Games you consider overrated

[IckleMissMayhem]

FFVII, FFXII, Oblivion (haven't played Skyrim, since Oblivion was so lamesauce), any AAA F/TPS, GTA4, Saints Row 3,


...and anything by Valve. Only because of the batshit insane amounts of hype any and all of their games get. I do still like Half Life, Portal and TF2, don't get me wrong, but I don't think the triple-cunted-Princess-Leia-in-a-gold-bikini levels of fanboyism shown about the games does said games any favours.

 

[Scorekeeper]

Grand Theft Auto IV and Red Dead Redemption. Hell, anything by Rockstar.

GTAIV was incredibly boring. I can't see what anyone likes about the game, tbh. Boring characters, boring setting, boring mechanics, etc. I'm just glad I played a friend's copy, rather than wasting my money.

RDR was competent in enough areas to make a decent show of itself but was no more than the sum of its parts. I liked it but didn't consider it GOTY material.

*SPOILERS*

The section where you meet your family should've been at the beginning. Marston clearly cared about them but I didn't at all. The beginning section with Bonnie, who was more likable than Abigail Marston, should've been replaced by the ending section with Jack Marston. The purpose of Bonnie's section was to introduce the player to the game's mechanics. Jack's section served the same purpose. Granted, both used the time to characterize their respective characters but both didn't need to be tutorials. By placing Jack's section at the beginning, the player can be introduced to Abigail and him, thus making the player's goal align itself with John's goal: namely, to return to his family.

 

[Ramare]

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 :/

And that, my dear fellow, pretty much sums up Nuclear Dawn.
Look it up.

Great on paper, horrible in execution.

You either get players that won't cooperate with your commands, tactics, and suggestions; leading to a failure they will blame you for; or you get a commander that figuratively or literally does not know what he's doing, and could have the best team of soldiers, and still fail because they cannot for the life of them destroy the enemy's bunker without support. Or, God forbid, BOTH...

 

[KingCrInuYasha]

Secret of Mana - I bought this game solely because of those claims made by the fans that it was better than Final Fantasy VII and was letdown. The same could be said for Final Fantasy IV and VI, but even they had more going for it. The characters were blander than anything found in FFIV, the story was average at best, and unless you were playing with two of your friends, the two other allies in your party were dumber than a bag of rocks. The soundtrack was pretty good, though.

The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time - Not a bad game, I just think Majora's Mask and Wind Waker polished the features found in Ocarina a bit more.

Super Mario Galaxy - Good game? Yes. Probably even better than Super Mario 64. Worthy of all the accolades it's been getting? Not really.

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

everyone in this thread is WRONG AND STUPID.
nothing anyone has said is overrated, its all severely UNDERRATED. the only overrated game to ever exist is pong. I don't get what anyone sees in this game. There isnt any philosophical discussion, and the sexiness has been VASTLY over represented. I mean, yeah, its KINDA sexy, but not in the pants-shattering way everyone described.

also, halo 3. Game was utter balls

 

[SoulSalmon]

Oblivion (haven't played Skyrim, since Oblivion was so lamesauce)

To be fair, Skyrim shits all over Oblivion, I absolutely HATED Oblivion but Skyrim is pretty fun.
Overrated to the highest degree fucking possible, but fun.

I'm gonna also say Portal 1 (Not so much 2, 2 deserved most of it's praise). The original Portal wasn't funny, it wasn't fun, it wasn't very good, period.

Also gonna agree with Biohock, LoZ:OoT, Mass Effect (both of them) and Final Fantasy (all of them).

Others have mentioned WoW, but that's a hard one.
Yes, by TODAYS standards it's a pretty terrible MMORPG, trampled on by even the most generic free-to-play ones and still thinks it's worth money...
But was it always? no, at its creation it was the MMORPG, the best available, almost a fact.
It just failed to die when its time was up, same story with Runescape.

... it pains me to say these two, but Bastion and Minecraft as well.
Don't get me wrong, brilliant games, love both of them to bits.
But Minecraft really is praised too much for what it is at the end of the day...
And Bastion, although pretty much the only game I will accept someone using as an argument for "epic immersion and story can save 'meh' gameplay" is also loved a bit too much for what it is... considering aforementioned 'meh' gameplay.

One last thing: how is this thread not just one giant fireball at this point? you'd think it would only take one fanboy to start a thread-closing flamewar with this kind of question...

 

[Loethlin]

Hmm, how did I ended up posting in a flamebait thread?
Anyway.

Biggest new offender for me is Skyrim.
I know, I know, everyone and their dog in this thread think so. Look, I actually loved Skyrim, but it wasn't any sort of Holy Grail or anything. It's exactly the kind of game I would enjoy, and I did. But really, it's nothing new, and nothing particularly innovative. Buggy, too. Every Elder Scrolls game EVER was buggy as hell and this is no exception. I think the part that I loved the most about it was the fact that it did not suck, as opposed to Morrowind and ESPECIALLY Oblivion. So they finally managed to make a sandbox game and not fuck it up. Big whoop.

