biggest surprises and disappointments

just curious what games in the past couple of months or even year have been either a disappointment or just a game you were surprised you liked as much as you did. not trying to have any arguments. for me the disappointment for me was bioshock 2. the first was one of my favorite games ever, but the second just didnt fo something for me. i even went to the midnight release, which was the first and only one i have ever been to. besides tonight. i played it for about 4 hours in and never finished it. kept it until today figuring i would finish it at some point. i tried multiple times and just turned it off withing 5 min. i really am not sure what it is. all i know is i was very disappointed with that. the game i never expected to like was just cause 2. i laughed when i heard they made a second one cause the first was so bad. i got the demo just to check it out, and i couldnt believe how much fun i had. so i pre-ordered and played about 20 hrs. and i never thought i would like that game. only game so far where the demo made me get it.

I was really disappointed by GTA IV, to me it just blowed.

On the contrary I was really surprised with Saints Row 2, It was hectic, fun, and silly.

you know what, i was the same. i loved saints row. and even though i played gta alot. i thought it wasnt nearly as good as i thought it was gonna be. i mean it got a perfect 10. it wasnt even close to that.

For me the biggest surprise would be Viva Pinata. I thought the game would be boring and I'd take it back after a few days and get my money back, but I fell in love with it, once again Rare made me a believer. THe biggest disappointment would have to be PDZ when it came out. I loved the first Perfect Dark back on the N64 but this just didn't do it for me.

Red Faction Guerrilla was quite a pleasant surprise indeed. On the contrary, multiplayer in Modern Warfare 2 blows.

It's on ps3 but the only big disappointment I can think of right off would be Demon's Souls. It was a challenging game up until the first boss. Once I got used to it the rest of the game was pretty easy short of the last boss. It got a lot of hype for being incredibly hard but it's really only frustrating when you get sent back to nothing after dying. Not to say it wasn't a great game but I don't think it was as hard as the hype tried to make people believe.

If this is reserved for the 360 though I'd have to say Halo ODST's multiplayer.. Would it really that hard to just rework the multiplayer in the game.. I had no idea I was getting a short campaign, firefight mode that was dwarfed compared to Gear's horde mode and then that Halo 3 mp with a ton of maps I'd already payed for..

yeah i never played the original PDZ but i played that on 360, it was right when the 360 came out so the graphics amazed me. thats all i cared about at the time. but it did suck. lol

no not only for 360 i guess. i had demons souls for about 3 days. the thing with losing everything after you die was the only reason i got rid of it. i couldnt take it anymore. i forgot about modern warfare 2 as well. i played over 6 days in modern warfare 1 and close to that in world at war. i had right around a day and traded it in. not sure how they can screw a game like that up. but they did,

For me the biggest surprise would be Viva Pinata. I thought the game would be boring and I'd take it back after a few days and get my money back, but I fell in love with it, once again Rare made me a believer. THe biggest disappointment would have to be PDZ when it came out. I loved the first Perfect Dark back on the N64 but this just didn't do it for me.

SSBMFighter

GTA 4 was so slow and generic san andreas have much more stuff to do , borderlands and tales of vesperia i was really surprise much better than i expected

yeah i played borderlands alot. and san andreas was so much better.

Biggest Surprises: Metro 2033 & Darksiders

Biggest Disappointments: God of War III & Resident Evil 5

surprises: Borderlands, Viva pinata- both outstanding, had no idea

disappointments: GTA4, L4D2- absolutely hated both of them.

Biggest Surprise: Borderlands, Blue Dragon, Bayonetta and Perfect Dark XBLA (I didn't expect it to be ported!)

Biggest Dissapointments: GTA IV, Oblivion, Too Human, Perfect Dark Zero

Biggest surprise: Bioshock. A thousand times better than I expected it to be. One of my favorite games ever.

Biggest disappointment: Far Cry 2. Looked awesome, but was far too tedious.

i haven't been disappointed with much thankfully but i was really surprised with Dead Space. I loved every moment of it and it really sucked me in. Now i can't wait for the sequel.

Biggest surprise: Mass Effect and Bioshock were way better than I thought they would be.

Biggest disappointment: Halo 3:ODST

Biggest Surprise: Assassins Creed 2 or Mass Effect 2 (both were such huge improvements over the originals)

Biggest Disappointment: Farcry 2 (those damn re-spawning guard checkpoints) or Halo 3:ODST (short campaign, firefight was terrible)

I was really disappointed by GTA IV, to me it just blowed.

On the contrary I was really surprised with Saints Row 2, It was hectic, fun, and silly.

IamnotBiased

i just started borderlands and have to say that am unexpectedly greatly enjoying it. my disappointmment by far was gta iv. i just thought it was very repetitive and didnt enjoy it at all. i guess those types of games just arent for me, thats why i wont be buying RDR either.