when was the last time a game genuinely surprised you?
>MH4U
>Heres a stupid story you don't care about
WHY JUST WHY
The ending to Burial at Sea ep.2. Kind of expected it to tie in with the first game, but not the way it turned out.
>>341748175
DOOM
It was actually good
When I first played Dark Souls, it's almost my dream RPG, it only needs mounts and a bigger overworld and it would be perfect for me.
playing The New Order and hard Reset.
Felt good to move fast with overpowered weapons obliterating mufugas
>>341748175
The big combat change that turned the new South Park game into an SRPG was a nice surprise
>>341748501
This desu.
The new zelda and d44m
>>341748175
>playing shenmue 2 on xbox
>walk into a bar wanting to play some darts
>this nigger playing already
>challenge him
>betting increments are pretty small
>he has this dopey ass music theme (every darts player has a theme)
>wipe the floor with him
>do this 3 or 4 more times
>niggah cant aim for shit
>play again
>suddenly betting increments are 100 x bigger
>whatever i'll take him for all he's got, maximum bet
>suddenly his theme is different, is this fucking boss music
>he throws consistent bulls eyes
>takes all my fucking money
>>341748175
Okami, It tricked me like 3 times into thinking I was going to fight the final boss but it turned out that the dude I fought wasnt the final boss.
the new order
sadly i didn't enjoy the old blood anywhere near as much
>>341748175
blood & wine took an unexpected turn of events.
>MGSV
>Start of Chapter 2
I think it was Alice: madness return
yeah, it's been a while since ive been surprised
P3P
Surprised how easy Yuko is.
I'm a hollow shell of a human being. Video games cannot surprise me.
>>341751791
K-KEEP YOUR HANDS AWAY FROM YUKO-CHAN
>>341748175
Undertale. When the flower called me out for resetting the game after killing Toriel.
>>341752032
How can I not when she's so easy?
I bet tons of guys have had their hands allllllll over her.
>>341748501
This so much
The alpha/beta was complete garbage that scared me off but the campaign is godtier stuff; it's what I wanted Wolfenstein to be but without the retarded 'serious' story.
>humanity has been using hell as a power source
That's just self parody and I fucking love it
i was floored by how solid doom ended up being. that game fucking gave me back enthusiasm for vidya
Xenoblade X
I was surprised to see how mediocre doom4 was after hearing so many people suck its dick like it's the best game ever made.
>>341748175
I'm not sure if this is the type of surprise you mean but:
Undertale surprised me with how fun it was
At first
Then Undertale surprised me again with how much it nosedived right at the end after Asgore
>>341748504
That sounds awful. Never become a game dev.
Battleborn by Gearbox, the developers of Borderlands.
>>341752505
^this, bought it two days ago and I can't stop playing. And with playing I mean running around the gigantic map and looking at monsters.
>>341748175
Battlefleet Gothic Armada.
I thought those convoy escort missions were L I T E R A L L Y impossible.
Then just balls hard.
Then... Whoa, I actually have around 50/50 w/l...
Can't remember the last time a game made me pause and realize I was retarded and had needed to git gud (and had kinda done so).
>>341751325
This. For a bad surprise anyway.
Most recently though, Overwatch. I was expecting it to be OK. Hadnt seen any gameplay before I bought it and I'm pretty sure I have an addiction now. I cant stop playing.
Senran Kagura 2. I treat that series as a guilty pleasure but it was legitimately decent.
>>341748175
Sleeping Dogs recently. Thought it was going to be a shitty GTA clone, but it turned out to be a cool chinese mafia movie kung fu fest.
And jumping between cars is so damn satisfying
>>341752982
>Overwatch
Fuck off
>>341752679
Clever.
I was really surprised by Bethesda's announcement for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Remastered at E3! I've already pre-ordered my copy, you guys should too!
F2P
Nexon
Team based
FPS
One of my favourite games
>>341748501
Same. I love happy surprises like that.
>>341753273
I know this is shit tier bait, but I love Toddposting
>>341753243
>YOU HAVE TO LIKE ONLY THE THINGS THAT I LIKE
Ikaruga gameplay, many, many years ago.
>>341750203
That's incredible.
>>341753742
Overwatch is for waifu fags
Kirby's Return to Dreamland and Kirby: Triple Deluxe being original and fun. Like more fun than I expected a Kirby game. Planet Robobot was good too.
>>341753742
You are the lowest common denominator, you can kindly fuck off
That Call of Duty Infinite Warfare gameplay shit from the Sony conference
I was talking with my friends and we were like "Oh is this Star Citizen or some shit, what is this" and when the logo came up everyone was absolutely shocked
>>341750203
COAXED INTO A SNAFU
>>341753498
Toddposting is fucking great.
>>341748175
The Witcher 3.
