It's depends on how you look at it. One one hand, I like being a skilled player because I don't have that fumbling around that most new players have and I can have access to better strategies (e.g. playing one character while contoling another an AI character simultaneously in Tales of Xillia). At the same time, being a newbie player you miss out on a lot of the "This game is aweseome because" moments like finally killing an Adamantoise in FFXIII, but you have that wonder of hey this game is rad I'm learning so much and gradually getting better.

I think I prefer having the skill, because I can use that skill to understand new games better and get to the stage where I'm killing 8 kinds of butts sooner.