What game bored the hell out of you...but then it finally won you over

[Biosophilogical]

Dragon Age: Origins, to be honest. I kept restarting and restarting because I either found myself using the same tactic every time (scattershot, arrow of slaying, auto-attack, OR Blizzard, Paralysis Explosion, spam attack spells), then I made a strength mage (shapeshifter obviously), and it is awesome!!! I've finished the elves, gotten Zevran, halfway through the Mage tower (got burning man and spirit forms) and just got master shapeshifter (which means ragin'-overwhelming-bear)).

 

[TsunamiWombat]

Deus Ex.

That goddamn intro mission.

 

[ShakesZX]

Tetris. Boring as hell originally.

Also, bejewelled.

 

[FalloutJack]

Given the nature of how I select games, I don't think this can really happen to me.

 

[Dango]

Half Life 2. I started playing, and it just felt like any other linear FPS, with a boring vehicle part thrown in. Then I got to Ravenholm. And I loved every god damned second of it.

 

[veloper]

Usually it's the other way around.
First the new game shows promise and then after a while it becomes boring.

 

[Gindil]

I wanna Be the Guy...

until that first cherry falls up on your ass. By the GODS! >_<

 

[FieryTrainwreck]

Honestly? I struggle to start just about every high-profile release these days. Everything is so flush with tutorials, introductions, cinematics, so forth - it's a wonder the damn game ever starts.

Also, games with a high degree of freedom and/or customization are extremely hard on me. Without focus or limitations, I become paralyzed by indecision and uncertainty.

 

[Vibhor]

Dwarf fortress
On my first play my people died of thirst.On my second play they were slaughtered by goblins because I sent them to fight with wooden weapons but on my 50th play I understood all concepts and fended off over 100 goblin sieges,I didn't discovered the use of traps until my 55th play

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Fallout 3 and Oblivion. Both bored the SHIT out of me at first, but then I got extremely addicted and started binge-playing them.

 

[Death God]

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The very beginning with the Great Deku Tree was pretty stupid for me but when I started getting songs and gathering the element stones, it finally won me over. So it isn't bad now.

 

[PureChaos]

Wind Waker. the sailing, dear GOD, the sailing. learning that warping song helped and it turned out to be a fun, if a little too easy, game.

 

[Distorted Stu]

Oblivion, i was bored as hell at first thinking ti was soo slow and narrow. Then i got out the sewers and the game pretty much went to me "HERES OUR WORLD, EXPLORE AND ENJOY IT"

 

[The Youth Counselor]

Portal.

I was intensely hyped for it's mindblowing theoretical physics and gameplay mechanics. I followed the viral marketing and picked up some of the plot.

But after the first fifteen minutes, I started thinking, "Sure this mechanic is interesting, and probably took a lot of thinking and working to program, but it feels like a casual iphone game. It's just one level chamber after another. This is copy paste mapping that could've been done by the mod community! Where does it get exciting? Where is the danger? Where are the twists? I thought there was going to be actual plot!"

So I stopped the game and completed the rest of the Orange Box, without running Portal. Then everyone around me couldn't stop yabbering about it, and I watched Yahtzee's review of the Orange Box, where he miraculously couldn't name a single flaw about the game. I began playing again.

Once the story starting sinking in with sinister twists and turns and the action began, I saw that the reviews were no lie.

 

[hardband]

Mass Effect 1 sooooooooooo badly and oblivion, but more so with mass effect. I blame it on the fact that none of the tutorials for mass effect are very clear and most of it you have to work out by yourself.

 

[Sixties Spidey]

Assassin's Creed 1. I remember how boring it was, then I trudged to the second last memory block, BOOM! I started having the time of my life. Just a shame it didn't build up too well.

 

[Valdsator]

Enclave.
At first, the controls were really awkward to me, and I tried to be tactical when fighting, but I kept getting hit and didn't have any fun.
I tried it later and just used one hack and slash tactic, and now I'm having tons of fun, except for the fact that my healing potion button doesn't work anymore. Have to get that fixed.

 

[barash]

Mine recently is Left4Dead 2. My first few times playing, I did get tired of just blasting zombies over and over and that's the impression I thought this game was about.

Which it is, but it has a unique quality about it that I have slowly come to appreciate. Eventually the more I played online with others, the more I appreciated my time working together with others- protecting a comrade, healing, picking each other up in near death crises, etc. The funny remarks and the Valve-style humor helps too.

And now I'm really starting to appreciate the impact other zombies like Witch and Tank have affected how I play the game. That and the level design too. Good job Valve.

I'm currently at a friends house with 7 other mates; 1-2 weekends per year we play L4D 1&2 with beers, whiskey and junkfood