I didn't think there were any developers who cared about making a great world anymore.
>>341752679
Yeah I'm surprised people even bought that game.
Especially with the heavy marketing and advertising of Overwatch
>>341754121
Oh yeah, E3 just happened. Gotta change my answer to RE7 then for similar reasons. Once that logo popped up I just about did a double take.
>Played iji for the first time 2 weeks ago
>loved the shit out of it
It was amazing. It was like I got to play cave story for the first time again.
>>341750203
LITERALLY HUSTLED.
Pretty fucking funny but the giant betting increase should have tipped you off.
>>341748175
>vietcong
except arma series i don't feel like playing anything elseGR: wildlands looks cool tho
>>341754384
That would definitely take second place for me
>>341751219
I haven't played Blood and Wine yet but I wanted to take some time to thank you for not spoiling it.
I appreciated it.
>>341752505
>>341752787
This is a great game but I lost a TON of interest once Skells were introduced.
They pretty much completely obsolete all the classes you were earning on the ground, they're pretty much required for giant enemies, and they're not as fun to play with.
Alien Isolation
After Colonial Marines being a complete bag of arse it was nice seeing a good Alien game again.
Underrail, I hate Fallout 1 and Stalker but this game is fucking perfect. Bashing people with an impossibly heavy sledgehammer or making a legendary arena champion shit his pants before getting mauled by his two magic clones is gold.
>>341754617
HL's technology is fucking amazing.
>>341754548
>>341748501
Nah, it was awful, and I regret thepreorder
>retarded "combat arenas", aka very obvious timesaving devices by lazy developers
>brutal finishers, aka "get locked into a 2 second animation every 10 seconds if you want health and ammo, because our placements are awful"
>SHIT level designer with only UAC assets, no modding, no custom content, WE'LL SELL IT TO YOU AS DLC!
>Shit multiplayer by the people who worked on CoD Ghosts
>underwhelming music
>everything is browny-grey
Did not enjoy the game at all, bad game by neo-id. Hopefully new quake is better, but this time I'm gonna wait before fucking giving them a single cent.
>>341754482
>>341754617
That's really cute.
>>341754074
Yes because just telling people to fuck off is totally talking about video games. Why do you care that other people like things?
>>341755052
Please nigger. Like I didn't see that coming.
There;'s always a fag like you who feels it's his duty to ruin nice things.
>>341755250
nigger it's the other dlc and it's not even a spoiler
>>341753285
This.
Shame they're lazy as absolute fuck at updating it, I genuinely think it's one of the best multiplayer shooters ever made.
>>341753056
This. There's just something cool about it.
I emualted astro boy omega factor a few months agk and was blown away by it, what a masterpiece. I haven't played anything released this year, as far as current gen I just have PC and a 3ds.
>>341753285
What game?
MGSV
I was surprised how fucking shit it was
also Dark Souls, hated it when I first played it because >artificial difficulty but once I got my head down and grinded out some levels I had a blast
shoutout to /dsg/ for the help
Hearing "Open your eyes." in the BotW trailer on Tuesday.
That was the most delightful surprise I've experienced in a long while.
>>341756137
where do you find those?
>>341748175
FF8, it's not shit like everyone says.
The last game to do that was Undertale but since that's been posted already I'm gonna say whenThe Kreuzbasar is attackedin Shadowrun Dragonfall.
>>341755061
>2 second animation
you didnt even play it
Witcher 3 heart of stone, I was not ready for the feels.
>>341756137
>The fire at the beginning of Bioshock
I thought I was in a cut-scene.
>>341755061In another world u were aborted
>>341754424
How'd you like that QTE?
>>341756408
Don't tell me what I did and didn't play, you lying Bethshill cunt. It IS two seconds. Proof:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SGiI0_AA4o
Count the seconds at the bottom of the screen.
All this HL1 stuff is totally cool.
>>341752194
I played the demo and I was delighted at the fact that they incorporated "rip and tear" into the dialogue.
been having surprisingly a lot of fun with Kirby and the Rainbow Curse the last few days glad it went on sale
>>341757013
>don't insult the game I spent money on!!
Unlike you, my buyer's remorse doesn't manifest as trying to justify my purchase.
Dark Souls
The lack of direction given at the beginning of the game was liberating and scary at the same time
>>341751325
>MGSV
>assume after Skully that would be it
>mfw Chapter 2
>>341757126
So you watched it on youtube instead of playing. Kay.
>>341757621
I played and bought the game. And hated it.
>Anybody who didn't like Doom is a liar! NOBODY could dislike it!
This is you right now. This is how far in denial you are.
so the guy(s) doing all the special AI of half life were just doing it as a pet project right? I love little details and everything, but these things are almost useless and never really seen in normal gameplay. it had to have been done by some bored programmer who was put on hold or something during development.
