Games that you used to hate, but after a last try you loved them!

you bough expecting nothing more than "waste of money"

I never buy anything if I expect it to be a waste of money.

There are not many games that I thought would be bad but that ended up being great honestly. The only one coming to mind is Door Kickers. I got it in a bundle but didn't expect much from it. When I finally started it up, I actually enjoyed it so much, that I kept playing for 2 hours (even though I planned to only play games for half an hour after starting).

Dino-d day. When I first got it I, like a lot of other gamers, take their games a little too seriously. As such when I first got it I was like "god this game is stupid and sucks and I doubt I'll ever play this again." After a long while I ended up finding a friend on cs:go who had it, so we booted it and played it for laughs, and we had an absolute blast. We began exploring, trying to kill each other with goats, jump and climb to the top of buildings and impossible spots and laugh as people couldn't find us, ect. Today, I have given away somewhere between 8-14 copies of the game to various friends and people I know. Because despite the concept of nazi dinosaurs obviously being silly and meteocre, the game play is legitimately fun

Bump and meow.

The first Dark Souls was like that to me. At first I just powered through because I didn't want to be the loser who couldn't hack it, but I found a convenient excuse to take a few months of hiatus. Then I tried a bit of PvP after watching some videos and got hooked. I went from fiveish hours and hating the game to hundreds and loving it.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. When i got it 3 years ago i had very poor laptop but i still managed to run it somehow. It lagged very bad. When i bought my gaming PC i tried it again, but i didn't really liked it that much and i got back to CS 1.6. Arround early 2014 someone invited me to play ranked competitive and this made me hooked up, from 3 years i still play this game, CS:GO is one of my favorite games.

Terraria. When I first played, it just didnt connect with me. I found it stupid and unweildy. Uninstalled. A few hours later I dunno why I decided I would try it again, and loved the hell out of it.

two worlds. hated the demo, the full game ended up being one of my all-time favorites.

I remember disliking The Binding of Isaac. I kept dying without getting further than a few rooms and didn't get to see much. Then decided to try and get better. Now I spent 220 hours getting all achievements. (^w^)

I expected Call of Duty to suck but it turned out to be OK. But only the one with the dog. Because of the dog.

Path of exile , played it for 20min in 2014 . Now in 2016 i gave it another chance and i have 200~ hours of gameplay already

Talos Principle, I hated the first 15-20 min. The pace seemed so fast to me, walking speed was so fast and I felt dizzy. Well, it's my most beloved and favourite puzzle/philosophical games of all time now :)

deus ex 1

I always got this love-hate relationship with the game SpaceChem.

It's a difficult game, often I get stuck on a few stages and then just plain give up and uninstalled it.
But every once in a while when I got nothing else in mind to play, and not in the mood for dota, I will go back and check my library's "not completed game" list, and reinstall it back.

But when I solve yet another stage, I will have the mood to move on again until I am stuck again.

It has one of the best OST I have ever listened imo.

Black ops 3. When it came out i was making fun of my friend (who now hates the game ironically) for playing a kids game. Blops is now my most played game.

Borderlands 2 - Takes a while to get into.
Sid Meier's Civilization V - a bit complicated at first because too much text. I skipped the tutorial on my next playthrough and loved it.
Unturned - Play it with friends, or customize your game settings a lot before playing. It's more fun with loot at x10. :P

Fallout 3. It was especially difficult getting used to it after having high three digits of play time on Fallout 2. Helped a lot when I started to look at it not as a Fallout game but as a WH40K-ified version of Elder Scrolls. And for a mindless dungeon crawler with zero writing depth, it is surprisingly fun and addictive, to a degree. Eventually ended up playing it for 700+ hours. :)

definitely dark souls

In my childhood I hated FPS'es, and wouldn't touch any other games than RPG's. Well, that changed after trying out Half-Life xD

For me it was morrowind i was just a kid when i first played it at a friends on xbox and did not understand the dice roll system at the time. But a few years later i picked up the game on a whim not realizing it was the game i had hated at his house. I sat down played got mad at it again and looked it up the dial up internet we had and learned how the game work. upon understanding the game i gave it another try and could not stop playing for hours.