Best Game You Gave a Second Chance

[Luca72]

Final Fantasy Tactics. I played it at a friends request on PSOne, and generally liked the gameplay. Then a few levels in it started getting HARD. I'd have to grind monsters in between every level, I didn't feel like my characters were progressing very fast, so I didn't seem to have many customization options, and the story was so poorly translated that I couldn't follow it. I dropped it after maybe the Dorter Slums level.

Then I tried the PSP update (mostly because the art design for the new cutscenes was so damn beautiful), and couldn't put it down. I read up on the game mechanics, and before long I had a superfast archer that could SHOOT POTIONS, an armored monk that was basically Goku, and a time mage/healer with a rifle.

 

[Ithera]

Star wars the old republic. Bought it during a steam sale, and played it for about 10 minutes? Decided it was rubbish and did something else. Fast forward to a rainy day and I'm bored out of my skull, i dust it off and hop on in. I play for a while and keep at it, and whoopsy I'm hooked.

Turns out it was a really good game. I just needed to get into things.

 

[Sewa_Yunga]

Dragon Age: Origins. Didn't get very far the first time around, got bored, lost interest. Came back to it almost a year later and thoroughly enjoyed it.

I think i gotta retry this one too. I played as a 2h melee char on high difficulty the first time and when a friend suggested I should start over as a mage I had already lost interest...

Right now I'm rediscovering Sacred 2+Addon. I reinstalled it when I couldn't play D3 due to server issues. So now that I'm sated with D3 for the time being, I'm playing it full on again.
Of course it also helped that I found a simple yet effective workaround for its RAM leak issue.

 

[Jinjer]

Heroes of Might and Magic 3 - my brother used to play it a lot and I tried it on his computer. But I was still a kid back then and didn't really get the intricacies of strategy. After getting wiped out over and over I gave up on it as a lost cause. Years later I tried again and now it's a permanent addition to my gaming life - it's one of those games I break out on rainy days I have it installed on 3 computers Just In Case.

 

[xshadowscreamx]

im really glad and went back and finished the ps1 game 'galarilians' a few years ago on my ps3...i wasent to smart enough to even get passed the 1st disk when i first got it all those years ago, the 90's

 

[A_Play_On_Words]

Metal Gear Solid 2 or Mass Effect 2. It's a tie, but I'd proboably give teh edge to MGS2 since I'm currently playing it.

 

[Iszfury]

Dragon Age: Origins. I'm replaying it right now and I was fairly bleh about it the first time, enough so that I didn't bother even finishing it. But I'm having an absolute blast as is and thoroughly enjoying it. I think time had tainted my opinion and made me remember the poorer elements (which there are a few of) rather than the overall effect.

This, for the exact same reasons as well. I guess I just wasn't particularly into the genre at the time.

 

[BleedingPride]

mine was the witcher 2. idk i just got bored quickly, then i loved it but now since the enhanced edition upgrade i cant play

 

[puff ball]

the only one i can think of is eternal darkness, sanity's requiem. i rented it when i was liked 13, played for about an hour quit tried it a day later got an error message saying there was no save data and promptly returned it. found out 3 years later that the game was just messing with me and decided to give it another shot, loved it.

 

[Fenra]

Silent Hill 2... I know, dont look at me that way! When I first played it, it was the first SH game I'd ever played and the opening didnt really set it up well for me, I couldnt stand it, I got to the appartments and then dropped it.

Fast forward 2 years and I picked up the PC version cheap to give it another shot and got really sucked in and adored it. Good thing too as it led me to play the rest of the series which for better and worse at times throughout the games has been a highlight of my gaming "career" so to speak

 

[Kargathia]

Quite likely it'd be Red Orchestra 2, but chances are that is mainly due to it being the latest example, and my memory not functioning that well at 5am.

Anyhow: Red Orchestra. Tried it, thought it an ugly, clunky game with downright horrible AI, and didn't buy it for myself.

Few weeks ago it was on sale, so I gave it another shot.

It's still ugly, it's still clunky; and it's exactly what I'd love Battlefield to be: a large-scale realistic shooter that doesn't hesitate to squash you like a bug. No such nonsense as balancing sniper rifles to only insta-kill on headshots, no sir. Here when a machine gun opens fire you keep your head down, and start praying.

 

[Stryc9]

Best one I can think of is X3

I played Reunion and my PC couldn't handle it, that and thinking "what the actual fuck am I doing". I bought the X pack later, had a blast with X1 then got about 30 or so hours out of X3, great game. Just a bit slow so I play it for about 10 hours ever few months.

Same case here. Plus i had a few control issues as it was the first PC game i played that made such extensive use of the keyboard.

But got a better laptop, grew better fingers, then finished it.

Then i heard about Terran Conflict on Steam and went on to that the day after.

One does not simply finish X3, unless you actually play through the story which I never bothered with.

I had to give X3 third and fourth chances before it finally got it hooks into me and I logged 160+ hours in just a few months. I had a hard time getting past the steep learning curve and I'd get pissed and stop playing for a a few weeks then read some guides and come back until I got to where I was doing pretty well for myself in sandbox mode.

I really wanted to love X3 because it's everything I look for in a space sim and on a machine that can run it at max settings (which mine can't) it's so damn pretty. One of these days I'll get a machine together than can handle the game at max settings and it'll be another 160+ hours gone in Terran Conflict or whatever the name of the new one they're working on now is called, I forget because if I visit their site I end up reading the forums and then I end up playing the game and quit doing anything productive.

 

[Signa]

Deus Ex. People raved about it, but every time I played it, I couldn't beat the statue level. I tried stealthing, but my experience from playing Thief interfered. I tried assaulting, but I didn't have any skills or ammo to succeed with that either. Hell, this game may as well as not count because it probably was my 4th try only 2 years ago that it FINALLY clicked. Still didn't get around to beating it, but HOLY HELL was it a great ride while I was on it.

 

[Gennadios]

Definitely System Shock 2. The game has one hell of an acclimation curve and the overall weakness of the player and the inability to equip weapons without certain stats was a massive rage inducer in the early game. Ended up quitting it in frustration my first time.

A few months later I picked it up again, got a bit further, started saving up my upgrade points so I could pick up the best weapons as they came up... turned out to be a blast.

 

[Lunar Shadow]

New Vegas with some gameplay tweaking mods. Planescape :Torment, Fallout 1, KOTOR2 with restored content mod, and NWN2. I played all of them too young to appreciates (cept NV, but my second run through was more enjoyable and I could focus more on the story without gameplay issues messing with immersion) and am glad I replayed them later on in life.

 

[Zeckt]

Gears of war series. When it first came out I thought it was stupid and dismissed it not giving it a chance after the first half hour. Nowadays I have the limited gears 3 360 and play with my friend every weekend. Love it.

 

[Poetic Nova]

Killzone for the ps2, felt mediocre at first but a couple of weeks later a gave it another run. It's a blast to play even though the framerate can drop at alot of points. To bad the 2 Killzone's on the ps3 are Call Of Duty clones in space.

 

[woodaba]

KOTOR 2's first level is awful . Absolutely terrible. After that, though, it's utterly amazing (Well, to me anyway...)

I've never understood the hate Peragus gets. I thought it was brilliant.

 

[doomspore98]

Fallout 3, it seemed boring to me, but after I got the feel of the game it became so much more fun.

Half life 2 also.

 

[Dr. Mongo]

Morrowind for me. When I saw the game on the PC of a friend I was like "Pff, what a load of crap".
Later I would receive it as a gift from my mother (she's addicted to all things RPG). I installed it - more out of courtesy than anything else - and I got hooked almost instantly.