LogFAQs > #972261160

It can be a tricky balancing act. There are plenty of games (and other media, but we'll stick with games because that's the topic at hand) out there that really don't come into their own until you get pretty far into them, by simple virtue of the fact that the mechanics and/or story need some time to build up to their full potential, and trying to front-load more of that potential risks mechanically overwhelming the player or making it hard to build story tension properly, but if a start is too slow then the game won't be able to make the first impression that it needs to keep the player engaged long enough to actually get there.

That said, I think there's merit in pushing to get through a slow opening if enough people insist that the game is a slow burn and is ultimately worth it, unless the things that you don't like don't actually end up getting better, so a hard 1-2 hour cutoff for that isn't necessarily reasonable. I would agree, though, that if you've been playing for 1-2 hours and haven't had fun yet, that's a good reason to at least consider that the game might not be for you.