Games You Liked At First and Then Changed Your Mind On

[Neb]

Have you ever enjoyed a game for the first several hours, and then your feelings soured? I'll give an example of what I mean. I loved Xenoblade Chronicles 3 when I started it. The music was beautiful, the characters had a good dynamic, and it did a good job slowly introducing the combat mechanics. Then, the game started to drag. The story got less interesting as more villains were revealed, and the combat began to feel repetitive. By the time I was ready to fight the final boss, I just wanted to get it over with. I left the game conflicted, and I ended up never getting the DLC.

 

[griefseed]

I can definitely relate! I think for me, it would probably be Genshin. I really enjoyed the worldbuilding, the lore and the vibes in the beginning but with the newest area, it just doesn't feel the same anymore.

 

[daringred_]

hm. maybe pokemon scarlet/violet? i liked it at first, though not as much as previous games, but the more i played, the more i started to dislike the game -- the constant glitches and clipping, the lack of a shiny sound/sparkle, severe lack of clothing customization, the lack of level scaling, and just the general poor graphics quality. i usually get a lot of replay value out of pokemon games because i like to shiny hunt, but aside from the event on these forums, i haven't picked up scarvio since completing it. it just wasn't fun to shiny hunt imo.

also, like the above poster, genshin impact a little bit. i don't dislike it, per se, but my opinion of it has diminished with the new region. it just feels disconnected from the rest of the game, i don't really care for the nightsoul mechanics, the story's conclusion was kind of meh, and the lack of skintone diversity, especially considering the region's influences, was really questionable at best.

oh. and new horizons. haven't actually played that in so long that i almost forgot about it altogether lol.

 

[CinnamonTwirls]

Honestly, like daringred_ probably Pokemon Scarlet & Violet, as well as New Horizons. With Scarlet & Violet, I got the double pack at launch and I honestly feel like then I was in denial. I didn't want to acknowledge that, at least for me, Pokemon games since around Sword & Shield have just sort of lost the magic for me... I still love the games up to there, and replay them a ton, but I just can't get the same joy from the newer ones.

New Horizons is a complicated one for me. I also got it at launch, as a long-time Animal Crossing fan since I was a kid and...it just feels a bit flat to me. The villagers seem to be less the focus, lacking the depth and gameplay they used to, and sometimes it really just feels like a decorating simulator to me. I've stopped playing, but I want to give it another try and try to find joy in it, just because it's what most of the community has moved onto, especially since the shut down of online services for the 3DS and I'm guessing that future games will be like it with how mega-popular it got around COVID.

 

[Devicho]

While I wouldn't say I dislike it, not very long ago I decided to start a new file on my copy of Pokemon Sapphire, and even though as a kid I poured hundreds of hours into it, for whatever reason I found myself weirdly unmotivated to actually play all the way through. I think that on reflection, there aren't many Gen III Pokemon I'm specifically drawn to, so whereas in other generations I'm fairly excited to put certain Pokemon on my team, I didn't really feel that same excitement outside of a few cases, like finding a Ralts. It's possible that had I been playing Emerald instead of Sapphire, I might've liked it a little more, if only for some of the new features like the Battle Frontier... but, I also know that in Emerald, you can't catch at least a couple of the Gen III Pokemon I do quite like, like Roselia.

So, I guess Gen III just didn't ultimately hook me as much as it did when I was younger.

 

[-Raven-]

Tbh, I can’t remember the last time I had that, maybe Mario Odyssey was the last one I really liked but thought back on and hated it. Uh. Big Catch demo started really good but as soon as you get to the flat empty desert my heart sank and when I actually got to one of the levels it was terrible. The level design is so bad in that demo.

I have a lot more games where I think they’re the best and then I just settle on them being pretty good. Like Hades I see a lot more issues in it that actually bother me now tbh.

Lol Pokemon getting mentioned in this thread, I really liked Black and White as a kid despite thinking they were a huge step down from HGSS and has time has gone on I’ve come to hate them, most of the modern issues with the series started there and I will die on that hill. In general, these days, I don’t think any of the Pokémon games are very good, the whole series is carried by its concept more than any quality.

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

Lego Brawl. I was so excited for the game because it reminded me of Smash Bros only you could create your own character much better than the Miis. I was extremely disappointed to find out it was a mostly online multiplayer game with no single player mode and there were no character customization parts for quite a few licensed and even Lego owned lines. The only themed lines that had any recognition was Ninjago which only had ninja parts and not stuff like Master Wu’s hat and beard and Monkee Kid. After that it was all extremely generic and boring stock characters like kid with skateboard or Fairy girl with pink hair. I get not having Lego Harry Potter, Star Wars and DC Superheroes because of licensing rights but why not have Wyldstyle who is a Lego character or Lego City characters who are all exclusively owned by the Lego company? You seriously have a Lego game that you claim to have “popular” themes and you don’t include Lego City content? That is one of the most successful Lego original lines and the one Lego IP that has extremely popular video games based around it. Needless to say I hated the game after I found this out and returned it the very next day.

 

[Rainbowhorn]

Good Pizza Great Pizza, it gets stale fast