Have you ever grown fond towards a game you once hated?

[DG!]

Its interesting seeing how playing one thing more than once can have a great impact on how you view an experience. I remember hating Mega Man Zero 3 when I first played it, only to have a total blast on replay
Have you guys ever had that happen?

 

[Megazao]

I don't usually give a second chance for games I hate because there are just too many games out there, but if a game just doesn't click with me I may come back one day. The best example of this was Fatal Frame Maiden of Black Water, which I found boring on the Wii U, but loved when I tried the remaster.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

I used to see WarCraft as nerdy thing with these grown adults being manchildern or something like that , well I got onto WarCraft and it was best game ever.

I looked at Final Fantasy and went "this series is so long and seems like shit" I looked at FF7 pictures on CDromance and went "this is probably one of those annoying ass games where its tedious and slow and crappy as heck" I need not to say more than my title already says.

 

[Klonoa7]

I used to hate RPG games growing up and would avoid them. Parasite Eve is the game that got me hooked to the genre.

 

[Asian girls loverAsian girls lover's icon]

Happened to me with Ender Lillies. The first time I played this game I did everything in the wrong way, without even try to understand how it worked. The following year I decided to give it another try and things went totally different, being able to finish the game.

 

[Teberu]

I tried playing Drakengard 1 twice when i was younger so that i could "understand" Nier, never got past the first few chapters cuz i got bored as fuck, i could not understand why so many people liked such boring, repetitive and unpleasant game.
Then, a few years later, i decided to try and give it yet another chance and it just clicked, i guess. I now love everything about that game, it's one of my favorites on the PS2 and i haven't even played Nier yet lol

 

[MasterEn]

i've only come across one game that i hate. any other game that i used to dislike or hate has mellowed out to melancholy or pity.
i used to have hate for ff7 and 8. now it's just mostly indifference and curiosity of what those games would be like if they had better production schedules.
i disliked xenosaga for a while. but i seem to mainly dislike Shion. i only played up to the end of the first game, so maybe she gets better later on.
i still have red hot rage towards yugioh forbidden memories, but that's just for the rather bafflingly nonsensical decision for having a battle gauntlet at the end of the game with no save points in a game fully reliant on rng mechanics and the computer is apparently allowed to cheat so ridiculously that it's not even funny, just befuddling and perplexing.

 

[RanmyakuIchi's iconRanmyakuIchi]

Hate is far too strong a word, but I bounced off of Final Fantasy VI a few times years ago, coming away with the personal impression that it was overrated compared to things like Chrono Trigger and Live A Live. However, I tried it again about 7 months ago and ended up completely falling in love with it that time and bingeing it in only a few days.

I think in the past that I would try FFVI after having played through a different RPG and this would cause burnout to set in before I could finish it, whereas this time I started with FFVI from a fresh mindset.

 

[zacharinolongpants]

Its interesting seeing how playing one thing more than once can have a great impact on how you view an experience. I remember hating Mega Man Zero 3 when I first played it, only to have a total blast on replay
Have you guys ever had that happen?

That's funny I had a similar experience with the Zero series. I didn't hate 3 or anything, but I was just lukewarm about it. On my second playthrough of the series, 3 and 4 were by far my faves.

 

[E0N]

Nope I don't think so. The types of games I hated before I still hate them (Online MP, GAAS). But there is a game (COD) that I used to love a lot but now I really hate it for what it has become.

 

[zacharinolongpants]

Legend of Mana for PS1! I just couldn't get into it the first couple times a tried it. Despite loving the graphics and music, the freeform structure of the game kept me from building momentum. I dunno what happened, but it clicked during an attempt and it's my fave of the Mana series at this point.

