Games you consider overrated

[Coldster]

Modern Warfare 2 and 3: You know exactly why. Do I really need to explain this?

FF XIII: Or for that matter, pretty much every FF game. It is possibly the worst kind of JRPG when it comes to combat. Everything is so samey and tedious it feels more like grinding in a MMO. It feels like the whole game was made from cutscenes anyways.

Minecraft: I love Minecraft. I have probably spent over 55 hours since the I got it at the 1.3 stage. However seeing it win the March Madness last year on The Escapist was the most ridiculous thing ever. Its just a really good creativity toy. Nothing more.

The Witcher 1 and 2: Nope. Not stating why again. I have done so about ten times now and I don't want to go copy pasting it any more. Its simply not very good.

 

[Zydrate]

Halo. I enjoyed the first, had some fun with ODST.

They're enjoyable, but not sure why they're so well regarded in their fandom.

Oh wow. Someone else who actually has the same opinion of the Halo series as I do. That's actually more rare than you think.

I loved Halo: CE as well as ODST. Both had their flaws, but they mixed things up and brought something interesting to the table. (not to mention having better stories that the others) But, 2, 3, and Reach were just underwhelming at best and down right mediocre at worst.

I also liked Wars. I know a lot of gamers bemoan the game because "hurr durr you can't do RTS on console". No, you can't do great RTS games on a console. But Halo Wars is about as close to a good RTS game you'll ever get on a console.

I also meant Reach, not ODST. Still, the series is functional but the Fandom are out of their minds.

 

[LeQuack_Is_Back]

Modern Warfare, which I quit recently upon realizing that I was playing more out of force of habit than anything else.

Most of my reasons are personal though. I do realize the series has it's strengths, but I feel some are overstated, and others I just don't like.

For example, I don't get the point of having dozens of perks, killstreaks, and weapons, if 90% of the player base is going to use the same combination. I certainly wouldn't tolerate a single-player game where every single enemy is exactly the same, so why would I put up with it in multiplayer?

That, and, mechanically speaking, MW3 seems to have taken a step down. My console actually stutters a bit whenever I go through the Challenges, and I've had a number of times where the game drops to slide-show speeds. They're using the same engine, last I heard, but the spawns, the hit detection, and the lag seemed to have all gotten worse, and I can't understand why.

 

[Timmey]

Pretty much every game that costs 60 dollars.

CoD is #1 most unrated, pick a title and that is the one Im talking about. No one should pay 60 dollars for a map pack with a new name.

Gears of war - Mass Effect - Elder Scrolls - GTA - Final fantasy 11/13/13-2/14 - Halo -

Pretty much every game that had a good 1st game and is now on its 3+ sequel. Its been beat to death I just find them completely overpriced for nothing original and they are always getting shorter which doesnt help either.

Always end up getting shorter, yet you put Mass effect and Elder scrolls in your list? Doesn't make any sense .... does it ?

 

[psicat]

Half-life 2. Its an average shooter with an average story, above average physics and game engine, but below average characters and AI. Add in it's rabid fan base that doesn't shut up about it and I moved beyond being disappointed in it and finding it overrated, to it being my most hated game.

 

[lRookiel]

Both the Witcher games, BORING AS FUCK WITH SHIT COMBAT! I DONT EVEN!!!!!

And Deus ex HR, I just saw a Generic shooter with little replay value?

Mass Effect games, I just don't like them, I found them boring, oh and when you died on ME1 I was like "OH MY GOD! THATS THE DEATH SEQUENCE?!" That music annoyed the hell outta me >.<

Halo aswell.

 

[Rheinmetall]

Most Rockstar Games titles in general. The indisputable king of overrated Rockstar games is Red Dead Redeption. Simply horrible controls.
Second Place: Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Just a decent FPS, I don't understand what's all the fuss about it.
Third place: Metal Gear Solid 4. I don't count it as a video-game anyway. It belongs in the CGI films genre.

 

[Arqus_Zed]

Hmmm, I think I'll go with... Pokémon.

Re-releasing the same game every few years, sometimes in twofold, sometimes in threefold. Also, it really bothers me that the game they copy/pasted the gameplay from (and sprinkled it with obnoxious and illogical child friendliness) always remained the underdog. In case you don't know, I'm talking about Megami Tensei (and at least they actually brought changes to the gameplay mechanisms.

 

[Launcelot111]

Red Dead... I hated that killing your horse was a crime (this is my biggest complaint).

Wouldn't have been such a problem but for the parallax aiming problems from the first Third-person perspective, you could clearly aim past the horses head but the actual path of the "bullet" (actually a hitscan line) is to the left or right and down. They could have fixed this, made the bullets clip through your horse head as who ever wants to shoot their horse in the head WHILE RIDING IT!

Honestly, I had never even thought about shooting your horse while riding it, but now that I know I can't do that, I'm mad. Whenever I got frustrated with my horse, I got off and shot it in the head on the spot, so I really didn't appreciate that this was a five dollar fine. In all honesty, my favorite thing to do in the entire game was to find where the cougars lived and laugh as they came out of nowhere and killed my horse in one swipe. One random touch about Gun (Gun was better than RDR) that I loved was that if you spurred your horse too much, it would die on the spot. I don't like horses.

Anyway, Rockstar's last three games have had such wildly uncharacterized characters, it's painful. They give them decent backstories, but in game they find one note and stick to it for the whole game.

GTA IV- Someone: "Hey Niko, come on, we're going to (insert crime here)!" Niko: "OK. I need money for to be living American dream."

