Games you consider overrated

[Baalthazaq]

I think I'm forgetting something..... oh I know:

World of Warcraft

For a game that came out 10 years ago, I'm going to cut it a lot of slack. Besides I don't think the hype still surrounds it. The hype 10 years ago was (mostly) deserved, and the hype now is very limited. Is anyone really raving about WoW like they do for any of the titles on your list?

 

[5t3v0]

For me it's final fantasy 7. Very likely due to the fact I attempted to play it 9 years after release.

Similar to me, but I didn't think that because it was old. I liked it, but I felt it overrated because I played FFVI First and felt that had better writing and more memorable music. Though the overworld theme is still a favourite of mine.

My proper answer would have to be Fallout 3. I did enjoy it when I first played it, but too much curiosity and much research on the Fallout wiki regarding Lore made me rethink it, and felt that while it wasn't as bleak as Fo3, New Vegas captured the Fallout Ideals more than 3 did.

In all, Playing New Vegas made me think that 3 was overrated, and the fact that New Vegas was actually not as buggy as people made it out to be for me for most of my First playthrough, but of course that varied from PC to PC that I played it on...

 

[lacktheknack]

Limbo.

It was... OK. Not great. I don't see why it was the "BEST INDIE GAME OF 2010". The aesthetic got a bit annoying, the puzzles weren't hard, the OMGWTFBBQ moments were a bit too far between... It was still worth playing, but it wasn't incredible.

 

[Ridgemo]

I'm not going to put a game down here that I think is over-rated, because it's none of my business what other people think of a game. What I will ask however is why it matters?

Comments like "I'm not sure why Halo is rated so highly in it's fandom" are just moot. It's because they are fans of the game, they enjoy that particular game/art style or the story. Much the same with Bioshock, Mass Effect or indeed any other highly rated game.

I dare say that the reason they are highly rated is because the majority likes them. Sure you may not like them, it might not appeal to you. At the end of the day it's pointless, because you are not going to like it no matter what anyone else says.

Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if this thread gets made again in 2-3 weeks.

 

[girzwald]

Definitely skyrim. People who say they can't stop playing and its loads of fun. The combat is shallow, every quest is samey and the dragon fights are the only interesting ones because they don't die in 1-2 hits.

 

[Simon Pettersson]

Don't see why. It's like everything else.

Want perfect multiplayer? Go play Starcraft.

RTS =/= first person shooter. Not comparable

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

Well lets hope this game opens up peoples eyes to the genre: Gettysburg: Armored Warfare
http://angryjoeshow.com/2012/01/aj-preview-gettysburg/
I would love more RTS/FPS games

OT: I think Portal is overrated never really liked it.

 

[Arakasi]

Skyrim has to win.
Great great game, lame linear story.

 

[Bomberman4000]

To me the Uncharted games are overrated. I've tried playing each one and I just cannot get into them. I don't know what it is specifically other than I find Nathan Drake fucking insufferable. My brother loves the games. Me, can't stand them.

Team Fortress 2 is another one. I think this one's here because A. It took me forever to get around to playing it, and B. I am FUCKING terrible at it, but even when I have a good game I don't see what's so wonderful about it. Everyone holds it up as the holy grail of multiplayer shooters but I never had any fun with it.

 

[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.

 

[Lt. Rocky]

I'll never understand what makes Mass Effect or Final Fantasy the rambunctious successes that they are. The games that have always come from those series have always felt half-finished and filled with grossly dull or unlikeable characters. Mass Effect's combat felt slow and worn out, and with it's slow and monotone dialogue, coupled with the robotic cinematic animations, I couldn't enjoy anything the game threw at me. The recent installments of Final Fantasy are just too camp and cluttered with clicheic anime scenarios to take seriously..

Maybe I just don't enjoy RPGs like I used to, but those two particular series have just been so abysmal.. D'oh well.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

Yikes. These threads need to go away.

But while I'm here, I'll say the Saints Row games. I prefer the sort of noir-ish/Goodfellas style that Grand Theft Auto provides. There's apparently no word for "pacing" in the Saints Row universe, as opposed to pacing pretty much being the only thing GTA4 understands. I recently bought the game used, and damn. I'm playing through the game now, and thank God that I was in the mood for a slow paced game, or else I think I would have set it down a while back.

Sure, I have fun doing the ridiculous shit that Saints Row tries to set out to do, but in the end, when you pretty much start out as a fucking superhero, once you've played a bit of it, you've pretty played the game. It doesn't really go anywhere but down.

