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#1 ZzNashoO
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For me: Kung Fu Panda and Lego Indiana Jones

Came with my xbox and I ended up beating both of them....

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I second Kung Fu Panda. Wasn't a very great game, but it wasn't bad either.

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#3 NiKva
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Halo Reach. Came with my Xbox, but holy crap I finished the entire campaign :o
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Yugi-Oh 5Ds: Decade Duels. A friend convinced me to buy it, and I actually had fun playing it, despite not having played the card game in like 4-5 years.
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#5 El_Zo1212o
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Mass Effect- I know it sounds weird, but I was never into the whole scifi shooter thing(I like ballistic ammunition). But I promised my brother that is MP was confirmed for ME3 that I'd play through the whole series. I never did finish ME2, but Mass Effect was by far the most powerful RPG I'd played in years.

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#6 Xero1246
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portal 2>>>> i was always sceptical about it>>>until i got to play it and loved the whole concept behind it

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#7 EmpCom
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The sabateur,
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I guess I'll say Borderlands. I really didn't see what was so great about it so I didn't pick it up when it came out even though all my friends did. It was probably a year later when I found it for $20. At first it didn't do much for me, but after leveling up and finding some pretty cool weapons, I started to enjoy it. I still don't think the story is anything great but still had some fun with it.
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#9 Witchsight
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Just Cause 2. Seemed like any other sandboxy free-roam type game. It was... It was also the best one. :o
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Prince of Persia Forgotten Sands
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#11 driftingsilvia
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Battlefield 3

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#12 speedfreak48t5p
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Skyrim.

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Oblivion. I tried Morrowind and couldn't get into it. The reviews were so positive for Oblivion I gave it a shot and loved it.
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LEGO Star Wars Complete Saga - got roped into playing it by my kids, and we all enjoyed it immensely.

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#15 tomthedude
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Mirror's Edge. I played through the demo a few times and really liked it. Didn't really plan on buying the full game until I saw it in a shop on the cheap, it was such a blast and I felt very satisfied after completing it.

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#16 Microsoft1234
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Dark souls, I went like a 5-6 month stretch without going on any video game sites, and recently got back into gamespot. Had no idea it got high 9's. But my friend was tellign me how good it was, so i picked up a used copy and boy that was one of the better purchases I've made. I'm not even done yet.
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WET: Bought it for 6 bucks on amazon, just for the price. It was fun.

Battlefield 3: Bought it last week, just to see how it was (even though I hated B2:BC) and I'm having tons of fun. I fully understand the compalints against MW3 now...

Oblivion and Alan Wake: bought them to see what all the fuzz was about... fell in love with both (AW is one of the best games this gen).

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#18 El_Zo1212o
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WET: Bought it for 6 bucks on amazon, just for the price. It was fun.

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Excellent EXCELLENT game. I still hold it has the best soundtrack ever compiled for a videogame. I actually went out and bought an album from one of the bands on the soundtrack, I liked it so well.
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Black Ops.
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Metro 2033 picked it up cheap and enjoyed every second of it a very underrated game in my opinion.
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#21 Achronos100
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I will go one step further... BioShock. Heard it was good from friends but remained disinterested. Never saw any real footage or gameplay until around 2010 when I was bored on YouTube. Thought I would give it a shot. Played it, found its story and setting to be absolutely phenomenal. It is not only a game I enjoyed, it is now my favourite game of all time. The story, philosophy behind it, everything - truly intriguing. Purchased the Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged soon after. The former is now my favourite book. Great stuff.
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#22 BFKZ
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Splatter House, ended up with 1000g xD
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Fallout: New Vegas. I hated Fallout 3 and had no plans to even try New Vegas, but all my friends where praising it and so eventually I got around to buying it and I loved it.
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Magic the Gathering for XBLA.
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#25 theru8543
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HHHHMMMM.....it took my a while to give in to get Fable 3 and when i did it was AWESOME

also.....one game i got that i never intended to, and wouldve have unless it was on the cheap was Alan Wake....GREAT GAME

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Comic Jumper for XBLA.
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#27 CarnageV1
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Enslaved: Odyssey to the West. I had never heard of this game, and seen a demo of it on Xbox Live. For no reason at all I decided to download it and give it a shot, and within two minutes of starting I was blown away. Some serious blockbuster moments in the first level alone. I went to Gamestop the next day, and they just happened to be having a sell on Enslaved (due to the game not selling so well.), brand new copies, for $15. I grabbed it immediately and never looked back. By the way, the full game is incredible. If you can, check it out.
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#28 blamespace
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Red Dead Redemption. I never really followed the development of the game and I recall not liking a game called Red Dead Revolver. At the time, I thought Redemption would be similarly terrible. Oh, how wrong I was. I fell in love with the game when a friend let me borrow it. A great experience
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#29 firefox59
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Splatter House, ended up with 1000g xDBFKZ
Same here. I only rented it cause the game I wanted was out. Ending up liking it quite a bit and perfecting it.
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Metro 2033 and The Darkness

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Bioshock. didnt care for it when it came out. a while later, i found it at gamestop for pretty cheap. figured what the hell? played for like 45 minutes and couldnt get into it. couple months later was bored and decided to try it out again. loved it.

