It’s a cliché, but Dark Souls. Rented it through Redbox with my brother-in-law, made it past the tutorial boss, then pissed off the Crestfallen Warrior on accident and got ganked at spawn a dozen times before putting the game down.

A few months (and many articles praising the game) later I picked it up on sale and played the whole way through, and it’s now one of my top games of all time.