Games you consider overrated

[Don Savik]

all retro games the escapist community makes them out to be amazing and better than todays games and perfect in every way and they are shit as a younger gamer used to higher standard games (my first console was a PS2) retro games are terrible and many times worse than games of today

Yea, I think its called like The Golden Age Syndrome or something. Could prolly find it on tv tropes. Basically people like the pure innocent bullshit memories from when they were a stupid kid and couldn't remember any of it anyways. Some games were good FOR THEIR GENERATION, but saying Orcarina of Time is better than.....well just about any award winning game nowadays is a hilarious joke.

As for mine. I would say....Catherine was pretty up there in the pretentious/high class artsy/douche/overrated games of this generation. Because it has themes involving sex its automatically immune from any criticism just because it discussed something most games don't? Give me a fucking break people. Even if they did it right, which they didn't, its just a game about a spineless fuck cheating on his girlfriend all because.........his arms go limp and he cant help himself get raped all because a little girl half his age acts all cutesy? Japan is sexually immature. That much is obvious, but man that game is just....bad.

 

[Mr Dizazta]

I really don't consider a lot of games to be overrated, mostly because I myself never played yet or because I can see why somebody enjoys the game. Overrated as a term really doesn't have meaning to me. In addition, I find threads like these as nothing more as a front to incite flame wars.

 

[DioWallachia]

Unless that RTS is Dungeon Keeper who also mixes FPS by possessing your units to do even more evil fun stuff. However, thanks that NOBODY remembers this game i may never know if it is the best example ever and if not at least what could be done to improve it

Aww, now im depressed that such an awesome idea for a game does not exist
Think of the tactics and variety that could be created by having the "shift" ability in an RTS.

Although simply having a "commander" player lording it over his army of "players" online would also be awesome. Then again, when the players or leader turned out to be retarded, it would not be so fun :/

Yathzee made an article about it when he was telling the fans that he WONT review RTS games, mostly because he prefers the mainly way of playing, AKA FPS.

But when i saw that i was thinking:
"Dude, just review/play Dungeon Keeper 1, it has both things and it was made by your Arch Nemesis Peter Molineux. Who, i remind you, is responsible for making Fable and therefore being the second review that YOU ever did. Seeing a part of your time exploring in what game did he lost his mind and started to take loony pills would be an interesting topic to see"

Is there any reason that i am not aware that he isnt going to take his time to examine the games that marked the "Golden Age of Gaming" ?? I am sure that at least he will review the Syndicate FPS Remake since it was ALSO made by Peter in the Bullfrog era

 

[Launcelot111]

Primarily every big time Rockstar game since San Andreas. GTA IV's story falls apart to an absolutely laughable degree after the first island and had absolutely no sense of playfulness after San Andreas' over the topness. Red Dead did some good cowboy stuff, but the whole Mexico section was torture to me, I hated the 15 minute horse rides through nothing, I hated the part at the end where you had to be a rancher, and I hated that killing your horse was a crime (this is my biggest complaint). LA Noire did some good stuff, like it's neat when the crime branches differently, and the face captures are great, but Cole is the worst, the overarching story is weak, and if you mess up cases in certain ways, the story doesn't know how to react, so Cole literally pulls clues out of the ether that directly contradict questions he just asked and then criminals do super illogical things just in a supremely transparent way to keep the case going, which is bar none the most disengaging moment I've ever experienced in my time gaming. If you have the Naked City DLC, purposely fail every question with the fiance guy near the end and marvel at how little sense the case and the game as a whole suddenly make.


Also Beyond Good and Evil (it's good, but not THAT good), Bioshock (certain legitimately fantastic elements holding up an otherwise lackluster grind), Uncharted (characterized, adventure-filled cover-based shooter is still cover-based shooter), and pretty much every shooter out today

 

[Crazedc00k]

Arkham City and Asylum. They're pretty fun, but they're hardly the second coming of Christ.

 

[Baalthazaq]

Skyrim.

It was good, but sweet Jesus, the soiled-panted fanboys are so OTT. The amount of abuse you endure when you don't soil yourself at the thought of it. "BUT YOU PLAYED IT, HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE IT". Any attempts at reasoning with said people, and how they exaggerate your feelings.
Me: "I'll give it an 8/10"
Them: "Why do you hate it so much?! Justify your loathing!!!!!!!"

