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Fun: Pleasant Surprise

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  • 19-12-2011 11:23pm
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    Mr E
    Registered Users Posts: 55,482 ✭✭✭✭


    Rules
    - Fun: Pleasant Surprise of the Year - any game, any platform
    - A game you fully expected to be rubbish, but were really surprised with how good it turned out to be.
    - No more than 3 Nominations per person, please.
    - Game must have been released on or after January 1st 2011 (search for the game on http://www.gamefaqs.com and look at the data tab for a release date).
    - Top 6-8 will go forward for the Vote (exact number dependent on number of nominations received).
    - Voting will take place during Christmas week.
    - The next batch of categories will be posted in a few days.


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    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,111 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Mortal Kombat. The laughing stock of the fighting genre produces a competitive fighter, regular online balancing and the best single player mode in a fighter since SF2.

    Xenoblade Chronicles. Similar battle system to the awful FFXII battle system. Turns out it fixes everything wrong with that battle system and is superb.
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    #3
    Mark Hamill
    Registered Users Posts: 7,771 ✭✭✭Mark Hamill


    Sonic Generations.


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    #4
    NotorietyH
    Registered Users Posts: 2,509 ✭✭✭NotorietyH


    Resistance 3 - Had absolutely no interest and it ended up having the best single player campaign of any shooter this yer.

    Deus Ex - All the early previews were fairly negative, saying it was a very average game. Once the reviews started pouring in I picked it up and loved it.

    Driver: San Francisco - Far more fun than it had any right to be. Hokey body swapping story turns out to be a fantastic game mechanic.


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    Mr Freeze
    Registered Users Posts: 6,618 ✭✭✭Mr Freeze


    Deus Ex


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    Zero-Cool
    Registered Users Posts: 29,673 ✭✭✭✭Zero-Cool


    Driver
    Skyrim (I hated Oblivion)


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    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Skyrim ( same reason as above )

    Witcher 2 - it blew me away how mature and interesting game was. Newer played first one and witcher 2 just sucked me in with no coming back. Way more then I expected.


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    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    Deus Ex


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    #9
    cherryghost
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,133 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    Rayman Origins for sure
    Modern Warfare 3 on the Wii only.


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    #10
    sarumite
    Registered Users Posts: 2,909 ✭✭✭sarumite


    Rayman Origins: Why oh why ubisoft this you release this colourful gem now so that it can be completely lost in the November rush.


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    Nerdkiller1991
    Registered Users Posts: 3,995 ✭✭✭Nerdkiller1991


    I too am going with Rayman Origins. Wasn't expecting it to be rubbish, but it was still a lot better than I was expecting it to be.


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    oxo_
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    Skyrim - as with others, I didn't like Oblivion but Skyrim blew me away.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Deux Ex for sure.


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