In your opinion, what's the most overrated video game ever?

[Rariow]

Chrono Trigger. I've heard it called the best JRPG ever. I personally found it boring. I just don't see what's so good about it, apart from some interesting story elements it's as generic as it gets.

Final Fantasy VII. No, it's not as good as you think, you were just wowed by the PlayStation amazingness and haven't been able to take off your nostalgia shades.
In fact, hold on for a second here. Can we just agree that any "great" game that was created to showcase new console technology really isn't that good? We were just awed by the technology at the time? Mario 64 was pretty amazing when the N64 came out, it's just slightly above average in retrospect. Mario World SNES was fun, but it didn't come near to Yoshi's Island level of greatness. Halo was just amazing 'cause XBOX. And so on and so forth. These games ARE important, in that they're the first step into a new generation which would ultimately impact games forever. They mostly aren't all that great in retrospect. Next to none are BAD in retrospect, they just aren't these huge masterpieces everyone makes them up to be.

 

[LookingGlass]

For me it's The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. I saw review after review praising it (IGN even gave it 10/10), so I bought it despite being a bit skeptical. I pretty much hated every minute I spent playing it. It was just so slow, boring, and purposeless. I loved Ocarina of time, and I thought Majora's Mask, Wind Waker, and Twilight Princess were good too. I just couldn't see how anyone could have heaped that much praise on Skyward Sword.

 

[StupidNincompoop]

This thread again? i think i saw a thread like this just last month. Oh well, guess i'll contribute:

Minecraft- WHY THE JESUS ON A FLYING STICK INSECT WITH A LAVA LAMP AND A FURBY IS THIS GAME SO POPULAR FFFFFFFF-
sorry.

But seriously..

Minecraft came out twice. Once in 2004 and once in 2005. They were called blockland and roblox.

Blockland had better graphics and better building mechanics than minecraft, and it had physics.

In terms of gameplay.. what gameplay? Build equipment so you can find diamonds which will help you find diamonds to find more diamonds while you're finding diamonds with a diamond cache of diamond furniture and diamond walls and diamond diamonds?

The end boss was put in as a joke. It's only artificially difficult.


To say the game's called minecraft, there's almost no reason to actually go underground to collect anything. There's barely any NPC's and most of the existing ones all work basically the same. The graphics might as well be placeholders that were accidentally left in.

The AI was for a very long time extremely basic, and still is now.

Minecraft also has worse multiplayer because it's slightly harder to connect to servers, since it doesn't have a server browser.




Far cry 3-

I'm not saying that FC3 is terrible, but it's really not revolutionary or that good. It's pretty much average in every way.

The difficulty is a joke, even on hard mode.
The health system that people praise it for just doesn't really work well, since you can just keep patching yourself up and since the enemy's accuracy is so terrible they'll rarely hit you.

The game gets old and boring very quickly. Once you've claimed a few outposts and done a small amount of quests, you've basically done everything in the game.
Each outpost has pretty much the same stuff to do, the challenges are pretty easy, the side quests are awful (and VERY badly animated), and the actual storyline is not really that interesting.

The way the player's character acts isn't good either- one second he's crying all of the time and not wanting to kill anybody, the next second he's mowing down hundreds of pirates in a jeep, burning down weed farms and happily murdering wildlife (but god forbid he actually skins wildlife, that's too far)

Most of the features are pointless too. There's no reason for money since you've basically unlocked everything you ever need a few hours into the game for free, the crafting system is almost completely pointless since you can do the entire game relatively easy without needing to craft any upgrades i.e weapon slots, and since the health system is kind of exploitable, syringes aren't really needed either once you've got your health upgraded a little as well.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

OT: I did not care for Halo: Reach all that much at all. I think I've finally grown out of my Halo-playing days.

Thank god.

Depends what you look for in a game. I love Halo:CE but always thought it was marred by the Flood, I was looking for a Spartan vs Covenant face-off which Reach delivered in spades. Different strokes for different folks I guess.

OT: I've gotta say the Half-life series. Yes - granted it introduced a (spectacular) physics engine to the FPS world but the story managed to be both contrived and shallow, the characters were uninvolving and I found the overall experience to be somehow just less than I was expecting it to be. Plus the whole 'particle physicist gets the better of heavily armed grunts' thing smacked too heavily of a nerd fantasy trip.

 

[deserteagleeye]

Just Cause 2.

I've seen a lot of praise for it here, and I bought without trying it first (stupid) and goddamn, that game is stupid frustrating. The controls are just too awful, I can't get immersed, and I want to punch my character in the face every time he opens his fucking mouth.

I hate the skydive mechanic, I hate the physics, I hate when the grappling hook doesn't go where you point it... It's just the worst kind of frustration that kills all enjoyment I would otherwise have.

Thank you, For me the pacing was non-existant and seeing how large the world was just made me think, "I gotta explore all this shit?" It felt more like a chore to find stuff and again, the dam physics.

 

[Pulse]

Minecraft.

You're grinding to build things out of blocks. Hour upon hour upon hour.

If you bought each of the players ten buckets of lego they probably wouldn't touch the stuff, but it's on a screen so it MUST be fun.

 

[alphamalet]

Let's see...
Mass Effect (all of them)
Skyrim
Chrono Trigger
Half Life 2
The Walking Dead (barely even a game)
Final Fantasy VIII
Ocarina of Time

 

[ThePurpleCreeper]

any call of duty game

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

I think the past few iterations of Call of Duty fit nicely in this thread. 13million units sold for a sub-par FPS is the definition of overrated.

 

[SovietSecrets]

Came in here expecting to see the usual answers and happy to see that I was right.

 

[Auron225]

I would say FFVII, but for one thing; I don't hear many people hyping it much anymore at all. It WAS hyped a lot but I rarely hear its praises sung now. Also, it was good enough a game that it lived up to ENOUGH of its hype so that it isn't the most overrated. Its overrated, yeah, but not the most.

Probably any Call of Duty title. They're hyped up a stupid amount and they just aren't that entertaining at all. Not for a game, not even for a FPS.

 

[bigfatcarp93]

DEAD. FUCKING. RISING.

Seriously, the game is SO OBVIOUSLY TERRIBLE, yet everyone acts like it's in the range from okay to great. BULLSHIT! I've never played a more broken game in my entire life.

 

[ComicsAreWeird]

The Sims. There was a time when everybody was playing it and I never understood what's so great about it.

 

[MissP]

I'll throw in another vote for Guild Wars 2; I even got caught up in the hype myself and wanted desperately for it to be a fantastic and innovative experience. While it did do some things right (I still really enjoy the exploration aspect and leveling experience), there were so many other aspects that just left me disappointed. I was so looking forward to the personal story, but that ended up being the biggest letdown of all.

 

[JazzJack2]

Borderlands 2, terrible writing and boring gameplay yet people seem to rave about it.

 

[feeback06]

Well I have to say that Final Fantasy VII is my favorite game of all time, so I can't put that on my list. When it comes to a game being "overrated" in my eyes, it is usually because the game is built up so much by my friends. The main offender to me would have to be Bioshock. For around 3 years now, people around me wouldn't shut up about how great it was. I finally got around to playing it last year, and the game just struck me as very average. Now don't misunderstand, I thought the themes and the setting were very thought provoking but that's not why I play video games. When it came down to the gameplay, I just wasn't very impressed.

 

[TaintedSaint]

FF7 for sure terrible plot villain was boring as was the hero. FF8 was way better