>>341756137
>they run away
>reminder that vortigaunts were alien slaves under the Combine rule and they were basically forced to fight and kill the one they know they would set them free.
I felt sorry for killing them.
Now the alien grunts, fuck those assholes pumped up on alien steroids.
>>341757875
In retrospect I can remember chasing down and murdering a lot of vortigaunts.
I was too much of a murderous loon to even consider why they were running.
>>341755754
They had 3 maps being tested for a few months now
>>341756115
Dirty Bomb
>always saw Ulduar as the raid I've always wanted to do but never did
>did it with a mate last night
Was blown away desu, it's a fucking amazing place.
Arcade Gannon was gay. He didn't walk up to me, force dialogue, and say "Hey I'm gay Arcade, I'm a gay homosexual." I didn't know a video game character could be gay and not let you know immediately.
And most surprising of all him being gay didn't define his personality or motivations. It was almost like he was a believable character, and not put in to fulfill a quota.
Undertale
>>341759031
Ulduar and Karazhan are the best raids in WoW by far
It's a shame blizzard won't make any more like those because they hate us
>>341748175
Never played Nier but this Automata looks fucking good enough to spark interest in my dead little soul.
>>341759385
I dislike many of Blizzard's decisions however I feel like it's the fault of people having no attention span and wanting to be constantly rewarded for doing fuck all.
>>341759161
>>341759161
this is the benefit of allowing developers to put minorities in their games of their own volition, rather than pressuring them to include them. Feels more realistic that way
>>341748175
New Doom, I didn't follow it or expect anything of it and it ended up being a fantastic game
D44M, it's great.
>>341759638
>D44M
>fantastic game
>>341759745
Yes
>>341759636
As a recovering agoraphobic seeing these SJWs claiming they have anxiety and to stop triggering them make me sick.
The only way you 'cure' anxiety is exposing yourself to 'triggers' until you get used to it.
>SmackDown!: Here Comes The Pain, on PS2
>decide to beat the season mode once again, but this time not with my custom character, but with Goldberg
>play for hours, make it to Royal Rumble
>win the Royal Rumble, get a title shot for the World Heavyweight Championship title at WrestleMania
>the title has no current owner, so I'll be fighting against a mystery opponent
>cutscene, Vince McMahon introduced my opponent, and it's my main custom character
>the very same character I've used to beat the game hundreds of times
>mfw
I won the title, and it was the greatest thing I had ever witnessed in a video game. I love these old wrasslin' games, they had full of surprises like this because the writing was not limited with voice actors and motion captures, so the games sometimes randomly generated scenarios like this.
>>341756759
He gets drunk when he runs?
>Doing some side quest in Deadly Premonition
>mfw staying out past midnight
>>341754617
>>341754678
>>341754482
sleep tight doggos
>>341748175
MGSV:TPP
6 years in development, 80 million dollars budget and Konami didn't even finish the game, they released is without last couple missions just like than without giving a single fuck.
>>341759813
no, it's shit
>>341748175
Bioshock or Dragon Age: Origins
>>341761953(you)
Here you go
>>341748501
I'm near the end of the game and it's begun crashing randomly to the point where I'm afraid to even play it until I figure out what's wrong.
It sucks when I can't trust a game to work properly, but it's fun as fuck.
>>341761742
>6 years in development, 80 million dollars budget and Kojima didn't even finish the game
FTFY
enjoy falling into that trap yet another time little lamb
A Ubisoft game that was actually good.
>>341748175
Zelda BotW and nier automata
>>341753285
FUCKING YES. THIS
>spend entire beating people up for lunch money
>mfw this part out of nowhere
A bit awkward but pretty damn cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fls9lqtCNxw
Murdered: Soul Suspect was pretty cool.
Way too short though.
>>341748501
Yeah this one.
I was expecting a mediocre shooter and it ended up being one of my favorites of the genre.
>>341762245
It's a bad game. Stop spamming the same response to OP, samefag.
>>341748335
Late reply, but with all the shit Nintendo Treehouse localizations are getting nowadays you really have to hand it to NoE for doing an excellent translation and interpretation job with MH4U. The dialogue can be really fun at times.
>>341748175
Kirby planet robobot was a nice surprise because after how shit this past year has been with Nintendo I found myself having some actual fun. Also Zelda U did not disappoint,graphix whores can't turn me off from the game. Not every game has to reach PC quality graphics to be good. Also TECHNOLOGY
>>341748175
Ori and the Blind Forrest.
Minervas den ending. It is Just fucking good. Hell, all of It. It is one of the Best dlc ever made
I've been replaying Fallout 1 and the confrontation with the Master, having enough proof to talk him down for the first time, was one of the most memorable experiences in my life.
>>341748175
Dark Souls 3's screaming corpses in Irithyl Dungeon.