For me, it's as if Kung Fu Panda won ALL the Oscars, people were naming their children "Dragon Warrior", jokes about "I used to be the Chosen one, then I took a turtle to the pressure point", people going "IT IS THE GREATEST THING EVER CREATED". It's not. It's just not.

"It shouldn't have won ALL the Oscars" is met with rage. "How can you not say it deserved ALL THE OSCARS?!"

It's crazy. Skyrim is a big, pretty, empty, world you can hack and slash at things in for hours. It's single player WoW. The AI is terrible (try running across a body of water). The human interactions are atrocious, and they only really exist to hand out quests. The story is average, and all talk of "you make your own story" doesn't work. It's NOT as many claim, a blank canvas. Every interaction with every person in Skyrim BREAKS the immersion and interferes with any attempts to "create your own story" and at the end of the day, you're playing an NPC. At the end of the day, except the people you personally kill (some of whom you can't), everyone remains unimpacted.

Again, it's fun, but GOTY? In a year with Portal 2, ME2, Shogun 2, Brotherhood, Witcher 2, Limbo, Bastion, Catherine, Deus Ex:HR, Dark Souls, Arkham City, LA Noire, SW:TOR.

I'm not saying all those would be GOTY, but Skyrim struggles to get in to the top 5 in that list, and it pushed out much much better games for GOTY despite being deeply flawed. There is no argument you can make for Skyrim that you can't make for playing WoW, by yourself.

Dramatically, unreasonably, mass-hysterical levels of hype. Most overrated game: Skyrim.

 

[Random Fella]

Call of Duty after World at War
But I'm pretty sure everyone on the website knows that it's overrated in the mainstream.

 

[DioWallachia]

Primarily every big time Rockstar game since San Andreas. GTA IV's story falls apart to an absolutely laughable degree after the first island and had absolutely no sense of playfulness after San Andreas' over the topness. Red Dead did some good cowboy stuff, but the whole Mexico section was torture to me, I hated the 15 minute horse rides through nothing, I hated the part at the end where you had to be a rancher, and I hated that killing your horse was a crime (this is my biggest complaint). LA Noire did some good stuff, like it's neat when the crime branches differently, and the face captures are great, but Cole is the worst, the overarching story is weak, and if you mess up cases in certain ways, the story doesn't know how to react, so Cole literally pulls clues out of the ether that directly contradict questions he just asked and then criminals do super illogical things just in a supremely transparent way to keep the case going, which is bar none the most disengaging moment I've ever experienced in my time gaming. If you have the Naked City DLC, purposely fail every question with the fiance guy near the end and marvel at how little sense the case and the game as a whole suddenly make.


Also Beyond Good and Evil (it's good, but not THAT good), Bioshock (certain legitimately fantastic elements holding up an otherwise lackluster grind), Uncharted (characterized, adventure-filled cover-based shooter is still cover-based shooter), and pretty much every shooter out today

Uncharted is even more painfull for the people who played Legacy Of Kain. From ambitious original vampire epic to Indiana Jones rip off.

 

[Norix596]

I would say the Call of Duty series as it's existed since Modern Warfare -- I mean I had fun with MW2 but I really can't understand why anyone would want to wait in line overnight for the latest version.

I can understand why it's the best selling game each time though -- power of advertising and name recognition can do wonders.

 

[Darth Rahu]

Halo. After the first game it really didn't go anywhere for ten years.

Gears of War. Cover mechanic! Huzzah!! What else you got? Oh look, dudes in armor acting all grim and depressed while fighting space aliens with chainsaw guns, that won't bet bipolar anytime soon.

Uncharted. I don't care how much like Indiana Jones the games want to be, if I could I would punch Nathan Drake in the face until he resembled Mike Tyson after going two rounds with Atom from Real Steel! Dialogue and everything is great but why should I be rooting for Nathan Drake?

Call of Duty Modern Warfare's 2, 3 and Black Ops: It's Call of Duty 4 with different maps and progressively worse writing! Stop the madness!

Oblivion: Note that this is the console version. I hated the level scaling so everything got tougher with you, as opposed to actually feeling like you are progressing in strength. Also, instant fast-travel from the start in an Elder Scrolls game to a guy who never played one before really short-changes the whole "EPIC MASSIVELY HUGE WORLD OF AWESOME!!" thing the series is known for.

