Overhyped Games?

[bafrali]

And another "HL2 is just overrated" thread. Like all those threads turn into...

Overrated games? Every and none *sigh*.

This.It always goes like this:

"I don't understand why people don't have standards as high as mine.Silly mortals."

People expects more when they found something good.It is like asking for the second plate of a delicious food.You may not get the appael and have every right to wait for your dessert.Just don't look down on people who enjoy their meals.

Man am i hungry

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

I also don't really get any of the 'classic' Halo's. I hate the multiplayers, and that's a big no-no if I'm gonna play a game like that. Now Reach, on the other hand, *swoon*.

The reason so many people prefer the older Halo games to Halo Reach mostly has to do with the multiplayer maps. In Halo it seems every time the mechanics of the game improve the maps keep getting worse. Halo 2 had amazing maps like Beaver Creek, Lockout, and Zanzibar which you could just play for hours on end without getting bored. Same in Halo 3 with Last Resort, Valhalla and High Ground. Halo Reach doesn't have any really great maps. It has some maps that are decent, like Asylum and Boardwalk, but the majority are below average or downright terrible and have really bad balance issues. It doesn't help that half the maps are aesthetically identical because they were made in Forge World.

 

[DigitalAtlas]

THE ORIGINAL DEUS EX

I'm not trolling, nor even slightly joking. WTF IS SO GOOD ABOUT THIS TERRIBLY AGED GAME?

Never played it so I can't say, but when you judge a game, you have to remember to judge it based on its contemporaries, going back and playing it today, with the lack of nostalgia and a comparison to modern games is not a fair judgement.

Just keep that in mind.

Or it's completely fair because it tried to be realistic. For the time, that never should've been a goal. The models look sloppy, gritty, and just hilarious. You don't have to consider age because, well, I can easily say that due to GOOD USE of artstyle, a lot of PS1 games look a million times better than Deus Ex. Games shouldn't have to be subject to age, since, even in the beginning, we were able to make things look smooth and believable. Think about that.

 

[Erttheking]

Meh, Half Life is just ok to me. Don't get me wrong I'll give the third one a try (if it ever comes out) but the other ones have underwhelmed me.

This. When I was playing Half-Life 2 I couldn't stop thinking about how many bases of things people usually hate about FPS that it covers. Dull, brown environments; mute, power-armoured protagonist; linear gameplay; awkward vehicle sections; uniform grunts as enemies.

and yet for some reason people can't get enough of it? Oh well.

What strikes me as weird is the people have a tendency to say that it's so much better than Halo. I went back and played Halo CE (which was also a bit underwhelming) and realized that they're actually pretty similar. I guess people get REALLY hung up on the whole regenerating health vs no regenerating health and an arsenal of weapons vs only two weapons department because that's the only way that they're really different apart from a couple of minor things

Halo CE doesn't have regenerating health. The simple fact why people love half life so much is that it has never the been the most popular shooter out there. It used to be halo so people hate halo, it is now COD so people hate COD (although I must say some people do have legitimate points against this series).

It has regenerating shields, that half counts as regenerating health at the very least.

EDIT: though I see your point

 

[dimensional]

Well reading back over pre release info Mass Effect 3 was overhyped quite spectacularly but the two main game series which I think are always ridiculously overhyped are GTA vice city onwards and Modern Warfare (all cod games after 4) the hype of these games is always absolutely ridiculous even people who would struggle to name a recent generation game know something is up when one of these hits.

And no I dont like them especially GTA as I was foolish enough to buy into the hype originally which equaled a huge disappointment while with Cod I was older and more sceptical so it didnt disappoint as much.

 

[getoffmycloud]

Meh, Half Life is just ok to me. Don't get me wrong I'll give the third one a try (if it ever comes out) but the other ones have underwhelmed me.

This. When I was playing Half-Life 2 I couldn't stop thinking about how many bases of things people usually hate about FPS that it covers. Dull, brown environments; mute, power-armoured protagonist; linear gameplay; awkward vehicle sections; uniform grunts as enemies.

and yet for some reason people can't get enough of it? Oh well.

What strikes me as weird is the people have a tendency to say that it's so much better than Halo. I went back and played Halo CE (which was also a bit underwhelming) and realized that they're actually pretty similar. I guess people get REALLY hung up on the whole regenerating health vs no regenerating health and an arsenal of weapons vs only two weapons department because that's the only way that they're really different apart from a couple of minor things

Halo CE doesn't have regenerating health. The simple fact why people love half life so much is that it has never the been the most popular shooter out there. It used to be halo so people hate halo, it is now COD so people hate COD (although I must say some people do have legitimate points against this series).

It has regenerating shields, that half counts as regenerating health at the very least.

EDIT: though I see your point

Yeah sort of but the thing people most like about health bars is the running about with no health searching for health kit moments which halo still has and I am currently playing through anniversary and I swear the developers just used the regenerating shields as an excuse to be stingy with the health packs I played for about half an hour with 1 bar of health and never found a single health kit now that was tense.