 

[DunkeyKong]

I used to hate Metroidvania…I still kinda do? Not every Metroidvania of course like the one on the modern console, but the old school one. I used to hate Metroid Fusion quite a lot since I keep getting stuck in certain areas, even with guides. The boss fight "Yakuza" made me quit because of how hard it is…or at least that's what I thought

I would later discovered this game again, years later. I decided to try and finally finish the game, getting to the Yakuza boss fight wasn't easy. But after I did arrived, I realised just how easy it is to detect the patterns (not until it's literally just a head left). And then after that, I meet the Nightmare…it really live up to it's name. Horror looking design, it's weird and slow movement is irritating. I died many times because of that, but I didn't quit

And after I killed the Nightmare and the final boss, I realised that it was the first Metroidvania games I've finished. And that's how my love for that genre begins

 

[ShadowsofCreation]

I find that no matter what the game, I tend to grow a greater appreciation for it on a replay (Minus the emotional impact of plot twists or scenes which are designed to hit harder the first time). Even games I detest I can be like, "Okay.. but I at least get what they were going for..."

There is human psychology involved already, as people grow familiar with something they tend to get more comfortable/content with it.

Then again I don't go out of my way to purposefully play truly awful games. I don't think ten playthroughs of Bubsy 3D would suddenly make me think it is fantastic.

I'm having trouble coming up with a specific example at the moment, but it happens for me because I tend to like replaying series, and often series have the 'black sheep' that I just sort of have to grit my teeth and get through for the sake of the other games.

Maybe the Drakengard games? Like... 1 and 2 are awful, awful games with unique stories. I can't recommend anyone play them over just watching the cutscenes online. But because I love the Nier games so much I've replayed them multiple times.

 

[JamminJelly009]

Any Souls-Like game! I always hated that formula when I was younger, but Elden Ring got me into the genre HARD! Since playing Elden Ring I have went back and played the 3 Dark Souls games, Lies of P on Gamepass, and now I'm am slowly chipping away at Sekiro.

 

[ammourah]

It Was RE1 for (obviously) its tedious controls..
But after getting used to it the first time i played 3 hours in a row and followed with the rest of the trilogy.
It was a very unique experience.

 

[bjork]

The Witness. I was initially curious after Braid had some really interesting ways to interpret the game's space, and having that in a small 3D open world sounded pretty cool. Then I played it and was like, "oh, this is just a bunch of mazes with gimmicks" and kinda bounced off it. I don't remember why, but I went back to it in 2018 or 2019 and really sat down with it, and now it might be a top 5 all-timer for me.

 

[BigTony]

I can think of 3
Payday 2: when it first came out and all my friends got into it I thought it looked terrible and made fun of them, gave it a shot a year or so later and loved it its now one of my favorite games ive put over 600 hours into it.

Stalker: the game starts you out with really bad guns I think the PM Makarov might be the worst weapon I've ever used in a video game its comically underpowered and inaccurate.

Rage: This one isn't nearly as good as the other two but its fun biggest problem is how slow it starts Its JRPG bad when it comes to front loading the game with hours of boring shit. unlike every thing else ID software has made its not something you can just pick up and play but if all the planets align and you somehow get in the right headspace to play it its pretty fun.

 

[consuelo99]

yes , rogue galaxy

 

[trickybus]

Happened to me with Ender Lillies. The first time I played this game I did everything in the wrong way, without even try to understand how it worked. The following year I decided to give it another try and things went totally different, being able to finish the game.

Would you be comfortable elaborating? I'm curious about your experience since I've only really seen players either hate or love the game.

 

[Neb Lleb]

Maybe the Drakengard games? Like... 1 and 2 are awful, awful games with unique stories. I can't recommend anyone play them over just watching the cutscenes online. But because I love the Nier games so much I've replayed them multiple times.

Yeah. I actually don't give a damn about Nier, its spiritual sequel, but playing through Drakengard 1 provided me with a fascinating manga-inspired dark fantasy plot with a genuinely fascinating cast of characters. The problem with the game is that the gameplay is actually pretty strong on paper, but due to a notorious rushed development, the game suffers from sluggish speed and truly unbalanced combat.

I do feel that, if remade with the time and care it needed, it could work as a solid antithesis to the soulslikes that dominate the dark fantasy action role playing space nowadays, but alas...

