I've written and deleted a few posts that amount to this (Destiny)

by Kermit , Raleigh, NC, Monday, March 23, 2015, 17:02 (3764 days ago) @ Cody Miller

Wargame does Destiny right

Well, if you don’t mind your game being butt-ugly.

Also the movement, shooting, spaces, enemies in Warframe simply do not compare in quality to what Destiny accomplishes.

Yeah, my half hour with it didn't impress, but I realize that judging it based on that is unfair.

But it's not really. You should be having fun right away. If a game "doesn't get good until later" that means it's designed improperly. And why play a boring game to just have fun later, when you could play a game that's fun from the start?

I say it depends on the game. I know someone, for instance, who wasn't impressed with the Last of Us until about halfway through (and never really liked the game mechanics), but at that point his pace and enjoyment picked up simply because he wanted to find out what happened to the characters. (That he didn't seem to care after the first 20 minutes is a mystery to me, but there you go.)

Life being a limited time engagement, I generally agree with your point when it comes to movies, music, books, and games. There are already too many great things to experience without pushing yourself through something that isn't making an immediate good impression. There's always going to be that slow-burn exception, though, when the time you "wasted" proves, dramatically, not to be a waste.