Games you consider overrated

[CrazyJew]

BLOODY Ocarina of BLOODY Time.

It was a good game, yes, but public opinion of it was obscured by the "WOW, FIRST 3D ISNTALLMENT!" effect. Majora's Mask is much better, in my opinion, and unlike Ocarina, still holds up well.

Ocarina revolutionized, Majora POLISHED. It's how Thriller is amazing, but doesn't hold a candle to Smooth Criminal. Smooth Criminal just took what Thriller did and improved on it.

 

[DJ_DEnM]

Fallout 3/New Vegas. I've played them both and I don't see what's so great about them.

 

[GonzoGamer]

Crazy Idea: John Marston tries to go straight as a rancher but has bad luck, is screwed over by the bank, the government and even his own character weakness and is left destitute. He resorts to criminality again a out of desperation and raises his son as an outlaw, but John pays for it in the end. I think it's far more poetic than the actual ending of "Ross is Pontius Pilate, John is cowboy jesus".

Later becomes Zombie Cowboy Jesus.

What I think are the most overrated games:
No More Heroes - I like the style of it but the gameplay was so insubstantial. The most tedious minigames on the Wii...which didn't have a shortage of tedious minigames.
RE4 - I tried getting into it but just couldn't.
GTA4 - I wasn't expecting San Andreas bit it couldn't even hold a candle to GTA3.
Anything by Bethesda - Sure they're creative visionaries with an epic scope but those guys just can't make a game that functions on the most basic levels. They freeze up my ps3 more than anything else and return me to the desktop on the PC more than anything else, even Final Liberation.

I think a better question to me would be what games do you think weren't overrated? It's a short list.

 

[Patrick Buck]

Dragon age Origins.
Didn't like it. To long winded. Didn't like the fighting (as any class), and it felt to impossible to keep everyone happy. Eurgh. It wasn't a BAD game, but it wasn't the second fuckin' coming like my friends kept telling me.

 

[Yopaz]

Final Fantasy VII.
Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time.

The two most overrated games of all time. Sure I didn't like Bioshock, but I can see that it had its merits, it's just not my kind of game.

 

[Durgiun]

Dragon Age: Origins.

It's OK, but nothing spectacular.
The combat is boring as Hell due to the animations looking as if I was swining a sword while drunk. The story is the usual ''become part of a super-awesome-badass-special group of heroes and save the world'' BioWare story.

The characters are decent, but everything is so simple, story-wise, or just meh to me.

 

[CarlMin]

The most overrated game series of all times is Super Mario. It's not only that Nintendo hasn't been able to make a good Mario game since the 80s (with the possible exception of Galaxy), the game just wasn't all that innovative or special at the time of the NES either. How it became a cultural icon is beyond me.

Half life 2 is the king of this. Its an average shooter with physics puzzles and an above average story, but somehow it has this rabid fanbase. Really annoying.

You obviously haven't spent enough time analyzing the historical metaphors in the in-game architecture or the soundfiles from every single combine dialog. Perhaps if you did you'd find a depth that makes Shakespeare seem like a Twilight fanfiction writer.

 

[DioWallachia]

Half life 2 is the king of this. Its an average shooter with physics puzzles and an above average story, but somehow it has this rabid fanbase. Really annoying.

Skyrim - This has more to do with the crowd following i think a lot of people who bum this so much never played another rpg, so the hails of best thing ever, kind of unjustified.

I am limiting myself of saying about HL2 because i want to make a video about it but what if i tell you that there is a connection with Twilight and Half Life 2?? Could you guess what is it?? You already pointed out that the fanbase is rabid but that isnt the only thing in common. Why do you think they are so defensive about that game? There is something that they forgot to mention about this Freeman guy

 

[laggyteabag]

Commence long list!

Call of Duty (MW2, Black Ops,MW3)
Gears of War (Mltiplayer)
GTA IV
Dead Rising
Half life 2
Mass Effect
Castle Crashers
Dawn of War 2 (Multiplayer)
Crysis 2
Fallout 3/NV
Age of Empires 3

 

[PunkyMcGee]

the Halo franchise. I played it at the LAN hub near my town with a few co-workers in High-school but honestly I had more fun with Counter-Strike.

 

[ThePS1Fan]

Skyrim - Very great game worthy of a lot of the praise it gets but it is still a little overrated.
Gears of War - The whole series is a pretty fun if repetitive shooter that doesn't really break the mold.
CoD & Halo - See Above.
Super Mario 64 - Once again very good, just hasn't aged as well as some people insist.

I could go on but those are some of the biggest ones I see a lot.

 

[DanteLives]

All CoD's after MW1 excluding WAW. Don't really see the hype in what is merely a cut and paste with paint spray. Campaign's average and the online is worse that the sport on TV nowadays.

 

[irishda]

Half life 2 is the king of this. Its an average shooter with physics puzzles and an above average story, but somehow it has this rabid fanbase. Really annoying.

You obviously haven't spent enough time analyzing the historical metaphors in the in-game architecture or the soundfiles from every single combine dialog. Perhaps if you did you'd find a depth that makes Shakespeare seem like a Twilight fanfiction writer.

Not sure if serious....

 

[Wintermoot]

the entire COD franchise /thread
people buy it for the MP which is always the same yet people keep praising it and keep buying it.

 

[EternalFacepalm]

I'm going to have to go with Skyrim and Half Life

"dons flame proof suit"

If anything, you need that suit because you used quotation marks to add emphasis.

OT: Shadow of the Colossus. It was just mediocre in general.

 

[Zydrate]

Everyone putting Skyrim in this thread make me sad :/

 

[StrixMaxima]

All Mario Titles besides SMB 1 and 3.

Mass Effect 1 and 2: comatose-inducing pace. Could not hold my attention.

WoW: The bane of online gaming. We'll need many years to overcome its diabolical effects.

Halo Series: More vanilla than vanilla.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Red Dead Redemption

There really wasn't any interesting gameplay in it, the dead-eye mechanic made every kill buttfucking easy, and the "badass" protagonist was everyone's ***** including a necrophiliac and raping Mexican warlord; That sure sounds like a sandbox game I want to play.

I'll take GTA4 any day compared to that.

 

[Dfskelleton]

I used to think Bioshock was so damn cool and original, but then I just recently played System Shock 2, and realized that Bioshock is essentially an HD steampunk (or dieselpunk or whatever it is) texture mod for System Shock 2. If Irrational's point was to try and bring System Shock 2 to modern audiences with a different game so people wouldn't think "OH A HURRRRR THUEEYRE A-JUST RE-RUHLEESIN ITS FERR NEHSTALGIA AN IHTZ NAWT GHUD CUZ IT DON'T HAVES GHUD GRAAPHICS", then they succeeded to an excellent degree. And yet, Bioshock is consistently praised for it's originality. Even the plot went along the same lines: Get goal, get sidetracked, get sidetracked again, get sidetracked again, fix all of those, complete initial goal, get betrayed in big plot twist, defeat antagonist, free candy. I actually think Bioshock is fun, but fun in a sort of "I... AM... A GOD!!!" way, because you can essentially be perfect at EVERYTHING. Unlike System Shock 2, where anything you're untrained in, you're pretty much as effective in it as a quadruple amputee sloth in a wheelchair.
The argument most often used against this stuff is "That's just because you're biased because of nostalgia", but such is not the case. I hadn't even heard of System Shock until a year or two ago, and only within the past week have I finished it. While it's a little rough aesthetically, the gameplay is fun and sharp and the story is intriguing. Actually, the bad graphics make it slightly scarier (before you get better upgrades and start encountering less disturbing but more powerful enemies), because you can never get a good look at the hybrids. Their faces are already supposed to be ugly and deformed, and because of the weird 90's 3D, they look even more disturbing.
/rant