Games you consider overrated

[arnoldthebird]

GTA IV is a good game, don't get me wrong I did enjoy it. But the critical reception that it received wasn't deserved, the story missions got repetitive, running over people just wasn't fun and the colour palette was too brown...and the stupid phone, every fucking 10 minutes I'd have to babysit my cousin at a bar.

BioShock, very strong story, not so strong gun play. It kept me enthralled and I did finish it, but the gun play could have been so much more.

 

[GartarkMusik]

That'll probably have to be GTA IV for me. I had so much fun with San Andreas, and GTA IV took a lot of what was fun about it and ruined it by trying to put realism into it. Thankfully, Saints Row 2 was there to answer the call for a super sandbox blow-shit-up spree. :-D

 

[sketch_zeppelin]

Psychonauts.

I'm not saying i hated the game, i didn't. It had a lot of charm which is why i think critics liked it so much, but it was kind of boring at times and at others it was frustrating. the levels while all diffrent and cool to look at, often were kinda clutered and it was often hard to figure out where you were suppose to go or what you needed to do. I remeber spending a lot of time in certain areas just trying to figure out how to advance. and the number of hard to see collectables in the game had to have been the idea of a sadist.

I do like Psychonauts original desgin and characters and would give Psychonauts 2 a chance (if it gets made) but i was one of the apparent few that took the advice of the critics and ran out and bought the game when it first came out and while i normally love platformers this one just didn't rock my world like the critics said it would.

 

[Arcane Azmadi]

For me the biggest letdown I ever got from an overhyped game was Star Ocean: 'Till the End of Time on the PS2. It started out interesting enough, but as the game went on the plot went doolally, combat got more and more cheap and annoying with enemies LOADED with cheap-shot attacks that could wipe out half your party in one shot and the ally AI's unforgiveable retardation just became too much to bear. Eventually I just lost interest and stopped playing (in the Sphere Company level).

Also, Grand Theft Auto III. For some reason, some people seem to consider this classic the "best" of the 3 GTA games on the PS2, but I could never get into it; I spent FAR more time on Vice City and San Andreas. I just couldn't stay interested in the game because of the silent, personality-deficient player character, it made me feel like I had no objective or drive to do anything. The move to 3D wasn't the best thing that ever happened to the GTA series, Tommy Vercetti was.

F-Zero GX; I know there are quite a handfull that do like this game, but I still declare it the worst game I've ever played, I don't know how the players that do like this game are able to get over the isues I had with it. but I've b****** about it in previous posts before, so I'll just say in short that playing this game to me was like having to solve a rubix cube blindfolded and with recently burnt hands.

I'm sorry, what? I'm afraid I haven't read any of your previous posts, so could you give me a brief potted summary of what makes you deem this "the worst game [you've] ever played"? I mean, I don't like it as much as I liked F-Zero X on the N64, but I still think it was pretty damn good and even if it's not your particular thing and you struggle with the (admittedly somewhat sloppy) controls. I'm just... curious as to how you could hate it this much.

 

[zumbledum]

well all modern trip a hyped up franchises are overrated to me but i think the two most obnoxious ones of recent times are

deus x HR and portal 2

DX was at best average and portal 2 well i remember when a portal game had puzzles in it lets leave it at that.

 

[Azure-Supernova]

Skyrim. For the love of god, it's getting to a point now where I don't want to be heard complaining about it so I can avoid all the pointing fingers and cries of 'Hipster, hating cuz it's popular!'.
I don't hate Skyrim, I still play it freqently. But what it gained in terms of looks and gameplay it seems to have lost a few key components in the RPG department.

The leveling system is dull. Three playthroughs and I've touched on most of the useful skills, but leveling skills I don't want to use accidentally is a frequent occurance. Everytime I come across a skill book I'm having to alt-tab to the UESP to find out what the book does, I don't have the option to just pick it up like in Oblivion. Character creation and race selection is become rather trivial. It's pretty much become about which greater power I'd like rather than what character am I planning and what race can excel at t best. They all feel the same, again apart from the greater powers.

Like I said, not to say I don't like Skyrim. I've poured almost 200 hours in now and still chugging thanks to mods. It's just been simplified so much I feel myself longing for Oblivion's (kinda-ish) complexity. Also I'll put Mass Effect 2 on the end of here, loved the first one, couldn't get into the second at all.

