Games you never thought you'd like

Ever walked into the game shop and thought 'nah i wouldn't like that game' and turns out to be an amazing game.I bought mass effect 1 simply because their was no other decent looking game in the shop and it wouldn't usually be my thing but i loved it! now im hooked on the mass effect series

Yes I have it in general with RTS games. Usually if it's an RTS game I'll pass... Well not too long ago after having played way too many hours of Mount and Blade Warband I decided to try out a popular RTS game like the Total War Series... after that I basically had a short period of RTS addiction haha, played civilization 4/5, Galactic Civilizations and Medieval 2 total war/ Shogun 2 and loved every minute of it. Just one more turn...

Plants vs Zombies!! From its name i thought it would the LAMEST game i'll ever play... but the game is awesome ,even in hardcore standards.

Terraria, i could have never imagined how different it is from Minecraft.

Terraria, i could have never imagined how different it is from Minecraft.

Lucianu

Terraria for me as well, I didn't think I would honestly play the game for longer than 10 hours... and well lets just say I've logged way more than 10 hours into that game.

I'm not into racing games, but enjoyed most of Dirt 2

borderlands i thought it was some stupid shooter til i looked into it and rented it on gamefly and i kept it

halo 3 i played a tiny part of it and i thought it was stupid and then when i got live i had to try it again then 7000 games later it was one of my favorite games

Also mass effect for me :). I need to buy the second one if it is also that good (even better).

Mount and Blade, first I thought it would be very meh. I was so wrong, and now I have put over 500 hours into Warband.

Battlefield: Bad Company

I'm not really big on the FPS genre but damn did that game love blowing stuff up...and Truckasauros.:P

I rented Captain America and thought bah! this will be a duffer!..But I quite enjoyed it! :shock:

Yes mate mass effect 2 is a fantastic game you should get it

borderlands i thought it was some stupid shooter til i looked into it and rented it on gamefly and i kept it

redskins26rocs

League of Legends, God of War (the series) and Heavy Rain.

I was happily surprised with how amazing those games turned out to be.

Shadows of the Damned I knew I would just like it but I ended up loving it!

I heard a lot of excellent praise about Forza 3, but wasn't sure if I'd like it and passed it off as another racer, but the more convincing I got from a few friends about it, the more it finally got me to cave in and buy it. When I had a lot of hands-on time with it, I was a believer. Forza 3 is an amazing racing game and I'm sure that Forza 4 will surpass it!

Fable 3. I don't know why but i never thought I'd like it, there weren't many choices in the shop so i bought. Now i really like it and hope that they'll soon announce about fable 4

I was surprised by God of War. I thought it was another overhyped series, but it actually turned out to be quite amazing.

BioShock- I thought, Ugh a stupid game that takes place underwater that has you play as a stupid diver with a drill for a hand. Boy was I totally wrong. I've only played half of it so far but it's a great game.

Little Big Planet- I thought it was a stupid childish game. Played it and it is the one game where I can exercise my creativity to the fullest. Great game

LA Noire-I bought it because I thought it'd be kind of interesting. Yeah it doesn't have much replayability but it is still good.

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Just like most of the people on here has said, I don't normally buy games I don't think I'll like. But I recently bought The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition, and it totally took me by surprise! I remember my older brother played it, when he was little, and I remember hearing about it alot; I mean, it's a classic, no doubt. But I was never really that interested in point-and-click/adventure games. I would always get stuck, and wouldn't know what to do next, so I'd just give up.

However, Monkey Island: Special Edition has a great hint system, that makes the game a lot easier, or at least it's harder to get stuck. So, yeah, that game's great :D

When I was a kid, about 12 or so I'd say. I already had been playing games for 6 years. But I never thought I would ever like a serious RPG. Thought it was for nerds :P

Well, currently playing The Witcher and replaying Fallout 3 again. Also put over 200 hours into Final Fantasy X (which is a very traditional RPG even). Also looking forward to Skyrim, The Witcher 2 and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.

Mortal Kombat 9. I was never good at fighting games in general but I picked up a copy because my friends on xbox sounded like they were having a great time playing king of the hill. I hated the game at the beginning because I accidentaly played through the campaign on hard at first which made me rage. I never got past scorpion and quan chi until a few weeks ago. Now I love them game because you feel like a boss when you pull of a 49% damage combo with ermac, that is until they patched it anyways...

Uncharted 2. I thought the first game was pretty bland and a write off rental type game, but the sequel.... its pretty much perfect.GodModeEnabled

Demon's Souls, most of my games are bought after serious thought. So there's rarely a game that I have mixed feelings about.

Tales of the Abyss. I didn't think I'd like the anime aspect of it, but it turns out that's what made the game so appealing the more I played it.

Magicka, I didn't like it but it turned out to be pretty fun

At the time of its release I never thought that I'd like Zelda OOT. Yes that's right, we all make mistakes.

It was the first Zelda that I had ever heard of (no internet) and I had never played a game like it, so judging by screenshots I thought it looked kind of childish cause of the fairies and stuff (and I was still a pretty little kid at the time). I really didn't know what to make of it and it was the first game I personally rented (I never did that before) instead of asking mom or dad, or buying it from the money I had saved.
1. because I really didn't trust that this game could be good, and
2. because I didn't want to be seen with it.

Actually I think that was my first Nintendo game overall, and after playing it I immediately ran to the stores to buy it, and became a huge Nintendo fan.
This game and the N64 opened the doors for me to Mario games, Metroid games, Banjo Kazooie, Lylat Wars, Goldeneye, and so many other games that up to today are my most beloved games ever released.
Before Zelda OOT I was primarily a PC/Megadrive II/Commodore 64 gamer and a bit of a SEGA fan cause of Sonic (which was my first ever colour game).

If it wasn't for a beaming 100 score in my favorite (holy) gaming magazine, and a person from school who couldn't stop talking about it while drawing figures on my back, I probably wouldn't have ever given it a chance.