Last time a media product surprised you and blew you away?

the fact that you're playing snake eater in 2014 and loving it is a testament to how brilliant the MGS series is.

As for me, a few years ago, a good friend recommended me a game called Braid. I'd never heard of it and thus googled it and thought "wth is this mario-looking crap." clearly I had always been into FPS, RPG etc and never played indie games. But I played it, and Braid has since been in my top-5 all-time favorite PC games.

Never been blown away by a video game. To be honest I rarely ever play games, i like to experience life rather than sit inside all the time playing games. And no, Im not on a computer as Im writinf this. Im on my phone.

I was looking for a PS3 game with my sister once. She saw Red Dead Redemption and insisted that I buy it. I didn't really want to because I thought it would just be another slow, boring, western game, but she really wanted it so I went ahead and bought it. Over the next few months, I realized just how wrong my initial perception of the game had been. I was utterly floored by the brilliance of the game. The depth of the characters, the rich detail in the game world, the sheer, mind-boggling choice of activities it offered me. I had unknowingly bought one of the absolute greatest games ever made, and the best I've ever played. This masterpiece actually challenged my preconceived notions of what a video game is. Because I had spent so much time playing as the main character, when the game finally drew to a close, I had this hollow, empty feeling inside me. For those few months, that game was my life. I felt like I was John Marston, roaming the countryside on my horse, hunting bears, getting into gunfights, having chariot races, etc. After a few days, I realized how lucky I had been to have gotten the chance to play a game as incredible as this. It remains, to this day, the best game I have ever played and also my personal favorite.

This morning I found out that they're making an evil dead tv show and Bruce Campbell will star.

I'm blown away.

Metal arms on ps2

Most games/films disappoint me but a couple have blew me away. To name a few from past couple of years Max Payne 3 and Dredd have both been pure unadulterated fun for me.

I'm surprised how much I enjoyed the TV show Game of Thrones. Sword and sorcery stuff isn't usually my thing at all, but I really liked watching that show with my mates. I don't think it would be fair to say I was blown away, though. It was good and I really like it, but I don't love love love it.

I don't know if I've ever been blown away by a piece of media art I didn't expect to love. Maybe an album by my favourite band, Bomb the Music Industry!, because I'd never experienced punk music that was so lo-fi before and I genuinely was (and still am) blown away by the energy and range of emotions on their records.

It was talking about videogames I think the last game that I had little to no expectations for going in and really really enjoyed the experience with Brothets: the tale of two sons

Actually fucking cried at the end of that

*Spoiler Alert*
I bought MG5 recently and was kinda sick to my stomach after finding. That I snuck into this fucking base undetected only to find out they were raping this chick the whole time.
I decided to dispense my own justice after that...

Explicit content man, explicit content.

If you haven't tried the Fallout series you should. I'd also recommend the Mass Effect Trilogy.