Games you consider overrated

[Vigormortis]

There are quite a few, really, but the ones that come to mind first are:

Call of Duty - I mean, really? The best selling game franchise in history? That's just depressing.

Mass Effect - Might just be me, but I've always found the game-play to be a bit clunky and the narrative a bit pedantic.

Skyrim - I understand people wanting to like it, what with it being something different in a sea of rehashes and shooters that flooded the industry the past year or so, but come on people. This game is literally a mostly empty sandbox built on an engine seemingly designed to create bugs. Remember when we used to complain and despise games that were filled to the brim with game-breaking bugs instead of praising them as if they're some shining beacon of perfect game design?

Halo. I enjoyed the first, had some fun with ODST.

They're enjoyable, but not sure why they're so well regarded in their fandom.

Oh wow. Someone else who actually has the same opinion of the Halo series as I do. That's actually more rare than you think.

I loved Halo: CE as well as ODST. Both had their flaws, but they mixed things up and brought something interesting to the table. (not to mention having better stories that the others) But, 2, 3, and Reach were just underwhelming at best and down right mediocre at worst.

I also liked Wars. I know a lot of gamers bemoan the game because "hurr durr you can't do RTS on console". No, you can't do great RTS games on a console. But Halo Wars is about as close to a good RTS game you'll ever get on a console.

EDIT: Oh, and minecraft. Its cool you can build stuff but i just dont like playing aimless games... What do you do once you have finished your safe fortress of doom?

You realize you're playing the wrong game and go load up Terraria, spawn a goblin army, Snow Legion, blood moon, or one of the many bosses, and have WAY more fun than you ever will with Minecraft.

Just sayin'.

 

[Nicolairigel]

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.

Care to explain how I think the older Fallouts are better that Fallout 3 despite playing Fallout 3 FIRST?
Care to explain how I think System shock 2 is better than Bioshock despite playing Bioshock FIRST?
Care to explain how I think Daggerfall is better than Skyrim despite playing Skyrim FIRST?
Care to explain how I think Planescape Torment has better writing then all the Bioware drivel despite playing the Bioware drivel FIRST?

You can keep yourself in denial with the whole "rose tinted nostalgic glasses" thing as much you like, but there is no denying that games are getting shorter and shallower.

PS: Try not to use the "well that's just your opinion" argument, nor the "many people don't agree with you".

"Try not to use the "well that's just your opinion" argument"?

That's like saying "Explain to me why drinking and driving is bad without using the argument it will cause you to crash your car and injure/kill multiple people." That IS the reason you enjoyed those games, because you enjoyed those early games more than others. What, am I suppose to say that you enjoy the early games because an alien spacecraft warped your mind into liking them?

I mean, I think your main problem is that your expecting the newer games to be good for the same reasons the older games are. Fallout 3 and the old fallouts are COMPLETELY different gameplay wise, you can't just blindly compare them. The old fallouts did somethings better than fallout 3, but fallout 3 did somethings better than the older fallouts (IMO). It's the exact same thing with System shock vs. Bioshock. They both did different things well. As for the daggerfall vs. skyrim, I have no Idea why you liked daggerfall better, as apparently I'm not allowed to say that you just like it more. And planescape was masterly crafted and written, probably the best writing in gaming to this day, it's better than games from it's time and present day. Just because it has better writing then bioware games doesn't mean that bioware games have bad writing. That's all I'm going to say.

 

[LK9988]

These aren't really greatly "overrated" games, but these two games seem to be enjoyed by a lot of people, and I just can't really get engrossed in them.

Saints Row the Third: A lot of my friends seem to praise this game as the most quirky and fun sandbox game this generation, although I personally do not think much of it. One of the game's main premises is to simply mess around and cause havoc and mayhem for little reason excluding your own entertainment. Don't get me wrong, I often love messing around in games, but most instances in which I get a rush from messing around in a game is caused by the fact that I'm not going by the objectives of the game, and I'm creating my own means of entertainment. Because of this, when Saints Row the Third gives me a load of crazy weapons and taunts and tells me to mess around to my heart's content, I get bored fairly quickly.

Battlefield 3: To be completely honest, I don't really see how this game excels so much over the recent installments of the Call of Duty franchise, as many of the game's fans seem to claim in my experience. Although I consider it to be superior over the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare titles, I just think of Battlefield 3 as another modern military shooter, with an average online multiplayer component and a lackluster single player campaign.

