Most overrated games of the current gaming era
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Team Fortress 2: I've put quite a few hours into this one, and it's pretty good. But from what i've seen from these forums and other PC gaming forums, it gets an unwarranted amount of praise from the Valve fanboys. As far as PC shooters go, i'd pick Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament over TF2 any day.
Left 4 Dead: Sorry, I get all the zombie action I want in the form of HL 2 zombie mods. Left 4 Dead has solid gameplay, but it is nowhere near worth the $60 price tag. There just isn't enough content to justify that cost.
That's all I can think of for right now.
Left 4 Dead: Sorry, I get all the zombie action I want in the form of HL 2 zombie mods. Left 4 Dead has solid gameplay, but it is nowhere near worth the $60 price tag. There just isn't enough content to justify that cost.
That's all I can think of for right now.
I'm going to go with HALO 3.
You see, I am not a rich man, and I can't afford every potentaily good game the day it comes out. That's why I only buy the most critically acclaimed games out there so I know that I will not be disappointed. I don't really hate halo. I just think that it was a below average game that got a lot of hype because the first game was pretty good for its time.
In other words, FUCK YOU EVERY CRITIC THAT SAID HALO 3 WAS GREAT!
You see, I am not a rich man, and I can't afford every potentaily good game the day it comes out. That's why I only buy the most critically acclaimed games out there so I know that I will not be disappointed. I don't really hate halo. I just think that it was a below average game that got a lot of hype because the first game was pretty good for its time.
In other words, FUCK YOU EVERY CRITIC THAT SAID HALO 3 WAS GREAT!
Bioshock. Sure the atmosphere's great and the story is interesting, but the game itself isn't fun to play at all.
Street Fighter IV. Would it really be getting this much acclaim if this wasn't a Street Fighter game?
And last but not least....every single game ever made by Valve (ok fine, just the obvious ones). I too love them all, but I don't think any game (except Paper Mario <3) could ever match the enormous amount of hype Portal, HL2, TF2, etc get around here.
Street Fighter IV. Would it really be getting this much acclaim if this wasn't a Street Fighter game?
And last but not least....every single game ever made by Valve (ok fine, just the obvious ones). I too love them all, but I don't think any game (except Paper Mario <3) could ever match the enormous amount of hype Portal, HL2, TF2, etc get around here.
Anything produced by Valve. Don't get me wrong, I have the Orange Box and have enjoyed the games, but HL2 and Portal seemed to have been proclaimed the second coming of Christ and I thought they were merely entertaining. Very slick and well put together, but just fun, not the "GREATEST EVAR!"
As many have said before me: Halo 3! I think Halo 3 is not only the most over rated game, but judging by these forums, the most HATED game out right now. (Which im just fine with.)
First of all, welcome to the Escapist!Droors said:
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YES! so much yes that i capitalized it, and i absolutely do not capitalize anything. i am the same way, i loved fallout 3 and every gore-ridden beggar-slapping moment of it, but it was not worth a lunchbox-toting special edition or a hardcover player's guide the size of my oven.Broady Brio said:
in addition, fable 2. i am inclined to disagree with karloss01 in his declaration that fable 2 was fable with a dog. this puts fable 2 in the same bracket as fable, if that bracket is labeled "good." it was incredibly easy. firearms were fun, as were slow-motion deaths but in all honesty i could have given that game to a cocaine-addicted proboscis monkey and he would not have had trouble beating it.
fire emblem: shadow dragon. i suppose this game isn't actually all that overrated, but it was published in magazines and on the internet and that is a drastic tragedy that gives this steamy pile much more recognition than it deserves. the removal of support conversations in this game might have possibly been the worst decision ever made by a developer. it turned off my raging "omg fire emblem" meter faster than a power out. *shakes head with distaste*
i'll leave it at those three. yikes.
On a percentage scale, 10/10 is a score greater than 95%. Also, most review systems define 10/10 as 'achieved everything that could resonably be expected of it' rather than 'perfect' because defining ten and zero as unachievable infinities means your scale is actually between 1 and 9. Oh no, now the 9s are perfect.Machines Are Us said:
As for overrated games, Half-Life 2 [pretentious, full of meaningless, unnatural 'puzzles' designed just to show off the engine, confused locking you in a room with unskippable exposition for having a plot, and recycled almost every enemy, weapon and situation in it from the first game], Killzone 2 [it's fun to take a grunting apeman who controls like a bus on a quest through the same fucking things in every other FPS ever made while fighting anime space Nazis all so that
your even dumber teammate Mungo, not satsified with getting one of his own squad killed and beating a friendly soldier to within an inch of his life, kills Visari after you've captured him for no reason at all, meaning everything you just did achieved nothing whatsover. Thanks, I hate achieving things in games anyway
Halo doesn't get a mention because it isn't overrated, more loud-rated. There's plenty of dissent in the ranks already over it, outside the immediate arc of mainstream critics working for publications largely depending on ad revenue from the companies making the products they're supposed to impartially review.
Four pages without a flame war, and you decide to report it!!!Cid SilverWing said:
On topic - Yep, it's Halo 3 again! Also, Oblivion and Fallout 3 for committing the same error, the pretence of freedom in a restricted world (and also being buggy as hell, but not in a fun way like Morrowind).
I also detested Bioshock, but I can't put my finger on why, I just had the overwhelming urge to turn it off after a couple of hours.
And I have to give a mention to GTAIV for removing everything that made San Andreas great and then painting it brown.
Yeah, because everyone loved their ability to drive and shoot being determined by arbitrary numbers and the entire game refusing to let you progress until you'd spent time grinding to level the otherwise totally useless swimming stat.Private Custard said: