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Making this thread as the opposite mirror to the stockholm thread, post about games you got that you didn't really had much confidence in but ended up loving a lot. For me the biggest surprise was Megaman X Command Mission (GC version). I got it as a christmas gift for an uncle in like 2006 and thought it was going to suck because I thought Megaman didn't fit JRPGs but I actually liked it a lot, the gameplay was pretty engaging and it got me to complete it and do a lot of the lategame stuff too, even revisited it a few years later.
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I was iffy on Resident Evil 6 going in because everyone seemed to hate it and I didn't really like RE5 that much. But I ended up really enjoying it as an over the top action game with some RE flavoring.
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Jun 24, 2021 03:40
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I remember thinking FFXV was gonna be a big joke game, but it ended up being my favorite game of that year lol
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Jun 24, 2021 03:51
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Daikatana Ritsu posted:I remember thinking FFXV was gonna be a big joke game, but it ended up being my favorite game of that year lol yeah same, i really wasnt expecting that game to be anything and it ended up kicking rear end. ff7r was like that too, i went frm lolling about it when it was announced to fuckin loving it
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Jun 24, 2021 03:53
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I bought Super Mario Maker on a whim because the imp zone thread title made me laugh but it ended up being my second most played game on Wii U
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Jun 24, 2021 04:02
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I'm not the greatest at RTS games and I don't like even mildly timed games but Pikmin is pretty great all around, might be my favorite Nintendo series.
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Jun 24, 2021 04:09
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Breath of the Wild. I saw it was produced by the game guy that brought us Skyward Sword so I had zero hope for the game. Only adding to that was the fact that I didn't like open world games, and I figured it was going to be some mediocre release that everyone was hyped for like they were for every Zelda game. Ended up being pretty much my favorite game of all time
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Jun 24, 2021 04:28
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Pablo Nergigante posted:I was iffy on Resident Evil 6 going in because everyone seemed to hate it and I didn't really like RE5 that much. But I ended up really enjoying it as an over the top action game with some RE flavoring. Same here, I played Leon first and hated it initially but by the end I loved it. I've played through it like 6 times with different people at this point. The biggest one for me has to be the Binding of Isaac Rebirth, I played the original a decent amount and wanted to love it but it flash just felt like poo poo for such a big game and I kind of hated the aesthetic. Rebirth came out and I ended up barely playing it at first but then Afterbirth came out and was big here in IZ and I ended up getting insanely addicted. And again when Repentance came out and an IZ thread was posted. Thanks imps
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Jun 24, 2021 04:47
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closest i can think of rn is deus ex human revolution. thought it was gonna be a piece of poo poo but it ended up being p. deece. i still like the original one a lot more, tho, never bothered finishing mankind divided either
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Jun 24, 2021 04:52
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apex legends. i usually had an aversion to online fps games, overwatch basically being the only one i played and usually im just loving around on there, and on paper everything about it sounded like the trendy stuff i wasn't really feeling. free to play, pay for cosmetics, battle royal mode, characters being paywalled unless you just played forever. two of my work friends kept bullying me into eventually trying it and it wound up being my most played game of 2020. its really fun and the characters are well designed and interesting. the endorphin release from winning a match is also really good too, it makes you feel like a badass even if you did loving terrible. my favorite EA game since dead space.
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Jun 24, 2021 05:11
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Fucker posted:closest i can think of rn is deus ex human revolution. thought it was gonna be a piece of poo poo but it ended up being p. deece. i still like the original one a lot more, tho, never bothered finishing mankind divided either Yeah I was sure it was going to be trash. And it sort of is, what with the boss fights and stuff. But it was engaging enough I finished it in one or two sittings.
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Jun 24, 2021 05:28
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I don’t usually like card battle systems in rpgs so when Slay the Spire came out I dodged it for a long time. I ended up getting it on sale way later and played almost nothing except it for several months
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Jun 24, 2021 05:37
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Most recently, Final Fantasy 14. I decided to give the free trial a spin on PS5 expecting to shelve it soon after because of my dislike of MMOs in general, and, well, now I’m level 60 and have Endwalker preordered.
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Jun 24, 2021 05:39
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cant deny, undertale won me over
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Jun 24, 2021 06:03
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I thought Rage was gonna be total trash but I got it on sale for 50 cents it's a good time.
