Which video game did you bounce off of at first, but then tried again later for it to become one of your favorites of all time?

This one for me. The controls were hard to get used to and I died a whole lot and lost my stuff the first dozen nights. But once it clicked it got better and better, and holy cow the game has a lot going on inside of it.

Same for me. But then a friend played like an hour together with me, showed me the ropes and I haven't stopped playing since. Not all the time, but like one playthrough a month or so.