RDR- Someone: "Hey John, how about (insert topic here)." John: "Well, I can't rightly say one way or another on that, sir/ma'am. I just want my family."

LA Noire- "Hey Cole, let's do (insert things that might be slightly morally questionable but are generally accepted by society at large)." Cole: (Loudly and stiffly) "I do not think that this is conduct befitting of a Los Angeles police officer."

Add to that the fact that every sandbox has been progressively less interesting than the last and their trend that new mission ideas are a thing of the past by the start of the second act and I don't understand why GTA V or any other Rockstar game is highly anticipated

 

[TastyCarcass]

Animal Crossing. I bought it thinking it was going to be a fun relaxing sim sort of game. It wasn't. I was stuck in the same field picking apples for all eternity. Awful game and overrated as hell, what with all the features magazines did about it.

 

[deadish]

Bethesda RPGs. [1]

They throw in whatever they can think of without regard to how well it will work or, hell, whether it will work at all. Quantity over quality.

Some people say they like the freedom. Ha. The freedom to choose from various set of poor tuned content you mean.

The amount of praise these games get confounds me.


[1] Although, granted, I have only played Morrowind. But from reviews and "watch me play" videos on Youtube, it appears nothing much has changed. Hence I believe my overall assessment of them is reasonably accurate.

 

[mikey7339]

For the 100th reincarnation of this thread, I will throw in Psychonauts this time. Yes it was interesting, yes it was different, but it was not engaging or fun. It had its quirky moments but the core gameplay was mundane and boring. I forced myself to play until halfway thru until I couldn't muster any more fucks to give about the game.

 

[dills2]

deus ex hr was an alright game but it ruined stealth you could just easily rush in guns blazing gears of war style

 

[AlotFirst]

Any 'old-school' MMORPG ever created that MMORPG-fans seem to love.

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. The developer is incompetent and has created the most bland, pathetic fantasy setting I've ever had to suffer.

 

[LordXel]

Tomb Raider - I see no appeal in this series other than BOOBS! Of course I gave it a change, and I still didn't like it. It was dull.

GTA IV - The multiplayer in it is very good, but the single player was just dull.

Call of Duty - (Holds up beaten dead horse as a shield) I'm sorry but I still hate how theres a new one EVERY SINGLE YEAR! Its getting dull.

I don't care for dull games.

 

[Belaam]

I think these have all been said, but:

Call of Duty/Halo (any): As I am not a homophobic 13 year old boy whose teachers secretly worry will bring a gun to school.

GTA IV: I still have copies of GTA 3 on. I periodically haul them all out and play them, even when that also means digging my PS2 out of the garage. However, with IV, I got 75% of the way through, bot bored to death and quit playing. I only finished it so I wouldn't feel bad about selling the game.

The Sims: Never, ever got the appeal of this. I mean, I go to work, come home, make dinner, raise kids etc. in RL. Why in the world would I want to do it as a game? I've played it. Once I made my friends and recreations of all the houses and apartments I've lived in, I was done. There was nothing interesting to do with the game.

 

[William Ossiss]

Every final fantasy ever.

world of warcraft.

COD.

i rent most of my games anyway. the only ones i buy are ones i know i will be able to get massive amounts of replayabillity from.

 

[JasonKaotic]

Dragon Age: Origins - I do think it's a horrible game. Personally. I can't think of a nicer way of phrasing this, but I really, really don't get what people can like about it. For me the story was uninteresting, the world was bland and far too closed, it shamelessly rips off Warcraft in more ways than I can even list, I never felt any care for the characters, having a silent protagonist with that kind of conversation system made it difficult for it to feel immersive, how much it forced overpriced day-one DLC in my face so much really pissed me off... you get the idea. I don't like it. Although I'll admit it handled character advancement pretty well. I liked leveling up my character and choosing new abilities and stuff. Lots of options there.

Blue Dragon - This game got really positive reviews, and I really.. really don't get why. If this game was aimed at little kids I'd understand, but the age rating is 12+. It's for teenagers. Supposedly. Playing it was just painful for me. The game patronizes the player over and over (typical Dora the Explorer fashion. Pointing out the most obvious things imaginable, in an almost insulting way), the scripts had to have been written by toddlers, the boss theme is cheesy as hell, the dramatic moments fail massively and just end up awkward to watch, and the game overall is just really childish. To make the game even more awkward, jiggle physics. One of the characters has jiggle physics. On a kiddy game like this it's just disturbing.

Dark Souls - If try to spend any more time playing this game I will have no controller or TV. This game laughs at me. It hates me. It's... hard. Very hard. To a point where I can't play it. I like feeling powerful on games, and I don't quite get that feeling on Dark Souls. Heh.

Typing this is taking longer than I thought it would so I'll just leave it with those three.

Any Final Fantasy after X. They've just plain sucked.

Have you played XIII? I hated the Enix ones too, but I really liked that one.

 

[Skin]

I also meant Reach, not ODST. Still, the series is functional but the Fandom are out of their minds.

It is a shame that you meant Reach rather than ODST, because I thought you would have been spot on with what you said.

A majority of the hardcore Halo fans are stupid. A large number think Halo 2 was the best, despite it being a regression of the original. Halo 3 also was not bad by any stretch of the imagination. 4 out of its 9 levels were very good, 2 of them were just epic, and it had some solid multiplayer as well.

ODST was a something new, we weren't invincible supersoldiers kicking the shit out of our enemies, but rather mere mortals struggling to survive. Reach was just a flip back to the supersoldiers kick shit but now with sprint!

 

[Mr Dizazta]

QFT

I believe people are just trying to start a flame war or a collective ego stroking.