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

[Ldude893]

The sole reason I bought The Orange Box was because it had Portal and Team Fortress 2 in it. I had no interest in Half Life 2. Sure, I played the demo, but the zombie level in the demo just creeped me out. I skipped around several levels in god mode before deciding to play the whole game from the beginning.

Damn, I wish I can replay the game from the beginning like it's the first time I ever played it.

 

[Brutal Peanut]

Oblivion, like most other people here. I enjoyed the character creator, but everything seemed so boring in the starter dungeon. It was a lot of talking, and rats.

Then I got outside and they said, "Weeeell, good luck!" *runs away laughing hysterically*"
I sure grabbed that world by the short-hairs.

Fallout 3 was another one. It looked great, I liked the idea. But the beginning was boring with mostly corny and sappy speech quests that didn't give any experience (not even unseen experience that would help later), but they did open up some questions about my character and her Father, and the vault and give me the basic tutorial. (Edit: Until the last part of the tutorial of course. I meant the child part.)

I fell in love with both worlds after I made myself keep playing, and have made them mine many times. Many sweaty, heart-pumping, dirty times. o_o *cough*

 

[Greyhamster]

COD MW2. I hated the quickscopers/tubers/knifers/UMP's.

Then I made a class for each of those thing, and then enjoyed myself by joining a match and play with whatever my favorite gun was at that time, and then when I got tubed/quickscoped/commando'd/UMP's I'd take my own tuber/quickscope/commando/UMP class and spend the rest of the match griefing that dude.

It's hilarious to hear them complain later on XD

But in all seriousness, MAG. I played that game in sabotage (only mode unlocked) and I was like wtf, this is it?
Then I became level 8, played domination, turned level 20, bought a shotgun, and became the most badass medic around.

PURE AWESOME

 

[SalamanderJoe]

LittleBigPlanet. Just regular platforming for the first hour. Then an hour later I went online and was completely won over by the creation tool. I personally can never create some of them amazing levels, but it's still good to play.

 

[Judgedread]

Lost planet 2. I hated it so much when i first played, so it sat on my shelf for a good 6 months until a few days ago me and a friend picked it up and played through it co-op. Man it was a good experience, even if the game did have some huge faults. Main one being complete lack of a tutorial and explanation of mechanics.

Took me 8 hours before i figured out all the fuel cell looking things on the map could be opened with thermal energy... I found it out in a loading tip on the second last mission.

It was still a good way to go if you have a friend to play with.

 

[Gralian]

Assassin's Creed. Not any one game, i mean the whole franchise. The first one bored me to tears. It had no real plot and it was repetitive - and sorely lacking the 'assassin' part. I believe i got the second one as a present. I didn't want to seem ungrateful so i played it for a while. It started out a little slow, and Ezio as a young cocky douchebag really grated on my nerves. But around the halfway mark after he's forced to become an Assassin and 'grows up' both figurately and literally, the game really started to grow on me. I started to identify more with Ezio as a character. He was human; he had flaws, he changed his outlook. You also got to do more assassin-y stuff besides just doing the grocery shopping, too. And of course the plot thickened. Say what you want about the batshit ending, but at least it got exciting. And now i'm starting up Brotherhood, and while it may just be filled between 2 and 3, i'm still looking forward to experiencing the storyline.

 

[MetalDooley]

Mass Effect 1.Played it for about 4-5 hours and it just didn't interest me so I stopped playing.Came back a few months later and gave it another go.Soldiered through the first few hours again and then it just kinda clicked with me.I've played though it 4 times since

 

[Jack Cheal]

mine would probably be Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare, i wasnt a big fps fan until i played that, and i went in with sour hopes, but it completely changed my views

 

[LawlessSquirrel]

Team Fortress 2. Played it a bit, got killed quite a bit, just felt so underwhelming considering how much good I'd heard about it. But I assumed it was just that I hadn't gotten into the right mindset, so every now and then I'd give it another try.
Eventually I fell into a good server I could keep rejoining and ended up having a lot of fun. It was worth the bumpy start.

Also Mass Effect. Dear god, I could not get into that game. The whole Citadel portion bored me to tears...took me weeks before I got through it. Then afterwards, just as boring. It all felt so samey and generic for a sci-fi game, despite it not being a common genre at the time.
I got it in the month it was released, finished it about a month before Mass Effect 2 came out. Restarted it, just sat down and played during my holidays, and ended up really enjoying it. I really don't know why it didn't click at first, but that was a damn memorable game.

 

[Nero09]

Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Fallout 3, I see a pattern....

 

[The Bucket]

Mass Effect 1 a thousand times. I played the first mission, went away for a few weeks, came back and fell in love.

I hope this wins me over soon. The effin' Benezia fight turned me off so much, I came back and did the fist half today, it's just so damned hard!

Oh yeah, think I remember that part. All I can say is try and keep a pillar or such between you and her while you take out the minions and keep moving. Good luck!

 

[meowchef]

Oblivion

I'm hoping Bioshock and Fallout 3 fall into that category soon.

 

[Defense]

Demon's Souls. I just didn't get the love over the game for the first few hours, but then everything just worked. I think I beat the game about 8 times by now, on several different profiles.

 

[Chamale]

Bioshock. I just picked it up, and I loved the interesting deconstruction of Objectivist philosophy, but hated the gameplay. It was just getting in the way. That was my opinion until the moment I clubbed a Big Daddy to death with a wrench.

 

[Valkyira]

Fallout 3. I rented it along with Fable 2 a few years ago and I couldn't get into it. I just played Fable 2 for the time I had the games. However, I did have a sudden urge to give it another try so I bought it, and now it's up there in my top 5 games of all time.

 

[Random Argument Man]

Final Fantasy 8? Once you're finished with "draw", the game gets easy.

 

[xDHxD148L0]

Jeanne d'Arc, an RPG for the PSP, it was really boring for the first 5-10 hours or so. I though the story was bleh and the combat was super simple, but after a while something just clicked...and it is now one of my favorites RPGs of all time.

 

[Sn1P3r M98]

Mass Effect 1 a thousand times. I played the first mission, went away for a few weeks, came back and fell in love.

I hope this wins me over soon. The effin' Benezia fight turned me off so much, I came back and did the fist half today, it's just so damned hard!

Oh yeah, think I remember that part. All I can say is try and keep a pillar or such between you and her while you take out the minions and keep moving. Good luck!

Okay, I got to the part after she talks to you about the Rachni and Saren. Let's see how many tries it takes to get past the next part...

 

[xquqx]

Elite beat agents. When I first played it, I was terrible at it, so I got bored and turned it off. Then, a year or two later, I came back and BLAM!, I loved it.