Todd and I see eye to eye on this one!
SEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Someone else voted POR2!!!!!! The tide is turning
I would liked to have chosen crowd favourites like Gothic 3, or NWN2 or The Witcher, but found all of them to be massively disappointing on first release. Especially NWN2, which is the only one of the three I perservered with. I wish I hadn't - I want my 100 hours (or whatever it was) back!
I understand that Gothic 3 and The Wicther were improved a lot by subsequent patches, so I'm willing to look at them again some time in the future.