Have you ever bought a game you knew nothing about and upon playing it found it to be AWESOME?

[Laser Priest]

I don't have the money to buy games for the hell of it.

However, I did borrow Mass Effect from a friend, when all I knew is that it was in space. I happen to love that game.

 

[Michael Candy]

I would have to say Just Cause 2 all i knew about it was that it was a sandbox game and it had explosions. Spent so much time just mucking around on it.

 

[Lucifus]

Oblivion for me.

 

[Rattler5150]

I knew nothing about diablo when I bought it, Turned out to be super awesome

When I bought fallout 1, i knew almost nothing about it. I saw screenshots of the upcoming game Fallout 2, it looked awesome, I said to myself What happened to Fallout 1, bought it online and i loved every bit of it

 

[Nupu]

For me it was Metro 2033, Half-Life 2, Fallout 3 and Assassin's Creed II.

All of them I bought just because I wanted to try something new.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

Ico (though I never finished it, I really should...) and Project Sylpheed.

 

[callfy]

Mass Effect was probably the first game I picked up on the 360 that I found amazing, even went on to play it around 30 times.

Others on my list include:
Tenchu Z
Dragon Age Origins
Marvel vs Capcom 3
The Witcher 2
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
Trine

 

[Fenra]

Kingdom Hearts is a big one, I had no idea what it was but saw the boxart in Game and thought "A Disney game? well its only £5, it'll be terrible but worth a chuckle".... I was, pleasantly surprised to put it very lightly, 2 days later I had completed it and was on the hunt for the second.

Oh and another was "Ace Combat 5", another I'd never heard of but found cheap when bored, havent had that much fun with a flight combat game ever!!!

 

[MightyRabbit]

Ace Attorney. Bought it because there didn't seem to be anything more interesting looking around. Now it's my favourite series and probably the only thing I could actually be called an honest-to-Neil Gaiman fanboy of.

And for non-gaming stuff, Neverwhere (which got me into Neil Gaiman) and Sandman (which I only picked up cause it was written by Gaiman).

 

[EricKei]

Mine was a game which, I think, intentionally took advantage of this trope, and did so quite successfully. It came out to absolutely zero fanfare whatsoever (I was working at a game store at the time), it was priced at $20 brand new, and has this simple little sky-blue cover with a town and a ball of...something...and a rainbow along with some a couple of blocky-looking Kanji on the front. I figured, hey, for twenty bucks, I'll give it a shot -- I could wait for it to come in used and save a whole two bucks, so I might as well get it now.

That game was the first Katamari Damacy. Quite possibly the best twenty bucks I have EVER spent; I put more time into that game than most $50-60 games that I have ever played (notable exception: the original XCOM). It was a brilliant game with a brilliant, yet subtle, marketing strategy -- "Put it out there for cheap, making minimal profit-per-unit, and see if people like it. If they do, make more games at a more financially sane price". Worth it even if it had been sixty bucks.

 

[Dexiro]

Disgaea. Got it on a complete whim, had no idea what it was about but I just fell in love. I now have 1000 boners for that series.

 

[cthulhumythos]

earth defense force 2017.

started as a joke gift to my brother, then we played it. it was pretty much the greatest thing ever.

suffice to say, i bought the sequel the day it came out (july 5). it is so great.

 

[Super Toast]

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

Captcha uses spamblock!

It's not very effective...

OT: Psychonauts. A million times Psychonauts.

 

[Varanfan9]

Earth Defense Force 2017 and Dynasty Warriors Gundam. The first one I only briefly heard about once and the latter was completely new to me. And both could blow many big budget triple A games out of the water in terms of pure fun.

 

[thejackyl]

Saw the following video when someone was talking about Resonance of Fate.
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Bought it. Was not disappointed. The battle system was pretty fun, and I like the world-centric story. Though the presentation isn't that great. In order to get the story, you pretty much have to talk to EVERY NPC on EVERY chapter, plus it doesn't pick up until about chapter 12 or so.

Other than that, I can only think of games I've seen glimpses of in Nintendo Power SEVERAL years ago

 

[Purkki]

Rayman for PS1. Oh how many hours did I play that game.

 

[Evilsanta]

KOTOR. Though it was a Star Wars game and my simple minds logic behind that purchase went like this: Star Wars=Awesome.

And I was right.


What the fuck? Ads in the captchas?

 

[striderkiwi]

Fallout 3, I had no idea what I was getting into there. Ended up spending nearly 150 hours on it. So yeah, I rather enjoyed it.

me too.

But the best examples would be Bioshock and Casltevania Portrait of Ruin. They are 2 of my favorite games I've ever played, and occasionally I go back and play those games to remind myself of what makes a good game.

 

[Sylveria]

For me basically the entire SMT and Disgaea series were total accidents. I got Disgaea cause I saw it in gamestop and liked the look of the box. Same thing happened to me with SMT: Nocturne; I read the little spits on the back of the box and sound interested. Now those are probably my most beloved games.

 

[Fbuh]

Fable: The lost Chapters

I actually bought it during the raging fires of teenage hormones, seeing that it had a Mature rating with sexual content. Of course, a black screen and background noises isn't very erotic, so I ended up loving the game due to other qualities.

Sigh...I still rememeber the first time I got the Bow of Skorm...so many deaths...