Games that lived up to their hype.
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I can say a game that DOES NOT live up to the hype I have to personally say Demon's Souls. I recently picked it up expecting some overly hard game that just didn't relent and cause me to rage and throw a controller across the room. So far its pretty easy and a mediocre game AT BEST. I do like a good RPG game but seriously if that is the best game that has come out of the year 2009 I have great fear of the future of gaming.
Team Fortress 2: I was late to the party, but I've heard how hyped it was. It deserved every bit of it. over 500 hours clocked. bought it last Summer.
Batman Arkham Asylum: Everyone was pissing themselves with glee over this. I thought it would suck. "wait, so Batman is trapped in ARKHAM? HOW FUCKING STUPID IS HE? HE'S TRAPPED... IN A JAIL. WUT.". Thankfully, I was 100% WRONG. GOTY 2009.
Red Dead Redemption: It wasn't EVERYWHERE (not like Portal 2, which I can't WAIT to play, or Batman), but I was still hyped as hell. One of the few games as of late to recieve an actual emotional response from me. It was fun, it was adventurous, it was touching, it was profound, it was BEAUTIFUL. GOTY 2010 and somewhere in my top 10 games of all time.
Pokemon Black and White: I was excited for this. Lots of people were. It wasn't until about a week till release that I realised, "holy fuck. I'm about to play a NEW POKEMON GAME.". THAT'S when the excitement kicked in. The week leading up to launch was pure Poke-mania. It was the 90's again. POKEMON. FUCKING. EVERYWHERE. I was actually somewhat suprised, it EXCEEDED my expectations. It's easily the best since G/S/C (or HG/SS). Great story and I was suprised how much I liked most of the new Pokemon. Great game. Easily lands in the top 10 of 2011 so far.
That's all I can think of atm, hopefully Portal 2, L.A. Noire, and Batman Arkham City will be added to this list in due time.
Batman Arkham Asylum: Everyone was pissing themselves with glee over this. I thought it would suck. "wait, so Batman is trapped in ARKHAM? HOW FUCKING STUPID IS HE? HE'S TRAPPED... IN A JAIL. WUT.". Thankfully, I was 100% WRONG. GOTY 2009.
Red Dead Redemption: It wasn't EVERYWHERE (not like Portal 2, which I can't WAIT to play, or Batman), but I was still hyped as hell. One of the few games as of late to recieve an actual emotional response from me. It was fun, it was adventurous, it was touching, it was profound, it was BEAUTIFUL. GOTY 2010 and somewhere in my top 10 games of all time.
Pokemon Black and White: I was excited for this. Lots of people were. It wasn't until about a week till release that I realised, "holy fuck. I'm about to play a NEW POKEMON GAME.". THAT'S when the excitement kicked in. The week leading up to launch was pure Poke-mania. It was the 90's again. POKEMON. FUCKING. EVERYWHERE. I was actually somewhat suprised, it EXCEEDED my expectations. It's easily the best since G/S/C (or HG/SS). Great story and I was suprised how much I liked most of the new Pokemon. Great game. Easily lands in the top 10 of 2011 so far.
That's all I can think of atm, hopefully Portal 2, L.A. Noire, and Batman Arkham City will be added to this list in due time.
Oblivion. I absolutely love it compared to Morrowind. I'm still playing through it now. I have yet to actually finish the main quest, I've been working on side quests and guild quests (I'm the Gray Fox, Archmage of the Mages Guild, Listener of the Dark Brotherhood, Master of the Fighters Guild, and Grand Champion of the Arena 
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I totally agree with this. Dead Space 2 gave us more weapons and necromorphs and was able to give Issac a voice and a personality without ruining him as the main character. Personally I love the way GLaDOS is developed further in Portal 2 and how you are able to look at her in a different light by the end of the game.ZeroG131 said:
Fallout: New Vegas. - It brought a character back from the original series...and didn't kill him!
Isaac knows he's the only one who can destroy the Marker and he even says "I'm not running an more." Dead Space 2 is all about Isaac using everything he learned from the first game to fight back and stop Aegis 7 from happening all over again, especially because he's at the center of it all.VikingSteve said:
Both Dead Space 1 + 2 are about Isaac's struggles, so not that much has changed.
There's plenty of running away (like at the beginning) and escaping is definitely on Isaac's list. It's just not at the top of the list. Trust me, Dead Space will never 'try' to be survival horror in the same way Resident Evil does and ends up being an action game instead. By then you may as well leave the series to starve in the sewers.VikingSteve said:
