Games, that most surpassed your expectations

it definitely was a good game. But I had higher expectation :)

If we are still talking about W3, I started it, I was interrupted 7 times by cut scenes for 1 hour and I haven't started it since.
Same with Fallout 4. I am talking with people and the camera is swirling around to show me his badly shaved neck and I am so much out of the experience...
When I talking with someone I'd rather see through my character eyes, not really be a bystander...

Let's see....

  • Fallout: New Vegas
  • Sid Meier's Civilization V
  • Cities: Skylines
  • XCOM: Enemy Unknown
  • Star Wars - Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
  • Deus Ex - Human Revolution

Brutal Legend - Didn't know a lot about it, didn't expect much from it. Thought it might be a pretty cheesy game with random metal references thrown in or something, and when I picked it up it was, I think, $2 so I thought 'what the hell?'
Then I couldn't put the game down until I had beat it TWICE in a row. And fairly soon after that I did it again. And since then I've done it again in the Linux version. It is arguably my favorite game.