Board 8 > Ever avoid a game you later found out was awesome?

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Like, I saw a few videos here and there about an indie game called Atom Zombie Smasher, and preeeetty much instantly had a low opinion of it because it had zombie in the name and didn't really seem all that great on the surface (zombies invading town, have to evacuate people yawn).

Later on I watch a video with a bit more depth to it and realized that there was more going for the game than I initially thought and am heavily considering a purchase some time down the line.

Alternatively, ever jump on a game you know you will like but just never set aside the time to play it?

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Eh, not really.

I can think of games I've avoided and then realized why I was avoiding them after I tried to play them.

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Not really avoided it, but I impulse bought Sims Castaway and vanilla Persona 3, both for PS2. I played Castaway for weeks and didn't touch P3 because it looked rather boring/generic. Now I love it.

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Final Fantasy X when I was like 10.

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Morrowind.

Now my favorite PC game ever

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Yes, quite a few.

Usually someone else buys them for me >_>

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Visual Novels in general though not all of them are awesome, most i've read are pretty good

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Avoid is a bad term to use here. I rarely "avoid" games. Sometimes circumstances make it hard to get around to them, or even sometimes I'm just not interested in something. But there's very few games that I say I'd "avoid."

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Persona 4.

Thought it was a weeaboo dating sim.

It was actually the greatest game of all time.

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I thought Earthbound sucked at first, but I got to really like it.

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Minecraft

However the reason I was avoiding it was because it sounded too addicting. Turns out I was right, so go figure

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Xenosaga, because the beginning cutscenes were SO BORING. Came back a few years later in a cutscene mood and fell in love with the damn series.

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Demon's Souls.

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League of Legends. My brother kept bugging me to play, and I don't why I kept saying no. I just didn't feel like it.

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Sure, I thought Dragon Age looked okay but skippable, got it with the Ultimate Edition, one of the best RPGs around.

Buncha others, sure. Can't always tell. I will say, I wasn't huge into FF7 at the time, dug it in around 2003.

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I don't really avoid games.

I can be not interested and later interested though.

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Demon Souls.

Never played it, but I impulse bought Dark Souls and man, I wish I had played Demon Souls.

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I don't know if I really avoided it or just forgot it existed.

Turned out to be one of the best games ever.

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Persona 4 comes to mind. 'Dating sim' was a term that kept popping up around here for a good while, which instantly turned me off to it, so I avoided it for a couple of years. Also didn't help that Albion was a big supporter of it! One of my favorite RPGs ever now, though,

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