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

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SimpleJack

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trty00 said:
Fuck it.

Everything you like is complete garbage, and everything you hate is a work of artistic genius!

EDIT: How about instead of starting another overrated games thread, why don't the OP's just go into User Reviews, or even this forum, and just tell us why they feel a particular game isn't deserving of the praise it gets. Something like that has discussion value you know, and it would probably save us all this misery.
Jesus christ is it really that miserable of a task to just give your opinion on something that you think is overrated? Obviously some people are just using it as an excuse to rip on some popular games that only they seem to dislike, but I thought the point of discussion threads were to discuss things, and here are some people actually discussing shit.

I didn't start the thread to complain, I started it to hear what others think because I was genuinely curious.
 

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Portal games. Both were good games, don't get me wrong, but really not the masterpieces people think them to be.
I agree. Portal was perfectly paced in that it just started to wear out its welcome by the end. The sequel couldn't be more bloated and pointless.
 

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I don't know if it's the most overrated game ever but, boy oh boy does Red Dead Redemption get a lot of credit it deserves. The atmosphere and some of the characters were pretty awesome, however, the game had a ton of flaws which ruined it.
 

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Both Borderland's games. Loads of good reviews, a tonne of people recommended it to me, finally put up £30 for buying the damn game and just found that, after about two hours, it's repetitive and dull, you're character has one unique thing which they can do and they don't even need to do it very often. No fast travel, terrible interface (as in, the worst since the idea of 'text adventure' started being used by professionals) The story didn't allow for anyone to get invested in, the environment never changed nor did the enemies, you end up with so much money and so many quests you barely have need to pick up anything new and above all, the thing that really gets me, is how people call it a game. The whole affair just feels like hard work to me and seeing it through to the end is only worth it if you're trying to justify the price you paid for it.
 

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Minecraft. Good god Minecraft. I can definitely see the appeal for this game, but it really isn't for me. I found it boring, frustrating, and incredibly repetitive.

But anytime the title of this game is brought up I get mobbed by everyone in the room going on and on and on about how they built this, or that, and then just assuming I have the game and know everything about it.
 

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Gluzzbung said:
Both Borderland's games. Loads of good reviews, a tonne of people recommended it to me, finally put up £30 for buying the damn game and just found that, after about two hours, it's repetitive and dull, you're character has one unique thing which they can do and they don't even need to do it very often. No fast travel, terrible interface (as in, the worst since the idea of 'text adventure' started being used by professionals) The story didn't allow for anyone to get invested in, the environment never changed nor did the enemies, you end up with so much money and so many quests you barely have need to pick up anything new and above all, the thing that really gets me, is how people call it a game. The whole affair just feels like hard work to me and seeing it through to the end is only worth it if you're trying to justify the price you paid for it.
Hey, don't get me wrong, I didn't like borderlands either. I wouldn't call it "overrated" (I've made my view on that label fairly well known) but I don't like either game.

That being said... it had fast travel. It just wasn't very good fast travel. Why did it have to save after AND BEFORE I fast travel? Weak Gearbox.
 

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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.
So the most overrated game is the "get on a gaming forum and whine about whatever is popular/well-received/enjoyed-by-anyone" game?

I can agree with that.
 

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Chrono Trigger. I've heard it called the best JRPG ever. I personally found it boring. I just don't see what's so good about it, apart from some interesting story elements it's as generic as it gets.

Final Fantasy VII. No, it's not as good as you think, you were just wowed by the PlayStation amazingness and haven't been able to take off your nostalgia shades.
In fact, hold on for a second here. Can we just agree that any "great" game that was created to showcase new console technology really isn't that good? We were just awed by the technology at the time? Mario 64 was pretty amazing when the N64 came out, it's just slightly above average in retrospect. Mario World SNES was fun, but it didn't come near to Yoshi's Island level of greatness. Halo was just amazing 'cause XBOX. And so on and so forth. These games ARE important, in that they're the first step into a new generation which would ultimately impact games forever. They mostly aren't all that great in retrospect. Next to none are BAD in retrospect, they just aren't these huge masterpieces everyone makes them up to be.
 

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For me it's The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. I saw review after review praising it (IGN even gave it 10/10), so I bought it despite being a bit skeptical. I pretty much hated every minute I spent playing it. It was just so slow, boring, and purposeless. I loved Ocarina of time, and I thought Majora's Mask, Wind Waker, and Twilight Princess were good too. I just couldn't see how anyone could have heaped that much praise on Skyward Sword.
 

