In your opinion, what's the most overrated video game ever?
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Now, I won't deny the success of any of these games, but none of them are truly amazing and/or innovative in any way whatsoever. I wouldn't call them the second coming of Christ. Although, some of them are still good, just not ground breaking and amazing.
Call of Duty
Skyrim
Grand Theft Auto 4
Diablo 3
Perfect Dark
Super Mario 64
FF 7
Chrono Trigger
Portal
Minecraft
Mass Effect
Ico
Now, I won't deny the success of any of these games, but none of them are truly amazing and/or innovative in any way whatsoever. I wouldn't call them the second coming of Christ. Although, some of them are still good, just not ground breaking and amazing.
Ever? Not sure. I can't think of any game people go on about, that I've played, that I didn't find that good. Maybe the entire Halo series since it is the same thing over and over again. In Call of Duty they at least try different things (or they did with BLops2 with the different endings and side missions). Lately though, The Walking Dead is by far the most overrated game. It was good, but not nearly as good as everyone keeps going on about.
This is pretty off subject, but I never understood this. I enjoyed Crysis, and I can see how others didn't, and I sort of get the "it is basically just a benchmark" comments. However, if Crysis is just seen as a benchmark, why isn't Red Faction Guerrilla just seen as a destruction physics simulator? That whole "game" was basically just "destroy stuff, once you destroy enough we'll give you a real mission and then you'll go to a new area and the repeat the process." I never saw much of a game in it at all.CardinalPiggles said:
Would you kindly...
get so pissed off by the nonsensical, irrational stuff I continue to make you do in nonsensical corridor world, haha, you tool, just in order to eventually make a pretentious point that you quit and uninstall way before reaching that point?
Yep, will do!, Bioshock.
get so pissed off by the nonsensical, irrational stuff I continue to make you do in nonsensical corridor world, haha, you tool, just in order to eventually make a pretentious point that you quit and uninstall way before reaching that point?
Yep, will do!, Bioshock.
I personally never tried Red Faction for that very reason. There are plenty of cheaper indie titles that do physics based destruction too, without needlessly trying coat it in shiny 'triple A' paint, and then sell it for full price.Assassin Xaero said:
I would have to say dark souls. Everybody I talk to who likes it seriously claims it is the best video game ever, and that every single game should copy it's format, I'm not exaggerating at all. I'm also not saying the game is all bad, but it's fan-base over rates the game so bad that it is my number 1. contender.
I'm gonna go with Bioshock.
I'm not sure what I was expecting, but that wasn't it. It was fun enough, but not anywhere close to the adoration it got.
I'm not sure what I was expecting, but that wasn't it. It was fun enough, but not anywhere close to the adoration it got.
Deus Ex Human Revolution: That game has some of the worst controls and design I've ever seen in a AAA game. If you don't build Jensen exactly right, i.e. the only way the level was designed to be played, you're fucked.
Spec-Ops: The Line : My distain for this preachy lump of condensed fail is probably well known to anyone who forum stalked me recently, but for those that haven't, here's a quick summary of the game: YOU BASTARD. The game is so schizophrenic in it's message that it loses all coherence, and when combined with plot holes the size of Striker APC, it reads like a story concocted by an anti-government conspiracy nut and edited by Jack Thompson.
Spec-Ops: The Line : My distain for this preachy lump of condensed fail is probably well known to anyone who forum stalked me recently, but for those that haven't, here's a quick summary of the game: YOU BASTARD. The game is so schizophrenic in it's message that it loses all coherence, and when combined with plot holes the size of Striker APC, it reads like a story concocted by an anti-government conspiracy nut and edited by Jack Thompson.
I would say FF 7 most of its fanbase I've met act like it is the best game that has ever and will ever be created. The game was good but not great. Though a close runner up is Ocarina of Time I guess it's just the nostalgia goggles people have for these games.
Yep. You beat me to the Valve comment but I wouldn't call em hacks. The games are solid... but they shouldn't be revered as they are. Especially, considering how much time they take to make the games... geeeez.Souplex said:
Half Life 1 and the original Portal are pretty awesome, though.
Well, my obvious choice would be HL2. Im not gonna bother going into any more depth, as I see there is already 5 pages, so someone has already said HL2 and gave good reasons, see their post.
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Another one, Crysis. Ive watched a playthrough on youtube (Dont own a PC that can handle it... but not sure If I care enough to want to handle it...) Its looks good (graphically) but doesnt really seem al that interesting.
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Another one, Crysis. Ive watched a playthrough on youtube (Dont own a PC that can handle it... but not sure If I care enough to want to handle it...) Its looks good (graphically) but doesnt really seem al that interesting.
