What games surpassed your expectations?

wordy said:
Dishonoured
Shadows of Mordor
Divinity: Original Sin
Witcher 3
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I'm chomping at the bit to get into Dishonoured, it has a fascinating story, even the tales in the books, and the sequel looks brilliant. Maybe I'll move onto Mad Max and revisit Dishonoured when the second one is released, that way I won't be disappointed if the second one is not too good.
 
Lots of ones already mentioned.

Also:
Hotline Miami
The Banner Saga
The Talos Principle
Bastion
Drakensang
Mark of the Ninja
Mount & Blade
Two Worlds II

What all of these have in common is that they were all either low-budget/indie games or were old when I bought them and I didn't really expect much from any of them and yet they all really entertained me.
 
davewhite04 said:
I'm chomping at the bit to get into Dishonoured, it has a fascinating story, even the tales in the books, and the sequel looks brilliant. Maybe I'll move onto Mad Max and revisit Dishonoured when the second one is released, that way I won't be disappointed if the second one is not too good.
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Wait, what?! There are Dishonoured books???
 
Divinity: Original Sin
Mount & Blade
Civ V expansions (vanilla was an abomination)
Path of Exile
Euro Truck Sim
Borderlands 2
Offworld Trading Company
 
Witcher 3, played 1&2 and while I did have a fairly high bar, number 3 blew all my expectations, in particular the expansion packs.

Another nice surprise was Ash's of the Singularity. I only got it for the benchmark to be honest, but ended up putting a fair amount of hours in. Not great still but better then I thought, and brought back a Supreme Commander feeling.
 
Monaco - What's Yours Is Mine
I could not get my head around the graphics! However when you play it works. For local Co-op play, it is brilliant - it stands up with Nintendo.

Trine
Similar theme - local co-op, brilliant. My personal view, the first was better than the second, however, either games are great. Absolutely gutted about Trine 3.
 
Dungeon defenders
Terraria
FTL
Mark of the ninja
Gunpoint
Risk of rain
Age of wonders 3
Defense grid
Hell divers
 
A couple of others:

Operation Flashpoint (2001 original)
The first FPS with complete free-roam and for the time, the maps were huge! Back in 2001, nothing had been seen before with the same scope - I still play today. It has its quirks (loads). It always makes me smile, when random none scripted moments occur (tanks being blown to orbit) Brilliant!

Left For Dead :)
 
Max Payne 3 comes to mind. I started this game several times but couldnt get into it, i guess i had better things to do. On the third try I got completely hooked and played it non stop.
 
The Witcher 3.

I loved the first two, some of my all time favourite games and I had high expectations for the third. What was released exceeded those expectations by an order of magnitude.
 
Radox-0 said:
Witcher 3, played 1&2 and while I did have a fairly high bar, number 3 blew all my expectations, in particular the expansion packs.

Another nice surprise was Ash's of the Singularity. I only got it for the benchmark to be honest, but ended up putting a fair amount of hours in. Not great still but better then I thought, and brought back a Supreme Commander feeling.
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I was going to put Witcher 3 actually... I didn't read up on the hype so didn't expect much, but it was my game of the year last year.
 
Ninco! said:
A couple of others:

Operation Flashpoint (2001 original)
The first FPS with complete free-roam and for the time, the maps were huge! Back in 2001, nothing had been seen before with the same scope - I still play today. It has its quirks (loads). It always makes me smile, when random none scripted moments occur (tanks being blown to orbit) Brilliant!

Left For Dead :)
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OP:Flashpoint

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