What are gaming experiences you gave a second chance.

I was very against some of the games this gen mainly because they ruined their past entries in the series. I'm Mainly talking about these games:

FF13(what the h square-enix?)

Castlevania Lords Of Shadows(God Of War rip off)

RE5(forced co-op and super hulk chris)

ME2(fail effect 2)

After various game playthroughs with these games, I managed to enjoy and appreciate their unique experience that they had to offer. I still feel thedisapointment they left behind though, but they in the end still managed to feel like good games to me. I mainly felt the dissapointment because these games had amaizing past entries that made an impact on me as a gamer. Formulas were changed, feeling swere confronted and honestly I think people here tend to not give games more of a chance to redeem themselves.

Have you had a similar experience sw/ Please do share.

lol except for DA2 of course.

Half Life 2. I played it for a good time but thought it was really boring. So I quit but later tried it again just to get it finished. And it was a decision I don't regret at all.

Uncharted. Bought the game, hated it. Sold it. Bought it again a month later, hated it more. Sold it again.

Bioshock. Played for four hours, fell asleep from lack of challenge. Woke up, played for another hour before saying "nuts to this".

Infamous, and I still hated it.

Hehe, I had to try Metal Gear Solid 3 twice to complete it... I couldn't get the bag the first time =]

Best game ever btw.

GTA4.I hated it at first,now it's my favorite game this gen.

Infamous, and I still hated it.

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GTA4.I hated it at first,now it's my favorite game this gen.

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Three franchises immediately jump to mind and that's Killzone, Resistance, and Gears. Loved R:FoM, hated the second, enjoyed the 3rd. Hated Killzone, loved KZ2, enjoyed KZ3. Loved GeoW, did not like GeoW2, love GeoW3.

wait you cant call los a god of war ripoff god of war then would be a ripoff of alot of other games *facepalm*like legacy of kain,ninja gaiden,prince of persia,devil may cry,

mass effect 2

cod though now it's only for the trollz and the lulz

dmc4 got lost waited like a year and beat it the day i started up again.

killzone

gtiv hated it since it took out alot but i learned not to sweat the small stuff and enjoyed it.

real time stratagies.these helped me in other games in the future.

Amnesia, can't believe I spent money on that crap,"oh it's teh scariest game ever" :roll:

FF13. what a horrible, horrible game. Gave it three tries though.

Gears of War - Could never really get into the "hide behind a wall and shoot" play mechanic.

Resident Evil 4. What happens when you really want to turn a survival horror game into a 3rd person shooter. Fail.

FF13. what a horrible, horrible game. Gave it three tries though.

Gears of War - Could never really get into the "hide behind a wall and shoot" play mechanic.

Resident Evil 4. What happens when you really want to turn a survival horror game into a 3rd person shooter. Fail.

After RE4 which i consider a big reset on RE series and my biggest upset ever , i gave a chance to RE5.

All this hype about how different from RE4 will be and will go back to its roots etc ... I felt for all this hype , preorder the game and i ended up UNINSTALL it on chapter 4 out of boredom !! My first Resident evil game ( I OWN ALL since day 1 of original RE release on PS , i used to be hardcore fan till RE4) i didnt finish! Insane

Super Mario Galaxy

I thought that with the Wiimote it would have horrid controls so I didn't play it at first, then I loved it.

I hated Fallout 3 at first but it ended up being my one of my favorite games

The best example if this for me was with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time; I got this game for my birthday back in 1998 and it was the first Zelda game I had ever played. After about an hour of playing it I thought it was boring and silly, and allowed a friend of mine to "borrow" it because I had no intention of ever playing it again. A few months later after reading tons of stellar reviews for that game, and hearing the friend I lent my copy to rave about how amazing it was for months, I asked for my copy back and gave it another shot. Long story short, Ocarina of Time is my second favorite game of all time now, and I have played it from start to finish about 5-times now.

Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. I've tried playing through it three-four times, farthest I ever got was the Great Bay Temple before I gave up. It's the time system that really threw me off, it made me feel like I had to rush through the game, like I couldn't stop for a moment and just walk around. I know a lot of people praise it as a good Zelda game, which is why I have given it 3-4 tries, but I just can't get myself to like that game. I want to, it's just not working for me.

Deus Ex: HR. It has a side-quest that is completely broken, stops dead in its tracks. I decided just to skip that quest entirely and continued on later.topsemag55

Which quest?

Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 2: Echoes.

I started out with Metroid Prime 2 and got bored. Same with Metroid Prime until I tried it again a few months after I tried it and I started getting the hang of it.

Vanquish. I rented it shortly after it came out, played it about half way through but didn't like it much and then sent it back. After all the praise here on SW I decided to give it another rental and beat it, but I still think it's mediocre at best and I wouldn't want to play it again.

Super Meat Boy. At first I was like nah I don't play games for punishing difficulty, the levels themselves seem plain, but then I got it when it was on a Steam sale and 80 hours later I have all achievements besides "clear world x without dying once" ones.

I don't know what it was exactly but the game just grabbed me. At first I just wanted to play it for a while to try it out, the levels just felt bland, but after getting used to the weird controls the game opens up and shows pretty good design. I think it's the sense of accomplishment that was addictive and felt satisfying, otherwise the game isn't really "goty material".

Going for the time attack leaderboards is completely useless though because you are allowed to use secondary characters with varying properties and physics, I consider that to be "cheating". I mean I spent 80 hours on mastering Meat Boy's controls, I don't feel like spending hours trying to master the other ones too.