Boggelz said:
Just a discussion about games that you decided to try and either blew your expectations away, or left a bad taste in your mouth. So what game(s) surprised you this year?
For me I will say Bastion. I wasnt really all inclined to buying a small game because of a few cool art directions. But when i picked it up on a steam sale it became one of my top games of the year. Partly from the solid story element. Partly from the easy to use gameplay. But mostly im sure because of that suave narrator that makes you want to keep coming back to the game.
The single biggest was "Dragon Age 2" which was a huge turd compared to the first game, despite it's defenders. That was a disappointing surprised.
This closely followed by a lot of other RPG material. "Darkspore", "Dungeon Siege III", on the action-RPG front for example wound up being very underwhelming compared to what they could (and should) have been to name only two. Indeed this year seemed like a sort of major sweep for EA with tons of high quality titles all on the way... but almost every one of them kind of fell flat come their actual release.
This year the only game that wasn't kind of a disappointment was "Skyrim" and that's mostly "as expected", it's good, but didn't exceed my expectations in any way. They cut the corners that were expected, and really didn't deliver anything new and paticularly impressive that I didn't see coming.
Really, I think this year was kind of flat for games even if it shouldn't have been, unless of course your a shooter fanatic, and that means "Battlefield" and "Modern Warfare" pretty much carried the year for you. I am however not a shooter fan.
The closest thing to a surprise, break-out hit for me this year was probabkly "E.Y.E.: Divine Cybermancy", despite me not being a shooter fan.
eadly Premonition.Didn't know an awful lot about the game and only picked it up because it was pretty cheap new.Despite being poor on a technical level I had a surprising amount of fun with it