Now, if you want to know MY game I used to hate but have grown fond towards... Max Payne 3. Its story, writing and treatment of the title character are TERRIBLE and are the exact reason why the game gets a bad rep from fans of 1 & 2, but from a gameplay standpoint, I found myself having a lot more fun than I did on my first playthrough. It's certainly not "TEH GREETEST THURD PARSON SHUUTER EVAR!!11" as its die hard fanboys insist it is (1 & 2 definitely top it by a landslide), but the realism-meets-arcade style of gameplay it goes for actually works a fair bit.

 

[ShadowsofCreation]

Yeah. I actually don't give a damn about Nier, its spiritual sequel, but playing through Drakengard 1 provided me with a fascinating manga-inspired dark fantasy plot with a genuinely fascinating cast of characters. The problem with the game is that the gameplay is actually pretty strong on paper, but due to a notorious rushed development, the game suffers from sluggish speed and truly unbalanced combat.

I do feel that, if remade with the time and care it needed, it could work as a solid antithesis to the soulslikes that dominate the dark fantasy action role playing space nowadays, but alas...

I don't think it is just the rushed dev cycle. Given its time of release Action RPGs in general kind of felt like crap, with stiff controls and uninteresting combat. (Kingdom Hearts being a rare exception).

Square's output especially was really bad at the time in terms of action combat. (The Bouncer anyone?)

Cavia, being the developer, has a pretty shoddy track record from my experience... so Drakengard was kind of doomed to play like garbage from the start. Not to mention... having to grind levels to unlock every weapon and level them to max to get the real endings? That isn't a dev time issue, that is a poor design issue, one that unfortunately carried into Nier as well.

 

[Asian girls loverAsian girls lover's icon]

Would you be comfortable elaborating? I'm curious about your experience since I've only really seen players either hate or love the game.

It was only my fault, not the game's. Bosses are more easy if fought with the right homunculus, but this is something I didn't understand the first time, and when I was almost at the end of the game I was so mad about all the difficulties I had, that I quit without finishing it. Then when I decided to give it a try another time, I faced the game with another mood. And thanks to this I was able to do evertyhing there was to do.

 

[Nidoking's iconNidoking]

My favorite game of all time, actually; Chrono Cross.

My early childhood I just hate turn-based games all-together. I didn't really get them and they felt so slow and bland... then I played Final Fantasy X and loved it kind of immediately. So after that 'awakening' I was sort of hype to buy any JRPG I could find and CC was on sale. Thing is, I was use to a PS2 JRPG and that had set my standard for the genre... so by comparison the first impression of CC was that it was really dated. So I played the very beginning of the game and stopped playing for like a full six months or more.

One day, I was really bored and had played all my other games to death, so I was like... "Sure, I'll try it again." I never put it down after that until completion, and have replayed it countless times. It just... clicked, I guess. Maybe because I went in knowing what to expect it to be like.

 

[Num]

i think final fantasy games tend to be easy to list for this. and most especially newer ones like 13 and 15 that had some pretty drastic changes to peoples conception of what it means to be a "final fantasy" game. its a very high profile franchise with lots of expectations placed. people cant help but take a step back once theyre introduced to change and difference but then later once that bias starts to dissipate you can see the qualities of the game for what it is, and potentially love it

 

[MasterEn]

My favorite game of all time, actually; Chrono Cross.

My early childhood I just hate turn-based games all-together. I didn't really get them and they felt so slow and bland... then I played Final Fantasy X and loved it kind of immediately. So after that 'awakening' I was sort of hype to buy any JRPG I could find and CC was on sale. Thing is, I was use to a PS2 JRPG and that had set my standard for the genre... so by comparison the first impression of CC was that it was really dated. So I played the very beginning of the game and stopped playing for like a full six months or more.

One day, I was really bored and had played all my other games to death, so I was like... "Sure, I'll try it again." I never put it down after that until completion, and have replayed it countless times. It just... clicked, I guess. Maybe because I went in knowing what to expect it to be like.

ff10 always seems like a good start point for someone to jump into rpgs. the combat system is turn based, but it's fast paced. and the turn order shows what your currently selected action will do to your future turn orders; maknig it easy to decide on where you should use a heavy attack and lose a turn later, or guard or use a weaker spell and keep that turn for later use.
the story is also very good along with a nice soundtrack and good visuals.
it's overall a 10/10.