A lot of people didn't enjoy BioShock 2, but its gameplay is superior even to the first. I got into Assassin's Creed and Oblivion on second chances. The main problem was the customisation of the games, with something as fundamental as free-roaming just not my style in 2008(?). It was Braid that led me back to platformers, after years of favouring FPSs, and Prince of Persia (2008) that got me leaning towards Assassin's Creed's parkour. To clarify, it was late 2010 when I played PoP 2008, and early '11 when I returned to AC and Oblivion.