 

[Coldster]

Modern Warfare 2 and 3: You know exactly why. Do I really need to explain this?

FF XIII: Or for that matter, pretty much every FF game. It is possibly the worst kind of JRPG when it comes to combat. Everything is so samey and tedious it feels more like grinding in a MMO. It feels like the whole game was made from cutscenes anyways.

Minecraft: I love Minecraft. I have probably spent over 55 hours since the I got it at the 1.3 stage. However seeing it win the March Madness last year on The Escapist was the most ridiculous thing ever. Its just a really good creativity toy. Nothing more.

The Witcher 1 and 2: Nope. Not stating why again. I have done so about ten times now and I don't want to go copy pasting it any more. Its simply not very good.

 

[Zydrate]

Halo. I enjoyed the first, had some fun with ODST.

They're enjoyable, but not sure why they're so well regarded in their fandom.

Oh wow. Someone else who actually has the same opinion of the Halo series as I do. That's actually more rare than you think.

I loved Halo: CE as well as ODST. Both had their flaws, but they mixed things up and brought something interesting to the table. (not to mention having better stories that the others) But, 2, 3, and Reach were just underwhelming at best and down right mediocre at worst.

I also liked Wars. I know a lot of gamers bemoan the game because "hurr durr you can't do RTS on console". No, you can't do great RTS games on a console. But Halo Wars is about as close to a good RTS game you'll ever get on a console.

I also meant Reach, not ODST. Still, the series is functional but the Fandom are out of their minds.

 

[LeQuack_Is_Back]

Modern Warfare, which I quit recently upon realizing that I was playing more out of force of habit than anything else.

Most of my reasons are personal though. I do realize the series has it's strengths, but I feel some are overstated, and others I just don't like.

For example, I don't get the point of having dozens of perks, killstreaks, and weapons, if 90% of the player base is going to use the same combination. I certainly wouldn't tolerate a single-player game where every single enemy is exactly the same, so why would I put up with it in multiplayer?

That, and, mechanically speaking, MW3 seems to have taken a step down. My console actually stutters a bit whenever I go through the Challenges, and I've had a number of times where the game drops to slide-show speeds. They're using the same engine, last I heard, but the spawns, the hit detection, and the lag seemed to have all gotten worse, and I can't understand why.

 

[Timmey]

Pretty much every game that costs 60 dollars.

CoD is #1 most unrated, pick a title and that is the one Im talking about. No one should pay 60 dollars for a map pack with a new name.

Gears of war - Mass Effect - Elder Scrolls - GTA - Final fantasy 11/13/13-2/14 - Halo -

Pretty much every game that had a good 1st game and is now on its 3+ sequel. Its been beat to death I just find them completely overpriced for nothing original and they are always getting shorter which doesnt help either.

Always end up getting shorter, yet you put Mass effect and Elder scrolls in your list? Doesn't make any sense .... does it ?

 

[psicat]

Half-life 2. Its an average shooter with an average story, above average physics and game engine, but below average characters and AI. Add in it's rabid fan base that doesn't shut up about it and I moved beyond being disappointed in it and finding it overrated, to it being my most hated game.

 

[lRookiel]

Both the Witcher games, BORING AS FUCK WITH SHIT COMBAT! I DONT EVEN!!!!!

And Deus ex HR, I just saw a Generic shooter with little replay value?

Mass Effect games, I just don't like them, I found them boring, oh and when you died on ME1 I was like "OH MY GOD! THATS THE DEATH SEQUENCE?!" That music annoyed the hell outta me >.<

Halo aswell.

 

[Rheinmetall]

Most Rockstar Games titles in general. The indisputable king of overrated Rockstar games is Red Dead Redeption. Simply horrible controls.
Second Place: Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Just a decent FPS, I don't understand what's all the fuss about it.
Third place: Metal Gear Solid 4. I don't count it as a video-game anyway. It belongs in the CGI films genre.

 

[Arqus_Zed]

Hmmm, I think I'll go with... Pokémon.

Re-releasing the same game every few years, sometimes in twofold, sometimes in threefold. Also, it really bothers me that the game they copy/pasted the gameplay from (and sprinkled it with obnoxious and illogical child friendliness) always remained the underdog. In case you don't know, I'm talking about Megami Tensei (and at least they actually brought changes to the gameplay mechanisms.

