punch up with my brother. 3 things were broken that day - my wii, my nose and my heart

Yeah Gears of War, I hated the game the first time I played it then decided to try it again and actually enjoyed it the second time. (It took me 2 years before trying it again and actually liking it)

Final Fantasy XII. I played maybe few hours in and didn't get into it at all. I left it for a couple years, finally tried it again and was hooked. It's definitely not like most FF's. In a way, I think Dragon Age: Origins helped me wrap my head around the more tactical aspect of FF12 so I could appreciate it more.

The Witcher 1 I wasn't very impressed by. I got about 20 hours in and dropped it. I started playing The Witcher 2 this week, and so far I'm 14 hours in and loving it.

Not really. If I dislike a game it means I really dislike it. Played the first darksiders and I got stuck at some point, and I decided for myself that the game was not worth looking up on youtube to figure out how to get past an area so I quit.

Ah, I forgot about the first Witcher game. When I first played it, I just could not get into the combat, and I felt that the dialogue and voice acting weren't great. Playing and enjoying The Witcher 2 is what forced me to go back and give the first game another try, and I was able to enjoy it a bit more (although I still do not like the aspects I mentioned earlier).

Super Mario Galaxy 2. I bought it along the Wii because my gf insisted in buying the console. I popped it in and I hated the Wiimote, I hated the Nunchuck and the controls felt clunky and inaccurate. I put it to a side and several months later, when I had nothing in my backlog but this, I gave it another chance and it became one of my favorite games ever. (I still hate the Wii controllers though).

Star Ocean the Second Story only because I started with Claude the first time and the, literal, two hours of storyline at the beginning. I saved when I had the chance to go outside of the town and picked it up a month later. Amazing game. The beginning part is a pretty big hurdle though. Even though Dragon Warrior 7 had the same "don't get in a battle for two hours," you actually have control of your characters and the longest part is first dungeon with a lot of puzzles, just no enemies, so it didn't have the same effect.

Grand Theft Auto 4. First time I played it I couldn't get around how the camera turned so slowly to reposition itself behind the card when you made a turn. So didn't play very long. When I picked it up again shortly after, I figured a fix for it, tapping the rearview button every time I made a turn which auto repositioned the camera to the front.

Other than games like this that had major issues I was annoyed with at the beginning of the game, there's really been no games I've thought actually sucked that I came back to and liked later in the future. If I played long enough to get past these issues the first time and still didn't like the game, I guarantee I wouldn't like them in the future.

I've really wanted to like Final Fantasy 12 and tried to replay the game four times. The last time putting 20 hours into the game, literally forcing myself to play through it. Still hated it. I've put in 10 hours of Mass Effect, didn't like it so stopped at one point then when back to it, still couldn't get into it. I liked the dialogue so really wanted to like the game. I think I'm done with it for good and if I do push myself and suffer through the game, it'll be just to complete it so I can write an actual accurate review about it.

When I first played Fallout 3 I had no idea about RPG's and just "didn't get it". Later on I played it and I loved it.

I'd say most people have had situations where they just didn't give a game a chance and came back to love it years on.

Crysis.

I got it when I build my rig just to test how well it could handle "The beast", and after 1 hour or so I stopped playing because I found it dull. Pretty but boring.

Months later I decided to try it again and I don't know why but it was less boring, to the point that I finished it in a couple of days or so.

I'll have to do the same with Oblivion and Dragon Age sometime...