Games you wrote off but went and played later

I initially wrote off Ace Attorney: Apollo Justice for years and only fully played it thanks to Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies. Went in expecting to still hate it but came out loving it.

You ever have a moment like that?

the first forza horizon. people were saying it was not worth it but i bought it 6 months later at a discount. it was fully worth it and i enjoyed the game!

BTW what is that gif?

It's from Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies, it's when a cop tries to arrest Athena and she just throws the guy away.

Deus Ex: Invisible War. Hated the demo-they ruined the franchise

Played it and quite enjoyed it. Still not spectacular like the first, but fairly good.

ah, i see. your new favorite game?

Nah, it's one of my least favs in the series but considering I adore the whole series it is still a 8.5/10 for me easily.

Wanted a gif of Apollo but this is better.

Couldn't get into Bioshock at first, loved it when I finished it on my third or so playthrough.

Couldn't get into Assassin's Creed at first, and I ended up loving the series.

For the Ace Attorney series, it's the other way around for me: totally dug the games on DS. But I have Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright and Dual Destinies on 3DS, but I barely played them...

Yeah, it's from the first case right ?

You just meet her and... BAM, she starts assaulting a cop ! Haha.

Oh it's case 2 XD

Fallout 3. Hated it at first but loved it later.

Dark Souls.

Initially I hated the game and immediately dropped it.

Went back after a couple of months...now it's the game that gave me the most enjoyable and rewarding experiences.

Lost Odyessey

@BigShotSmoov007: Need to play that, sadly I'm eh on the visual style.

Pillars of Eternity. Tried it at launch but the "sticky" messy combat turned me off, didn't feel at all like the IE games it was supposedly inspired by. Came back in August after the expansion and while the combat is still a clusterfuck, it's much more bearable. Got 112 hours in it thus far.

Didn't think I would like it so much and beat it twice.

@BigShotSmoov007: You should try Tales of Vesperia, easily the best JRPG on 360 imo.

Yeah I played it but didn't beat it. Kinda lost interest after awhile.

@BigShotSmoov007: Ah fair enough, did you play any other 360 JRPGs?

Star Ocean. Don't know why I never played Blue Dragon though, probably was playing something else at the time and never got around to it.

Got that for £5 recently and had a shot, adore the visual style but the main lead is a tad irritating.

Need to play Star Ocean 4 in preparation for 5.

Hatred no doubt. I wrote it off due to the controversy scam when it tried way too hard just so it can get the sales it needed. Got it on sale later and it was somewhat okay, it didn't need all the attention.

Android 18 is best girl.

Most games I know if I'm going to like it or not. So I'm gonna go with an entire genre; visual novels. I don't mean adventure games like 999/VLR/Ace Attorney/Ghost Trick, but the choose your own adventure games like Steins;Gate. Didn't overly care for adventure games because of the puzzles, so I didn't play them. As a huge reader the visual novel genre really appeals to me because there is no fluff, only the story and choices on how to branch the story.

The visual novel that really surprised me was Fate/Stay Night. It was labeled as 'action'. How the hell could a visual novel fall under action? Well, it turns out Type-Moon makes really smart use of still images during fights to give the illusion of weapons clashing and movement. My favorite part of the game comes from how the routes are done. Each route builds off of the previous one, so there is a reason to play the game three times. The first route examines the morals of the main character. The second route shows the consequences of the morals for the main character. The third route explores choosing between the protagonists morals, or what they want. Cannot recommend the game enough.

Indeed she is. Krillin is one lucky guy to have her.

Some of my most favorite games of all time are the ones that I couldn't get into, the first time. But luckily, I always give movies as well as games a second chance. Here is list of games that I can remember right now;

• Warcraft 3
• World in Conflict
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution
• Divinity: Original Sin
• Dragon Age: Origins

I swear he must've used another controller to brainwash her or something.

