Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain. One of the biggest psych-outs in gaming history, and just all-around engrossing.
I can't find a Youtube of it, but basically, here's what happens. You're hanging out in a tavern, and after you walk outside, you're attacked on all sides by assassins. Desperately, you swing your sword at them, but there's just too many. You're surrounded... and you die.
Now, at the time, I was thinking that I must just really suck at this game. But, after that, a cutscene pops up, showing Kain in hell. There, he makes a deal with some demonic creature to be brought back as a vampire, so that he might take revenge upon his assassins.
Thing is, you kill the assassins within the first hour or so of the game. And things get much more complex from there...
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
-Sean Malstrom