 

[Don Savik]

all retro games the escapist community makes them out to be amazing and better than todays games and perfect in every way and they are shit as a younger gamer used to higher standard games (my first console was a PS2) retro games are terrible and many times worse than games of today

Yea, I think its called like The Golden Age Syndrome or something. Could prolly find it on tv tropes. Basically people like the pure innocent bullshit memories from when they were a stupid kid and couldn't remember any of it anyways. Some games were good FOR THEIR GENERATION, but saying Orcarina of Time is better than.....well just about any award winning game nowadays is a hilarious joke.

As for mine. I would say....Catherine was pretty up there in the pretentious/high class artsy/douche/overrated games of this generation. Because it has themes involving sex its automatically immune from any criticism just because it discussed something most games don't? Give me a fucking break people. Even if they did it right, which they didn't, its just a game about a spineless fuck cheating on his girlfriend all because.........his arms go limp and he cant help himself get raped all because a little girl half his age acts all cutesy? Japan is sexually immature. That much is obvious, but man that game is just....bad.

 

[Mr Dizazta]

I really don't consider a lot of games to be overrated, mostly because I myself never played yet or because I can see why somebody enjoys the game. Overrated as a term really doesn't have meaning to me. In addition, I find threads like these as nothing more as a front to incite flame wars.

 

[DioWallachia]

Unless that RTS is Dungeon Keeper who also mixes FPS by possessing your units to do even more evil fun stuff. However, thanks that NOBODY remembers this game i may never know if it is the best example ever and if not at least what could be done to improve it

Aww, now im depressed that such an awesome idea for a game does not exist
Think of the tactics and variety that could be created by having the "shift" ability in an RTS.

Although simply having a "commander" player lording it over his army of "players" online would also be awesome. Then again, when the players or leader turned out to be retarded, it would not be so fun :/

Yathzee made an article about it when he was telling the fans that he WONT review RTS games, mostly because he prefers the mainly way of playing, AKA FPS.

But when i saw that i was thinking:
"Dude, just review/play Dungeon Keeper 1, it has both things and it was made by your Arch Nemesis Peter Molineux. Who, i remind you, is responsible for making Fable and therefore being the second review that YOU ever did. Seeing a part of your time exploring in what game did he lost his mind and started to take loony pills would be an interesting topic to see"

Is there any reason that i am not aware that he isnt going to take his time to examine the games that marked the "Golden Age of Gaming" ?? I am sure that at least he will review the Syndicate FPS Remake since it was ALSO made by Peter in the Bullfrog era

 

[Launcelot111]

Primarily every big time Rockstar game since San Andreas. GTA IV's story falls apart to an absolutely laughable degree after the first island and had absolutely no sense of playfulness after San Andreas' over the topness. Red Dead did some good cowboy stuff, but the whole Mexico section was torture to me, I hated the 15 minute horse rides through nothing, I hated the part at the end where you had to be a rancher, and I hated that killing your horse was a crime (this is my biggest complaint). LA Noire did some good stuff, like it's neat when the crime branches differently, and the face captures are great, but Cole is the worst, the overarching story is weak, and if you mess up cases in certain ways, the story doesn't know how to react, so Cole literally pulls clues out of the ether that directly contradict questions he just asked and then criminals do super illogical things just in a supremely transparent way to keep the case going, which is bar none the most disengaging moment I've ever experienced in my time gaming. If you have the Naked City DLC, purposely fail every question with the fiance guy near the end and marvel at how little sense the case and the game as a whole suddenly make.


Also Beyond Good and Evil (it's good, but not THAT good), Bioshock (certain legitimately fantastic elements holding up an otherwise lackluster grind), Uncharted (characterized, adventure-filled cover-based shooter is still cover-based shooter), and pretty much every shooter out today

 

[Crazedc00k]

Arkham City and Asylum. They're pretty fun, but they're hardly the second coming of Christ.

 

[Baalthazaq]

Skyrim.

It was good, but sweet Jesus, the soiled-panted fanboys are so OTT. The amount of abuse you endure when you don't soil yourself at the thought of it. "BUT YOU PLAYED IT, HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE IT". Any attempts at reasoning with said people, and how they exaggerate your feelings.
Me: "I'll give it an 8/10"
Them: "Why do you hate it so much?! Justify your loathing!!!!!!!"

For me, it's as if Kung Fu Panda won ALL the Oscars, people were naming their children "Dragon Warrior", jokes about "I used to be the Chosen one, then I took a turtle to the pressure point", people going "IT IS THE GREATEST THING EVER CREATED". It's not. It's just not.

"It shouldn't have won ALL the Oscars" is met with rage. "How can you not say it deserved ALL THE OSCARS?!"

