Thirith on 22/12/2008 at 08:14
Have you ever tried out games that you expected not to like particularly - you gave them a spin because of the graphics or because you wanted to see what all the fuss was about, and suddenly you realise that you're getting much more of a kick out of them than you usually do when it comes to that genre, for instance?
I had that with Colin McRae DIRT (I'm enjoying it much, much more than, say, Bioshock, although I'm not really into racing games whereas I tend to like story-heavy FPSes) and with God of War on the PS2 (I got the latter for £5 so I thought it's worth giving it a try, even though I usually find brawlers boring and "Ooh, look how much blood and gore there is!" games doubly so - but apart from the Hades bit the game was almost perfectly designed within its genre, to the point where I enjoyed it a lot despite myself).
kidmystik101 on 22/12/2008 at 08:26
Spore. I went into it thinking "Eh, I'll probably play it for an hour or so", checked the clock when I stopped playing and it was 2:30am the next morning.
Koki on 22/12/2008 at 08:53
Cave Story. Considering I'm not a platformer guy at all(Never cared one bit for Mario, Castlevania, Metroid and whatnots) and it's japanese.
Tonamel on 22/12/2008 at 08:54
Forza Motorsport.
When it comes to racing games, I'm really more of a Trackmania/NFS:Most Wanted kind of guy. I'd never really liked a realistic racer, and I've always hated courses with laps. So a game that was exactly those two things didn't seem like it'd catch my attention. But, I got it for free, so I thought I'd play it once since I was bored, and I played it near-compulsively for the next several weeks.
Don't really know why, and I haven't touched it since. Just a weird blip on the gaming radar, I guess.
David on 22/12/2008 at 09:02
Forza for me too and I'm also the same kind of NFS:MW/Trackmania type too.
Fallout 3 is another one. I'm not a massive fan of RPGs, but it turns out I am a fan of FPS RPG-lites. I bought it on the strength of a couple of reviews I had read, but was only expecting it to be 'ok'. In the UK games are released on a Friday, so I sat down to play it that evening and just never went to sleep.
Oops.
Aja on 22/12/2008 at 09:24
Mirror's Edge. I was expecting mediocre at best, but the demo was exhilarating, and the full game was even better.
june gloom on 22/12/2008 at 09:35
Dead Space. Started off feeling like a 3rd person Doom 3 and turned into one of my favourite new games.
Talgor on 22/12/2008 at 09:59
The Splinter Cell series. I tried Rainbox Six and didn't like it, so I bundled the whole Tom Clancy games all under the label "sucks" in my mind. I think I even tried some demo of Pandora Tomorrow at some point and hated it. Then last year I was hunting for something new to play and spotted the original SC in a bargain bin for a fiver and thought what the hell, let's give it another try. Burned straight through it, ran off into various stores looking for the next two in bargain bins, bought and burned through them too. ;)
Sometimes it just takes a second try to get into a game. ;)
Thirith on 22/12/2008 at 10:11
Quote Posted by Talgor
Sometimes it just takes a second try to get into a game. ;)
Very true. Cases in point for me:
Operation Flashpoint (only clicked the third or fourth time I played the demo) and
Thief (ditto - I had to learn the necessary patience to wait in the shadows and bide my time). Also
GTA: San Andreas - the mission sequence is the game's big flaw IMO and the ghetto warfare early on before it's off to San Fierro is grating. On my first playthrough I got frustrated and stopped playing. It took an effort to go on, but once I was in San Fierro the game became my favourite GTA game to date. (
Vice City is charming but I find the city and especially the flat terrain somewhat boring...)
mothra on 22/12/2008 at 11:12
the witcher & left4dead surprised me in a positive way, didn't think i'm gonna like them THAT much :)
