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What game was this for you?

None that I can think of.

God Hand is really the only one that comes to mind

Morrowind.

The 1st worm you meet on the way to Balmora killed me cause of the dice rolls and I quit. Picked it up again after Oblivion.

Demon's Souls. Was a free game on PS+, beat the first boss, then put it down. About a year or so later started seeing a few videos on Dark Souls 2 and it triggered a memory of a similar game. Went back and have been hooked for the last decade.

Tokyo Xtreme Racer Drift 2

Metroid Prime because I thought it was an FPS
Metal Gear Solid 4 because it was the first one in the series I played

maybe Torment: Tides of Numenera.

it's not the best CRPG I've played through, but I still really enjoyed it.

I first bought it for the PS4 when it it was released because of how I kept hearing about how Planescape Torment was this great game, and how Numenera was its spiritual successor.

anyway, it was my first CRPG after Dragon Age Origins, but I still didn't really "get" CRPGs at the time, so I stopped playing.

after some years, where I became more accustomed to CRPGs, I gave it another try, and I finally started to enjoy my experience with it.

Morrowind for me, too. Tried to play the original release and didn't get anywhere, then a year+ later I bought the GotY edition and got hooked.

Fallout 4 for me, I was really dissapointed at the initial release, was not into the crafting, annoyed by the dialogue options etc. I got the PS5 upgrade when it came out and got really into the crafting/ building. Each settlement was a fortress and I built a zoo at the drive in.

Oblivion ig

Xenoblade 2

Shin Megami Tensei IV

Had some false starts with the game (2 or 3 times it feels like) but eventually it clicked and I decided to go forward and play a bunch of other games in the series, even SMT 1, 2, and If.

Breath of the Wild

Final Fantasy IX. Sort of.

I loved VII back in the day, was not a fan of VIII and really wanted this to scratch the VII itch and it did absolutely no such thing. So I didnt enjoy it much.

However, going back to it years later without that yearning for a similar experience to VII, I actually appreciated the things it did well, and I now think its a fantastic game.

Bloodborne. It was my first Soulslike, and the difficultly turned me off at first. Came back a couple years later and persevered, and now one of my GOATs

Left 4 Dead 2 although it was more like months. This girl tried to get me into it, but I just wasn't feeling it. Several months later, I randomly decided to join one of the CE sessions back when they would play together. It absolutely clicked and I fell in love with the game. I eventually went back to play with my friend who initially tried to get me into it lol.

Another case is Skyrim. I tried to get into it like 3 different times, but just couldn't get into it. Even watching my gf at the time play it who was obsessed with the game didn't help despite me typically enjoying watching a significant other gaming. A couple years after we broke up, I tried to give it another shot and I actually started liking it and made some decent progress in the game. Never finished it though.

Dark Souls but it wasn't years later.

Not quite the same game, but i tried Persona 3 FES around the time Persona 5 came out. I mostly liked it, but the school sim and time management aspects put me off.

Then after years of hype and following some of the english VAs on twitter, i gave in and got P5R. This time everything clicked and i loved it.

Grounded. I don't know if it counts, but I tried it when it first launched in early access and hated it. There were no difficulty settings and bugs hit like trucks. Tried it again this year and it's fantastic. Put over 100 hours in now

The first Witcher game.

Witcher 3

Earthbound

Years would be the wrong timeframe for it, but the closest was Dark Souls 1 and Morrowind.

DS1 I was fine with until I accidentally hit the blacksmith very early in the game (accidentally hit R2 when I put the controller down), then found out how many souls it would cost to stop him from being aggressive. Because of how early in the game I was and the fact I had been struggling (thus no confidence I could amass the amount of souls needed to get him to calm down), I ended up quitting for a few months. 2nd attempt went much smoother and ended up completing that run.

As for Morrowind, it was because I didnt really understand the game. Didnt put any starting skills into short blades and didnt know a good way to go about getting a weapon, so I was constantly dying to even kwama foragers since i couldnt land a hit. Similar to DS I stopped playing for a few months, went back in, stuck around in the starting town a lot longer, and was able to do the Fargoth quest to get enough money to buy a new starting weapon and had a much better experience from that point on.

FF11
FF15
Tactics Ogre

I Think thats it
11 I was playing other mmos
15 I would play till around hammerhead get bored put it away.
Tactics Ogre had the ps1 version. I found it too difficult after playing Final Fantast tactics. I sold it. I think in all my 2015 I bought the psp version. I loved it. It had the right difficulty. While Reborn is playable. Boss cards, and removal of random battles were a bad idea.

