It's funny, for the last 2 years i tried several times to play Dead Space and each time i got fed up with the camera angle and heavy movement and slow plasma gun that i couldnt keep playing beyond the second chapter 
 
Last night, i was sitting in the dark thinking of a new game to play. something really different. and i looked at my game collection and saw Dead Space standing there with dust this thick covering it 
I installed the game, told myself to give it a serious shot, and 3-4 hours later i was about to finish Chapter 4. 
 
It's really weird.. i guess i never felt the game's vibe and atmosphere, and how brilliant the movement and combat mechanics are.. I'm so glad i decided to give it a shot last night, im about to start chapter 7 and i cant be more psyched ! 
  
                          

The vacuum areas, the zero gravity sequences, the variety of enemies and the weapons COOL AS SHIT.  
And the crazy thing is, i really cant take horror games when im by myself.. i get scared. but with Dead Space i played it AT NIGHT and i felt like it was an action game :S 
  

I think im gonna go give Mass Effect and Fallout 3 another shot !

It's funny, for the last 2 years i tried several times to play Dead Space and each time i got fed up with the camera angle and heavy movement and slow plasma gun that i couldnt keep playing beyond the second chapter 
 
Last night, i was sitting in the dark thinking of a new game to play. something really different. and i looked at my game collection and saw Dead Space standing there with dust this thick covering it 
I installed the game, told myself to give it a serious shot, and 3-4 hours later i was about to finish Chapter 4. 
 
It's really weird.. i guess i never felt the game's vibe and atmosphere, and how brilliant the movement and combat mechanics are.. I'm so glad i decided to give it a shot last night, im about to start chapter 7 and i cant be more psyched ! 
  
                          

The vacuum areas, the zero gravity sequences, the variety of enemies and the weapons COOL AS SHIT.  
And the crazy thing is, i really cant take horror games when im by myself.. i get scared. but with Dead Space i played it AT NIGHT and i felt like it was an action game :S 
  

I think im gonna go give Mass Effect and Fallout 3 another shot !

Oddly enough the same thing happened to me with both Dead Space and Mass Effect. They have a very deliberate pacing and sometimes, especially with games I just want to speed through the action with minimal interruptions. It's not to say I don't like story or plot, but I usually have a very limited amount of time to play games and want to get the most interactivity for my time spent. 
 
I forced myself to get through the first few sections of Mass Effect and then became hooked and its now one of my favorite games. I just now got around to Mass Effect 2 (cheap) and instantly bought all the DLC for it. Dead Space, while I liked it felt like the same jump scares towards the end and I began to just rush through it. 

I can't make it through this game, I really don't like to PLAY horror games because I feel really uncomfortable and makes the experience drag on forever (which In my books is not a good thing). Over the past few years i've slowly made my way to chapter 10.

Am I the only one that kept accidently using health boxes in the middle of combat because they were activated through the x button or somesuch. I stopped when I came to a hard part of the game and I had no more healthboxes while I didnt knowingly used them. Also the bit where you have to shoot asteroids out of space was really annoying. 
 
Still planning to play through it on easy difficulty just to experience all the chapters. It has a great atmosphere.

" @TheDukeofArgyll: You sir are CRAZY! "

I thought the way the game felt and its controls were perfect for this type of game, but it's great you played it more. Definitely one of my top favorite games. 

Yeah some games are like that. It was the same with me and the Stalker games - I thought they were atrocious at first (the poor performance didn't help either). Now you will find no larger an advocate of them. 

" Yeah some games are like that. It was the same with me and the Stalker games - I thought they were atrocious at first (the poor performance didn't help either). Now you will find no larger an advocate of them.  "

You're lucky, I played through the whole thing and still didn't enjoy it. 
 
Though it's happened to me sometimes too where I suddenly enjoyed a game I didn't before, I guess it depends what you're in the mood for but I think it can also come down to expectations. I remember trying one of the PS2 3D Castlevanias, expecting Devil May Cry, and being put off by the less agressive enemies. After I had played a few of the Metroidvania style 2D Castlevania games though, I went back and actually started enjoying the game.

