Odd Selling Points

[Daymo]

This about games you were on the fence about buying but a an odd thing pushed you over the line to buy it.

For me it was civ 4, the series had always interested me and I saw it in a store for $25 a few years back, I was going to just leave it but read the back and found it was narrated by Lenoard Nimoy, this was the last little bit I need to decide I was going to buy it. I ended up loving the game and wonder why I had to have that sell it for me.

 

[Rawne1980]

Saints Row 3.

I'd been looking at it for a while and then saw a clip.

3 words....

Burt fucking Reynolds.

I was instantly sold on that game.

 

[distortedreality]

The Witcher - have sex with everything with a vagina, collect cards that signify your conquests.

I bought it for the gameplay and story though. Promise.

 

[Squidbulb]

Painkiller. Shurikens and lightning, anyone?

 

[Gorilla Gunk]

If a game has a certain gun I might consider getting it.

I know, pathetic.

 

[Skoldpadda]

The wilfulness to tickle my dreaming organ! That grasp of Zeus, Master of Olympus, is purple after three o' clock.

 

[LiberalSquirrel]

Dragon Age 2.

I loved Dragon Age: Origins. I was unsure, however, whether a sequel would do anything for me... sometimes, with a game/novel/movie/whatever that I love, I don't want to see a continuation, because I think it ended perfectly as it was.

And then I saw all the rage flowing around here at its release... so I bought it.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

Not sure if I've ever had an odd selling points with video games.

But when I look at the back of a DVD or Blu-Ray and see these magical words...

"SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menus, Scene Selection"

... SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!

 

[Arkvoodle]

I grabbed Psychonauts after hearing someone mention you could set squirrels on fire.

 

[ElPatron]

Realism is usually a good selling point for me.

Painkiller. Shurikens and lightning, anyone?

There are only two things that could make this better...

If a game has a certain gun I might consider getting it.

I know, pathetic.

What is the gun, if I may ask?

 

[DVS Storm]

Painkiller. Shurikens and lightning, anyone?

Shurikens and lightning indeed. That sold me the game completely.

I also bought Saints Row 2 because of Yahtzee's review. When he said that I could put women's clothing on my male character and that there is a minigame where I drive around and shoot sewage all over cars and houses, I was sold.

 

[Dogstile]

http://scpcb.wordpress.com/ This wonderful game right here, while it costs nothing, I wasn't going to play.

Then I realised it had a blink meter. A fucking blink meter. God damn, worth it.

 

[bullet_sandw1ch]

in resident evil:ORC, you can be infected by a zombie. game actually wasnt as bad as everyone had said.

 

[Aris Khandr]

Saints Row 3.

I'd been looking at it for a while and then saw a clip.

3 words....

Burt fucking Reynolds.

I was instantly sold on that game.

I had a similar situation with Dragon Age. I love Bioware, but the marketing for the game seemed expressly designed to make me NOT want it. It was all about blood and gore and "dark fantasy", when the game wasn't about any of those. I was finally pushed over to the "get it" side when I heard that Tim Curry did voice acting for the game. I'll listen to anything voiced by Tim Curry. My dream is to one day run into a three-headed giant in a game voiced by Tim Curry, Patrick Stewart, and John Cleese.

 

[Esotera]

Nuking Indian elephants controlled by Gandhi in Civilisation III. I was pretty sold by everything else but that was the clincher.

 

[SuperNova221]

Tanks and carriers. Tanks as in, well, tanks, rolling around, shooting stuff. Carriers as in spaceship carriers. Capital or sub-capital ship that flies aroud with fighter defense usually, lot of active defense of just health and launches tons of smaller ships to go fight stuff. If a game has either of those I'll seriously consider buying it, unless I have a good reason not to.

 

[A Weakgeek]

Not sure if I've ever had an odd selling points with video games.

But when I look at the back of a DVD or Blu-Ray and see these magical words...

"SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menus, Scene Selection"

... SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!

Scene selection? On a DVD? What will they think of next?

 

[SwimmingRock]

I wasn't all that interested in Nier until I found out there's a text-based adventure section where you have to make your way out of a castle where people have been tortured and murdered. There's another text section later, but it doesn't have choices and is really just story. That ended up being my favourite part.

As for Deadly Premonition, I bought that after seeing some YouTube videos of the kinds of bizarre conversations you have in that game. Any game that just takes 10 minutes of time out of serious business to explain "the sinners sandwich" has piqued my interest.

 

[direkiller]

EvE online-one of the games selling points printed on there website was
Train skills even when you don't pay for the game
up until about a year ago

 

[Proverbial Jon]

I had little to no interest in Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning until I heard it was by a new up and coming development team. I bought it simply to support new devs with new IPs. Can't have all these sequels take over now can we?