Games you used to hate but now like?

[ShitLurker]

Hate is a bit strong a word too but I feel similar about souls like games - went from dislike to finding them tolerable/mediocre at worst, with some actually good elements.

Usually experience improves when I start consulting a guide. While I like exploring in games, these games go too far in one direction and are needlessly obtuse. Yes, of course, you need to tickle the goblin's anus with the monkey's paw during a blood moon behind this one tree in the forest to get the item you need to progress. How silly I am for not instinctively knowing to do that and aimlessly wondering around for 3 hours.

I bloody love Dark Souls since it pretty much got me back into gaming, So leaving aside I'm a fanboy, the one that really took a while to click was Sekiro. Till the Genichiro fight I was just faffing around and sort of surviving, don't remember reaching absolute peak frustration, but I was feeling a bit like I was bashing into a brick wall. Once I finally got the parry flow of the game it was smooth sailing from there onward. But again, was not hate to love since I never actually hated it.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

I hated League of Legends viscerally when I started, 1000 hours later it's still easily the worst game I've ever played

Switch to DotA.

I used to hate Saints Row. I found it super cheesy and repetitive. I got introduced through SR3 whick required you to do those tedious tasks. They are funny the fist time, but the 10th time?

I don't love it now, but the gameplay feels smoother and it's fun to mess around. I think GTA has better missions and setting, but SR has better gameplay.

 

[Wesker]

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

More of a love/hate relationship. Hated, HATED Raiden at the time but the game has really grown on me. I still tend to think it's the best of the series for a lot of reasons. Especially when you consider how influential it was and how much it was a leap in presentation compared to the previous game.

 

[ShitLurker]

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

More of a love/hate relationship. Hated, HATED Raiden at the time but the game has really grown on me. I still tend to think it's the best of the series for a lot of reasons. Especially when you consider how influential it was and how much it was a leap in presentation compared to the previous game.

Raiden being a bit of a faggot was redeemed by Revengance though and well, MGS2 seems like it hit quite close with how things ended up developing in the world... so I'm not surprised it went from meh to fondly remembered now. Another one I should play someday.... tried emulating a long time ago but barely got past fatman before losing focus.

 

[Wesker]

Raiden being a bit of a faggot was redeemed by Revengance though and well, MGS2 seems like it hit quite close with how things ended up developing in the world... so I'm not surprised it went from meh to fondly remembered now. Another one I should play someday.... tried emulating a long time ago but barely got past fatman before losing focus.

It's narrative is an acquired taste for sure and I get why people nag on it. But I love how it upped the anti of the scope of the game world, and it's something the series never got back.

I also loved how it deepened Snake's character since you don't get to play as him for 90% of it and you have to see him through the eyes of someone else.

 

[Judge Dredd]

The more simmy racing games. Guess as a kid they went against my "hold accelerator at all times, brakes don't exist" racing style.

I grew up around car enthusiasts so I was taught basics like racing lines and breaking in my early teens.

Another aspect to really enjoying those games is car customization. Most people (including DSP) just put on all the upgrades that are most expensive or make the horse power go up, then have a car that is an undrivable mess.

There's also cars that are just not good for racing. If you know cars you're going to want a Nissan Skyline over a Ford Focus, but if you're not a car person they both look like family cars and are priced about the same. I think this might be why I prefer the PS1 Gran Turismo games as not only is there the nostalgia factor, but that era is cars is what I grew up with. I might miss out on modern Bugattis and Lamborghinis, but being able to easily avoid lemons in the early game is not nothing.

Edit: Fixed typos.

 

[ShitLurker]

I grew up around car enthusiast so I was taught basics like racing lines and breaking in my early teens.

Another aspect to really enjoying those games is car customization. Most people (including DSP) just put on all the upgrades that are most expensive or make the horse power go up, then have a car that and undrivable mess.

You just described my GT1 experience. I knew (and still know) fuck all about cars and I ended up making a very high top speed card that if you ended up hitting something that forced me to stop, would take a full minute to accelerate to any speed worth mentioning. It's the only car simulator I ever played and I was never much of a racing guy, but a part of me is still amazed that it was good enough to keep me engaged for most of the campaign.

 

[Sqwe-wi_Farmer]

Switch to DotA.

I used to hate Saints Row. I found it super cheesy and repetitive. I got introduced through SR3 whick required you to do those tedious tasks. They are funny the fist time, but the 10th time?

I don't love it now, but the gameplay feels smoother and it's fun to mess around. I think GTA has better missions and setting, but SR has better gameplay.

I originally played Dota and the Dota community is a billion times more toxic which if you're aware of either game is saying something.

And LoL is just flat out more palatable to the eye

 

[skykiii]

I can think of one but I didn't really hate it as much as I was incredibly disappointed in it. That game was Flashback. It was touted as the sequel to Another World which is one of my favorite games to this day, then I played it... Another World obviously took ideas from Prince of Persia while Flashback was more a direct Prince of Persia with guns. It was too action oriented and I put it down before finishing the first level.

Then I gave it another shot years later and really liked it, maybe because I had played Chahi's next game at that point.

