Most over rated game?
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Excuse me while I get my list which happens to be in no particular order.
*Ahem*
Mass Effect (1st or 2nd)
Super Mario 64
Legend of Zelda: Orcarina of time
Call of Duty (any of the more recent ones)
Minecraft
Pokemon (any of them)
Final Fantasy (any of them)
Although these all depend on how you ask to rate them, for example your average 12 year-old male would say COD is super mega awesome extreme while someone older might say that one of the games they grew up with was the best like LoZ: OoT or Super Mario 64.
*Ahem*
Mass Effect (1st or 2nd)
Super Mario 64
Legend of Zelda: Orcarina of time
Call of Duty (any of the more recent ones)
Minecraft
Pokemon (any of them)
Final Fantasy (any of them)
Although these all depend on how you ask to rate them, for example your average 12 year-old male would say COD is super mega awesome extreme while someone older might say that one of the games they grew up with was the best like LoZ: OoT or Super Mario 64.
mm personally? Probably portal, sure it is a good game, but its just basic physics puzzles, i've found flash games just as puzzling/fun/more addictive than portal for free online, and with the boner raging virus's that valve fans spewed out over that game, it definitely was over hyped.
STILL A GOOD GAME, just not fucking god of all that is gaming.
STILL A GOOD GAME, just not fucking god of all that is gaming.
I think the most overrated game to me is Half life 2. Maybe a good game but just found it so dull when I rented it years ago on the regular xbox. Way too linear and the tedious vehicle sections turned me off the game very early. I don't think I ever got the gravity gun. I guess I was perhaps expecting something more along the lines of like Thief or Deus Ex considering Half Life 2 was a heavily hyped first person game so maybe I just was playing Half Life 2 with the wrong expectations. (but I don't really remember what my expectations were at the time at all. lol)
The Witcher series. I love CDProjekt forever for making Good Old Games, but the Witcher baffles me. PC gamers like nice, clean mechanics and interface too. And a protagonist who I don't want to dropkick off the Empire State building would be nice.
FFVII. I did try playing it, and I got about a third into it before I decided it was entertaining, but thoroughly "meh."
FFVII. I did try playing it, and I got about a third into it before I decided it was entertaining, but thoroughly "meh."
The God of War and Gears of War series. They were good, but not as amazing as everyone seemed to say.
This question is done-to-death, but my answer is Uncharted 1. Absolutely boring, generic enemies, wave-after-wave gameplay, predictable and dull plot. A few of the setpieces were cool, and the voice acting was alright, but that's not worth all the "GAME OF THE YEAR!!11!!" awards it got.
I liked the first Witcher but the game definitely has some problems. I think the first Witcher mostly got the hype it did because there are so few good big name PC exclusives nowadays. Still glad I played it, but the game would have not been nearly as popular I think if it was released in like 1999/2000 with games like Planescape: torment, fallout 2, Baldur's Gate 2, etc. Haven't played the second Witcher yet, since my PC sucks, waiting for the xbox 360 version. But I think it coming out for a console may kill some of the appeal the Witcher games have. Not sure if exactly Witcher is that overrated though, I mean compared to the RPGS that came out recently though but if you compare them to the older RPGs then I think that may be a different story.Sable Rhapsody said:
Bioshock - I tried to love it. I made a point to try and play it all without putting to much of a break in it. I restarted it 5 times to try and get the full experience. The first 4 it ended up back on my shelf and left to die. The fifth time I got to the theater area, then lost all desire to play it. It is clunky and boring. It has wonderful atmosphere, but as a game it falls short.
Oblivion - I played for about 6 hours...and then realized I was not having any fun at all.
Oblivion - I played for about 6 hours...and then realized I was not having any fun at all.
Call of Duty. It started getting really tedious after MW2, and I switched over to Battlefield. To be fair, I played through CoD1, CoD Big Red One, and MW2, though. I have played the others, but I haven't bought them, because I'm not buying another CoD game unless they make some major improvements. Another thing is how everyone says the graphics are really good, but all of them look as if they're just reskinned from World at War. Battlefield, on the other hand, has made lots of improvements, and actually requires teamwork. Oh, and it has destruction, vehicles, and is more balanced.
I'm going to have to be terribly unoriginal and say Call of Duty.
I'm just not that keen on staring at strawberry jelly smeared on glass and listening to foreign people yell for hours straight.
I'm just not that keen on staring at strawberry jelly smeared on glass and listening to foreign people yell for hours straight.
Well, before I declare the (imo) most overrated game I can think of, I'll take a stroll through the current contenders.
Halo: The first game started great. (Almost) everyone loved it. Then as more came out (starting with 2) it sucked, relying more on multiplayer as the popularity rose.
CoD: Same as Halo, except starting with 3
GoW: Not a bad game, but it's overrated. Mostly because of the gore I'm guessing (possibly story, but who knows).
GTA: Honestly, it's a sandbox game that forgot to give you a shovel until you're almost done with your castle. It's too 'realistic'. (annoying relatives, you die fairly easily, etc). But it has it's moments. Mainly when you have a helicopter tipped sideways in the streets with the fan turning; sending both cars and unlucky pedestrians all the way to Neverland.
Borderlands: Fun on the first playthrough (I will admit repetitive and a bit long), but after you've done it once, you've done it all.
Portal: It's mostly rated this good because it wasn't a game in itself. As Yahtzee said, more of a fill in for the Orange Box.
That's enough for now. Personally, I feel the most overrated game is... Mario. Judge me as you may. I find it a great game, but not excellent. And the remakes/others (Mario Galaxy, Wario World) are just terrible. Well, other than Luigi's Mansion, but you get the gist of it.
EDIT: And the most underrated game (imo) goes to... Halo. Nah, just kidding. It's the Total War series.
Halo: The first game started great. (Almost) everyone loved it. Then as more came out (starting with 2) it sucked, relying more on multiplayer as the popularity rose.
CoD: Same as Halo, except starting with 3
GoW: Not a bad game, but it's overrated. Mostly because of the gore I'm guessing (possibly story, but who knows).
GTA: Honestly, it's a sandbox game that forgot to give you a shovel until you're almost done with your castle. It's too 'realistic'. (annoying relatives, you die fairly easily, etc). But it has it's moments. Mainly when you have a helicopter tipped sideways in the streets with the fan turning; sending both cars and unlucky pedestrians all the way to Neverland.
Borderlands: Fun on the first playthrough (I will admit repetitive and a bit long), but after you've done it once, you've done it all.
Portal: It's mostly rated this good because it wasn't a game in itself. As Yahtzee said, more of a fill in for the Orange Box.
That's enough for now. Personally, I feel the most overrated game is... Mario. Judge me as you may. I find it a great game, but not excellent. And the remakes/others (Mario Galaxy, Wario World) are just terrible. Well, other than Luigi's Mansion, but you get the gist of it.
EDIT: And the most underrated game (imo) goes to... Halo. Nah, just kidding. It's the Total War series.