>>341764143
k
>>341765019
good
>>341765221
Yeah, the new DOOM is good.
>>341765284
no, it isn't
>>341756865
This. I was so impressed by the whole game, but the first 20 minutes blew my mind.
Where are the fucking games like that
>>341765970
thread/
>>341765970
it is
Nuclear Throne.
I've always hated rogue like games, until I got this game.
>>341766381
no
see >>341755061 as to why
it's a bad game and a bad Doom game
>>341763219
You didn't play either of those.
>>341762328
you don't know what FTFY means do you.
>>341750203
holy shit that's hilarious, you got hustled by an AI.
>>341767238
that guy clearly didn't play it though
>>341767878
but I clearly did
>anyone who doesn't like d44m didn't play it
this is what you sound like
>>341753243
Can you be any more of a bitch boy follower?
>people on /v/ shit talk overwatch so I will too
This goes for all of you hive mind faggots here that say any game made by a big developer is shit. If people have fun playing a game, it is a good game. I don't know where this ass-backward idea came from that fun is somehow not a worthy trait to praise a game for, but whoever thought of that can fuck off.
>be a big Lovecraft fan
>play Bloodborne
>expect references to C'thulhu and the usual suspects you see in any "Lovecraftian" piece of media
>mfw I get thrown into the Nightmare Frontier and it turns into the fucking Dream Cycle
>>341767995
the only glory kill animation that is around 2 seconds is the chainsaw and you don't get locked into in every 10 seconds because the ammo for it is limited, but you didn't know that since you haven't actually played the game and just looked at the animation compilation
and the music is great all around
>SM64
>entering through the left half of the double door of the castle makes Mario spawn on the left inside
>same goes for the right door
>fog that goes away after the first star in Jolly Roger Bay
>the penguin calls you out for cheating on the slide
>the different speeds in Tick Tock Clock
>jumping into the painting at different heights affects the water level in Wet Dry world
Never noticed for all these years. Nothing really major but I was impressed.
>>341748501
Christ, yeah. The marketing team deserves to be fired if they haven't been already.
>>341768428
no you neckbeard the non-chainsaw animations are what i was talking about, the ones that don't require fuel, they take 2 seconds each and watch the video again if you don't believe me
the music is underwhelming
>>341768428
Not him but the music was good. Not great, but good.
Same guy as Wolfenstein TNO, right?That game also had a solid soundtrack but it gets way too much praise
>>341768692
your timer is broken, my man
>>341768921
it's working perfectly fine
>>341768372
>big Lovecraft fan
>C'thulhu
>never a fan of FPS games, prefer RPGs and the like
>friend brings over Black Ops II, it has split-screen
>we play online, hardcore mode because a lot of the players have mics in there
>I murder fuckers with the knife and SCAR-H
>all the children screaming at the top of their lungs about their k/d getting fucked by a newbie with a knife/scar and his friend with a FAL/knife calling us cheaters
I jacked off so hard I gave my dick literal friction burn. Don't play those games for the story, play them for the kids and their salty tears and impotent rage because hardcore mode is a great equalizer.
Okami
"Oh, it isn't over?" x 3
>>341748175
danganrompa 2, i was lucky to play it blind
bioshock infinitewhen you went to rapture
>>341769264
>anon
>reading comprehension
>>341769436
>That entire chapter 5
>>341769265
I unironically enjoyed black ops 1, a lot.
>a 1980s action movie tier plot with surprisingly deep layers of lore and easter eggs hidden beneath it, taking you all over the globe
>fairly unique setting, not many games have been set in the 60s
>fun weapons
>zombies mode
>it aint me
>This game was an easy oversimplified RTS they said
>This game was not fun they said
I'm 80 hours in and getting my shit wrecked. But it's honestly the most fun I've had with a game in a long while.
>>341770083
after playing original hero defenses on WC3 I can finally see why this shit took off so hard.
The best thing about the top-down arena RPG genre is that you can play as an archetype
Dark Souls when a big metal ball rolled down a staircase out of nowhere and knocked me down.
The game is usually fair but anyone who tells you it never goes for cheap hits is a fucking liar.
>>341769930
Worth grabbing a used copy of? I love being pleasantly surprised by things I normally would never touch. Been playing II with my dad a lot since he loves sniping people in it, and I got him 3 as an early Father's Day present and we've been having a blast taking turns on it.
So far i've been surprised with a game called Venetica. Would recommend if you like semi-open world games with lots of fetch questing and minor puzzles. Divinity II as well, though that one is a fair bit harder and punishes the shit out of you for running into things blindly. I've put around 20 hours into it and I'm thinking I haven't even really BEGUN to get into the meat of the game since I just began to go about getting the Battle Tower or something. Like I haven't even left the first area apparently.