This. Except not just Skyrim, Elder Scrolls in general, and Bethesda games in general. They make RPGs that are ugly, glitchy as fuck, give you open worlds to explore without putting anything of interest into them, where the 'choice' in the quests is usually just whether to do one questline or another completely unrelated questline, or even just which order to do them in. And the combat is fucking terrible as well. The only games I've liked by them (and even then only liked them a bit) are the Fallout games, simply because the setting is more interesting than the generic cardboard-cutout fantasy that is Elder Scrolls, some of the characters actually have personalities and sometimes the quests are actually introduced to you in a more structured way than just having several linear series of quests which do not relate to each other in any way.The-Traveling-Bard said:
Touhou was mentioned before I also consider it overrated but I consider the story overrated I don?t know about the gameplay I haven?t played any other bullet hell game.
Do other bullet hell games allow you to practice levels? If not and only touhou does that then I can easily call it the best bullet hell game ever.
Also the original x com this game is so difficult for all the wrong reasons the biggest of which is reaction fire a mechanic that means that every time you try to shoot a alien and miss he has a chance to instantly turn around and kill your best guy with no possible way to defend against it.
Do other bullet hell games allow you to practice levels? If not and only touhou does that then I can easily call it the best bullet hell game ever.
Also the original x com this game is so difficult for all the wrong reasons the biggest of which is reaction fire a mechanic that means that every time you try to shoot a alien and miss he has a chance to instantly turn around and kill your best guy with no possible way to defend against it.
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id have to say that Gears Of War 2, it just didnt hold my interest like the first one did, but then again when the first came out its main competition was Halo2 so i guess by the second i had more interesting games on the 360
I genuinely have no idea what people see in Bioshock. Your character has virtually no health, but instead of balancing the game in any meaningful way (like, say, giving you the ability to survive more than two taps from a rusty spoon), they just respawn you with the world as it was when you died. It's such a ridiculous, lazy and skill-less system. I played it up to the point where you fight the crazy surgeon, and the fight went something like this:
-Run into room
-Shoot him once or twice
-Die
-Repeat
I then proceeded to remove the game from my xbox and have never put it back in since. My experience with it seems so different from the one that I hear everyone else sing praises for that I sometimes wonder if I bought a completely different game that somehow happened to end up in a Bioshock box.
-Run into room
-Shoot him once or twice
-Die
-Repeat
I then proceeded to remove the game from my xbox and have never put it back in since. My experience with it seems so different from the one that I hear everyone else sing praises for that I sometimes wonder if I bought a completely different game that somehow happened to end up in a Bioshock box.
Halo. Specifically Halo 4.
I recently bought it to play through the story and get back into the multiplayer. The story was short and a little boring. In fact, I don't even remember that much about it.
But now, we get to the multiplayer. I don't know why ANY fanboy would rate CoD's multiplayer over Halo 4's. They're basically the same damn thing. Halo 4 is the first to include a kill cam, an instant respawn button (when you don't suicide), and has disabled team killing with the exception of vehicles. On top of that, weapons you can use as a load out (which act exactly like classes in Infinity Slayer as far as I can tell) have to be unlocked through experience before being bought through the ingame currency.[footnote]Not 100% sure if I'm accurate on this one, since the only weapons I have unlocked is the Battle Rifle, since that's the only load out I use.[/footnote]
The one thing it retains over CoD is that you don't have to reset your progress every 100 or so levels.
I recently bought it to play through the story and get back into the multiplayer. The story was short and a little boring. In fact, I don't even remember that much about it.
But now, we get to the multiplayer. I don't know why ANY fanboy would rate CoD's multiplayer over Halo 4's. They're basically the same damn thing. Halo 4 is the first to include a kill cam, an instant respawn button (when you don't suicide), and has disabled team killing with the exception of vehicles. On top of that, weapons you can use as a load out (which act exactly like classes in Infinity Slayer as far as I can tell) have to be unlocked through experience before being bought through the ingame currency.[footnote]Not 100% sure if I'm accurate on this one, since the only weapons I have unlocked is the Battle Rifle, since that's the only load out I use.[/footnote]
The one thing it retains over CoD is that you don't have to reset your progress every 100 or so levels.
Agreed. I was really really excited in those last few months before it came out. The beta weekends were great, until weekend 3. I got bored. I played for less than six hours and got bored. It was too grindy, and dynamic events weren't dynamic. I hoped this would change for the actual game. It didn't. Lvl 16 main reporting in :'(ShinyCharizard said:
[small]I have been feeling kind of like picking it up again soon though. I dunno. Maybe.[/small]