Sometimes games looked awesome, review awesomer, and even appear to fit my playstyle. Sometimes, they also have one other thing in common: I hate them. I paid retail for each of these games, and I barely got any enjoyment out of them, much less achievement points.
Giant Bomb's own quick look of this game sold me on the concept. DL'd the demo, and bought the game shortly thereafter. Loved destroying buildings, hated shooting dudes. There's a lot more of the latter in this game. 35 achievement points.
Saw a favorable word from Tycho, of Penny Arcade fame. Played and loved the demo. Played it for at least 10 hours and earned a whopping 0 achievement points. Deck building is my favorite part of CCGs, and that aspect is extremely crippled in the beginning/middle of the game.
Played Guitar Hero 2 to DEATH on the playstation 2. Became a one-console man out of respect for my fiance, bought this to be my rhythm game. Had one great night with it, but ultimately I don't have people over enough to play it-- which doesn't warrant the space the instruments take up in our tiny apartment. Don't much care for it as a single player experience.
I like being the underdog...in certain situations. But, I play a Halo game to turn off my brain and pull the right trigger when an alien is in the middle of the screen. That only works if you're a badass, best-of-the-best Spartan. Reach beta was interesting, but fleetingly so.
The "real time turn based" combat was a huge draw, and I was in the mood to play as an anime-ish looking character. And a story framed around Chopin? Sure, sign me up. I hated all three of those things after 40 / 1000 achievement points and put it away forever.
Loved the visual style. Unfortunately, the time I have to play games is infrequent, so I could not remember any of the combos or which way I was supposed to go-- which makes the game extremely frustrating. Maybe one day I'll break my leg and will have a more contiguous chunk of time to play. One can only hope.
