Games you couldn't get into the first time, but loved the second time.

[TerribleAssassin]

Half-Life 2.

Just couldn't grasp the minimalism of the narrative and how it was paced.

 

[The_Blue_Rider]

Mass Effect and Oblivion Im so glad i gave them second chances ^_^

 

[ultrachicken]

Most times I play an RPG my first playthrough is a laborious slog through the game with poorly built characters using shitty equipment and only a vague grasp on the story. Once I play through the game again, I tend to enjoy it more, because I know more about how to grow my character and find equipment. I also learn about the other half of the story that I hadn't discovered, which adds some more depth to the setting.

So, pretty much any RPG ever.

 

[CrustyOatmeal]

sacrifice was hard to get into when i first played it (although i was barely in my teens at the time) but a few years later i picked it up and LOVED it. my brother still refuses to play it, he actually destroyed the game because he hated seeing me play it so much (again, we were teenagers and stupid) but i got it on GOG.com and im back in love with it yet again

 

[Tryforlive]

alpha protocol

total war shogun 2

call of duty

Mass effect 1

 

[ManupBatman]

Kotor, couldn't get my head around the D20 aspect.

Few years and several character creation guides later and I was shooting multiple flavors of lightning.

 

[ManupBatman]

sacrifice was hard to get into when i first played it (although i was barely in my teens at the time) but a few years later i picked it up and LOVED it. my brother still refuses to play it, he actually destroyed the game because he hated seeing me play it so much (again, we were teenagers and stupid) but i got it on GOG.com and im back in love with it yet again

I didn't know anyone else ever played that! And it is insane to get into. But pretty damn solid once you know what your doing. I would kill for the RTS gods to grant of a boon of a fully realized squeal.

 

[Coller]

Fallout 2, chrono trigger, morrowind. All of them got a second or third chance recently, didn't manage to get to the end of any of them due to the goddamn bugs. Fallout 2 screwed me over with it's too-many-items-corrupts-data bug, morrowind kept crashing when equiping/unequiping stuff or just at random even with the community patches and stuff, usually crashing the whole OS, chrono trigger i just recently re-started so haven't finished yet.

 

[Syndef]

My best example is Morrowind. I remember walking away from the game because of the combat system. It didn't make sense to me that I could be so close and visibly hit an enemy and still miss, especially having played FPS's all my life. I picked it up again because I realized that I never really experienced the game (and the world) past the starting village. I'm so glad I gave the game a chance. If I have to wait for Skyrim any longer, my blue balls will turn purple and explode.

 

[LiraelG]

Final Fantasy VIII. I started it YEARS ago, but found the graphics distracting, the gameplay and levelling up system dull (I only enjoyed games like Spyro and Zelda), and the story slow. Then I purchased Final Fantasy X and loved it so much that IX, VII, I and II, and IV swiftly followed. I decided to resume VIII a few months later... and I loved it. It's now within my top 10 games, and only second to X in terms of the Final Fantasy series.

A few years prior to this, I had been unable to get into Zelda: Majora's Mask, and had decided that all Zelda games were not worth the effort. A year after this, I bought a Gamecube package which included Wind Waker (I was not too happy!). It took me a few weeks to open it, but when I did, I became hooked instantly. Wind Waker is now a top game too, and Majora's Mask is... alright.

 

[Hides His Eyes]

Yep, Dragon Age: Origins. And Final Fantasy VIII as it happens.

Dragon Age has very clunky controls and the interface annoyed me a bit. The second game I started on it, I just fought through that, got used to the clunkiness and loved the game.

 

[Voxgizer]

Dungeon Fighter Online. I played it right after it went into open beta testing, absolutely hated it.

August of last year I saw a banner ad for it on a site and thought "Hrmm...I wonder what's changed." Here I am, nearly a year later, DFO is the only MMO I've ever given more than three weeks.

Brosaders unite.

 

[Rodrigo Girao]

At first I thought P.N.03 was too tough, inflexible, and terribly frustrating. Later I tried it again and confirmed that I was right... yet realized that I was wrong to think of those as negative points. It is a challenging, streamlined game that imposes its own pace, demands some real skill, and refuses to coddle weak players. Then again, it's not even as hard as it seems at first. You just have to get used to the way the hero moves - an unique mix of shaking booty and blowing shit up.

 

[Lovesfool]

Resident Evil 4 and 5.

They start TOO slow and TOO awkward in terms of handling. Both times a put the controller down after a few minutes or hours. Both time I retried them a few months later. In both cases I loved them once finished with them.

 

[SweetNess_666]

Here's a possible game noone has posted yet. FIFA11. I bourght it in release day played it and thought it was to slow and sluggy until a month it 2 later I played it with a group of freinds at a freindsand felt like I'd seen the game for the first time, needless to say I bourght it back the very next day

 

[chronicfc]

KOTOR 2, was only like 6 at the time, replayed when I was 7 and bored got further into it, and now I'm 15 and played it like 8 times, finishing it twice, going on a third

 

[Omey]

The first Half life. It was my first FPS(i hadnt played doom or wolf3d).I played like crazy for 2 weeks or so(...took a long time to figure out the puzzle where you have to jump into the giant air tunnel that blows upwards) then by the time I got around to apprehension I thought the game was almost over. I was so proud of myself! And just when I thought I am going to enter the door to a game finish cutscene ... those fucking military guys kidnap you!!!!!

And they take away all your weapons! I was so pissed. uninstalled it then and didnt touch it for months!!!

A few months later I had nothing to do so i gave it another try and finished it.Thank god.!! I almost missed out on the best game ever made!! Since then I have replayed it many times...

Even if this isnt exactly the topic of discussion I just wanted to tell that story

Yea and other games I got into the second time are :

Deus Ex
GTA

 

[zexxar]

Baldurs Gate. The first time I played it I had no ideas of those D&D rules and so I skilled totally wrong and never understood how the battle exactly worked. After i informed myself about those rules I replayed it and loved it.