What games were you not sure of at first but ended up enjoying?

[Orius]

Pokémon Shield.

I think I've said enough about this to make people groan, so that's all I'll say.

 

[Croconaw]

This is an interesting question. I have mentioned this game before, but it would have to be The Dog Island for me. This game has an amazing soundtrack, by the way. The main reason I picked it up was because of the beagle on the cover. My very first dog was a beagle, so it brought back memories of her. I didn’t think this would be an enjoyable game, but it’s one of the best I’ve ever played. This isn’t an exaggeration. If anyone wants to try something new, I would recommend picking this game up.

 

[sleepydreepy]

Celeste for sure! I couldn't get behind the pixel graphics even though the story really intrigued me. I guess having primarily played recent games like animal crossing and pokemon I wasn't use to the retro style anymore and it just didn't seem appealing. But like I said I was super interested in the storyline so one day I think it was on sale and I decided to give it a try. I am absolutely in love with the game and have played through it several times now! Would 100% recommend!

 

[Loriii]

Tales of Arise. I've tried Vesperia and Abyss in the past but the battle system, somehow, didn't click with me. I put those games down real fast. I'm very picky when it comes to action RPGs and only a few of them I really enjoyed and finished like Kingdom Hearts and the YS series, but this latest "Tales of" game caught my attention when I saw it getting high review scores. I risked and bit the bullet. Well, I've been addicted ever since. The presentation and the music is so good (it rivals the DQ mainline titles). The battle system is one of the best. The graphics is eye-candy especially on next gen consoles. It runs smooth for the most part, as well.

 

[your local goomy]

Honestly, pretty much any "mainline" Pokémon game since gen 7. Thought Sun and Moon was going to be crap, ended up enjoying it. I thought USUM was just a cheap ripoff of the original games, but ended up being pleasantly surprised at how much it improved on the original. I assumed that Let's Go was just a money-grab and a way to get people to download Go, and it kind of is, but it's a solid game and really good for shiny hunting...if you want to hunt only Kanto Pokémon. Sword and Shield was definitely the most difficult, mainly due to the fandom and their constant debates on whether the games would actually be good or not. I originally took the side of "no national dex so it's crap", but I really enjoy the Galar region and its characters to the point where I have a 350k+ word, in-progress fanfiction on it lol. I don't plan on getting the Sinnoh remakes because I didn't care for the original DP games, but...Legends: Arceus seems interesting. I'm considering pre-ordering it, but I'm going into it with the same low expectations and skepticism that I always do for Pokémon titles.

 

[Cosmic_Crossfade]

Fire Emblem: Three Houses was an instant "Oooo! This is going to be good!" but then I told myself to not get my hopes up because of Fire Emblem Fates just being "meh" story wise for me. After some time, my sister's birthday was coming up so I was deciding on whether or not to get it for her since she was interested in it but not too sure herself fully. Once I had received more info, I then had a feeling it was going to be great, so I bought thd full game and the expansion pass for her.

We both ended up loving it to death and it became our all time favorite Fire Emblem game of all time

 

[worldstraveller]

Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing New Horizons, what actually made me interested in AC was Stardew Valley, because before I played Stardew Valley wasn't sure, because I don't like Harvest Moon, I thought maybe Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing was like Sims, the kind game nice at first but then gets boring pretty fast...

it was 1 year after Stardew Valley came out, I came across with an interesting article from Kotaku (the time the website was okay, nowadays is very meh) about an experience a player had with the game, then I thought, I guess I'll give this game a try...you can guess what happened, I finished the game story in 3 months, I was addicted and played sometimes to unwind...then Animal Crossing New Horizons was announced at E3, I thought, the vibe is similar, so maybe, I bought Day 1, btw.

 

[fairysyndrome]

the world ends with you; when i first tried it, i struggled with the controls and battles a lot and didn't really enjoy it, so i ended up putting it down for a while and returning to it later. now it's one of my favourite games all-time and i look back on it dearly (although i will admit to preferring the phone port because i'm still very bad at the dual-screen battling <3)

 

[Raz]

Animal Crossing New Leaf. I had never played AC before, but I saw some people talking about their experience with the game since Wild World. At the time, the game was already out for a few years, and I decided to buy it to see if I would like it (which is something I wouldn't do anymore with games that aren't really very cheap). Well, two weeks after that, I was hooked, and one week later, they released Welcome Amiibo (which I didn't even know about).

Stardew Valley is another game that I bought like... last friday, after years of seeing people talking about it and I was afraid I wouldn't enjoy it because I didn't really like harvest moon, but I already have two saves and I'm really tempted to get the game on pc because mods like Stardew Valley Expanded seems too good to pass up.

But these are the most recent ones, as I've been mostly very strict with what I buy for a long time (a tactic to avoid spending money on games that I won't like).