God of War 2. I wrote that game off because that first game is hot garbage. Ended up replaying both when they got remastered for the PS3 during the run till God of War 3. Still hated the first game. It astounds me how that piece of shit was praised in a generation that had better beat em ups and better adventure games. But that 2nd game? Sure the story is shittier, but I hated Kratos from the get go, so the story I was gladly writing off. But God of War 2 very well paced action game that makes the most out of having what are mostly unspectacular mechanics. It's a testament to good pacing, encounter design, and enemy variation to make up for other short comings, and I'm pretty picky when it comes to my beat-em ups.

FFX. Played it half way and stopped on the PS2. I got the PS3 version last year and platted it. *also bought the vita and ps4 version too*

Bloodborne, it was my first Souls type of game and wasn't sure about it. I quit for a while because I couldn't beat Gascoigne and a month later I came back at it and now two months later I'm at Micholash. I enjoy it now but in small dose.

Bioshock, didn't like it and all the stir in the media was just more bullcrap to me. I ended up playing again with Infinite and finish it but I was like ... it was crap and the ending not mind blowing at all like everyone was. Just watch some Sci-fi movies they do way better those type of parallel universe better.

Believe it or not, Kotor, my son bought it, played it and I thought eh, I'll pass but months later I tried it for the hell of it and the rest is history, Kotor is right there with Halo CE as my favorite game of all time.

I would say the Evil Within. Not much into horror games but the game turned out alright.

Project Diva, tried the demo of f on the vita and was not a fan, then saw it on a psn sale for like 5 bucks or something and gave it another chance, now between f and f 2nd I have like 130 hours in them, some of my favorite games

I hated Persona 4 the first time I played it, and felt it was a poor retread of Persona 3.

Persona 4 is currently my favorite game of all time.

Dead or Alive Xtreme 2. If you're going "whaaa??" -- exactly. After playing several hours of playing it, I began to realise how tightly designed the gameplay was. We probably need more weird Japanese relationship sims with beach volleyball in them.

The other one is Crysis, and that's partly to do with waiting for a rig that can play it at more than 30 frames a second. That's because Crysis thrives on fluidity. And man, when you play that "Relic" mission on Delta difficulty.... whoar. One of the best FPS levels ever.

Dark Souls. Inggrish remembers, I was complaining to him about dying to the Taurus Demon and losing a thousand souls. Dude tells me how petty I was and he was right. Played the entire game later and it's one of the best games I've ever played.

Also Batman Arkham Asylum, although that was because the demo sucked. Game admittedly wasn't amazing, but I played City first and City is a superb video game.

Batman Arkham Asylum. Years later bought it cheap but still didn't like it and I have tried it multiple times because I love Batman but the melee in this game and the stealth for babies I just can't stand it. Neither do I like its art-style and horrible character models that look inhuman.

Bought Bayonetta when it got cheap. The game's ass. Extremely casual battle system not even close to DMC3 or DMC4 more free style combo system and the music annoys the **** out of me as well as every character in this game.

Bought Metal Gear Rising when it was cheap because it's a Metal Gear game. I liked the combat a bit but it gets old fast because it only has canned combos (and very few of them!) that do no damage, so the game relies mostly on overpowered counters and the free cutting, both which get old fast too because it's always the same. The story and characters in this game are shit and the Senator it's so ridiculously awful I couldn't even bring myself to finish this shit, which is rare because I finish the grand majority of the games I play but the disappointment with this game was so great I stopped playing the game right during the final boss battle. I didn't want to keep forcing myself to play it.

Destiny, eventually though I had to see what went wrong with that game for myself, and I turned out to like it a great deal.

Fallout 3. Didn't get into it the first time, but years later I got New Vegas and loved the shit out of it so I gave Fallout 3 another chance. I enjoyed it a great deal more. It's still no New Vegas though.

Mass Effect. At first I wasn't interested in the series too much with the first one but Mass Effect 2 just turned everything around for me. Now I am a die hard fan. Even went as far to read some of the comics and books.

FFVI(basically jrpg's in general): I was like, this boring game were you just choose an option and then the game plays itself. Good thing I reconsidered.