Torchlight: Yes it's nice if you're a fan of Diablo but grinding and getting better gear progressively for its own sake feels very insubstantial to me.

Super Mario Bros: TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL....

 

[Canadamus Prime]

modern games: too many to list due to paid PROFESSIONAL REVIEWERS and the millions they spend on advertising.

The key word there being "payed," as in payed off.

 

[daveman247]

Skyrim.

QFT: Its weird, bethesda's games seem to get away with things that any other game would be strung up for :/ Peoples excuse is always "lol its big lol".

The game was released unfinished, and people seemed to forgive it oddities.

And the amount of filler in the massive world is just silly. Miles of empty land with nothing in it.

And the combat is weak :/

 

[Baalthazaq]

I think I'm forgetting something..... oh I know:

World of Warcraft

For a game that came out 10 years ago, I'm going to cut it a lot of slack. Besides I don't think the hype still surrounds it. The hype 10 years ago was (mostly) deserved, and the hype now is very limited. Is anyone really raving about WoW like they do for any of the titles on your list?

 

[5t3v0]

For me it's final fantasy 7. Very likely due to the fact I attempted to play it 9 years after release.

Similar to me, but I didn't think that because it was old. I liked it, but I felt it overrated because I played FFVI First and felt that had better writing and more memorable music. Though the overworld theme is still a favourite of mine.

My proper answer would have to be Fallout 3. I did enjoy it when I first played it, but too much curiosity and much research on the Fallout wiki regarding Lore made me rethink it, and felt that while it wasn't as bleak as Fo3, New Vegas captured the Fallout Ideals more than 3 did.

In all, Playing New Vegas made me think that 3 was overrated, and the fact that New Vegas was actually not as buggy as people made it out to be for me for most of my First playthrough, but of course that varied from PC to PC that I played it on...

 

[lacktheknack]

Limbo.

It was... OK. Not great. I don't see why it was the "BEST INDIE GAME OF 2010". The aesthetic got a bit annoying, the puzzles weren't hard, the OMGWTFBBQ moments were a bit too far between... It was still worth playing, but it wasn't incredible.

 

[Ridgemo]

I'm not going to put a game down here that I think is over-rated, because it's none of my business what other people think of a game. What I will ask however is why it matters?

Comments like "I'm not sure why Halo is rated so highly in it's fandom" are just moot. It's because they are fans of the game, they enjoy that particular game/art style or the story. Much the same with Bioshock, Mass Effect or indeed any other highly rated game.

I dare say that the reason they are highly rated is because the majority likes them. Sure you may not like them, it might not appeal to you. At the end of the day it's pointless, because you are not going to like it no matter what anyone else says.

Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if this thread gets made again in 2-3 weeks.

 

[girzwald]

Definitely skyrim. People who say they can't stop playing and its loads of fun. The combat is shallow, every quest is samey and the dragon fights are the only interesting ones because they don't die in 1-2 hits.

 

[Simon Pettersson]

Don't see why. It's like everything else.

Want perfect multiplayer? Go play Starcraft.

RTS =/= first person shooter. Not comparable

Unless that RTS is Dungeon Keeper who also mixes FPS by possessing your units to do even more evil fun stuff. However, thanks that NOBODY remembers this game i may never know if it is the best example ever and if not at least what could be done to improve it

Well lets hope this game opens up peoples eyes to the genre: Gettysburg: Armored Warfare
http://angryjoeshow.com/2012/01/aj-preview-gettysburg/
I would love more RTS/FPS games

OT: I think Portal is overrated never really liked it.

 

[Arakasi]

Skyrim has to win.
Great great game, lame linear story.

 

[Bomberman4000]

To me the Uncharted games are overrated. I've tried playing each one and I just cannot get into them. I don't know what it is specifically other than I find Nathan Drake fucking insufferable. My brother loves the games. Me, can't stand them.

Team Fortress 2 is another one. I think this one's here because A. It took me forever to get around to playing it, and B. I am FUCKING terrible at it, but even when I have a good game I don't see what's so wonderful about it. Everyone holds it up as the holy grail of multiplayer shooters but I never had any fun with it.