 

[Ulquiorra4sama]

~Skyrim~
I will never get over the amount of hype there was around that game and once i played it i just thought it was a pretty landscape in a big world, but overall i just found the game to be, well... boring.

Also Duke Nukem Forever. I'll admit to liking the game, because thankfully i hadn't been waiting for it as long as many others so my hype level wasn't anywhere near as high.

 

[The Critic]

The Half-Life series, for me, at least, has been over-hyped. They're not bad games by any stretch of the imagination, mind you, but I remember that everyone was telling me at the time how awesome the game was, but after I tried it, I got the sense that "well, that was cool", but never quite anything else. There wasn't a massive "Wow!" factor that I get from some other games.

The Mass Effect series, too, as much as I'm loathe to admit it, also has been a tad underwhelming. Don't get me wrong, I love the games to death, but I have to admit that as I've played them, I've become quite familiar with nearly all of the cracks and imperfections in the fascade, so to speak. I'll say again, I love the games, but that also means that I'm aware of what they do wrong, too.

Borderlands is another game I had really high hopes for, but then was mildly disappointed. Once again, I like the game itself, it's just that there's things that I was kind of hoping would work out better, or be there at all.

I could go on and on, but I feel that I should end soon, so I'll just finish up with the latest game on the list: The Old Republic. Again, by no means a bad game, I absolutely love it to death and still play it, but it was hyped up as this massive experience that it never quite delivers on. That made me a bit sad, but not enough to ruin the game for me, thankfully.

 

[Damian Skinner]

Despite being a xbox owner the Halo series and not just because it started a bunch of gameplay ideas we still have today(regenarating health). The games arent bad, I just found them boring. Also the Call of Duty series.

 

[malestrithe]

Skyrim.

I'm not a fan of "Choose your own adventure" books and this is the video game equivalent of one of them.

Fallout 1 and 2.

The games have lousy interfaces and are poorly made. If this game was made today, I would not be the only one to say that. This game survives because it was the only game your parents bought you that year and you had no other choice than to play it.

 

[Lunar Templar]

all games are overhyped, its how things get sold

overrated, thats another matter

 

[DigitalAtlas]

THE ORIGINAL DEUS EX

I'm not trolling, nor even slightly joking. WTF IS SO GOOD ABOUT THIS TERRIBLY AGED GAME?

Never played it so I can't say, but when you judge a game, you have to remember to judge it based on its contemporaries, going back and playing it today, with the lack of nostalgia and a comparison to modern games is not a fair judgement.

Just keep that in mind.

Or it's completely fair because it tried to be realistic. For the time, that never should've been a goal. The models look sloppy, gritty, and just hilarious. You don't have to consider age because, well, I can easily say that due to GOOD USE of artstyle, a lot of PS1 games look a million times better than Deus Ex. Games shouldn't have to be subject to age, since, even in the beginning, we were able to make things look smooth and believable. Think about that.

It always confuses me when people complain about graphics. I just... don't understand it. At all. The point in Deus Ex, which I played last November, was the level design, and how it was so ridiculously detailed. You could cross every corridor in eleventy billion different ways. It's actually quite interesting that you bring up graphics, because the fact is that those kind of games can't even be made nowadays because there's so much focus on making everything look shiny.

Edit: Blech, only half of this post makes sense. I should probably go to bed.

Actually, relying solely on graphics tech is EXACTLY the problem I said that came to Deus Ex with age. It lacks an artstyle. Simple as.

 

[Kahunaburger]

THE ORIGINAL DEUS EX

I'm not trolling, nor even slightly joking. WTF IS SO GOOD ABOUT THIS TERRIBLY AGED GAME?

Never played it so I can't say, but when you judge a game, you have to remember to judge it based on its contemporaries, going back and playing it today, with the lack of nostalgia and a comparison to modern games is not a fair judgement.

Just keep that in mind.

Or it's completely fair because it tried to be realistic. For the time, that never should've been a goal. The models look sloppy, gritty, and just hilarious. You don't have to consider age because, well, I can easily say that due to GOOD USE of artstyle, a lot of PS1 games look a million times better than Deus Ex. Games shouldn't have to be subject to age, since, even in the beginning, we were able to make things look smooth and believable. Think about that.

It always confuses me when people complain about graphics. I just... don't understand it. At all. The point in Deus Ex, which I played last November, was the level design, and how it was so ridiculously detailed. You could cross every corridor in eleventy billion different ways. It's actually quite interesting that you bring up graphics, because the fact is that those kind of games can't even be made nowadays because there's so much focus on making everything look shiny.

Edit: Blech, only half of this post makes sense. I should probably go to bed.

Actually, relying solely on graphics tech is EXACTLY the problem I said that came to Deus Ex with age. It lacks an artstyle. Simple as.

But that still kind of boils down to the same thing. I mean, I like my games to look nice as much as the next guy, but at the end of the day Rogue blows The Path out of the water as a game. See also: Morrowind. It's fugly now, it was fugly then, but it gives you an awesome world to explore to an extent that few games do. Or Mount and Blade.

(In other words, gameplay >>>>>>>> aesthetics + animations > graphics.)