The best games you weren't expecting.

These are my favorite games that took me by surprise:

Super Mario Bros. (NES. Well, I wasn't a live then, but I could just imagine)

Kid Icarus (NES)

Aladin (SNES and Genesis)

Stunt Cars FX (SNES)

Pilot Wings (SNES)

Micky & The Magical Quest (SNES)

FF VII (PS1)

Metal Gear Solid (PS1)

Goldeneye 007 (N64)

Conker's BFD (N64)

Wave Race 64 (N64)

Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (N64)

Super Smash Bros. (N64)

Diddy Kong Racing (N64)

War Craft II (PC)

Total Anihilation (PC)

Rollercoaster Tycoon (PC)

Rainbow Six (PC)

Driver (PC)

Delta Force (PC)

Soul Calibur (DC)

Speed Devils (DC)

Resident Evil Code Veronica (DC)

Resident Evil 4 (GC)

GTA III (PS2)

Ninja Gaiden (Xbox)

Halo (Xbox)

this gen........still waiting. Maybe something will catch me off guard. Doubt it for a while.

Super Stardust HD

Motorstorm

Super Smash Bros

Final Fantasy Advance Tactics

Super Stardust HD

Motorstorm

Super Smash Bros

Final Fantasy Advance Tactics

EPaul

Can't believe I forgot smash!

This is unusual for me, but I had no idea what I was in for when I bought Resident Evil 4. I was blown away.

And TC, are you just naming every game you like? I find it hard to believe you had no idea what to expect with all of that list.

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Super Stardust HD

Motorstorm

Super Smash Bros

Final Fantasy Advance Tactics

-Wheels-

Can't believe I forgot smash!

Lol when i was the commercial for the game i knew i had to play it and i was hooked

[QUOTE="-Wheels-"][QUOTE="EPaul"]

Super Stardust HD

Motorstorm

Super Smash Bros

Final Fantasy Advance Tactics

EPaul

Can't believe I forgot smash!

Lol when i was the commercial for the game i knew i had to play it and i was hooked

Still my favorite commercial of all time.

worms armageddon ps1( greatest party game ever)

street fighter 3rd strike ( i have never lost and i play it atleast twice a week at a busy arcade)

Gran turismo 3 (greatest racing game imo just the jump from all racing game like GT2 and daytona to this masterpiece)

Super mario bros 3 ( knew it would be awesome as i got it at luanch but did it surpass my expectations. i still rock it to this day on my og nes, which i still think is the best. For sure it's better then the rest. it had metriod with samus. man that game was harder then my NALPEX test.

tomba!

crackdown

psychonauts

indigo prophecy

f-zero

a lot more...

Guitar Hero - thought it would be too corny and silly, but it was a lot of fun

Shadow of the Colossus - didn't think a game consisting of only boss fights could be any good, but it was very well designed

Metal Gear Acid 2 - didn't believe combining metal gear with card-game gameplay would be any fun, but as it turns out I liked it even more than Portable Ops

Chronicles of Riddick - a liscenced game based on a bad movie...I thought it would be a mindless 5 hour button-masher type game

Heroes of Might and Magic 2 (gameboy color version) - didn't think it would translate well given the lack of power in a gameboy color, yet it was a great game

Age of Empires: Age of Kings (ds version) - same as above

Guitar Hero - thought it would be too corny and silly, but it was a lot of fun

Shadow of the Colossus - didn't think a game consisting of only boss fights could be any good, but it was very well designed

Metal Gear Acid 2 - didn't believe combining metal gear with card-game gameplay would be any fun, but as it turns out I liked it even more than Portable Ops

Chronicles of Riddick - a liscenced game based on a bad movie...I thought it would be a mindless 5 hour button-masher type game

Heroes of Might and Magic 2 (gameboy color version) - didn't think it would translate well given the lack of power in a gameboy color, yet it was a great game

Age of Empires: Age of Kings (ds version) - same as above

darkodonnie

ooh Riddick is a good one.....another poster earlier put Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. I totally agree. The game was amazing! Along with Castlevania: Cirlce of the Moon.

