Most surprised you've ever been at a game.

[Use_Imagination_here]

Fairly simple question. When has a game ever been so good or bad or just had a moment that made you very surprised?

For me it's got to be black ops. Played the multiplayer at my friends some months back, didn't really like it so I didn't buy it. Than my stepdad got it, and I gave the single player a try. It was fucking awesome. The plot was bad, sure but they keep the gameplay nice and varied and the part where you get the dragonsbreath shotgun that lights enemies on fire is the most fun I've had in weeks. The multiplayer is a lot of fun when you get into it, and I've played at least 30 hours of the zombie mode in the last week.

 

[Brinnmilo]

Minecraft took me by surprise, especially the multi-player. Had a great time on it. At first I was pleasantly surprised by Fallout New Vegas as well, though towards the middle and end I started finding out why every one got annoyed with it :/

 

[oplinger]

Currently, I'm being surprised by Kane and Lynch: Dead Men. It didn't work for me the first time I played it. But I got it off of steam when it was on sale, and I've been having a blast with it. I can see why it got a sequel...though the sequel is kinda meh.

Most of the time I don't get surprised though, been playing games too long, and I don't usually have expectations. The only time I get surprised, is when a really old game works for me without any tweaks. Or a game that's known to be buggy as hell works fine for me...

 

[vrbtny]

The Saboteur.

Sure, it isn't technically perfect, and it's got so many cliche's it could burn a building, but I really like it.

The missions are varied, the characters are cliche'd but interesting, the stealth kill when you are armed with a Assault Rifle has me laughing every time, and there's nothing cooler than shooting nazi zeppelins down with a Nazi AA gun.

 

[Belaam]

FF VII

When they killed Aeris.

First time I had ever seen a main, playable character killed off with no way to bring them back. Completely shocked me at the time.

 

[IKSA]

Deus Ex: HR I was waiting something much worse because invisible war but I was suprised how amaizing it was in 2 weeks I played it 3 times trough. and TF2 when it became free I descaided to give it a shot because all of the hype it had and suprised how bad it was and thinking why such hype over such bad game.

 

[Jazoni89]

Castlevania Lords of Shadow

I came into it thinking it was a rather meh God of War clone (with regards to the reviewers and of course Yahtzee himself), but what I got out of it was so much more, to a point that it really shocked me with just how good it is.

Also, 2000th post!

 

[Absolutionis]

Crysis.

I tried to actively avoid spoilers from the game.

The graphics are completely beautiful and I had tons of fun playing through the island jungle areas. Even the full-out tank-rush level was awesome.

But when I got into the Alien ship and the lush tropical island got turned into an awesome snowy and icy world, I was shocked in a great way.

 

[Gorilla Gunk]

I was really surprised by how solid and enjoyable F.E.A.R. 3's campaign was.

 

[ripdajacker]

Killing Floor. Got it for ~10 bucks, expected a shitty zombie game but got a great experience I've already put 350+ hours in.

 

[Marcus Kehoe]

Battlestaions pacific kinda surprised me, for a game many said average I was very impressed with the multiplayer. Just some of the scenes where I'd have a group of lesser cruisers moving to take an island be atacked by bombers while flak and cannon fire filled the air.

I'm gonna say pokemon ruby also. Just when I yhought I was done with pokemon I played a gameboy advance with it and I bought 10 minuters later.

Demons souls got me also, I was really imprssed with the realism of the fighting.

 

[VoidWanderer]

KotOR 1

I'm who!?!?

 

[Tohuvabohu]

Recently. Vampire: The Masquerade.

I was expecting... well I wasn't sure what to expect. I'm still early in the game but so far it has been really fun.

The surprising part happens early on in the game, when "Therese" gives you a quest to chase a ghost out of a hotel she was trying to renovate or something. I thought alright sure, how bad can it be?

After a run through the sewers to get to the hotel, then approaching the door, a light bulb blows out next to the door. Then I was like "hah! You call that scary!? Whatever, ghost. Bring it on!"

The part that surprised me: When the events that occur within the hotel succeeded in scaring the shit out of me.

 

[VoidWanderer]

Didn't think I was going to like Dead Space all that much when I heard about it. Everything about that game made me remember why I played games in the first place. Nothing I owned that was hard at the time and I was getting my ass kicked with the first playthrough. Not very friendly to newcomers and I kind of enjoyed that. I bought the second game and enjoyed that one as well. Some reason I cannot beat Dead Space on Nightmare difficulty. Remember getting to chapter 6, thats when it goes downhill in a big way. Eventually I will beat it. Yeah I am one of those players that has to beat it on the hardest setting. Of course that leads to alot of swearing and making me jump up and down in anger. literally dreading chapter 9 because thats when those zippy assholes come into play. Don't like fast moving enemies, on nightmare its going to be a controller busting good time. Sort of wierd that I beat the second one on Harcore, but the first game is a hurdle I need to destroy.

I remember hearing about how scary the game is, and I thought it could be fun...

After noticing things like the airvents and wide-open spaces I was surprised that people said it was a horror game. The only way it gets that name is by the creatures being incredibly ugly. It's certainly not because the creatures act like the Xenomorphs from the Aliens movies.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Xenoblade Chronicle since the location were HUGE.
I mean this is a Wii game where restriction are quite common like Monster Hunter Tri where the areas had to be loaded individually. Ok there there is restriction but it's done the right way like the entire area is surrounded by walls or on a cliff and not some invisble walls blocking your path.

 

[Michael Hirst]

Braid: Why is this 2D indie platformer that cost me £1.75 so damn well made and so pretty?

 

[Spark Ignition]

ditto minecraft. i completely failed to see the appeal, and only bought it to see what the fuss was about, figuring that if I didnt like it at least the money was going to an indie developer.

My god. Biggest timesink ever.

 

[Batou667]

Not a whole game, but a part within Halo 2 really surprised me. I was sneaking up on an enemy sniper, and as I approached to try and kill him silently from behind, the enemy alien noticed me, squawked with surprise, dropped its sniper rifle and started shooting me with a pistol. Bear in mind this was 2005 (I think) and I'm almost certain that interaction wasn't scripted; it would have been much easier to counter-snipe that enemy from afar rather than flanking it. Anyway, I was pretty gobsmacked at how cleverly the situation had played out.