Most over rated game?

[Tron-tonian]

Hrm... the tough part about this is that there are two ways to look at it - highly rated games that one just didn't get in to, or games that, upon further review, the general community just didn't agree were as great as the reviews.

The first category is pretty subjective. I am 'meh' about shooters at the best of times, but Halo *really* made me shrug. I don't think I made it past the first level. It just bored me to tears. I don't like RTS games, either, so anything in that category I don't even look at anymore.

I'm having trouble thinking of games that dropped and were subject to rave reviews, but were met by a resounding 'meh' by the gaming community. I'm sure someone here can fill in a few. That being said, games that *were* given stellar marks, and generally loved by the gaming community are not, IMO, over-rated. That includes Halo, Warcraft 1-3, Mass Effect 1-2, Half-Life... they're good, really good. If *you* didn't get in to them, that doesn't make them over-rated. You just didn't get into them - which is fine.

 

[Himmelgeher]

I love how people say Call of Duty and Halo. I very much doubt that they've played the entirety of either series (Treyarch games excluded because they actually are terrible). Even Yahtzee, who called Halo an "insipid boom-fest" has stated on several occasions that he never played the first 2 games, and Halo 3 was hardly a jumping in point. It was a mostly satisfying conclusion to the trilogy and could only be enjoyed as such if you had played the first games and possibly read the books. I'm not saying it's some pinnacle of gaming like the first 2 and last 2 were, I just hate how people demonize it so much. But enough of my rambling. Most overrated game for me is easily World of Warcraft. I downloaded the free trial actually expecting to like, and after half an hour of absolutely nothing happening I realized I was forcing myself to play it. Hopefully The Old Republic isn't a WoW clone like everybody's saying it is.

 

[VanTesla]

Call of Duty series, FF7 (I liked it though), Halo series, ME 2, Fallout 3, Fable series, Assassins Creed series, Portal (liked though), Dead Space, Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, GOW 2, Batman Arkham Asylum, Boarder Lands, Half Life 2, WOW, Star Wars the Force Unleashed (7 millions copies sold because of franchise...), Streat Fighter 4, and much more...

I completed and finished all the above games, some even several times, but they are no were near as great as they are claimed to be. Some of them are complete piss in my opinion, COD, Fable, Dead Space, SWTFU, Halo 3, and Boarder Lands single player.

 

[WorldFree55]

Bioshock and not even close imo. It's a good game but the way people praise that game almost wants to make me throw up.

Red Dead Redemption is also pretty over rated as well but not to extent Bioshock is.

 

[Wintermoot]

the COD franchise.
as far as I know it didn't really change that much over the years beside it,s graphics the gameplay remains the same and it only made the focus on MP over SP worse.

 

[Caligulust]

I couldn't get into the Witcher at all. Same for Bioshock. I still don't quite get the appeal of the first Portal, but it was good for being free with the Orange Box. Not necessarily bad games.

These threads seem to pop up quite often, but strangely never under the name of "Games other people enjoy, but you don't".

 

[KanHanderan]

Uncharted 2; while playing, I didn't want to stop, but when I was done, the experience just felt so empty.

 

[Echopunk]

I was never that impressed with the Halo, Call of Duty, or Gears of War series. I played about a level and a half, and some death matches, of Halo 2 with a friend, but that was it. I played the first Gears of War, and a tiny bit of Call of Duty. There just wasn't enough there to bring me back to any of them.

On the playability side of things, I think Daggerfall was overrated. It was just too big and too buggy and was always collapsing under its own weight. I got about halfway through the main plot (I'm guessing at that figure) and just gave up. The fact that I had to dosbox my computer, and this somehow removed the ability to swim normally without using a no-clip or teleport devcode/workaround didn't do me any favors. Whenever I hear people who claim to prefer it over Morrowind, I get a little confused. Maybe it worked perfectly on 1996 computers in 1996, but considering its Bethesda pedigree, I doubt that.

 

[Malo_Tux]

Wii Sports, how many HDTVs were broken and sacks tapped because of that Bowling Game? And how many roommates were accidentally knocked unconscious and sent through a glass coffee table because of Tennis?

