In your opinion, what's the most overrated video game ever?

[Pero]

I'm gonna jump on Guild wars 2 wagon. I tried it on free weekend, played it, was really disappointed. But, I'm not a MMO guy (I hated WOW and still do) so maybe I expected more than game could offer. Idk. It was just so hyped with inovative combat and dynamic events and rich and inspiring world. I hated combat-felt to much like WOW and then everything else fell in water for me.
Also Half LIfe 2. It's good but it's not awesome crazy ludacris unbeatable by any other game gift from gods like some people describe it (at least I get the wibe that some people think like that).
As for Skyrim that some people mention, I think people adore it becouse there is nothing like it (except some other Bethesda games). It has a huuuge world filled with everything and anything and you get dragged into it easy. It has tons of mods for your liking and you can (practically) do ANYthing you want (by that I mean you can kill whoever you want xD). And yeah, melee combat sucked but hey, rest of combat is okay.

 

[flarty]

Half-Life 2.
It's nowhere near as innovative and ground-breaking as Half-Life was.
Great game that did plenty right and brought some good ideas to the table, but it didn't exactly change what the FPS scene looked like the way the original did.

Before Half-Life you were lucky to see reloading and decent aiming in the same game.
Those have since become the norm, with iron sights often being tossed into the mix. Half-Life 2 was just a cliche sci-fi story with a great supporting side character that stole the thunder from just about everyone else (Alyx Vance) and vehicles that inexplicably felt like beach balls. An interesting trek, but really nothing that we didn't see before or have seen since.

Runners up on my list of things to shoot down are Grand Theft Auto and Bethesda RPGs.
But I'd rather light one fire than three in one post.

I think HL2 main accomplishment was in its story telling. It was the first game to really merge gameplay and story telling almost seamlessly. But i do agree it was not really a technical achievement apart from the source engine and physics engine were very nice for the time.

My vote would go for either the Gears of War series ( i cant take a series seriously when all you are doing is fighting mole men essentially)

Or GTA, sorry but just never like the characters.

 

[Murrdox]

Holy crap Skyrim is insanely overrated, and it hasn't aged

I agree with it being overrated, however aged well? ...Are you a time traveler? Because gaming hasn't changed at all in the last few years.

Well yes it's only been a year, but for me. Skyrim has already lost it's charmed,

I'm really surprised about all the hate for Skyrim as an overrated game, and no one is saying the same thing about Oblivion.

I'm not going to claim Oblivion was pretty ground-breaking in it's own way for bringing the open-world RPG of Morrowind to the consoles... but for us PC Gamers, Oblivion wasn't anything THAT new.

But I just thought Oblivion was utter crap. I couldn't control the damn thing on the X-Box and could never figure out how console gamers managed to sink dozens of hours into the thing. On the PC side, you had to install a dozen mods to fix all the controls that were designed for a console with no customization for mouse/keyboard controls.

You want to talk about lame DLC? Don't you remember "Horse Armor"? For a lot of people, this was the first DLC they'd ever had for ANY game... and it went down in history as probably one of the worst DLCs ever produced.

Plus Oblivion got SO much more press than Skyrim. Part of being over-rated is how much people shouted about it, and I think people made a much bigger fuss over Oblivion than Skyrim.

 

[Vern5]

I'd say this is a toss up between Final Fantasy VII and Baldur's Gate.

Yes, they were gaming Pioneers and changed everything we knew about gaming BACK IN THEIR DAY.

The years have not been kind to these games and their fame is fed on an IV of nostalgia. Both of them have potentially fascinating stories that are hindered by their execution and are incredibly annoying when you consider there are other, more refined games of similar genres lying around today.

 

[AwesomeDave]

I could make a huge list... but I'll stick to just a few.

Dishonored - Not a terrible game, but definitely not deserving of the hype. It was fun for about 2-3 hrs, then it just got boring and repetitive... and even after completion, the only name I remember is Corvo.

Farcry 3 - Once again, not a terrible game... but grinding is fucking boring, especially in a FPS. It did have it's cool aspects though.

HALO and CoD - I've played both... still play CoD here and there for the MP... but god I wish they would both just die, I'm sick of hearing about them, and the war between them. Admittedly, I hate Halo more, but that's because I think jumping during combat is just an asinine idea.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

Overrated by fans - Half Life 2. It is fun. But honestly, I never wanted to replay it. Still don't.

Overrated by the official reviewers - Mass Effect 3. This is where it became painfully obvious that every major reviewer was bought by EA. The fact that no one mentioned anything about the ending, auto dialogue and how the choices don't matter at all throughout the game (Rachni queen, Collector base) makes it pretty obvious.