 

[Launcelot111]

Red Dead... I hated that killing your horse was a crime (this is my biggest complaint).

Wouldn't have been such a problem but for the parallax aiming problems from the first Third-person perspective, you could clearly aim past the horses head but the actual path of the "bullet" (actually a hitscan line) is to the left or right and down. They could have fixed this, made the bullets clip through your horse head as who ever wants to shoot their horse in the head WHILE RIDING IT!

Honestly, I had never even thought about shooting your horse while riding it, but now that I know I can't do that, I'm mad. Whenever I got frustrated with my horse, I got off and shot it in the head on the spot, so I really didn't appreciate that this was a five dollar fine. In all honesty, my favorite thing to do in the entire game was to find where the cougars lived and laugh as they came out of nowhere and killed my horse in one swipe. One random touch about Gun (Gun was better than RDR) that I loved was that if you spurred your horse too much, it would die on the spot. I don't like horses.

Anyway, Rockstar's last three games have had such wildly uncharacterized characters, it's painful. They give them decent backstories, but in game they find one note and stick to it for the whole game.

GTA IV- Someone: "Hey Niko, come on, we're going to (insert crime here)!" Niko: "OK. I need money for to be living American dream."

RDR- Someone: "Hey John, how about (insert topic here)." John: "Well, I can't rightly say one way or another on that, sir/ma'am. I just want my family."

LA Noire- "Hey Cole, let's do (insert things that might be slightly morally questionable but are generally accepted by society at large)." Cole: (Loudly and stiffly) "I do not think that this is conduct befitting of a Los Angeles police officer."

Add to that the fact that every sandbox has been progressively less interesting than the last and their trend that new mission ideas are a thing of the past by the start of the second act and I don't understand why GTA V or any other Rockstar game is highly anticipated

 

[TastyCarcass]

Animal Crossing. I bought it thinking it was going to be a fun relaxing sim sort of game. It wasn't. I was stuck in the same field picking apples for all eternity. Awful game and overrated as hell, what with all the features magazines did about it.

 

[deadish]

Bethesda RPGs. [1]

They throw in whatever they can think of without regard to how well it will work or, hell, whether it will work at all. Quantity over quality.

Some people say they like the freedom. Ha. The freedom to choose from various set of poor tuned content you mean.

The amount of praise these games get confounds me.


[1] Although, granted, I have only played Morrowind. But from reviews and "watch me play" videos on Youtube, it appears nothing much has changed. Hence I believe my overall assessment of them is reasonably accurate.

 

[mikey7339]

For the 100th reincarnation of this thread, I will throw in Psychonauts this time. Yes it was interesting, yes it was different, but it was not engaging or fun. It had its quirky moments but the core gameplay was mundane and boring. I forced myself to play until halfway thru until I couldn't muster any more fucks to give about the game.

 

[dills2]

deus ex hr was an alright game but it ruined stealth you could just easily rush in guns blazing gears of war style

 

[AlotFirst]

Any 'old-school' MMORPG ever created that MMORPG-fans seem to love.

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. The developer is incompetent and has created the most bland, pathetic fantasy setting I've ever had to suffer.

 

[LordXel]

Tomb Raider - I see no appeal in this series other than BOOBS! Of course I gave it a change, and I still didn't like it. It was dull.

GTA IV - The multiplayer in it is very good, but the single player was just dull.

Call of Duty - (Holds up beaten dead horse as a shield) I'm sorry but I still hate how theres a new one EVERY SINGLE YEAR! Its getting dull.

I don't care for dull games.

 

[Belaam]

I think these have all been said, but:

Call of Duty/Halo (any): As I am not a homophobic 13 year old boy whose teachers secretly worry will bring a gun to school.

GTA IV: I still have copies of GTA 3 on. I periodically haul them all out and play them, even when that also means digging my PS2 out of the garage. However, with IV, I got 75% of the way through, bot bored to death and quit playing. I only finished it so I wouldn't feel bad about selling the game.

The Sims: Never, ever got the appeal of this. I mean, I go to work, come home, make dinner, raise kids etc. in RL. Why in the world would I want to do it as a game? I've played it. Once I made my friends and recreations of all the houses and apartments I've lived in, I was done. There was nothing interesting to do with the game.

 

[William Ossiss]

Every final fantasy ever.

world of warcraft.

COD.

i rent most of my games anyway. the only ones i buy are ones i know i will be able to get massive amounts of replayabillity from.