What game surprised you positively lately?

I've been having a ton of fun with friends on Zero Gear.

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Braid, Realm of the Mad God and Slender.

I bought only 2 game The darkness 2 And GTA IV + DLCs, awesome games. I finish The Darkness 2 in 2 days so much fun, and now i'm in the "no cheats" journey with GTA sorry for bad english :D

Yeah, Bastion for me, not really into indie games but it had received a lot of praise so I picked it up when it was 3.75. No regrets.

Slender is the only new game that I liked in the past.. month or two.

Assassin's Creed. I thought I was going to be running for my life half the time from overpowered AI. So far so good.

Walking Dead. No question

Dear Esther.

Interactive poetry. Simply amazing.

Well Bit.Trip.Runner is positively hard as fuck.

I'm down to it and I've been having a hard time getting past 2 levels in one day. Frustrating. But it's fun so whatevs.

Well, for me it was:

PC:

• Just Cause 2, it's a lot more than i expected, it's just to awesome, i don't have a powerfull PC but i'm glad i can run this one at high settings =D

• Binding of Issac is another game that surprised me, at first it was something like "meh it's a zelda clone" but after a while it's something incredible, also the DLC adds a whole new game

On consoles:

• Gugnir (PSP) i love the dept heaven saga, and this game have a very good story, gameplay, effects, interface and everything

• Ghost Trick (DS) This is another "i'll never gonna play this game" but i give it a try and it has some interesting twists, history, it's not the usual graphic adventure game

• Mighty Switch Force (3DS) and finally this "little" game, it's my first game on the 3DS and... wow... it was more than i expected for a cheap game, and also i've got some DLC levels, so yeah, it was a really good choice for my first 3DS game (it was $3.99 USD)

The Binding of Isaac. Some people may say it's just a flash game. I say they're stupid.

secret o the magic cystals, surprisingly good

saints row the third! not sure why, but I had a negative opinion of this franchise for the longest time. probably from my gta:sa fanboy days. but I got it on discount and been loving the heck out of it!

Costume Quest. I bought it, and Stacking, fully expecting some stupid experimental titles. Both set themselves APART.

Walking Dead and Slender.

Driver SF

Killing Floor and Borderlands and Call of duty

Payday, I thought it was ok, but its nice :)

I would say dod:s and cs:s..

In the past they seems like SHIT to me but now they r kinda fun ^^

I know Crusader Kings 2 got a lot of bashing in the regret thread, but come on it is fairly easy to see if this is a game you would enjoy or not. Too many people just buy stuff on sale without even looking at what their getting. I knew that this was a game I would probably enjoy.

But the surprise was that the game actually made me FEEL like a feudal lord! Having to plot for generations, making alliances, wriggling around to find a way to make war that would not make everyone hate me. In books and movies I always felt bad for the poor kids that were forced by their parents to marry for some alliance, etc. Wondering how their parents could be so cold, so cruel. In CK2 I don't even think twice about it, they SHALL do their duty!

There are games out there that claim that you get to be the bad guy bla bla bla. In CK2 I had my first born son assassinated since I saw that he was both cruel and stupid and would have made a horrible ruler.

L4D2. I am terrified of the concept of zombies, but my friend wanted someone to play it with, so he got it for me when it was $5 last week. It's really fun. My first game, my friend told me to walk up to the witch and startle her since she was blocking our path and I had the lowest hp. I walked up to her and killed her in two shots without taking damage. I'm still not sure what happened.