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STONE COLD 64 posted:apex legends. i usually had an aversion to online fps games, overwatch basically being the only one i played and usually im just loving around on there, and on paper everything about it sounded like the trendy stuff i wasn't really feeling. free to play, pay for cosmetics, battle royal mode, characters being paywalled unless you just played forever. two of my work friends kept bullying me into eventually trying it and it wound up being my most played game of 2020. its really fun and the characters are well designed and interesting. the endorphin release from winning a match is also really good too, it makes you feel like a badass even if you did loving terrible. my favorite EA game since dead space. elf help book posted:cant deny, undertale won me over https://i.imgur.com/mnDjSGq.mp4
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Jun 24, 2021 06:10
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STONE COLD 64 posted:apex legends. i usually had an aversion to online fps games, overwatch basically being the only one i played and usually im just loving around on there, and on paper everything about it sounded like the trendy stuff i wasn't really feeling. free to play, pay for cosmetics, battle royal mode, characters being paywalled unless you just played forever. two of my work friends kept bullying me into eventually trying it and it wound up being my most played game of 2020. its really fun and the characters are well designed and interesting. the endorphin release from winning a match is also really good too, it makes you feel like a badass even if you did loving terrible. my favorite EA game since dead space. im sure its a good game, but its time. give me titanfall 3, respawn. elf help book posted:cant deny, undertale won me over i played and enjoyed undertale b4 its aids fanbase developed and grew out of control. its a game i thought i would like, liked and then had to never think of again 
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Jun 24, 2021 06:19
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elf help book posted:cant deny, undertale won me over This
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Jun 24, 2021 06:20
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when i started Bloodborne i was like "what the hell? this is what everyone was talking about?" and then around the time i got to the point where i could reliably clear through huge crowds, the appeal just suddenly clicked for me.
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Jun 24, 2021 06:20
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In Training posted:I thought Rage was gonna be total trash but I got it on sale for 50 cents it's a good time. if it was a straight fps with none of the open world poo poo and actually had an ending it would have become an instant classic for me
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Jun 24, 2021 06:40
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i'm not really into musuo-style games because i played one when i was a kid and found it boring pretty quickly but hyrule warriors ended up being a lot of fun
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Jun 24, 2021 06:43
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Jenny Agutter posted:i'm not really into musuo-style games because i played one when i was a kid and found it boring pretty quickly but hyrule warriors ended up being a lot of fun i thought dynasty warriors 2 looked stupid when i saw some of my friends playing it, then one day one of them handed me a controller and i got addicted. i only ever played with friends on their files until hyrule warriors though.
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Jun 24, 2021 06:45
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i was a little bitch and didnt like cod 4 when i played it at a friends house, thought halo was way better. then mw2 came out and i played it for 999999999 hours and its the greatest game of all time
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Jun 24, 2021 07:16
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pillars of eternity 2. the first game grabbed me briefly but I grew to hate it, it was tedious bullshit and you spent almost the entirety of it in samey swamps and caves. 2 makes 1 feel like a tiny demo for the game they actually wanted to make. also had a turn based mode that made combat way better, tons of variety in enemies, areas, quests, dialogue, etc. everything was voiced and more concisely written unlike the first game that fully expected you to read an entire loving book every conversation. anyway I completed it in 100 hours during lockdown and later I started another file and put another 100 hours into it, game owns
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Jun 24, 2021 07:22
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heehee posted:i was a little bitch and didnt like cod 4 when i played it at a friends house, thought halo was way better. then mw2 came out and i played it for 999999999 hours and its the greatest game of all time halo was way better
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Jun 24, 2021 07:32
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trying to jack off posted:halo was way better
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Jun 24, 2021 07:55
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I kept hearing Mega Man Network Transmission sucked but it turned out to be great. People were probably just mad cause they kept dying to the first boss (and the fact that you could slide under bosses was not explained at all as far as I remember)
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Jun 24, 2021 09:53
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man nurse posted:Most recently, Final Fantasy 14. I decided to give the free trial a spin on PS5 expecting to shelve it soon after because of my dislike of MMOs in general, and, well, now I’m level 60 and have Endwalker preordered. FF14 was the first thing that came to mind for me too. I put tons of time into WoW over the years and was pretty sick of that MMO formula, and never really cared for Final Fantasy either. People constantly heaping praise on FF14 got me to try the free trial, and whoops that game owns. Then I played Dragon Quest XI and suddenly I'm a dipshit in my 30s finally learning that actually, JRPGs are good.
