Games that completely surprised you quality wise.

[dsheinem]

Honestly Splatterhouse on Xbox 360 suprised the crap out of me. I did not think a game with the story that this one had could be so darn good. I have beaten the game around 3 times now and I still enjoy it every step of the way. I just bought the arcade port that came to the TG-16 and I am so eager for it to get here. I would highly reccommend Splatterhouse to anyone who is looking to get into an extremely bloody,witty, and all around fun hack n' slash game with a good storyline.

man, I thought the new Splatterhouse game was absolutely abysmal, especially compared to the series' other stellar entries. I didn't even play it through to the end, and I try to finish almost everything I pick up.

[noiseredux]

I liked the new Splatterhouse... but I never finished it either. Maybe I should.

[samsonlonghair]

Centipede Infestation turned out to be incredible.

did you play the 3DS version? I thought it was the definition of mediocre.

I played the Wii version. Apparently the two are very different.

Second.

I was shocked at how damn good Centipede: Infestation for wii is. The doofus at gamestop actually tried to dissuade me from buying this game. He told me that retro gamers would hate Centipede: Infestation.

The surprise is that this game has very little in common with the original Centipede. It actually plays more like Berzerk with a bunch of references to old Atari games. The love story is pretty lame, but I love the witty references like, "My Father was in the Missile Command. He protected us from Space Invaders".

Awesome game.

[ZeroAX]

Haha no need to worry - I have Valkyria. It was the second game I bought for the console.

That must have healed an almost lethal wound

[TEKTORO]

Honestly Splatterhouse on Xbox 360 suprised the crap out of me. I did not think a game with the story that this one had could be so darn good. I have beaten the game around 3 times now and I still enjoy it every step of the way. I just bought the arcade port that came to the TG-16 and I am so eager for it to get here. I would highly reccommend Splatterhouse to anyone who is looking to get into an extremely bloody,witty, and all around fun hack n' slash game with a good storyline.

Man, you can unlock splatterhouse 1,2,3 on the new splatterhouse and it is the Arcade versions no?

[dsheinem]

Honestly Splatterhouse on Xbox 360 suprised the crap out of me. I did not think a game with the story that this one had could be so darn good. I have beaten the game around 3 times now and I still enjoy it every step of the way. I just bought the arcade port that came to the TG-16 and I am so eager for it to get here. I would highly reccommend Splatterhouse to anyone who is looking to get into an extremely bloody,witty, and all around fun hack n' slash game with a good storyline.

Man, you can unlock splatterhouse 1,2,3 on the new splatterhouse and it is the Arcade versions no?

This is the game's only redeeming quality, to my mind.

[oxymoron]

Duke Nukem Forever. Based on how shitty it was.

[Cronozilla]

Positive Surprise: Jackie Chan's Action Kung-Fu on NES
I got it with a free grab bag of games from a friend during High School, there were a lot of gems in there, actually. I was completely blown away by the quality of this game. Seriously top notch.

Negative Surprise: Parasite Eve II on PS1
I loved the shit out of Parasite Eve, when I saw this came out at Hollywood Video, I immediately rented it. I couldn't wait to get home and throw it in ... and holy shit was I pissed off. I don't know if you can say it's a poor quality game ... but it completely destroys the unique combat systems the first game had in favor of a really mediocre Survival Horror scheme. I was not a fan.