It's crazy. Skyrim is a big, pretty, empty, world you can hack and slash at things in for hours. It's single player WoW. The AI is terrible (try running across a body of water). The human interactions are atrocious, and they only really exist to hand out quests. The story is average, and all talk of "you make your own story" doesn't work. It's NOT as many claim, a blank canvas. Every interaction with every person in Skyrim BREAKS the immersion and interferes with any attempts to "create your own story" and at the end of the day, you're playing an NPC. At the end of the day, except the people you personally kill (some of whom you can't), everyone remains unimpacted.

Again, it's fun, but GOTY? In a year with Portal 2, ME2, Shogun 2, Brotherhood, Witcher 2, Limbo, Bastion, Catherine, Deus Ex:HR, Dark Souls, Arkham City, LA Noire, SW:TOR.

I'm not saying all those would be GOTY, but Skyrim struggles to get in to the top 5 in that list, and it pushed out much much better games for GOTY despite being deeply flawed. There is no argument you can make for Skyrim that you can't make for playing WoW, by yourself.

Dramatically, unreasonably, mass-hysterical levels of hype. Most overrated game: Skyrim.

 

[Random Fella]

Call of Duty after World at War
But I'm pretty sure everyone on the website knows that it's overrated in the mainstream.

 

[DioWallachia]

Primarily every big time Rockstar game since San Andreas. GTA IV's story falls apart to an absolutely laughable degree after the first island and had absolutely no sense of playfulness after San Andreas' over the topness. Red Dead did some good cowboy stuff, but the whole Mexico section was torture to me, I hated the 15 minute horse rides through nothing, I hated the part at the end where you had to be a rancher, and I hated that killing your horse was a crime (this is my biggest complaint). LA Noire did some good stuff, like it's neat when the crime branches differently, and the face captures are great, but Cole is the worst, the overarching story is weak, and if you mess up cases in certain ways, the story doesn't know how to react, so Cole literally pulls clues out of the ether that directly contradict questions he just asked and then criminals do super illogical things just in a supremely transparent way to keep the case going, which is bar none the most disengaging moment I've ever experienced in my time gaming. If you have the Naked City DLC, purposely fail every question with the fiance guy near the end and marvel at how little sense the case and the game as a whole suddenly make.


Also Beyond Good and Evil (it's good, but not THAT good), Bioshock (certain legitimately fantastic elements holding up an otherwise lackluster grind), Uncharted (characterized, adventure-filled cover-based shooter is still cover-based shooter), and pretty much every shooter out today

Uncharted is even more painfull for the people who played Legacy Of Kain. From ambitious original vampire epic to Indiana Jones rip off.

 

[Norix596]

I would say the Call of Duty series as it's existed since Modern Warfare -- I mean I had fun with MW2 but I really can't understand why anyone would want to wait in line overnight for the latest version.

I can understand why it's the best selling game each time though -- power of advertising and name recognition can do wonders.

 

[Darth Rahu]

Halo. After the first game it really didn't go anywhere for ten years.

Gears of War. Cover mechanic! Huzzah!! What else you got? Oh look, dudes in armor acting all grim and depressed while fighting space aliens with chainsaw guns, that won't bet bipolar anytime soon.

Uncharted. I don't care how much like Indiana Jones the games want to be, if I could I would punch Nathan Drake in the face until he resembled Mike Tyson after going two rounds with Atom from Real Steel! Dialogue and everything is great but why should I be rooting for Nathan Drake?

Call of Duty Modern Warfare's 2, 3 and Black Ops: It's Call of Duty 4 with different maps and progressively worse writing! Stop the madness!

Oblivion: Note that this is the console version. I hated the level scaling so everything got tougher with you, as opposed to actually feeling like you are progressing in strength. Also, instant fast-travel from the start in an Elder Scrolls game to a guy who never played one before really short-changes the whole "EPIC MASSIVELY HUGE WORLD OF AWESOME!!" thing the series is known for.

Torchlight: Yes it's nice if you're a fan of Diablo but grinding and getting better gear progressively for its own sake feels very insubstantial to me.

Super Mario Bros: TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL....

 

[Canadamus Prime]

modern games: too many to list due to paid PROFESSIONAL REVIEWERS and the millions they spend on advertising.

The key word there being "payed," as in payed off.

 

[daveman247]

Skyrim.

QFT: Its weird, bethesda's games seem to get away with things that any other game would be strung up for :/ Peoples excuse is always "lol its big lol".

The game was released unfinished, and people seemed to forgive it oddities.

And the amount of filler in the massive world is just silly. Miles of empty land with nothing in it.

And the combat is weak :/