Games that you enjoyed despite thinking they will suck before purchase

[pearljammer]

Crash Team Racing. I was a huge Crash fan as well as a Mario Kart fan. At the time, I had a PS1 but did not have a N64. I thought there would be no way it could live up to MK, but really wanted a kart racer. In my opinion it turned out just as good as any of them out there.