Not years later, but I tried Genshin Impact closer to when it launched and something about the controls just didn't click for me. Then I gave it another try a couple months later and it just *worked*, and totally hooked me in the process. Been a daily player since, having missed only one or two logins since December of 2020~

Elden ring
I stubbornly beat the game while tilted and not having fun, whining the whole time
Came back a few years later, replayed it and loved it

Don't have any. I'm too stubborn. Closest would be a bunch of Zelda games because I played them as a kid and and would go until I got stuck, then play other stuff until I eventually came back when I was older and cleared them without much trouble.

Sunset Overdrive.

I don't know if the Switch version of Mortal Kombat 1 counts here, but I'm going to post it anyway because I can't think of any other examples. I bought it at launch and the Switch version was absolutely horrid. Genuine buyer's remorse and I grimaced every time I saw its case on my wall. Went back to it a little over a year later after they reset the Invasions seasons and it turns out they had put a lot of work into fixing it, and it felt like a completely different game that I now play every day.

BOTW, kind of. I played it when it came out and just rushed the story to finish because I couldn't get into it. Went back a couple years later and loved it.

Earthbound

When I first got it, I was expecting a more traditional RPG with an overworld, so I wasn't in the headspace for it.

Played it again a few years later after I kind of grew out of JRPGs and loved it.

Surprisingly (because I consider it one of my all time favorite games and series), I didnt much care for Pikmin the first time I played it.

Hell, I probably wouldnt have even given it a second look if you didnt need to have a save file from the game on your memory card to unlock a trophy in Melee. So. Thank goodness for that.

Also, I remember not loving Metroid Prime the first time I played it, but then I bought it on a whim when I saw it for like four bucks at GameStop and ended up loving it.

I didn't really enjoy Darkest Dungeon until the Crimson Court update.

FF7 was my first big RPG as a kid. I only made it an hour or two in and while some stuff was cool I wasn't sure about turn based combat and so many menus. Then 4 years later it became one of my favorite games of all time.

Other stuff has just not clicked for me, but the gap is usually only a few months. Alien Isolation was a year later. I just played Zelda: Minish Cap for the first time. I started it 4 months ago and just was not in the mood for a Zelda game at that time. Was 2 dungeons deep, so I just restarted it last week and beat the whole thing. Loved it.

Monster hunter freedom unite

Dark Souls 2. It wasn't quite that I didn't get it as much as I didn't have the urge to finish it, it didn't quite click to an obsession. I did a second run a bit later and got further, but it still felt like a bit of a slog, although I did like some of the areas I didn't get to the first time and got some of those "aha!" moments when I looped back onto myself in the Lost Bastille. A third attempt down the line was the one that finally clicked and I actually still have about 50 more hours in 2 than in 1.

Today, I have over 1000 hours split between Dark Souls, Bloodborne and Elden Ring and I'm currently going through Shadow of the Erdtree on a fresh character after the final boss handed my ass to me at release.

Tag because I can't think of any rn lmao

Had more then a few through the years but the most recent one I can think of is Diablo IV.

Got it when it released, beat the story and then deleted it as it didnt have the same feel to it that I got from 3.

Fast forward to a month ago, my health going downhill a little more and now Diablo IV is easier to play ( as I have increased difficulty using my right hand) and is a little more enjoyable if I take a non-serious route with it.

Nier Automata

A lot, but some are:

Terraria - I was stuck on the first mech bosses. Needed the wiki, to use potions, and to reforge.

The souls series - First one was Demon's Souls. Then DS1. Then DS2. Then DS3. Bloodborne was even in there. I didn't beat one until DS3 then I went back for the others. I tried so many times but could only ever beat 1-1 and 2-1 in Demons Soul's when it came out.

Crusader Kings 3 - I needed to watch several hours of videos to get how everything worked and to enjoy it

Metroid Prime 2 was not my thing AT ALL when I was 13 (I mainly liked pew pew at the time), but I tried it again 15 years later and thought it was great

Also, I wasn't really feeling Demon's Souls at first, but I finished it about a year later and loved it

When I was a kid I didn't understand the city building aspect of Actraiser and had to come back years later. It's one of my favorite games ever now though!