 

[Arfonious]

Diablo 3

Ridiculusly over-rated. The entire feeling of the older games are lost, the gritty artstyle is replaced with plasticy derp-fantasy stuff and the skill system so dumbed down that leveling stopped feeling noticable

I was under the impression that most people, like me, felt that Diablo 3 was an okay, but not good game and stopped playing after a week or two.

I did as well, but during those first weeks it was praised out the ass

 

[scorptatious]

You know it's funny. While I can kinda agree that FFVII is a bit overrated by the people who really liked the game, I feel it's also sort of underrated considering how many people seem to like to bash on it. It's a kind of a weird feeling.

OT: Probably the first two Fallout games. Now, don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed both of these games. But for some reason, I see a lot of people talk about how great these games are and how shit later games in the series are (like 3 and to a lesser extent NV). They talk about how perfect the games were and how "dumbed down" the later games were in comparison.

Okay, I can agree the games were really good, but they aren't without their problems. Skills like Medicine and Doctor are almost completely useless, and Fallout 2's starting area is probably one of the worst ways to start off a game ever. What's that? You want to play as someone who's good with small guns and really good at talking his way out of a situation? Here's a spear, go fight some ants, and beat this guy in a fist fight.


I get that you start off in a tribal village, but there must have been a better way to start off the game than THAT area.

 

[corneth]

Any Sonic Game

Seriously, that Hedgehog has not aged well at all, that "2cool2fast4u" personality may have worked in the 90s, but now it's just irritating and embarrassing in hindsight

 

[The White Hunter]

Obviously this isn't exactly a rare topic but I really want to know what you think is the most overrated game ever.

For me it's Final Fantasy VII. Dear god.

I've played it and enjoyed it, I guess, but I really didn't see anything that groundbreaking or amazing about it. Maybe my opinion doesn't matter because I didn't play it when it was released and I'll never understand the hype or whatever.

In any case, I can't remember the last time I saw someone who really liked the game take a break from fucking climaxing with nostalgia about it and really look at it as a game; it's merely okay. Also I played ff8 shortly after and actually liked it more contrary to my belief that I wasn't going to like it at all.

8, 9, 10 and 12 are all better than 7 in my opinion, though I love 7 very much.

Mine would have to be Shadow of the Colossus. I was horrificly bored. I returned it. It was bad .__.

 

[The White Hunter]

You know it's funny. While I can kinda agree that FFVII is a bit overrated by the people who really liked the game, I feel it's also sort of underrated considering how many people seem to like to bash on it. It's a kind of a weird feeling.

The best way I can put it is that 7 doesn't deserve an HD remake, if anything that goes to 4 or 6, which were much more groundbreaking and important games for the genre as a whole.

Or fucking Chrono Trigger.

 

[Skeggers]

I'm thinking Pokemon, myself.

I enjoyed Pokemon for a short time, but as more and more games came out it became clearer and clearer that Nintendo were just churning out the same ideas time after time (if you fall, I will catch you, I'll be waiting. Time after time.) and it just got pretty boring pretty fast. It seems that does nothing to affect the die hard Pokemon fans that have memorised the entire Pokedex, every evolutionary chain, berry, item, TM & HM, Gym Leader, Region, nature, battlecry and professor's cock size.

It's just a boring game with too many random encounters, not enough strategy, slow pace and annoying combat. I defy any Pokemon player to claim that they haven't at some point just wished that they could get out of the bloody tall grass already just to be away from any more fights to run away from. Also trying to stealth your way around the random trainers that won't leave you the fuck alone when you're in a rush just gets really tedious.

 

[axlryder]

Hyperbole: the thread. Seriously, a game that receives some moderate acclaim that you don't find to be all that great hardly warrants being called "the most overrated game ever".

 

[scorptatious]

You know it's funny. While I can kinda agree that FFVII is a bit overrated by the people who really liked the game, I feel it's also sort of underrated considering how many people seem to like to bash on it. It's a kind of a weird feeling.

The best way I can put it is that 7 doesn't deserve an HD remake, if anything that goes to 4 or 6, which were much more groundbreaking and important games for the genre as a whole.

Or fucking Chrono Trigger.

4 kinda got that through the DS. In fact, that game from I've seen seems to have more remakes/re-releases than any other FF game. Plus there's the After Years.

Also, I actually wouldn't mind seeing a remake for VII, while I still think the game is good, it definitely has issues that need ironing out.

I'll agree Chrono Trigger was pretty awesome. I remember getting the DS version for Christmas and playing it non-stop.

EDIT: While I'm at it, why not a remake for IX? That game was freaking awesome.

 

[TaboriHK]

Since did WoW really have any content that uses in-depth strategy, and teamplay? Hell.. get a good raid team together, and get a good healer. That's all you really need. That's ALL YOU EVER NEEDED. Maybe once a new dungeon is released, and people who haven't done it needed to learn the ropes.