" @Geno said:

" Yeah some games are like that. It was the same with me and the Stalker games - I thought they were atrocious at first (the poor performance didn't help either). Now you will find no larger an advocate of them.  "

thanks for reminding me! STALKER is another highly praised game that i wanted to punch in the balls..  give me tips on how to break that wild game in and enjoy it, cuz i shall try it out again along with mass effect ! i mean it just felt so.. raw and tasteless ! the weird ass radiation areas that i had no way of detecting, the intolerant atmosphere!! pissed me off "

" @Ahmad_Metallic said:

" @Geno said:

" Yeah some games are like that. It was the same with me and the Stalker games - I thought they were atrocious at first (the poor performance didn't help either). Now you will find no larger an advocate of them.  "

thanks for reminding me! STALKER is another highly praised game that i wanted to punch in the balls..  give me tips on how to break that wild game in and enjoy it, cuz i shall try it out again along with mass effect ! i mean it just felt so.. raw and tasteless ! the weird ass radiation areas that i had no way of detecting, the intolerant atmosphere!! pissed me off "

You just have to gain an appreciation of its rawness. It doesn't hold your hand, it doesn't give you freebies. There's no regenerating health, your AI partners aren't invincible, and you die in 2 shots on the easiest difficulty. The atmosphere is incredibly subtle and well done, and in addition you never feel like "I'm the main character and the world revolves around me!", everything just operates as normal - any interaction is instigated by the player, not the other way around. It's the definition of immersion.  Download the Stalker Complete mods, give it a chance, and I think you might find something you'll like in it. Shadow of Chernobyl is probably the best one to start out with.  "

It's curious, but I'm giving another shot at Persona 4, and I'm loving it. I still have small issues, but I'm having a blast with it. ^^ 
 
Have fun with Dead Space!

Not that I had the same problems. But like the topic title says, it's the same exact thing for me as well. I got the game on release just because when it came out I had money from my first job I had got and just wanted to spend some money on a new highly rated game without any real knowledge of it, and I got about half way through and disliked it. But I said "-sigh- I bought it, I should go through it..." Went through the game all the way months later. LOVED it, not only is it one of my favorite games, it is my favorite game closely followed by Crysis if not the same. There were multiple games after, most notably Infamous. I went through it and though "Meh..." But went through it again, and it's one of the best PS3 games. As for Dead Space, I've already gotten all trophies, and usually after I achieve something like that I don't feel like going any further, but it's so good I want to. I've beaten over six times and I've bought everything there is to the Dead Space games, and Dead Space universe like the movies and comics. Or at least saw and read through them a couple of times. YES! Dead Space is more than just amazing. I'm about to make a Forum topic right now on it. I wish I could say I'm the number one fan of Dead Space, but I can't. Sorry if there's a handful of errors in this post, I'm a bit excited... :D By the way, play it on the hardest difficulty. It'll scare you the first few times you go through it more so than your first play through. You have to take it slow anyways. Yeahhhhhh :) Ok, done with the ultra long paragraph. Ha ha ha.

I can understand where you're coming from, I just did the same thing with Fallout 3.  I played a few hours of it a year or so ago, and went "yeah this game is pretty cool", but ended up getting side-tracked and never coming back to it.  Fast forward to last month where I fired it up again and just went apeshit on that game (and all the DLC).   
 
I'm actually playing Dead Space right now, and its hooked me from the start, so I guess everyone has a different reaction to it.

Its funny you say that and thats actually the definition of my play style now and has been for a few years. Its how I figured out I loved Chrono Cross by sticking with it till the end. On the contrary, it works the other way too. I came to the conclusion I loathed Mass Effect, Planescape, and Deus Ex by sticking with them till the end. Kudos to your newfound enthusiasm though.