Poll: Lower expectations = better game and experience?

[Vykrel]

maybe you just love games with "2" in the title

 

[killcheese]

The lower the expectations the less the game needs to live up to. If you think a game will be a great fun fest and become your new favorite, even if its pretty good and is not bad in any way to you it will suck. The same applies to a lot in life.

 

[Pearwood]

To some degree. No matter how bad you think it'll be you're not going to be pleasantly surprised by Daikatana but if you go into anything thinking it'll be perfect you'll be disappointed.

 

[StBishop]

I thought the first Dead Space was mediocre, so I had some low expectations for the sequel. I gave Dead Space 2 a rent. Now, it rivals both Mass Effect 2 and Saints Row 2 as my favorite game of all time. Is it because I wasn't expecting much? Had I expected it to be my new favorite game, would it have been?

What games have you had a better experience with because you didn't expect much?

Not to that extent.
But with ODST for example, I wasn't going to bother getting it because of how disappointing it was apparently.
I was curious, I wanted to play it, but I wasn't going to go out and grab it. Then I got it as a gift from my girlfriend and fucking loved it. It was at least as good as Halo 3 and to be honest, I think it was better.
Maybe it's my hatred of master chief, maybe it's the fact that the story of ODST makes sense on it's own (there was such a long time between games that I don't even vaguely remember the gist of Halo:CE and 2 was pretty hazy when I played it anyway, something about the Arbiter joining Chief to kill the flood?). I don't know, but I liked it better.

On the other hand, I was more excited for getting DA 2 than I was for losing my virginity, no joke, but I didn't feel let down. I don't think it's better than DA:O, I don't think it's worse. But I knew the circle-shit-dialogue-thing was coming and I knew about the unchangeable armour for party members so that didn't let me down as it did for others who were blind sided.

So I think that having low expectations for a lot of things (in my experience) stops them being shitty, and makes them passable or average.

I think it more dulls or amplifies a game/movie/book's awesomeness/shittiness rather than makes it awesome when it actually sucked or visa versa.

 

[Just_A_Glitch]

I go into damn near everything with low expectations. Sometimes it allows me to enjoy things a lot more (Season 6 of Supernatural, when I am a die hard believer it should have ended at season 5, is an example). And sometimes my expectations fit the product.

That's how I live my life. Expect nothing and be surprised. Depressing in a way, but it works.

It does to a certain extent.

I gave Dead Space 2 a rent. Now, it rivals both Mass Effect 2 and Saints Row 2 as my favorite game of all time.

Those two sentence are shocking; well, more the second then the first. Have you played the last level of Dead Space 2? That is just unfairly hard.

Last level as in the chase part from the regenerator or the end boss fight?

Either one, just spam Force Gun shots and stasis. I've never had much problem with it doing this method. I'm about to come up on it on my hard core playthrough, fully maxed out Force Gun. I've saved ALL my power nodes for that thing.