 

[MOON TRIPS]

Bug Fables
I was very interested but anxious about playing it, because what if I didn't like it for some reason
but then my friend bought it for me and then I stopped worrying so much because I didn't spend my own money on it lol
and I really liked it

 

[Weemaddz]

Fire emblem three houses, I was pretty unsure an at the beginning really regretted paying so much for it, once I started to learn the fight an best weapons etc I really become obsessed with the game an have played all 3 houses, the secret route an even got the dlc for the fourth house to play, even know I still really enjoy playing it and trying out different characters

 

[xYubelx]

For me, that game would have to be, For the King. Mainly because I thought the movement and graphics looked pretty bad in my opinion. A friend of mine started playing it and had asked me to play with him. I ended up trying it out and it is a really fun hexagonal-tiled game that plays sort of like D&D/Baldurs gate/Divinity.

 

[Kaizer]

Funny enough, Animal Crossing (Population Growing). For some reason I've always had a judgmental side of me in certain ways and when my brother got Animal Crossing for the first time when I was like around 12 or so I think more or less, I was just mad critical and was like "this is mad kiddy looking" lmaooo. I was also critical of FF7 and both Animal Crossing PG and FF7 became my favorite games of all time ironically.

 

[Anitagonist]

This is a much newer one but I haven't played more bc I wanna buy it on my switch! Spititfarer it's such a calm chill game with a pretty grim topic yeah but idk something about it just spoke to me and I thought "this game would be perfect on switch!" So gonna get it for switch the reason I doubted I'd like it is bc I'm no good with calm games they are just too boring for me not enough boom pow (I mean I've dropped animal crossing more times than I can count!) Maybe I am beginning to enjoy calmer games as I age who knows?

 

[Livia]

Terraria. I got it a few weeks ago, and at first I thought it was way too difficult because I couldn’t make it past the first night. I made a house, but the guide came in and he kept opening the door to let in zombies and they would kill me. And I stupidly built the house right on my spawn point, so I would respawn into the horde of zombies waiting to kill me again. I kept dying over and over and it was so frustrating.
I almost asked steam for a refund, but decided to try again with a journey character because I read that it would be easier. Now I love the game. Some things are still too difficult for me like I can‘t beat the brain of Cthulhu, but I’m having fun exploring underground and just digging random tunnels everywhere.

 

[Jassiii]

For me it was hollow knight ! Never was a huge fan of Metroidvania games but Hollowknight completely changed that for me, I bought it while I was sick and miserable a few years back when I flew out for a family member's wedding, and while everyone was out having fun I was snuggled up under blankets playing it nonstop. 10/10 game and anytime I feel sick I load it up and spend hours on it at a time.

 

[Jujuwah]

This is gonna sound weird but stardew valley lol my husband told me to play it so so many times and i kept on refusing simply because i hated the pixels (silly i know) but after playing i can say i am so in love with game i have over 300 hours on it and i even got my mom to play it and she loves it aswell, funny enough she also refused to play the game because of the graphics but now she find it super cute like i do

 

[Radiant Dreamer]

Dead Space. I don't like shooters, i typically suck at them. but it was one of the freebies that month, and i love horror and zombies, so i tried it. had to play on easy, but oh man. loved it. loved the fact that headshots were actually counterproductive, and i actually beat the game the first time with only the plasma cutter, not knowing there was an achievement for it. dead space 2 was equally good, loved that i got to see an outbreak in progress, and oh god going back to the ishimura was so creepy. they nailed that sequence. and isaac's hallucinations.

dead space 3 is.... kinda hate/love. i adored the story, but the weapon crafting... i hated it at first, would only use the premade blueprint weapons. but i've started trying out custom weapons and am getting into a groove there.

another game i didn't think i'd like at first... honestly i never thought i'd enjoy the story of seasons/harvest moon/rune factory games. but i adore them! there's something very satisfying about growing your crops and caring for your livestock.

 

[spawnpoint]

i havent actually played it myself, i just watched playthroughs to see the story but
a fnaf fangame called dayshift at freddys . i only checked it out because i kept seeing fanart of it everywhere and wanted to see what the fuss was about. i went into it not expecting much and i thought i would cringe at it but MAN was i wrong

the first game in the series was just a meme parody game but then the 2nd game added some lore and the 3rd one had lots more story to it and just, wow its been a while since a game emotionally impacted me in that way

it may in fact be my favorite game now its literally on par with the likes of undertale which held the top spot as my favorite game for YEARS

i have no idea how the creator managed it, but some fnaf fangame managed to take first place in my heart when it comes to games it was so good

honestly i just came here to ramble about it LMAO but yeah i might play it myself too eventually

 

[Romaki]

I tried Slay the Spire purely because so many people around me were recommending it and now it's one of my favorite games. I never thought I'd like card games, and I still don't. But it feels like something else, at least to me.