It strikes me as more than a little odd that one would retry a game another 3 times after the first 35 hour play-through sucked.
Some time after I decided to stop being a little bitch and realise that the post PS1 era is over and quality like that would be impossible to achieve again. After this realisation the game was pretty awesome.
... wow, that almost came really close to convincing me.
I'm not following you here, convincing you of what?