But if you're telling your healer to heal you. He's doing his job wrong.
There's actually little teamplay needed in WoW. Never has been, never will be.

Maybe like.. "Oh the boss just crit me. Bring up the back up tank, and battle res me."
But nothing beyond that is really needed.

Spoken like someone that hasn't raided in a long time.

 

[The White Hunter]

You know it's funny. While I can kinda agree that FFVII is a bit overrated by the people who really liked the game, I feel it's also sort of underrated considering how many people seem to like to bash on it. It's a kind of a weird feeling.

The best way I can put it is that 7 doesn't deserve an HD remake, if anything that goes to 4 or 6, which were much more groundbreaking and important games for the genre as a whole.

Or fucking Chrono Trigger.

4 kinda got that through the DS. In fact, that game from I've seen seems to have more remakes/re-releases than any other FF game. Plus there's the After Years.

Also, I actually wouldn't mind seeing a remake for VII, while I still think the game is good, it definitely has issues that need ironing out.

I'll agree Chrono Trigger was pretty awesome. I remember getting the DS version for Christmas and playing it non-stop.

EDIT: While I'm at it, why not a remake for IX? That game was freaking awesome.

Most of the remakes are just ports of the wonder swan version. And the DS version wasn't my cup of tea, it was ugly and they made FF4 harder, which isn't something FF4 really needed as it's grindy enough. A full HD remastering would be welcome.

Or 3, that got a DS one too though. a 9 remake would definately be freaking sweet.

 

[SecondPrize]

Halo 2. "Hey look, you can dual wield now. We've cut the damage of the dual wield weapons in half, even when you only have one, so it isn't overpowered. Also you can't throw grenades or beatdown (if memory serves, could be wrong on beatdowns) without dropping one of your guns. But you can have TWO now, two is more than one."
This was on top of pistol damage nerf, so the two starting weapons were cut in half in terms of power and it was just a race to power weapons.
Matchmaking. This was the first time i'd seen this abomination. Those who grew up with Halo2 or online shooters which followed it are probably comfortable with it but if you started out in online shooters being able to choose lobbies based on good ping and maps/game types you wanted to play, this garbage was a decided step backwards.
And then sword-cancelling and BXR and superjumps and a variety of stuff that should have been caught in testing.
Online play was fantastic, matchmaking aside, and there were some great maps but Halo2 was worse than HaloCE by far for me in terms of actual multi player.

Also, Arbiter. I am Master Fucking Chief dammit. Fuck off with your arbiter.
At least they didn't do something completely idiotic, like take a great threat like the Flood; a mindless, remorseless, untiring and implacable enemy who consumed everything in its path and could only be stopped by activating the mother of all 'HOLY SHIT WE NEED EVERYTHING TO EXPLODE BECAUSE THAT'S BETTER THAN THESE THINGS' ancient alien artifacts and then give it a spokesperson and motive... shit.
EDIT to for an overlong and rambling rant about the flood in Halo3 story.
There's a reason it was called the Flood. This kind of enemy is meant to invoke our fears of Mother Nature as a destructive force. You literally cannot fight things like tremendously powerful flood, earthquake, volcano, avalanche, mudslide or forest fire. It sweeps you up and carries you off to your doom. It washes away any shelter or crushes it, shakes it to pieces or buries it. All you can do is get away from it. There's no headshot you can make or heart you can stab. It doesn't need a goddamned voice because you can't reason with it. We are helpless against something with this kind of power because there's nothing we can do to control it, and this lack of control is the kind of thing that makes these kinds of opponents scary.
Adding whatever they called the overmind for the flood and giving it something you could lash out at completely negates any of this feeling of helplessness. You can do something about it, look there's the glowy part you shoot at.

 

[Quellan Thyde]

Might as well throw Halo out there, if only to see the inevitable flames. Seriously, though, I came to Halo straight from Half-Life and never understood where the big appeal of the former game came from.

Also on my overrated list: FFVII, FFVIII, Mass Effect and KotOR.

 

[blackdwarf]

Portal games. Both were good games, don't get me wrong, but really not the masterpieces people think them to be.

 

[SimpleJack]

I said in the beginning that this wasn't exactly a rare topic.

I actually enjoy reading everyone's answers. (except for the one about human revolution that game was fucking rad)

And there's plenty of discussion here, so the last real question to be asked is: What did you expect to accomplish by coming here and saying something as condescending as:

Oh look, it's that kind of thread again.

You know, ranting pointlessly about things other people like for barely any discussion value is hardly better than people endlessly praising and gushing about games that may not be so good in a subjective opinion.

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Honestly, I have no respect for people who bash others for doing things that they've already seen somewhere else.