Great games you found by accident

[Mirroga]

I simply went to The Escapist just for Yahtzee. Now I was simply bored and looked at the reviews they made. Due to that, I discovered Frozen Synapse and Warp, games I thoroughly love. Also big thanks to Extra Punctuation for making me discover Binding of Isaac and Bastion.

 

[moostar]

Zeno clash, Onlive was having a sale a week ago, and they were giving this game out for free... best beat'em up game I've played so far.

 

[Dfskelleton]

Beneath a Steel Sky was given to me free with my GOG account.
Best $0.00 I've spent in my entire life.

Also, I did find an old survival horror game for the PS1 called "Martian Gothic: Unification", which I thought was going to be bad (so I could make fun of it), but while it turned out to be pleasant overall (if a bit disappointing towards the end), the thing I couldn't get over was how absolutely awesome Karne's voice actor was.
I had a theory that he was sent to Mars not because he was one of the best people for the job, but because they had to get him off of the Earth because whenever he spoke, everyone within hearing distance would go into a trance and start taking their clothes off.

 

[Autumnflame]

Vampire bloodlines. i was exceedingly surprised hoe good it was.

 

[unstabLized]

Ah man there's lots. In the PS2 era too. One would be Ace Comnbat 4:Shattered Skies. That game, along with Ace combat 5 and Zero, became one of my all time favourite games. You have no idea how much i love those games.

Another would be True Crime: NYC. My dad brought it home one day. I got so hooked, I finished the game,including doing all side missions,races,etc. at least 5 times.

Another was Midnight Club 2, which also got me hooked to the series, and got me to my beloved Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition. My cousin brought MC2 when he visited from Canada for vacation, and I got so hooked to it. Same thing happened with Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne.

Guitar Hero was another. Played it at my cousins back when GH2 was brand new. Promised myself to get a copy no matter what.

Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault and the very first Call of Duty. Both my dad got because back when I was little, he'd play these games with me. He liked war games best. We loved those games so much. Played it many times. I begged him one day that I didn't have school, for him to call in sick, and we just played games all day. Good memories.

 

[Lokoloshe]

Well pretty much every game I had before the advent of the internet. You know... look at box art, skim through the description on the back and finally hope you had enough of your allowance left to buy it.

The one I remember most fondly is one time I had to accompany my dad on a business trip to Brussels and while he was at his meetings I decided to walk around the aimlessly just checking out the sights. I noticed a small game store on the second story of a building and since I was just killing time, figured I'd check it out. I took my time looking around before getting to the used game bin. I see this black box with a big ship on it's cover that grabs my attention, after perusing the back I'm intrigued and taking advantage of the reduced price I take it with me.

That game was Homeworld. To this day it's my favorite space RTS.

 

[Dethenger]

The Saboteur

loved the game... pity this was the game that shut Pandemic down :*(

Another for The Saboteur. Can't even remember how I came across a trailer for it, only that I didn't know about it prior and wanted it immediately.

 

[Dr Jones]

I've always thought that god had some sort of greater plan for me and Metal Gear Solid (even though I don't believe in the presence of a god, I am willing to let him exist in this case, just to bring more rad-ness to my story).

Anyhow, Metal Gear Solid 1 was one of the first games I have ever played, back in the good o'l days of PS1. The farthest I made it was about after Meryl had taken Johnny's clothes, and you stare at her ass (and see Psycho Mantis, but who cares about that? MERYL'S ASS!)

Skip forward some years later, I'm playing PS2 and I have become quite the little gamer by this point. While on vacation (somewhere I have NO clue of where is) my family and I visit one of my father's old friends from school, who he hasn't seen for some time. Apparently this fellow is a PS2 gamer (not avid, just a few games a year) and set me to play Metal Gear Solid 2, to beat a boss (who he was so sure would be impossible for me, as he had been trying for ages. The boss was Fatman, by the way.) Within about 10 minutes, I had beaten the boss, and my father's friend gave the game to me 'cause he couldn't play it with the fact that he had a 7-8 year old kid help him.

Skip forward a few years, I'm a Metal Gear Solid fan, but have yet to play MGS3, even a year after it's release. Me and some of my friends go to this flea-market ages from my house, it was rather big and I just happened to find "Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater".

Fast forward a few years, I absolutely love MGS, and I just happen to see Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence in the library which I go to. I borrow it and play it again, as if it was MGS3 all over again (But with proper good 3rd person).

Fast forward to last year. I got myself a PS3, after I had sold my Xbox (because I wanted a change, and I played less and less console, so Live was being a burden on me). The first game I got was "Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots" (Along with a Blu-Ray edition of "I'm Not There", which surprised the clerk (apparently Bob and PS3 is a strange combi for her)). MGS4 was also the first store-bought MGS I've ever had (well except for Portable Ops, but I don't count that in here).

Fast forward to two days ago, I got m'self MGS HD collection and can now judge 2-3 fairly. I always did say that MGS2 was the best (because I played the everloving FUCK out of it), but I have to admit that looking at it now, MGS3 is just superior (especially with 3rd person, but even without it, its just a pleasurable game.

I love MGS.

