Game that surprisingly impressed/dissapointed you

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[QUOTE="pipitney2062"]y are so many people hatin on Bioshock? that game was goty, u must be blindithilgore2006

if i remember correctly, Super Mario Galaxy was Game of the Year.

you fail sir.

if i remember correctly all mario games suck

it is thou that fails sir

my memory is just fine

Impressed: MGS4, Oblivion(200+hours) COD4 (hated the other ones, this one blew me away)

Disappointed: Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell Double Agent, GTA4

Disappointed: Twilight Princess, GTA4

Surprised: Viva Pianta, Kameo, Lost Odyssey, Mario Kart Wii.

Test Drive Unlimited
Bought it for $20 and wasn't really expecting anything. But this game is built around a fantastic concept. It's not flawlessly executed, but well enough to get you absorbed in the awesomeness of it. It's truly underappreciated and deserves more kudos. I don't think there was a game like it before, and there certainly hasn't been since its release, which is a shame. EA has been letting the NFS series go down the crapper with their stupid ideas for like a decade. This is what they should be doing.

Alone in the Dark
I was looking forward to this quite a bit, rooting for it when the concepts and ideas were first revealed. But the closer to release it got, the more it became apparent that perhaps it wouldn't quite match my early hopes and expectations... When I got my hands on the game I had seen the dreadful videos of the melee combat. And let me tell you, combat is not that horrible. It's even worse. Just completely rubbish. And beyond that there's all kinds of smaller and larger problems, mostly in terms of the controls, which are just...not good. As my signature indicates, I still think the game is decent despite of all its flaws. But it's the biggest letdown of the year without a doubt.

Oddly enough, both of these games were made by Eden Studios.

I bought crackdown to play the Halo 3 beta and was shocked to find myself playing it for 8 hours nonstop the next day after buying it. That game had no story but was good fun.

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Uncharted and Resident Evil 4 greatly impressed me. I had hated the previous RE's due to their faulty camera and clunky gameplay (and to be honest the graphics suffered) But when I played RE4, it was as if I was sent to gaming heaven. To date, after 3 years. I am STILL playing that game. Oh yeah, Uncharted was good too.

My greatest disappointment was Burnout Revenge. It was repetitive, and boring. Not for me.

foxhound_fox

No I hated their camera and the way the characters moved. But thank you for assuming something else. :) It's very much appreciated.

I bought crackdown to play the Halo 3 beta and was shocked to find myself playing it for 8 hours nonstop the next day after buying it. That game had no story but was good fun.

mtron32

GTFO. Lemmings said noone bought Crackdown for the Halo 3 beta.

I've been dissapointed by a lot of old games like a link to the past, I also got dissapointed by oblivion, eternal sonata, no more heroes, crackdown, the orange box, bioshock, metroid prime, cod4 and maybe some other game

I also got dissapointed by twilight princess, brawl and gta IV but only because I expected a lot from them, because I still liked them a lot.

I was impressed by smg and re4

Test Drive Unlimited
Bought it for $20 and wasn't really expecting anything. But this game is built around a fantastic concept. It's not flawlessly executed, but well enough to get you absorbed in the awesomeness of it. It's truly underappreciated and deserves more kudos. I don't think there was a game like it before, and there certainly hasn't been since its release, which is a shame. EA has been letting the NFS series go down the crapper with their stupid ideas for like a decade. This is what they should be doing.

Alone in the Dark
I was looking forward to this quite a bit, rooting for it when the concepts and ideas were first revealed. But the closer to release it got, the more it became apparent that perhaps it wouldn't quite match my early hopes and expectations... When I got my hands on the game I had seen the dreadful videos of the melee combat. And let me tell you, combat is not that horrible. It's even worse. Just completely rubbish. And beyond that there's all kinds of smaller and larger problems, mostly in terms of the controls, which are just...not good. As my signature indicates, I still think the game is decent despite of all its flaws. But it's the biggest letdown of the year without a doubt.

Oddly enough, both of these games were made by Eden Studios.

InsaneBasura

TDU was quite an amazing experience. It was amazing traveling across the large island and seeing others driving around it.

Most impressed: Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty. After playing MGS for about fifty times, I didn't think Kojima could outdo himself, but he did. Hell he even made Raiden a pretty cool main character(imo).

Disapointed: Gears of War. I thought the campaign was good but after I beat it once I had no need to replay it so I got online and oh my god.

Impressed: Resistance fall of man, just bought it and I have to say its a pretty awesome fps.

Dissapointed: Assassins Creed, the whole future aspect thing killed it.

Impressed-MGS 4; Unlike most kiddies I really didn't care about this game, but I love it now.

Dissapointment-Oblivion I guess

Impressed: Ace Combat 6 - I had never played a flight game before, but I love it!

Disappointed: Dead Rising - hated it, I traded it in as soon as I could. Great idea, but a broken game IMO.

the biggest disappointment for me Bullet witch.. how could they completely screw up such a cool premise as this? From horrible mechanics to disgusting, agonizing dialogue, BW is the perfect example of when great ideas just don't materialize well..

biggest surprise was crysis. This game is sheer brilliance despite its 'point and click' FPS origins. the crytek engine is extremely robust, complimenting the huge environments, lush, life-like foilage, physics and lighting effects.

Another surprise was mass effect. Even the name leaves much to be desired but it's an awesome game. Waiting for my copy of MGS4..

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I bought crackdown to play the Halo 3 beta and was shocked to find myself playing it for 8 hours nonstop the next day after buying it. That game had no story but was good fun.

thrones

GTFO. Lemmings said noone bought Crackdown for the Halo 3 beta.

More companies should do this. I would have never found the gem that is Crackdown without Halo's Beta.

im really dissapointed with bioshock the gameplay did not match up to the atmosphere or storytelling which still makes the game awesome but still

I know I already went but...

This game was a huge surprisingly impressed. It just plain owns! I hope they surprise us with a sequal at e3.

Surprisingly impressed - oddly enough, Halo 3's single player. I had no hopes for it after Halo 2, I thought that single player ruined the series. Then the reviews came and I was thinking it was overrated or just given high scores for the multiplayer. Turns out its still something I'd have fun with to this day. Can't say enough for the enemy AI and environments in the game. Just plain fun on the higher two difficulties, for me anyway.

Surprisingly disappointed - Halo 3's multiplayer. After getting addicted to Halo 2's multi for years, this was the reason I bought the game. I can't pinpoint what it was, but I only played this for a month or so. A couple hundred online games, that's it. Maybe it was the uninspired maps or the game just having a slightly different feel online, or COD4 blowing it away, but I just didn't like it nearly as much as 2's.

impressed eh okami, shadow of the collosus

disappointed ratchet future and metroid prime 3

Surprisingly impressed by: SMG, Halo 3

Surprisingly disappointed with: Dead Rising (just didn't like it at all for some reason)

Mass Effect, Heavenly Sword (enjoyable but didn't like them as much as I thought I would)

Disappointments:

Super Mario Sunshine- It's a fun game, but it's nowhere near as good as Super Mario 64, and it isn't the sequel that I was waiting for. The fact that we only get a new 3D Mario adventure every five or six years only added to that disappointment.

BioShock- Amazing atmosphere, storyline, graphics, and artistic direction. The gameplay didn't cut it for me, and it was easily the weakest part of the game. It just got very, very REPETITIVE.

Red Steel- The simple sword fights were alright at first, but then they kept making you do it to interupt yet another encounter of thugs. You would beat the crap out of them until their health was 3/4 down, and then suddenly, out of nowhere they suddenly block all your attacks, even though they are severly injured. Then you have to do moves that are hard to pull off to finish them off. The terrible dialogue and god-awful controls didn't help, either.

FEAR- I expected a lot more out of a 9.1 PC FPS. It was the second FPS I ever beat after Medal of Honor: Heroes 2. I expected to like it more than most people since it was my first good FPS that I would play, and it wasn't World War II. No, the game was okay, but I felt like I had to do the same thing over and over again. "Go in building and look for Paxton Fettle." "Oops, Paxton Fettle left the building, lawlz. Go to another building again so you can do the same thing as last time."

Surprisingly good games:

Mario Strikers: Charged- I bought it because, at the time, Wii didn't really have any good games out, apart from its launch titles and Super Paper Mario. This game is so much fun and is easily my favorite multiplayer game of 2007! Absolutely awesome. I was surprised by how much I liked this game.

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance- Oh, man! I did not know that this game would be my favorite game of all time when I got it for Christmas 2005. I didn't really know what the game was. I saw a commercial and knew Nintendo had something to do with it, so I asked for it. I played four minutes and didn't like it, because I was an idiot that based a game off of four minutes of gameplay. Then, after reading a user review at the NSider forums, I played it again... It blew me away. Radiant Dawn is my second favorite game of all time, while this sits at number five.

No More Heroes- Yeah, I didn't expect much from a third party developer. The gameplay was just a lot of fun, and I would've still played it even if the storyline wasn't as funny as it was. There are a lot of flaws to it, however, and I hope they work it out in the sequel.

Wii Play- Say what you will, but this game was still better than I expected it to be. Everyone made it out to be so awful, but I had a lot more fun with it than I probably should've. Tanks! is probably the only reason I'm saying this, though.