 

[Austin Howe]

Well I can tell you that Final Fantasy VI is the most criminally over rated JRPG I've ever seen. Literally everything good I've ever heard about it (none of which had anything to do with gameplay, btw) turned out to be less true than anyone hoped I would think, or just outright false.

Soundtrack: 25% of it is excellent, the rest is either meh or actually attrociously bad, and not just because it's trying to be cute.

Plot: Kill me, but far too simple, pretty boring, if nothing else it really gets left in the dust because of the focus on . . .

Characters: This is the big one. So you have like 40 playable characters (numbers exagerated) and you're telling me you didn't have the common sense to focus on maybe 15 of them (NUMBERS EXAGERATED), and leave the rest to either simplistic backstories or just relying on entertaining personalities? That is BASIC 101 JRPG writing right there. I honestly lost track of who I was supposed to be caring about in any given moment. That, and frankly, I jsut found their entire characters to be based around a single characteristic that they drove into the ground. This, coming from the game that's supposed to be outright Tolstoyan in the scope and deppth of it's character development. That, and there are characters liek Edgar who have their signature characteristic show up in one scene, and then dissapear forever. Not to mention I don't find, say, Locke's unstoppable optimism or Edgar's flirtation to be at all endearing.



An honorable mention for this genre goes to Chrono Trigger, which had pretty much nothing to offer that was new except really fluid character animations. Actually, let's be fair, it has pretty much the best graphics Square did on SNES, still, that game is just empty as a piece of art.

 

[Austin Howe]

It is, hands down, the worst FF game ever made, and the FF series as a whole is largely just average anyways! So, what's so bad about it? Let's begin.

Dude, have you even seen a screenshot of Final Fantasy II, V, or X? Those are significantly worse.

 

[KalosCast]

Minecraft

Minecraft

Minecraft

It's a boring, repetitive, Dwarf Fortress for the mentally deficient.

 

[PleasantAsAHeadcrab]

Minecraft, I'm still playing the game, but I don't think it's as great as everyone makes it out to be. Sure you can build a house, but what do you do after that?

You build a solid gold dong. Duh.

 

[Austin Howe]

Dragon Age and/or Final Fantasy.

Dragon Age because even though the story may be good, EA messes it up with their business decision of dividing the fan base.

FF has 15 games. It ain't final. Nuf said.

Final Fantasy has 14 games, first of all, unless we're counting the side-games and etc, which would be something like 30, so way to be wrong.

Also, more than half those games are excellent. To be fair, the other half is shit.

 

[PleasantAsAHeadcrab]

Also, I really, really, reaaaally don't like Final Fantasy.
Final Fantasy 7 and Final Fantasy 8 are all right if only for nostalgic reasons as I worshipped the ground Square Enix walked on when I was ten, but the rest just...doesn't really appeal to me.

 

[Wuggy]

Super Mario Bros.

No, I'm not trolling here. Just because you have good childhood memories and the game was good for it's time, does not mean it's the "best game ever". Don't get me wrong, I was addicted to the game back in the day, but people shouldn't shroud their judgement with nostalgia.

 

[Ranylyn]

It is, hands down, the worst FF game ever made, and the FF series as a whole is largely just average anyways! So, what's so bad about it? Let's begin.

Dude, have you even seen a screenshot of Final Fantasy II, V, or X? Those are significantly worse.

1) I own and have beaten all three of these.

2) "Seen a screenshot?" Basing it off graphics? Go away please.

 

[Austin Howe]

It is, hands down, the worst FF game ever made, and the FF series as a whole is largely just average anyways! So, what's so bad about it? Let's begin.

Dude, have you even seen a screenshot of Final Fantasy II, V, or X? Those are significantly worse.

1) I own and have beaten all three of these.

2) "Seen a screenshot?" Basing it off graphics? Go away please.

I'm implying you could look at a screenshot from any given point in any of those games (except during battles in FFX) and see shit happening. Yes, a graphics criticism does apply to II and V, but that wasn't the point. The point was, they're shit.

 

[TestSubject4]

Uncharted.