 

[Beautiful End]

Off the top of my head, Dragon Age: Origins. My friend who works at GameStop literally brainwashed me to buy the game. I gotta admit; he made a pretty solid argument about why I'd like that game (I like RPGs, character development, different classes, not Elder Scrolls, etc).
I hated myself for falling for his sales pitch so I abandoned the game on my car's back seat for months until the day I had to clean up my car and I was forced to take it out.

By then, it had been a few months after I bought it so I couldn't even return it. It wasn't even that expensive, but still. So without any other choice left, I decided to give it a shot. And holy mother of Jeebuz, it is one of my favorite games ever! Seriously, I haven't finished it yet or anything but I absolutely love it! Now I trust my friend whenever he recommends me a game. I'm just grateful he introduced me to it.

Also, Final Fantasy VIII. I got it as a Xmas present when I was 14. The only RPG I had played at the time was Pokemon and I wasn't even entirely aware I was playing a RPG. So I named it "Pokemon for grown ups". I immediately fell in love with the fancy graphics and the music and that made me kept playing the game. Soon, I fell in love with the game and I played it nonstop. It was the only RPG ever that I've managed to collect everything and level up every single thing that can be leveled up in that game.
I doubt my parents even knew what they gave me but I'm grateful they did anyway.

 

[rhyno435]

Just Cause 2, a year and a half ago. I'd seen the Zero Punctuation review, but I never really looked into it. I saw it at an EB Games one day for $30. I thought, "Eh, this could be fun. I mean, Yahtzee liked it".

Got home, played it, kept playing it, kept playing it. To this day I still haven't done more than three missions. I just go around blowing stuff up and doing hilarious things and recording video clips (awesome feature).

I remember spending a full day playing that game, just at the airport finding different ways to crash planes on the runway. And this was about two weeks before I went on a plane for the first time in real life.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

2. Demonstone - Mind you, this wasn't as great as Guilty Gear...but its still great. It was SO by accident in fact, that I didn't bother looking for screenshots (We don't have an Internet Connection at the time)...the game isn't much, but for what I played it on (An old Pentium 4, with 384 MB RAM)...the game LOOKED great, and I enjoyed most of the psuedo RPG elements of the game.

While scrolling to the page I saw this and thought it said 'Deathstroke'. I now want nothing more than to play a game revolving around Deathstroke...like Punisher on the Xbox/PS2 only with melee combat (because swords). Sad now...and angry because Liefeld! WHY IS HE STILL GETTING WORK!?

...

sorry...Anyway, Otogi Myth of Demons. There were two in the series and as far as I remember they were exclusive to the Xbox. Otogi Myth of Demons centered around Raiko, who went through relatively large, completely destructible levels fighting against demons and, yokai on a quest to save trapped souls and bring Feudal Japan out of a dark age...I think...I haven't played the game in ages.

It basically combined the gameplay of Devil May Cry and, Onimusha with Zelda-sized boss fights but also added in things like platforming and destructible stages like a pagoda which could be torn the fuck up. If Otogi was allowed to have survived I'm sure an Xbox 360 version would have had fully destructible set pieces (the aforementioned pagoda couldn't actually crumble and fall for example). Wanna see a couple of the bosses you fight?

Recurring rival/antithesis boss guy

Electric Morpheel/centipede thing.

 

[BENZOOKA]

Crusader Kings II
Eufloria
Solar 2

 

[Terratina.]

Also Folklore for PS3. Remember that one? Travelling to the netherworld and battling souls of dead people. Also Ireland.

I just listed Folkore and Resonance of Fate on my christmas list for that year, which had many things: clothes, books, games, etc. My nan randomly chooses what she buys on the list and just so happened to choose to buy those two games.

I played them and enjoyed them very much.

[sub]If I keep going on, on these games and their greatness, I'll probably have to LP them at some stage....[/sub]

 

[metalslug10]

Bit.trip .... life changing game

 

[ex951753]

Disgaea for the psp. I came across it by accident and never played any games similar before and have easily sunk 100+ hours into it. Never seen a game with so much content to go through after you've "beaten" the main storyline and the humor have been pretty good and consistent throughout the entire gameplay.

 

[DJ_DEnM]

I found Nier while going through games to rent at my local Blockbuster. Needless to say it's in my Top 10. One of Squeenix's hidden gems.

 

[Avalanche91]

The Legend of Zelda

I know crazy. Wanted to borrow a friend's Mario Kart Double Dash for the Gamecube which had a golden bonus disc containing the Ocarina of Time. So that happened.

Fire Emblem I found due to emulator shenanigans

And Metal Gear Solid, Baten Kaitos, Persona 4 and Shadow of the Colossus I found out of boredom really.

 

[sagitel]

fable: the lost chapters. i was in a video game store and saw this game. the shopkeeper said he had no idea how this is but i got. i loved it back there and it was a really great game

 

[PrimitiveJudge]

For me I would have to say Dragon's Dogma. it was hard and fun (until everfall)

 

[putowtin]

Dragon Age: Origins.

A friend of mine forced it into my hands one day and I played it. Clocked over 200+ hours to this day... that is seriously tragic.

this! the amazing thing was I didn't realise it was a bioware game til' my third or fourth playthrough (I tend to walk-off and make a cuppa while games load!)