This involves:

• Fallout 3
• Fallout: New Vegas
• Even Skyrim

When I first received Fallout 3, New Vegas (both from LoveFilm) and Skyrim (gift), I disliked them instantly. It was boring and tedious. However, I gave it another try and then loved it!

Did you feel the same way or did you love it in the first attempt?

Only one I loved at first was Fallout New Vegas, Fallout 3 and Skyrim were merely liked at first, Fallout 3 then grew into a hate/love kinda thing and Skyrim detoriorated into hate.

Only game I can remember that was crap at first but after giving it another try it grew on me was Dragon Age 2.

I have no idea why but the moment I started it's gameplay I hated it, after a few days I tried again and adjusted to the gameplay and grew to like it.

But it hasn't happened with any Fallout or TES title that I at first hated them and then grew to love them.

For me it was only that way with Fallout 1.

With both Oblivion and FO3 I liked it a quite a lot, and was very impressed... but this faded soon after the tutorial level; the same with Skyrim.

Morrowind was love at first sight, so was Skyrim - but only after leaving Helgen. The cinematic intro didn't do it for me.

I wasn't very enthusiastic when I first played Oblivion, but it slowly grew on me when I returned to it a few years later.

Fallout 1 and 2 were an acquired taste. I have a love/hate relationship with Fallout 3. I played too little of New Vegas to form an opinion.

The first few hours of Fallout 3 took a while for me. I didn't get into it instantly like I did Oblivion or Morrowind.

In fact, I tried it out and set it aside for almost 3 months before getting back into it. Then it took off for me and I did everything in that game.

I disliked Fallout 3 at first. I returned to it a few years later and liked it much better then. I've only been playing Morrowind since December, and I am still kind of lukewarm about it. Oblivion and Skyrim I liked immediately though.

It was the opposite to me. After the tedious tutorial (many games have one, so it bears no judgement) in FO3, when the game opened up, it seemed such a promising prospect. "There's so much potential in this, even though the gameplay has deviated," I thought. But after the first 5 or so levelups (some questing, some exploring) it started to become painfully obvious how uninspiring everything felt. It was the same with Oblivion before it, and Skyrim after it. The magic of Bethesda RPG's (all of it) - for an audience like myself - is in the initial impact after which everything just dries out rather quickly the further I play as the flaws and shortcomings become more and more obvious (up until the point where finishing the game becomes nigh impossible due to frustrative boredom). This excludes Morrowind, though, with which I had lots of fun even if I could point my finger at a lot of things I considered flawed design.

New Vegas I gave a lukewarm initial reception. The writing and narrative structuring and the HC mode (excluding the "needs") has kept it alive for me for a stunning 2 and a half playthoughs already.

Fallout 2, back in the day, I picked up without knowing anything of the series other than having seen one screenshot and a very short preview of the Fallout 1 demo stating it offers a very nice effect when minigunning someone - and after firing it up... that was it. I'm still playing it.

I liked Fallout 3 at first, even got a "HEY THIS IS FALLOUT" impression at first, but the more I played, the more I felt as if I was dating a pretty, but brainless girl that giggled annoyingly every time she opened her mouth and the few bits of intelligence she managed to divulge were drowned in a torrent of stupidity.

Fallout: New Vegas was love at first sight. For the first time in years, I was giddy. I literally giggled like a school girl (22 year old student of law, mind you) while clutching it in my hands and running upstairs to get it running. And when my boots kicked up the Mojave dust... I knew I was home. Finally.

Skyrim is kinda meh at this point. The only thing it's good for is getting pics for cat avatars.

Morrowind is a game I loved (probably one of my top 3 games of all time) but which I can not return to now. It is not an issue of graphics, but the combat system and the static NPC's that make it hard if not impossible for me to return to. In its heyday it was an amazing game.

As for the other games:

Oblivion I had a "Phantom Menace" or "Crystal Skull" moment in that I wanted to like it so badly but I really didn't. Sure, it has those two elements that I mentioned above as improvements from Morrowind, but beyond that it felt lacking. Mods changed that a bit, but I still feel Oblivion is Bethesda's weakest RPG yet.

Fallout 3 I ignored for quite some time because it wasn't a TES game and I was probably a little spiteful about that. Then one day, after watching the Mad Max movies again, I read about it and figured I would give it a try. I enjoyed it quite a bit and it returned my confidence in Bethesda after my distaste for Oblivion (in Vanilla form). Some things were odd and felt off (the willy-nilly placement of creature types and raiders around the wasteland with no logic) but I still like the game.

Fallout New Vegas I enjoyed from the start but became a little disappointed in only because it didn't feel wild enough for my tastes. That being said I still like the game a fair amount and the world seems more logical in its organization...well, as logical as a Fallout game can be. Really wished the desert expanses were larger though...a thirst meter is useless when fresh water is within sight of any location in the game.

Skyrim is probably my favorite (roughly equal to Morrowind) because it was better than the (my opinion) flop of Oblivion and its Nordic/Germanic feel sit well with me (I almost always play as a Nord) having been a huge fan of Bloodmoon. Although I was disappointed with the lack of deep wilderness one would think exists in Skyrim and the rather small cities, I love the game otherwise. The only further distaste I had with time was the lack of terror dragons inspired. When I began chasing them like monarch butterflies it was obvious they were not what they should be,

That's what I hoped from New Vegas - and it was so very close. It was an admirable effort to to say the least - so many things done right, yet with an undertone of filth. Kinda like the best stake in years, but some traces of sinews sticking between the teeth making the result not quite as exquisite as it seemed.