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. It's just a mess of rip-offs, shitty story, boring world, WoW and Bob Salvatore's crappy writing. I really don't understand what's with people liking it and I'm beginning to wonder whether they played any games KoA steals from.

Spore. You remember Spore? It was very hyped up in 2008. I really don't know why, it was 4 short versions of different games in 1. If I really felt like playing one of these, I would. I wouldn't play Spore, with its Play Doh people. And most certainly this game wasn't good enough to warrant all the spin-offs and expansions. But. It is EA we're talking about, so there you go.

Dragon Age II. Ok, it's pretty universally acknowledged that it was a bad game. But there was a hype, people declaring it second coming before it was even released, all that. To this day BioWare treats it like it's the next best thing since sliced bread and I find it insulting. RPGs and Action-RPGs are my pet genres, so I did enjoy DA:O, despite its flaws. But this thing? It's crap in it's own right and in comparison to its predecessor it turns into some sort of malignant tumor.

There are some more games that I loathe because they are mainly multiplayer and those communities are full of retards, so it doesn't have anything to do with the game itself. It's a discussion for another thread.

 

[Iwata]

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. It's just a mess of rip-offs, shitty story, boring world, WoW and Bob Salvatore's crappy writing. I really don't understand what's with people liking it and I'm beginning to wonder whether they played any games KoA steals from.

I still don't have the game, but to me, it's Todd McFarlane's involvement that draws me in, not Salvatore's generic-ass fantasy writing.

 

[Loethlin]

I still don't have the game, but to me, it's Todd McFarlane's involvement that draws me in, not Salvatore's generic-ass fantasy writing.

Oh, that was exactly what made me play this game, in the end. I really was counting on some really freaky, wonderful, imaginative art design. I got World of Warcraft. Seriously. It looks like WoW. I was so disappointed. Some say it looks like Fable, too. They might see it that way, I'm not questioning that. The point is, it rips off art design. Everything in this game is either stolen or crap. I expected more from the creator of goddamn Spawn.

EDIT: Oops. Ok, I should give credit where it's due. Combat animations are pretty. That's about it. ONLY combat animations. Try talking to someone, you'll see a monster from the depths of Uncanny Valley.

 

[Suicidejim]

A lot of 'classic' games don't really hold up for me without the benefits of rose-tinted glasses. I appreciate their existence, and I wouldn't dream of arguing that they weren't important, but too many people still put them on top of 'Best Game Ever' lists.

In fact, scratch that, 'classic' everything is overrated in every media, be it literature, music, art, games, film etc. because most attempts at dissent or criticism are either dismissed out of hand as "You just don't get it" or subjected to the opinion equivalent of napalm.

 

[DJjaffacake]

This is hardly an unusual post, but f****** skyrim. Buggy is one thing, but the lag (I have a PS3) is ridiculous. And now it's starting to emerge that Bethesda knew there was a problem before release. Also, the factions were dull, excluding the Dark Brotherhood, as in they were much shorter and less varied than Oblivion's. Same goes for the civil war questline.

Basically skyrim makes me go gnaaarrrgh!

 

[Josh Hibbard]

Pretty much any shooter that is meant to be realistic. I play video games to escape the real world.

 

[The Shadowlord]

Call of bloody Duty. I hate this game and it's bland repetitiveness. Especially how everyone seems to treat every release like the second, third and fourth coming of Christ were he a video game back in the day.

 

[Azure Knight-Zeo]

Halo.

The story and gameplay just feel generic, there's nothing that sets it apart from the next Space Marine FPS.

i think the part that sets it apart was when there were no other Space Marine FPS games available ie When it was released.

There where (Doom, Quake, Marathon), but they where all on the PC, Halo brought it to an audience that wouldn't know a graphics card from a Magic card.

 

[bafrali]

Knights of the Old Rebublic.It felt like a prototype for Mass Effect.

 

[pilouuuu]

Always on-line Diablo III!

 

[pilouuuu]

Knights of the Old Rebublic.It felt like a prototype for Mass Effect.

Haha I'm totally the opposite about this. KOTOR had great side quest with consequence and different paths, better characters and it was more varied and original. ME seemed too dumbed down, with all the planets being the same, boring MAKO missions, formulaic, etc...

 

[Soopy]

The most overrated game in recent times for me is Skryim by a LONG way. I really loved the TES series, I thoroughly enjoyed Daggerfall, Morrowind and Oblivion (Oblivion not so much).
But Skyrim, its a mile wide and about 3/8" deep. The combat is was never a TES strong point and its no better now. The story was PATHETIC, the guilds were a fucking disgrace and the game is a buggy glitchy mess.
There is no incentive to do anything, none of the players actions have any consequence, none of the quests you pick up have point short of performing arbitrary tasks. You never receive valuable items or take part in an engaging story line.

The whole game is a hiking simulator with a side of bullshit, its almost insulting.


Other then Skyrim, Mass Effect 2 was another major let down. I found the plot took a nose dive and the combat mechanic retcon was a joke. It came as no suprise when I heard that Mass Effect 3 was even more bullshit.

 

[DanteLives]

Batman: Arkham City. Only decent thing about it was Mark Hamill's voicing of The Joker.