"It gets good, I swear, If you just give it one hundred hours it's worth it, the last 3 minutes are the best in gaming, bruh"

I've only ever allowed this for Bloodborne, at 10 hours before it caught me. I probably give a game one to two hours now and if it's not catching, I release.  Maybe expections for JRPG's and RPG's, three or four hours max. 

If spending my own hard earned cash on a full prize game I got because of reviews or worth of mouth, I would try to push on.

But with a free game, subscription game, demo or sub Eur20 game. I would say 1/2 hour or so. If it did not click by then, I'll move on.

Problem is with that line of thinking is there are actual games that truly gets better after a good while or during their second half.

That became true when I played Xenoblade Chronicles 2, the first 20-30 hours of game are on the average spectrum (or good in some moments and almost bad in others), but the moment the 2nd half of the game gets going, it basically felt like the biggest ride I had with a game since ever.
Best is the later parts of the game(and it's DLC) magnifies the enjoyment of playing through again the beginning portion.
So yeah, they are games that will ask you to take your patience in hand because sometimes, ambitious takes can take a while before "getting good".

So sure knowing that, it's only natural with the limited free time we had to not linger on stuff that doesn't give us the best impressions but you also might just be around the corner of missing a life changing experience because you didn't want to put an extra hour in it.

Anyway, for all I said, I dropped out of Luigi's Mansion 3 halfway through it lol

I usually give a game 2 hours. Primarily because that’s the refund limit on Steam lol. That’s typically a good amount of time to figure if I’m going to like a game or not.

Depends. Different genres and types of games. Persona games take 5-6 hours to get going. A shmup maybe I should know after stage 1 or 2. Open-world games take longer. I gave Dragon's DOgma 2 10 hours before deciding it's a letdown of a sequel. I feel it should be around the point the game lets you know what it is that I can make a call. Xenoblade X tho you don't get the mech until 20 hours in. Every game is different.

I thought the same thing, and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 was the one that immediately came to mind. Storywise at least.

I voted for about two hours on average. If it was a cheap or free to me game without solid recommendations from my social circle, I might quit it in half an hour, an hour at most.
If it's a game that was $50 USD and up, I usually give it about four or more hours unless it's that difficult or boring.
I made it to the last normal mission in Luigi's Mansion 2 on 3DS before the last two bosses and quit in frustration, even after several attempts and even another attempt years later.

What if the game never gets good? I can say from my own personal experience, I've wasted too much money in my life on buying a game on blind faith.

So, to all the game developers out there, I know you can hear me, and guess what, you will never rip me off again. I don't give a shit any more about your problems - more lay offs and loss of revenue is your problem because your game SUCKS !!!!

Give me a demo, and let me try your game without any money involved, if I like it, I will gladly fork over my hard earned money to play it again, otherwise, I have no sympathy for your line of work.

There is so much content out there now to help research that this shouldn't really be happening to you or at least not often. You should easily be able to tell down to what price of a sale you want to wait for based on Internet reception if you research well enough..

I have very little time for gaming. Maybe 2-3 hours a week. I want to enjoy that time. So a game needs to be good right from the start. Even 10 minutes of boredom would be too much for me.