I had a lot of trouble getting into FO3 mainly because of the whole life in the Vault 101 thing. What I like about FO1, FO2 and FNV is that after 5-10 minutes your thrown out into the world. FO1 was the quickest in getting things going. FO2 had the whole trials thing but it wasn't as long as life in Vault 101. FNV was quick also, you spend 5 minutes in Doc Mitchell's office then you are out on your own.

FOT also had a long and boring start iirc.

With that being said after the whole life in vault 101 scenario, I got into the game. But then when the Lyon's Pride and the Enclave came into the picture I lost interest. And yes, I know the Enclave was on the radio from the start. But I really thought those were old tapes being played. Plus the whole "have you seen my daddy?" "I miss him sooo much." Was annoying as hell.

I loved all the Fallout games right from the start but for the Burned Game.

Back in the day watching the Fallout intro for the first time I was hooked.

I wish I could've.

When I was a kid I always wanted games that you could walk around and explore in. Oblivion was like my wet dream when I discovered that (a long time ago now). I love these games.

You know, I had the same dream back then, or as it happens, way more back than Oblivious. A game where I could just roam around and do things in. The funny thing is, once I got one, I didn't really like it. Because nothing I did made any difference (because of how free I was - now ain't that ironic, freedom to perform biting itself in the ass because of how it restricted all of the consequences, which in turn, made the freedom feel like... well, [censored] because nothing of the freedom made any difference - "what goes around comes around" - ain't freedom a [censored]).

Fallout 1 was specifically tailor-made with me in mind. That was a day one purchase for me when it first released, and it was even better than I'd expected it would be.

I do remember being pretty blown away by Morrowind, as well. I don't think I'd ever seen a game where every single object was it's own separate entity (unlike most games where a bookshelf of books is all one model, for example.) And that game put more thought and detail into the ceilings of their houses than other companies do with entire levels. It was also a very novel fantasy world, I thought - you don't see a whole lot of games where you spend 100+ hours exploring the homeland of the Dark Elves.

Most of Bethesda's games (yes, I know Fallout 1 was Interplay - I'm switching gears here) do a pretty good job of catching me pretty good with the first act of the game, actually. It's often the second act or the middle part of the game where I start to burn out a little bit. There's a kind of fatigue that starts to set in with me. I guess the only thing I could compare it to is trying to watch all of the Lord of the Rings movies in one go. Sure, it's a very good trilogy, but those are long movies, and after a while you sort of need a palate cleanser.

I find I get the most enjoyment out of stuff like Skyrim or Fallout 3 if I intersperse it with some Assassin's Creed or GTA, or an indie game; rather than trying to just focus on the one game until I get to the end (which I still haven't got around to doing with Skyrim.)

I despised fallout 3 to begin with but after about 5 hours something in my mind just clicked, but my love for the series was really ignited with fonv that then lead to me buying the fallout 1 and 2 (tactics as well but it doesn't look like it's for me) which culminated in one big love explosion

ya, fo3 was a little slow, but after a couple hours i couldn't put down the controller... This is how I was with both new vegas and skyrim. I love wide open games with options.

Oh yeah, I got it back when I was probably 4 years old (my friend had a rugrats game where you could walk around the rugrats house and I used to try and go there just to play it LOL) that was probably the beginnings of it (or maybe the pokemon games how they were a linear open world kindve thing). Oblivion was probably just like the ! moment... like i actually though 'a game like this exists!? how did someone know this was what I wanted?'.. oddly enough I had played Morrowind beforehand, but that didn't quite grab me somehow..

And ah ok... so you weren't keen on the 'freedom' because what you did had no consequences??? I'm a little confused it's a shame you didn't like it off the bat though - at least you love them now though right?

I did a lot of freeroam in Wasteland, back in the day, but that was because I couldn't understand much English.

What's the confusing part? That the freedom offered didn't really mean anything because there was no cosequences to anything?

I loved all instantly. After playing through my first Fallout game once, I realized that it takes a while for things to start picking up and getting more addicting. From that point on I just expected that, and because of that I have never had this problem.

Fallout NV was my first fallout and BGS game ever. I remember the little greasy 16 year old who told me "this game is amazing you should definitely get it" so i did and when i put it in and posted it i was like WTF is this crap?

I ended up not playing it for weeks then finally decided to give it another shot, after that I never put it down.

Skyrim was the opposite for me, at first I loved it but after a few hours i found it to be very bland.

New Vegas was not made by BGS. It was made by Obsidian. You could tell by the quality of the writing.

Oblivion was the first Bethesda game I had seen and honestly before that I wasn't into video games. I saw my friend play it long after it was released and my first thought was that it looked terrible. After watching for some time I became enamored with the lore and the opportunity for exploration. Those are really the selling points for BGS to me. By the time I heard of Fallout 3 it had been out for quite some time but I got it with so much excitement because of how much I enjoyed Oblivion and how interesting the idea of Oblivion's strong points set in post-apocalyptic DC. I feel like it delivered on my expectations and I think my expectations were high, however I recognize those expectations were rooted in Bethesda's approach rather than Black Isle's.

I know this.

The core game was very much BGS though. Obviously the writing and story are what separates it from a true BGS title but the core mechanics of the game are still very much a product of BGS.

Besides that I literally made it to right out side the Doc's house before saying "WTF" to myself. So none of Obsidians talents had really shined through at my point of turning it off.