Ever happened to you? Playing a game you think is cool in the beginning of the game and then have that game turning into something not as great?

That kind of happened to me with RE5.

The game is solid and I enjoyed it a lot but I liked the start of the game better. In the beginning you were this white boy in Africa with no way to pass unnoticed with a whole bunch of Las Plagas infested dudes trying to chop off your head. You are in the middle of some sort of village where it felt like I could be surrounded at any time and made into minced meat.

Then the game moved forward and the atmosphere was kind of gone and it sort of turned into a tour into Capcom's level design safari.

What about you, have any game where you felt the same way?

Red Dead Redemption. All the talk, and I like Westerns, so I was fully expecting to enjoy it and ... I didn't. The missions were long and slow, I hated the horse, and the shooting bits were not good. I just eventually stopped playing.

I've had this a few times, most recently Killzone Shadow Fall. Had me hooked initially but ended up being a chore to finish.

Fable 3. The game sets up a potentially amazing and complex structure that progressively gets more streamlined and easier the more you play, not to mention the second half of the game falls flat. Good game overall, but could have been amazing, and instead settled for mediocrity.

Assassin's Creed

The first mission was amazing. The mechanics were fantastic to play around with.

By the third mission I realised that I was just repeating the first mission again and again. I gave the game another chance with mission four, but lo and behold, it was again the same. I watched a play through of the rest of the game to see more near-identical missions.

99% of games.

I also wasn't as into it as most others, either. I liked it, but GTA will remain my favorite Rockstar game. I'll probably still give the new RDR a shot, if/when it comes out though.

A shit load of games fall into this category for me. MGS5, Watch Dogs, Destiny, Fallout 4 are probably the biggest examples this gen. Usually poor story or repetitive missions kill it for me.

Nope, it's almost always the other way for me, I struggle to get through the first couple of hours then when I'm through it I'm fine.

The beginning is most of the time the hardest for me, once the game captures me in the moment I cannot stop playing it.