I wonder if this was a common reaction? Because Flashback was mis-marketed in a lot of places as being a sequel to Another World/Out of This World/Call It Something As Long as World Is In the Title.... something I recall hearing even Chahi objected to (it didn't help that Interplay also made an ACTUAL Another World sequel, exclusively for the Sega CD, without his input... that one is called Heart of the Alien if you wanna look it up).

......

For another of my own.... well, I mentioned I had problems getting into JRPGs, but there's a second layer to that. For a lot of my life I could only really get into Squaresoft games, because things like MS-DOS RPGs or old NES RPGs (even stuff like Final Fantasy 1) felt just weird and alien and I had this weird hang-up where I only liked the games that were like what I already knew. I was basically James Rolfe for awhile.

For some reason tho I wound up getting bored in the early 2000s and playing the original Dragon Warrior on NES.... and somehow it just clicked with me. It actually sorta became my new standard and I started to realize what I didn't like about a lot of SNES and PS1 RPGs.

Currently my favorite RPG is the NES version of Might and Magic, a game I used to find unplayable.

 

[Colon capital V]

Not hate per se, but when I was a kid I was legit scared of playing luigi's mansion, so much so I never got to beat the first boss of the area. Come years later and I wish 2 & 3 were more like the first game and not so over reliant on puzzles.

 

[Kheapathic]

It took me years to move Final Fantasy 9 out of the "doesn't like/hate" category. There's something about a number of the characters (outside of playable characters) that makes me not like them, while I still don't like them, it's not my youthful hate. The battle system is also clunky compared to the other two Final Fantasy PS1 games; yes, I know it's the exact same battle system, but something, probably on the backend, that has it perform below the previous two games.

 

[Kamen Rider Faiz]

fishing games
got trolled as a kid when I bought one thinking it was another type of game(cabela monster bass I think, it was just a box with the name written on with a marker), didnt know what to do and the language barrier didn't do me any favors
nowadays I'd rather fish irl but, I can still enjoy playing them

 

[Looney Troons]

At launch, I bought Elden Ring on a whim after trying and failing to play every ‘Souls game that came before it. I enjoyed Elden Ring enough to complete a full run of the game, but that was more than enough for me. My run took around 120 hours, and I would probably say I liked a the middle parts of the game the most. Starting off sucky, but as I began to understand the mechanics and beat the first couple of bosses, I found myself having fun.

I want to say the game sucked for me up until after I beat Radahn, and then was good until I fought Milenia. After that, the game took a sharp nosedive for me in terms of fun. The final boss was so difficult for me (much more difficult than Radahn and Milenia) that when I finally beat the game, I immediately uninstalled it.

This experience was a positive one. I used to be turned off by a game being referred to as a “soulslike”, but not anymore.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

I wonder if this was a common reaction? Because Flashback was mis-marketed in a lot of places as being a sequel to Another World/Out of This World/Call It Something As Long as World Is In the Title.... something I recall hearing even Chahi objected to (it didn't help that Interplay also made an ACTUAL Another World sequel, exclusively for the Sega CD, without his input... that one is called Heart of the Alien if you wanna look it up).

I don't know, later on there was also Blackthorne from Blizzard which felt way more like a Flashback than Flashback felt like Another World. In many ways Another World feels like that "indie game you must play".

I have in many threads recommended that people play or pirate and play Heart of Darkness, it's an excellent game that came out at the wrong time. If Chahi had been sitting on it for 20-25 years then released on playstation and PC I think it would have been an indie darling selling millions.

 

[RonPaul2008]

Battlefront 2 (The dice one) has turned out pretty okay. It's not Battlefield 2142, or the original Battlefront but...it's okay. It functions and has a variety of modes and game types that are pretty fun to play i guess.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

It wasn't quite hate, but in terms of not giving things a fair shot, years ago I booted up War Thunder on PS4 and World of Warships on PC and was immediately repulsed. Now I know War Thunder and World of Warships are fucking awesome.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

I was about to hate Assassin's Creed: Rogue for being idiotic low production value garbage until the prologue fucked off, it started having pitched land and sea battles, I found out I could send my ships on overseas naval missions to conquer colonies, I got my mortar I shoudl have had from the start, and found I could have a badass green Ranger uniform with a cap.

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[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

I figured out why I didn't like War Thunder before.
I was on PS4, I had no option but to use a controller. When I plugged a controller into this for air battles I hated it immediately, its garbage (compared to the mouse steering).

 

[Glowie Hunter Art Bell]

I grew up around car enthusiasts so I was taught basics like racing lines and breaking in my early teens.

Another aspect to really enjoying those games is car customization. Most people (including DSP) just put on all the upgrades that are most expensive or make the horse power go up, then have a car that is an undrivable mess.

There's also cars that are just not good for racing. If you know cars you're going to want a Nissan Skyline over a Ford Focus, but if you're not a car person they both look like family cars and are priced about the same. I think this might be why I prefer the PS1 Gran Turismo games as not only is there the nostalgia factor, but that era is cars is what I grew up with. I might miss out on modern Bugattis and Lamborghinis, but being able to easily avoid lemons in the early game is not nothing.

Edit: Fixed typos.

> if you know cars

> you'll want a skyline

The irony lol. Skylines are literally the "I'm 10 and I like cars now" car. They are literally one of the most overated cars ever manufactured

 

[Glowie Hunter Art Bell]

Are opposites of this allowed? I really grew to hate GTAV/O