Skyrim. my nieces dad was living with us for a while. he had bought skyrim. and i watched him play it, it looked boring and uninteresting to me. he then made me play the first 20 or so minuntes of the game. basically try it out before i judged it. i then fell in love with the game. it became my fourth game ive gotten all cheevos on. when he moved out he let me keep the game:D

Dead Island. similar to bioshock. i played it for about 45 minutes and lost interest. months later i tried it out again and loved it. the atmosphere is great.

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#32 bphan
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Enslaved. The story was really good in my opinion. I enjoyed it.

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#33 The_Joker1721
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Cracckdown. I thought the game was gonna be really dumb game who was trying to get a quick buck by marketing itself as sort of a GTA game. Boy did I feel dumb when I played it and enjoyed it immensely!
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#34 scotty992
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MW3 was gonna skip it but tried it round a friends and really digged it and enjoyed the story a lot.
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[QUOTE="_TheJoker_"]

WET: Bought it for 6 bucks on amazon, just for the price. It was fun.

El_Zo1212o

Excellent EXCELLENT game. I still hold it has the best soundtrack ever compiled for a videogame. I actually went out and bought an album from one of the bands on the soundtrack, I liked it so well.

After reading this comment, I went and watched some gameplay footage on Youtube and it looks AWESOME. I am getting this at Gamestop tomorrow when I get paid. And also Gamestop has a buy 2 get 1 free deal so maybe I'll grab a couple others :)

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Bioshock 2. Didn't like the first one. Great story but simply boring to play, in my opinion. Found the sequel online for $10 and it ended up beign one of my favorite shooters of all time. I don't understand the hate it gets, the story may not be quite up to par with the original, but it's still good, and everything else was literally MILES better. Excellent game.

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#37 Flubbbs
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Dark Souls. i had no idea what this game was about and no intention of even playing it, but i picked it up a week after release and it ended up being my GOTY.

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#38 ThatGerman225
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Borderlands
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I thought Divinity 2 Dragon Knight Saga was underrated. Never played the first Ego Draconis release so I don't know what issues it had but DKS was solid.

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#40 laliberte11
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lost planet 2...another one is a game i preordered (wasnt that great vut it wasnt THAT bad) brink

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#41 Microsoft1234
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couple more I'd like to mention-settlers of catan on XBLA-I bought it by accident. Now still play it today. Fun board game. also silent hill homecoming: Mom got it for me for christmas one year (i was like lol wut? i'd never mentioned liking those games). Look, I'm not gonna say it's better than the earlier silent hills-but I really enjoyed it.
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#42 leathaltaco
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if you were asking what was a game that i thought i was going to enjoy it but didn't it would be borderlands, although i haven't played it that much maybe like 3 hours total. I enjoyed it a little but just lost interest
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Borderlands. It was a total impulse buy, thinking it would pass the time between the bigger games, but it ended up being one of my favorites this gen.

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WET: Bought it for 6 bucks on amazon, just for the price. It was fun.

Battlefield 3: Bought it last week, just to see how it was (even though I hated B2:BC) and I'm having tons of fun. I fully understand the compalints against MW3 now...

Oblivion and Alan Wake: bought them to see what all the fuzz was about... fell in love with both (AW is one of the best games this gen).

_TheJoker_
I'd have to agree on Alan Wake. I was so surprised.
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#45 EternalStutter
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I'd have to say Dynasty Gundam and Alice Madness returns.

Two games I thought I would NEVER play lol but I played the crappie outnof both lol

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#46 Xerialstraz
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hmm I'd say 'Full Auto' bought for me by a friend yeaars ago for a bday.. has bargain basement written alll over it really, but i actually liked it .. for a while anyway.

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I guess I'll say Borderlands. I really didn't see what was so great about it so I didn't pick it up when it came out even though all my friends did. It was probably a year later when I found it for $20. At first it didn't do much for me, but after leveling up and finding some pretty cool weapons, I started to enjoy it. I still don't think the story is anything great but still had some fun with it.BiThBhE0
Borderlands is one of my favorite current gen games and was my 2nd favorite game of 2009
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if you were asking what was a game that i thought i was going to enjoy it but didn't it would be borderlands, although i haven't played it that much maybe like 3 hours total. I enjoyed it a little but just lost interestleathaltaco
Wow. You have to stick with it. Trust me. The star of the game is the creative weaponry, which takes quite a while to start appearing with abundance, but if you had a higher attention span and kept with Borderlands, you would likely love it
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[QUOTE="_TheJoker_"]

WET: Bought it for 6 bucks on amazon, just for the price. It was fun.

Battlefield 3: Bought it last week, just to see how it was (even though I hated B2:BC) and I'm having tons of fun. I fully understand the compalints against MW3 now...

Oblivion and Alan Wake: bought them to see what all the fuzz was about... fell in love with both (AW is one of the best games this gen).

MikeLirette
I'd have to agree on Alan Wake. I was so surprised.

Why were people so surprised about Alan Wake. I saw the potential in it immediately and it was the reason I bought an xbox360
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#50 wsandoval07
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Enslaved: Odyssey to the West. I had never heard of this game, and seen a demo of it on Xbox Live. For no reason at all I decided to download it and give it a shot, and within two minutes of starting I was blown away. Some serious blockbuster moments in the first level alone. I went to Gamestop the next day, and they just happened to be having a sell on Enslaved (due to the game not selling so well.), brand new copies, for $15. I grabbed it immediately and never looked back. By the way, the full game is incredible. If you can, check it out.CarnageV1

That is the exact same story i went through with Enslaved :)