[Question] Games that grow on you

The first time I played Jade Empire I wasn't overly impressed. Even though the story system and plot structure were practically identical to Knights of the Old Republic, the much-different combat system was a huge turn off for me at first. Then I let one of my friend's borrow it and his brother-in-law ganked it from him and never saw my game again. Then out of nowhere, my friend who I had lent the game to bought me a copy to replace the one his brother-in-law had stolen and, as luck would have it, I didn't have a single game to play on the Xbox and started going through that one again.

Then I don't know what happened. I just LIKED it. I plowed through the entire game twice in less than 3 weeks just so I could get both the good and bad endings and found practically everything in the game, including those infernal concoctions you create while you're in that celestial garden. I never really understood why the game got such a bad rep from everyone who played it but, for all its faults, Jade Empire was a solid game that didn't need to rest on the laurels of KotOR to be good.

How ya doing, buddy?