Games Which Positively Surprised You

Snatcher on 26/07/2022 - 13:18

There is always a sea of games which can make it easy to overlook certain titles.
This morning I got reminded of how awesome Vanquish was.
I remember back then I had zero expectations but the game blew me away.
Short, full of action, fast paced and hell of a lot of fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofLuzyQiQCg

It was overlooked by a lot of people unfortunately. Curious to hear what games people came across which were not played by the masses or did not receive great scores, yet were amazing games to play.

Gaming

Comments

  • Mikeer on 30/07/2022 - 14:04

    Mole Mania

    Used to be the "one of least known games by Shigeru Miyamoto." Very well-made puzzle. It's like Bomberman meets Sokoban. Didn't expect much, but had a blast.

  • rinco on 30/07/2022 - 17:12
    +1

    I disagree. Vanquish on the PS3 received great scores - 9.4 user and 84 critic according to Metacritic - https://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-3/vanquish. And it must have been played by the masses for the developer to republish it a decade later on modern platforms like the PS4 - https://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/vanquish.

    If anything it is the indie games that get overlooked. Like..

    Cardhunter - an online collectible deck building F2P Heroquest with both PVP and PVE - https://store.steampowered.com/app/293260/Card_Hunter/

    Anything from PixelJunk e.g. Monsters - tower defence at its finest
    - https://store.steampowered.com/app/243780/PixelJunk_Monsters…

    Binding of Isaac with all DLC - $70 for an indie game might seem overpriced but this is the exception
    https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/2405/The_Binding_of_Is…

    Absolute Drift - the best drifting game ever made
    https://store.steampowered.com/app/320140/Absolute_Drift/

    • Diji on 30/07/2022 - 18:11

      Apparently Vanquish sold 820k copies in its first year, so that's probably considered reasonably successful for Sega given the new IP and the games it was up against. I suppose it depends on how OP defines "the masses". It's obviously no Call of Duty and even falls short of Bayonetta, which I'm not sure I would categorise as having been a huge hit.

  • Willy Beamish on 30/07/2022 - 18:04

    Acquitted on Steam
    https://store.steampowered.com/app/1954750/Acquitted/

    Not exactly in depth but more fun than expected, weapon choice is good and the "combat" is satisfying. Prefer with controller than KB/M though.

  • izzypop08 on 31/07/2022 - 08:33
    +1

    Boomerang Fu!
    Discovered it at easter. Played it for hours with the family.

    • Viper18 on 31/07/2022 - 13:53

      Surprised it took me so long to find this in the list!

      Great game made by Aussie Developers, fun and challenging.

  • Jamie007 on 31/07/2022 - 10:20

    Far Cry 6. I've never been a huge fan of the franchise, I always end up playing a couple of hours and not going back, but I picked up FC6, mostly because I just wanted a AAA game to play on my PS5 and there hasnt been a lot in the last two years, and wasnt expecting a lot from it, but damn if I didnt enjoy the hell out of it. Maybe it was the setting idk, but I really like it.

    Also Shredders Revenge. Picked it up expecting that it would be something I'd just play once for the nostalgia and probably not play again, but it completely hooked me. Finished it twice on Xbox and have the Switch version in the mail.

  • moortoozzy on 31/07/2022 - 14:53

    Commonwealth Games

  • AustriaBargain on 31/07/2022 - 17:43

    Chrono Trigger on the SNES and Sim City on the SNES. Both were random rentals in the 90s, but liked them so much I kept them for weeks just racking up late fees, and rented them again and again in the future. Would have been cheaper to just buy them.

  • jonathonsunshine on 31/07/2022 - 19:29

    I got Jurassic World Evolution without knowing anything about it, thought it would be third person adventure type game, "the dinosaurs are lose, escape the park", then I saw it was actually a park builder and I was like, ewww.

    Now I probably have more hours logged on it than anything else in my steam library

  • Hoolio on 31/07/2022 - 20:26

    Citizen Sleeper. Brilliant sci fi story that has ??board game mechanics in a video game. Currently on Xbox game pass. Highly recommend it if you enjoy sci fi story telling / dystopias / AI / corporate dystopia etc.

  • MrThing on 31/07/2022 - 20:28

    Northgard

  • desty on 01/08/2022 - 12:39

    Evil Islands: Curse of the lost soul.

    RPG from ~2001. Have only met a few people that know of this game, yet it was soooo good. Just googled it and saw 96% of google users enjoyed and fairly high metacritic score.
    I probably replayed it every year for like 10 years - on co-op multi.

  • AlienC on 19/08/2022 - 16:55

    Back 4 Blood.

    A bit repetitive but that's kind of the genre.

    Wish the procedural generation was better but other than that everything else works perfectly.

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