And really, when a game relies on humor for the most of the story, it needs to keep that shit locked down. I chuckled maybe once or twice throughout the few hours I played it. What am I suppose to do when I don't find any of the shit they say funny? I literally do not give a shit about the characters otherwise.

 

[I-Protest-I]

Deus Ex HR, I couldn't see the appeal. The bad controls, the boring cut scenes, monotone speech.

I really wanted to like it, it had alot of thing I generally like in games which is a shame.

 

[Treblaine]

Overrated comparisons I find become churlish and contrarian as it can very easily becomes about gauging all positive criticism you can have for a game and then trying to find the worst in it.

I can say however that there have been some very popular and successful games that I personally did not care for though it could just be me. Well, almost just me, I played Final Fantasy X and I seem to be right in line with Spoony One on what I couldn't stand about that game. I really do wonder what their fans find as the actual appeal of these games... is it the fashion? Do the same people who buy Final Fantasy also love daytime TV soap-operas?

 

[Noxman]

We're doing this again?

But seriously, Star Wars: Battlefront 2.
The game played like arse, like a bad Battlefield 2, it's only selling point was the fact
that it had Star Wars stuff in it which only served to highlight the horrible gameplay
that did the source material absolutely no justice.

 

[Imbechile]

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.

Care to explain how I think the older Fallouts are better that Fallout 3 despite playing Fallout 3 FIRST?
Care to explain how I think System shock 2 is better than Bioshock despite playing Bioshock FIRST?
Care to explain how I think Daggerfall is better than Skyrim despite playing Skyrim FIRST?
Care to explain how I think Planescape Torment has better writing then all the Bioware drivel despite playing the Bioware drivel FIRST?

You can keep yourself in denial with the whole "rose tinted nostalgic glasses" thing as much you like, but there is no denying that games are getting shorter and shallower.

PS: Try not to use the "well that's just your opinion" argument, nor the "many people don't agree with you".

 

[AngloDoom]

EDIT: Oh, and minecraft. Its cool you can build stuff but i just dont like playing aimless games... What do you do once you have finished your safe fortress of doom?

That's how to tell if you're the type of person who can play Minecraft: if you feel like you've 'finished' something, it's not for you. =D

OT:

Half-Life 2. Sorry, I just found it boring. I ended up turning it off half-way through playing Episode 2. Maybe I have to play the original Half-Life to really get into the game, but I just didn't care about what was happening - the only time I really enjoyed myself was when I had to rely solely on the Gravity Gun.

 

[Al-Bundy-da-G]

Shadow of the Fucking Colossus. Oh the story, the strategy required during combat, the style, the innovation, it's perfect.

Strategy amounted to flicking arrows at the damn thing till it got annoyed enough to pay attention to you then fighting the camera and controls to find the one exact way to get to the big glowing weak spot and poking it till the colossus threw you off and then starting over again.

On top of that a grey and brown world that people ***** about when it CoD or BF but here it "fits the artistic mood". What part of this game is innovative anyway? Cause it's not the combat, the story, or the world.

But I bring up any of these points with someone and they say "you just don't get it". I get that it was a mediocre game with a save the princess plot, a brown and grey world, horrible camera and combat controls, and a total of what maybe twenty characters most of which were giant rock monster with no personality or real identity.

Also FFXIII screw you GameInformer. You gave a 80 hour long interactive movie which you could beat by setting it on auto and taking a nap, a positive recommendation? I've never been burned so badly in my life.

 

[ColeusRattus]

My overrated list:

Bioshock (nice visuals and story, but the gameplay itself is so off that I can't stand to play it, even though I actally wanted to like it.)
Mass Effect (Again, I should theoretically like it, but I have tried to finish part 1 three times now, and always hit a spot where I went suddenly "meh" and couldn't bring myself to start it up...)
Fallout 3 (The setting sucks, the story sucks, the characters suck, animations suck, gunplay and most other gameplay mechanics suck... But again, when I started it up for the first time, I really wanted to like it.)
Call of Duty

 

[Zac Smith]

All of the Zelda games, can't say that you don't like them and think they are overhyped 90% of the time without someone getting offended.

Same goes for Final Fantasy, many props to CoD and Battlefield, just to name a few

Pretty much any game that people rate as 10/10 or as close as. I've never played a game that I would consider anywhere near the "perfect game"