I officially add those to my earlier list lol.

Counterstrike: Source

Goldeneye

Final Fantasy VII

Wii Sports

Metal Gear Acid- I'm in no way a fan of the MGS series, but for some reason MGA's gameplay got to me despite its downright convoluted story.

PGR series- I'm more of a simulation racer, but the PGR series has a great balance of realism and arcade driving.

RE4- Again, I was never a fan of the RE series from the limited amount of playing I had with the previous titles, but RE4 blew me away.

KOTOR- Its a Star Wars game, even if Bioware was the developer gaming law states Star Wars games generally suck hard.

C&C3 (360 version)- I was very skeptical that a RTS could work on a console with a controller, I was wrong.

Halo- I'm an old school PC gamer, so common knowledge (or at least common SW knowledge) says I should hate Halo with a passion.

Viva Pinata

Metriod Prime

Psychonauts

Crackdown

Cubivore

Hitman series. Resident evil 4 (I hated Nemesis) Max Payne. Indigo Prophecy.

Halo, X-Com, system shock 2, Riddick, Viva Piñata, Crackdown, Rallisport Challenge, Katamari Damacy, Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved, Pacman CE, Ultima Underworld, Monkey Island, and quite a bit of others I don't remember right now.

It's important to note, these are not necessarily my favorite games, just excellent games that came out of the blue for me...

This is unusual for me, but I had no idea what I was in for when I bought Resident Evil 4. I was blown away.

And TC, are you just naming every game you like? I find it hard to believe you had no idea what to expect with all of that list.

MrDziekuje

I've played many a game. That is a small list...I left games out I'm pretty sure.

Perfect Dark

Wind Waker

Pikmin

Stronghold: Crusader (maybe I just really liked making rabbid dogs in cages and setting them free to wipe out a whole kingdom)

Tribes 2

Resident Evil (PS1)

And...

You guessed it.

Metroid Prime :P

I thought Nintendo seriously ****ed up, then I played it and wow

Retro i luv u :oops:

Super Stardust HDEPaul

I played Stardust back in the day. :P

Cool game.

Resistance certainly surprised me. I thought it was just another Halo clone. When in actual fact it's just another Half-Life 2 clone, and an awesome one too.

Back when I was young, I got Baldur's Gate II for $25 (AU) and didn't know anything about it... best value ever. I would pay ten times that amount for BG2.

And, uh, :oops:... Ice Age on GBA. I love that game, and I clocked it.

KOTOR

Burnout 2

Crackdown

Guitar Hero

Thats all i can think of right now

Final Fantasy VIII.

I was 10.

I didn't know what to expect.

I got a masterpiece.

And I would do anything to go back and do it all over again.

• Metroid Prime - At the time that pre-ordered it, I think the only Metroid game that I actually owned was 2 (although I had played a bit of Super Metroid, years earlier).
• Call of Juarez - Sort of an impulse buy, here. Was suprisingly great, and tragically underrated (but I can agree with many of the docked marks).
• Ghost Master - I hadn't heard of the game, but the concept sounded interesting, and it turned out to be a brilliant game. More people should play this!
• Killer7 - I knew it would be a 'mature shooter', but I had no idea that it would kick so much arse!
• Guild Wars - Honestly, I only bought t because it was half-price, and had no monthly fees. Two years later, I'm still playing it regularly.
• Silent Storm - It was $5, how could I go wrong? I now think of it as one of the best squad-based strategy games ever.

Halo (Xbox)
KOTOR (Xbox)
SOTC (PS2)
MGS (PS1)
Crimon Skies (Xbox)
Michael Jacksons Moonwalker (Gen)
Tony Hawk - Forget which game (PS2)
Fable (Xbox)
Tomb Raider (Sat)
Silent Hill 2

Grand Theft Auto III.

Viva Pinata

Metriod Prime

Psychonauts

Crackdown

Cubivore

Hat_Damage

smashbros melee

lol your sig is funny