Have you ever bought a game you knew nothing about and upon playing it found it to be AWESOME?
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I paid $32.67 for a XBOX 360 and my mom got a 17 inch Toshiba laptop for $94.83 being delivered to our house tomorrow by FedEX. I will never again pay expensive retail prices at stores. I even sold a 46 inch HDTV to my boss for $650 and it only cost me $52.78 to get. Here is the website we using to get all this stuff, GetCent.com
Silent Line Armored Core. That game was my first giant robot game purchase. Before I had ever bought the game, I had played Armored Core Last Raven, and it annoyed me a lot. But I decided to go to a game store to see if there was a much easier title to play. And I bought Silent Line on a whim and I played it a lot and beat it twice. I still go for my floating robot with dual machine guns.
Bard's Tale and Soul Nomad.
Both games I knew nothing about when I bought them and both are sitting pretty high on my best games of all time list.
Both games I knew nothing about when I bought them and both are sitting pretty high on my best games of all time list.
I had a similar experience with Zone of Enders trying to play the Metal Gear Solid 2 demo.IrateDonnie said:
On the flip side of that I bought Resident Evil Code Veronica X for my PS2 (since I didn't have a Dreamcast at the time) and ended up with a little demo called Devil May Cry....
Most recently (a couple of years back) I picked up an RPG that seemed interesting called Mass Effect. I've cleared it 5 times since.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl, i was bored one evening and had a sale for it wich was on about 2 bucks and i just thought, what the hell and bought and realised i LOVED IT. i later went on to buy clear sky and when call of pripyat was hitting steam store i poo'd my pants.
Torchligh and Mass Effect 2. I was looking around a game store and came across Torchlight, checked the back of the box, said "Meh" but still bought it. Went home played it and after half a day of playing it I went to sleep with a huge smile. Same situation with Mass Effect 2.
I bought ratchet and clank 2 when It was recently out - and when I say bought I mean I pointed at the game in the magazine and started uttering jibberish roughly amounting to "GIEF" - and it's still one of my favourite games and one of the only things from my childhood I still like. Other than that... It's not nothing, but Mass Effect. I knew it was in space, had guns, was an RPG (and yes, it is one) and had long elevators. I don't really like space games, FPSRPGs or the long loading screens, but it was £10 and I had/have many months of nothing to do, so I bought it 2 weeks ago, along with ME2. I'm now on 130 hours total play of them combined. Otherwise, I generally get a good idea of what I'm getting first.
It was my very first proper PC game.
I was between 10 and 12, and my mother had taken me to a multimedia store to by one of those virtual encyclopaedias for school. While we were perusing through the shelves(or more exactly, she perused while I was grumpily dragging my feet)something caught my eye : an A4 sized box, with wonderful box art. I didn't know the name, and I knew little about PC games. But something about the strange "yin/yang symbol but made of two faces" mesmerised me. That's when I got Baldur's Gate 2 : Shadows of Amn, which I have finished over twenty times(then I got the expansion...) and still play to this day ^^
I was between 10 and 12, and my mother had taken me to a multimedia store to by one of those virtual encyclopaedias for school. While we were perusing through the shelves(or more exactly, she perused while I was grumpily dragging my feet)something caught my eye : an A4 sized box, with wonderful box art. I didn't know the name, and I knew little about PC games. But something about the strange "yin/yang symbol but made of two faces" mesmerised me. That's when I got Baldur's Gate 2 : Shadows of Amn, which I have finished over twenty times(then I got the expansion...) and still play to this day ^^
COmmand and Conquer: Tiberian Sun.
Ok, so I didn't buy it, it was my dad. He found it in a bargain bin for $10 apparently. I played it when I was young, and now I'm a Westwood fanboy. I love Westwood, I love the CnC they made, I love Frank Klepacki (Their Background music artist)and I hate EA for screwing up the franchise. SO I followed Petroglyph after the Westwood breakup.
Long story short: Tiberian Sun became my life, despite finding it in a bargain bin for $10.
Ok, so I didn't buy it, it was my dad. He found it in a bargain bin for $10 apparently. I played it when I was young, and now I'm a Westwood fanboy. I love Westwood, I love the CnC they made, I love Frank Klepacki (Their Background music artist)and I hate EA for screwing up the franchise. SO I followed Petroglyph after the Westwood breakup.
Long story short: Tiberian Sun became my life, despite finding it in a bargain bin for $10.
I received a complementary copy of Darksiders with my copy of Bayonetta because the warehouse has run out of Bayonetta Climax Editions and I have to say, the first playthrough I went through was the most fun I've had in a game for years. It was so good that I'd even get up early just to start playing it again.
What a gem.
What a gem.