For me, it was The Finals.
At the time, I was actively trying to step away from PvP-heavy multiplayer games. I’d been playing a lot of them for years, and the higher I got in skill/rank, the more toxic and draining they started to feel. It got to the point where I was just uninstalling them one by one — starting around when Black Ops Cold War dropped — and over time I pretty much phased that whole genre out and it made me a lot happier than I was.
A few years later, I saw The Finals pop up in beta. The visuals looked insanely polished, and the whole objective-based, destruction-heavy gameplay felt different from the usual formula. I wasn’t expecting much going in… but I ended up loving it.
Been playing it ever since.
What about you? What’s a game you thought you’d hate but ended up putting way more time into than you expected?
At the time, I was actively trying to step away from PvP-heavy multiplayer games. I’d been playing a lot of them for years, and the higher I got in skill/rank, the more toxic and draining they started to feel. It got to the point where I was just uninstalling them one by one — starting around when Black Ops Cold War dropped — and over time I pretty much phased that whole genre out and it made me a lot happier than I was.
A few years later, I saw The Finals pop up in beta. The visuals looked insanely polished, and the whole objective-based, destruction-heavy gameplay felt different from the usual formula. I wasn’t expecting much going in… but I ended up loving it.
Been playing it ever since.
What about you? What’s a game you thought you’d hate but ended up putting way more time into than you expected?
