What are some modern games that will surprise me?
I'm not talking about the a game having some ebin plot twist, I'm talking about surprise from a gameplay/mechanical point of view. The vast majority of games seem incredibly derivative, it's as if developers have run out of ideas. A significant number of modern games are either remakes/ports, sequels or reboots and the majority of new games are just clones of popular games. The only new games that come close to being innovative are usually multiplayer games that end up merging two already existing concepts together and they lose their charm after you play them for about an hour. Quite frankly, I could have not played any new games for the last 5 years and I wouldn't be missing out on much. Games now look better and have larger worlds, but underneath they haven't really changed.
How do you expect to get surprised in the age of YouTube, and trailers where publishers spoil their own games, and go out of their way to market every single feature as much as possible?
You don't get to be suprised anymore, those days are long gone.
unironically Undertale
http://undertale.com/demo/
>>384671849
Actually it's a good example. Too ba my experince with the game was pretty shit, because I had one of "those" friends who got completely obsessed with the game constantly talking about it to me, spoiling shit left and right and just nagging me to play the game. It made me dislike the game more than I should have.
Ghost trick
Well, I think I have just the right game for you...