why did your dad smash your wii on the floor?? (if it's something personal don't answer if you don't want)

Arkham City. I didn't like it at all in the beginning but after playing it for a little while, I started liking it more and more. And now its one of my top 10 favourite games this generation.

I've been meaning to get back to that game for a long time now. Apart from the art-style, which was really appealing, in the sort of child's storybook sort of way, I wasn't overly fond of the way it was put together. Maybe I'll give it another go once I convince myself to buy a Wii.

Original Bioshock. I rented it and didn't like i. Some time later I decide to give it another shot and found out why everyone was praising the game.

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I also forgot to add BFBC2 Multiplayer. Played through the single player and enjoyed it then jumped online and couldn't get into it. Decided to buy it cheap one day and fell in love with it. Found out why it was much better than post Cod4 games. Still don't like BF3 Multiplayer though. 

I was never a big fan of JRPGs...initially being too young to understand their complexities (pretty much stuck with Pokemon and Paper Mario as my RPG games). But then came Xenoblade Chronicles. I bought it because two of my friends were getting it and I'd heard great reviews and whatnot...plus it was during a time when I'd already beaten Skyward Sword twice and Wii had NOTHING else to play. I put it in and tried playing through the tutorial...liking some of what I was seeing and hearing (the title screen music is still my favorite video game piece EVER!) but being completely confused and at a loss when it came to the gameplay. I literally played about an hour or two, getting to Colony 9 and the start of the game with Shulk and then not only being confused but OVERWHELMED by the scale. From that point on, I literally played the game for a couple hours every week or two...not loving it...not even sure if I liked it, but I had decided I HAD to at least give it a decent amount of time since I'd heard it was long and I'd spent $50 on it. It honestly took 3 or 4 months-when I was not even halfway-before it finally "clicked" and I got the game...I got the gameplay, and suddenly it all came together and I realized how special it was. Then I began to play it more often and for longer periods, purposely extending my play-time near the end doing sidequests and such and wound up planning and timing it so that I finished the game on New Year's Eve...more than 8 months after I started. Since then, I've played through the game's New Game Plus and have replayed just the ending half a dozen times. I imported the official soundtrack from Japan and Xenoblade Chronicles has officially become my favorite game of all time (Ocarina of Time is pretty much tied with it though). And not only that, it's made me willing to give other JRPGs a try and I've found that I really like them!

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - for the same reason as you. It released when I was 9, and when I was 9, I sucked at video games. By the time Majora's Mask came around, I gave OoT a second chance, and now that I understood the game better, I actually enjoyed it. I still prefered Majora's Mask though, even though I played OoT first and even though you had to save at statues in MM.

.....that's about it off the top of my head. I never beat Link's Awakening, nor A Link to the Past, I'm sure I'd like those games a lot more nowadays.

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I did miss a lot of games growing up, games I just didn't know about which I'm playing one by one. Almost done Lunar, it's a great Sega CD game, and I know Chrono Trigger was something I beat nearly a decade after its release, and it's no my favorite RPG.

The only game I can think of in a type of situation like this is Persona 4, except I didn't despise it the first time around. Rather I just didn't get hooked until I came back to play it when I got P4 Golden. The game didn't really catch on with me the first time because it felt really text-heavy and there was a lot of things in the game to wrap my head around, like having to plan your days out and all the different mechanics with persona customizations and the like. Maybe it's because every other jrpg I've played, they were all pretty straightforward, idk. It just felt like there was a lot to get past during the beginning of the game. But once I sat down and started putting hours into P4 Golden, what I found was something truly amazing. Now the game is something of a masterpiece to me.

My mom threw my Dreamcast out the second story window when I was younger because I left the controllers all over the floor... never finished Toy Commander :(

The first Assassin's Creed game the first time I played it was very boring couldn't get much past the tutorial. Then when I finally played it all the way through it was actually pretty good and even better the second time I played it all the way through still the weakest game of all the AC games I have played so far (haven't played AC3 yet) but still a pretty good game.

If you have a nice PC, pc is the better option. Game is easier to control with a keyboard imo and it will look nicer. I suggest just buying the whole trilogy next time its on sale. If you get sucked in you will really regret not having all the games.