Games People Give Up Because It Takes Too Long To Get Going?

Days Gone. It's been criticized for being too long and starting off slow. I actually gave up on it on my first play through. Randomly decided to give it a second chance and actually finished it and, my goodness... what an amazing game.
 
Maybe it's just me, but I was surprised that more people aren't saying Horizon: Zero Dawn. Great game, but the first 1-2 hours were so boring imo. I tried 3 times, the got the ps5 pro recently and tried once more - I'm loving it now. Unique and interesting premise with the robots in the same of animals. Finding those tapes and learning more and more has been a really fun experience though on top of looking great.
 
Not other people but me personally, I never got through the Mass Effect trilogy.

I played through the ME2 long ago and remember enjoying it very much. I tried playing through ME1 but realized that this was a game that is best enjoyed when you take your time with it. I got inpatient with the dated gameplay and design of ME1 which made me not enjoy it as much, even when I know that the story is supposedly great.
 
Death standing is a true original title in a sea of gaming clones. We been playing the same game since the ps3 era and players are too conditioned to see something truly original like death standing as a must play
 
The Legend of Heroes: all of them. Great games with the best world-building ever, as well as great stories and characters. However, they take a lot of time to get going. But once they do, it’s like a rollercoaster
 
Red Dead Redemption 2. I think a lot of people give up before they get out of the snow because they think it is slow and boring. But honestly it's such a good game and if people gave more games a bit more of a chance they could find some really great stuff.
 
Ffxiv but I don’t blame them even after all the quality of life and shortening the ARR msq it’s still a hefty time commitment. Planning on playing Like a dragon after I play the horizon remaster which comes after I finish metaphor so I don’t get burned out on turn based