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This thread again? i think i saw a thread like this just last month. Oh well, guess i'll contribute:

Minecraft- WHY THE JESUS ON A FLYING STICK INSECT WITH A LAVA LAMP AND A FURBY IS THIS GAME SO POPULAR FFFFFFFF-
sorry.

But seriously..

Minecraft came out twice. Once in 2004 and once in 2005. They were called blockland and roblox.

Blockland had better graphics and better building mechanics than minecraft, and it had physics.

In terms of gameplay.. what gameplay? Build equipment so you can find diamonds which will help you find diamonds to find more diamonds while you're finding diamonds with a diamond cache of diamond furniture and diamond walls and diamond diamonds?

The end boss was put in as a joke. It's only artificially difficult.


To say the game's called minecraft, there's almost no reason to actually go underground to collect anything. There's barely any NPC's and most of the existing ones all work basically the same. The graphics might as well be placeholders that were accidentally left in.

The AI was for a very long time extremely basic, and still is now.

Minecraft also has worse multiplayer because it's slightly harder to connect to servers, since it doesn't have a server browser.




Far cry 3-

I'm not saying that FC3 is terrible, but it's really not revolutionary or that good. It's pretty much average in every way.

The difficulty is a joke, even on hard mode.
The health system that people praise it for just doesn't really work well, since you can just keep patching yourself up and since the enemy's accuracy is so terrible they'll rarely hit you.

The game gets old and boring very quickly. Once you've claimed a few outposts and done a small amount of quests, you've basically done everything in the game.
Each outpost has pretty much the same stuff to do, the challenges are pretty easy, the side quests are awful (and VERY badly animated), and the actual storyline is not really that interesting.

The way the player's character acts isn't good either- one second he's crying all of the time and not wanting to kill anybody, the next second he's mowing down hundreds of pirates in a jeep, burning down weed farms and happily murdering wildlife (but god forbid he actually skins wildlife, that's too far)

Most of the features are pointless too. There's no reason for money since you've basically unlocked everything you ever need a few hours into the game for free, the crafting system is almost completely pointless since you can do the entire game relatively easy without needing to craft any upgrades i.e weapon slots, and since the health system is kind of exploitable, syringes aren't really needed either once you've got your health upgraded a little as well.
 
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OT: I did not care for Halo: Reach all that much at all. I think I've finally grown out of my Halo-playing days.

Thank god.
Depends what you look for in a game. I love Halo:CE but always thought it was marred by the Flood, I was looking for a Spartan vs Covenant face-off which Reach delivered in spades. Different strokes for different folks I guess.

OT: I've gotta say the Half-life series. Yes - granted it introduced a (spectacular) physics engine to the FPS world but the story managed to be both contrived and shallow, the characters were uninvolving and I found the overall experience to be somehow just less than I was expecting it to be. Plus the whole 'particle physicist gets the better of heavily armed grunts' thing smacked too heavily of a nerd fantasy trip.
 

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Just Cause 2.

I've seen a lot of praise for it here, and I bought without trying it first (stupid) and goddamn, that game is stupid frustrating. The controls are just too awful, I can't get immersed, and I want to punch my character in the face every time he opens his fucking mouth.

I hate the skydive mechanic, I hate the physics, I hate when the grappling hook doesn't go where you point it... It's just the worst kind of frustration that kills all enjoyment I would otherwise have.
Thank you, For me the pacing was non-existant and seeing how large the world was just made me think, "I gotta explore all this shit?" It felt more like a chore to find stuff and again, the dam physics.
 

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Minecraft.

You're grinding to build things out of blocks. Hour upon hour upon hour.

If you bought each of the players ten buckets of lego they probably wouldn't touch the stuff, but it's on a screen so it MUST be fun.
 

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Let's see...
Mass Effect (all of them)
Skyrim
Chrono Trigger
Half Life 2
The Walking Dead (barely even a game)
Final Fantasy VIII
Ocarina of Time
 
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I think the past few iterations of Call of Duty fit nicely in this thread. 13million units sold for a sub-par FPS is the definition of overrated.
 

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I would say FFVII, but for one thing; I don't hear many people hyping it much anymore at all. It WAS hyped a lot but I rarely hear its praises sung now. Also, it was good enough a game that it lived up to ENOUGH of its hype so that it isn't the most overrated. Its overrated, yeah, but not the most.

Probably any Call of Duty title. They're hyped up a stupid amount and they just aren't that entertaining at all. Not for a game, not even for a FPS.
 

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DEAD. FUCKING. RISING.

Seriously, the game is SO OBVIOUSLY TERRIBLE, yet everyone acts like it's in the range from okay to great. BULLSHIT! I've never played a more broken game in my entire life.