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Jun 24, 2021 11:56
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Walrus Pete posted:FF14 was the first thing that came to mind for me too. I put tons of time into WoW over the years and was pretty sick of that MMO formula, and never really cared for Final Fantasy either. People constantly heaping praise on FF14 got me to try the free trial, and whoops that game owns. There's a lot of real bad ones as a warning
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Jun 24, 2021 11:58
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lol, of course. But it's a genre that I pretty much entirely ignored, except for Chrono Trigger and Persona 4 & 5, for a long-rear end time. There are a ton of gems out there to eventually catch up on.
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Jun 24, 2021 12:04
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Walrus Pete posted:lol, of course. But it's a genre that I pretty much entirely ignored, except for Chrono Trigger and Persona 4 & 5, for a long-rear end time. There are a ton of gems out there to eventually catch up on. SMT Nocturne just got a remaster and if you've got a Switch SMT V this fall
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Jun 24, 2021 12:08
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Dragon Quest Builders 2
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Jun 24, 2021 12:22
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poo poo, i dunno. uncharted 2, maybe?? i'm not even sure i would say i "hated" it, i just remember the circumstances being that i was at a friend's place and they really wanted me to play this game that i kept saying "no" to for some inexplicable reason until i just gave up and tried it out just because they wouldn't shut up about it
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Jun 24, 2021 12:35
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My and a buddy played through pretty much every Final Fantasy (except MMOs) together, really loving the good ones and making fun of the bad ones which was also great. We hated FF13, so when I got FF13-2 next I fully expected another journey of lulz Instead, we both ended up enjoying it so much that I bought the PC version so we could remotely replay it after moving to different cities! 13-2 is radically more open than 13 was (surely both as a reaction to critique and also because they had a bunch of unrelated assets lying around), but that's great and hella fun to explore, and the monsters-as-pokemon aspect ended up being extremely addictive. The story is some of the dumbest nonsense I ever experienced but that's all fine, the gameplay rules except for the clock puzzles those are horseshit, but can't all be perfect
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Jun 24, 2021 12:42
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the first one that came to mind was Three Houses. i haven't played many RPGs and had played no tactical RPGs up to that point as far as i can remember, but i gave it a shot after hearing a friend who rarely games talk about how much he enjoyed it. it's now my most played game on my Switch by miles, possibly my most played game of the past couple years, and makes me want to dive further into the series once i beat all the routes.
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Jun 24, 2021 13:10
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I only bought Dark Souls because people wouldnt shut the gently caress up about it in seemingly every fyad thread I wanted to read or post in. And the rest is history, haha! *hastily trying to flip past all the pages in the photo book showing me getting my rear end drilled out by hollows for months*
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Jun 24, 2021 13:19
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Daikatana Ritsu posted:I remember thinking FFXV was gonna be a big joke game, but it ended up being my favorite game of that year lol Same
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Jun 24, 2021 13:44
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bloodborne. i’d never played a from software game before that, so i wanted to see what the big deal was. now it’s one of my favorite games
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Jun 24, 2021 13:45
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HolePisser1982 posted:I only bought Dark Souls because people wouldnt shut the gently caress up about it in seemingly every fyad thread I wanted to read or post in. And the rest is history, haha! *hastily trying to flip past all the pages in the photo book showing me getting my rear end drilled out by hollows for months* lol, the Miyazaki experience. Walrus Pete posted:lol, of course. But it's a genre that I pretty much entirely ignored, except for Chrono Trigger and Persona 4 & 5, for a long-rear end time. There are a ton of gems out there to eventually catch up on. i mean if you're going to go for just one, chrono trigger definitely isn't a bad choice at least. the only problem with catching up with JRPGs is that a lot of the square enix ports are downright hostile in how bad they are, so picking which version you want to play gets harder and harder, but there are always people willing to help and at the end of the day, emulation is there.
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HolePisser1982 posted:I only bought Dark Souls because people wouldnt shut the gently caress up about it in seemingly every fyad thread I wanted to read or post in. And the rest is history, haha! *hastily trying to flip past all the pages in the photo book showing me getting my rear end drilled out by hollows for months* Lol one of my buddies bought it, probably made it as far as the Firelink Cemetery and sold it back to Gamestop a few days later. Now he's got the platinum on every game, bought a PS3 just for Demons Souls, etc
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