before I played Wolfenstein (the new one obviously), I read from multiple sourses and heard from one of my friends that it was a repetitive trudge through samey looking generic brown corridors.

After completing a mission in which I stormed a (nothing short of HUGE) Nazi stronghold hidden underground beneath a cozy normal looking farm and massacared wave after wave of different varieties of Nazis and paranormal monstrosities with an asortment of Nazi weaponry, fire axes, magic powers, and super atomic laser thing-a-ma-jigs, I started wondering if I was playing the same game all those people claimed to be so boring and generic.

Wolfenstein isn't a great game and it's not particulary original, but damnit with the shear amount of dark and gritty shooters out, at least Wolfenstien was trying to just be fun. That's really I can say about it. It's fun! End of story.

See also: The Sabateur.

 

[Darmort]

Mass Effect 2. That said, even at the start I liked Mass Effect 2, it's just I didn't like it as much as the first game. Still don't, but I like it a lot more than I used to.

 

[Iwata]

The Sabateur.

SabOteur!

Sorry, don't mean to be a grammar nazi, but that mistake kinda throws me off. See also: solider, rouge warrior, emporor, and other nonsense.

Sorry.

OT: I really like Wolfenstein. Granted, I may have been afflicted by nostalgia all the way through, but so far, Raven's games have never failed to impress.

 

[rockyoumonkeys]

Wolfenstein. I gave it about ten minutes before tossing it aside. Then I played Singularity (also made by Raven), which was awesome, then I went back to Wolfenstein, and liked it a lot more.

 

[ThorUK]

Honestly, don't remember, by and large I've essentially been disappointed by games so much in the last few years it's surprising I can still get excited and hopeful at the prospect of a new release (Civ V, Diablo 3, Fallout: New Vegas).

I suppose Stalker: Call of Pripryat was a lot more stable than I expected (although after Stalker: Clear Sky even a unicycle will seem stable), though I did end up with a few saves that always crash several minutes after load.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Halo for sure.

Everyone bitches about it so much I thought it would be awful, so I was surprised to play Halo 3 and have an absolute blast with it.

I think a lot of people miss just how sad and trajic the story in the Halo universe is.

 

[Iwata]

Halo for sure.

Everyone bitches about it so much I thought it would be awful, so I was surprised to play Halo 3 and have an absolute blast with it.

I think a lot of people miss just how sad and trajic the story in the Halo universe is.

I think it must have more to do with how the word "epic" is used to describe the story in every preview of every Halo game, only for fans to do an about face and say that they don't play Halo for the story anyway when reviews claim that the story sucks (yet still give the game a perfect score, as in Reach).

I have a love/hate relationship with the Halo universe. On the one hand, I love the setting. On the other hand, I think the games do a piss-poor job of exploring that same setting. I liked the graphic novel and the Legends movies a lot, yet when I try to be a part of the story in the games themselves, I always feel underwhelmed.

 

[ohgodalex]

Yeah, WoW. I was a late starter (not been playing for a year yet), always playing Guild Wars or something similar. My missus played it, gave it to me with all expansions for Christmas, and it's actually really good.

If you don't like it though, that's fine. I can see why certain people don't

I think you are potentially the most sedate person on the entire internet.

 

[mParadox]

Fallout and Mass Effect. Both RPGs and i got bored of them pretty quickly. But with nothing else to do i re-installed them and i got hooked.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Bioschok. I thought Rapture looked meh, but Infinite's City in the Skies? Eppppiiic.

i can agree to this. im very suprised that i wanna play the new one

 

[reg42]

Mass Effect did that in a big way. I got it back when there was still an incompatibility with my video card so it never ran properly, so I thought the game was shit and I sold it. I picked it up again on budget and I had a fantastic time with it.

 

[NeutralDrow]

First time I played Metroid Prime, I set it aside after fifteen minutes in frustration and never looked back for years. Picked it up again on a whim one day, and now it's one of my favorite games.

 

[Sebenko]

Mount & Blade.

I played the demo once and decided it was far too hard after getting my ass kicked repeatedly.

Then I found the game going cheap in a local shop and bought it, and was I ever glad. It's one of my favourite RPGs.