Most over rated game?
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For me, it has to be Oblivion. I have no idea how anyone can stomach the terrible combat, annoying personalitys of npc's and lack of class distinction.
Final Fantasy 7.
No exceptions. Ever.
Ten years of forums have taught me this.
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Have you EVER spent ONE day online without having at least 20 people taking the fanboyism, concentrating it into phallic shapes, and trying to violate you in ways that not even your spouse violates you with them? Their life mission is to "enlighten the masses" and there's no possible way I could possibly dislike it so clearly I've never even played it, right? Wrong! Hell, I regret to admit I actually OWN a digital PSN copy when I mistakenly spent some time offline and decided to give it another chance.
It is, hands down, the worst FF game ever made, and the FF series as a whole is largely just average anyways! So, what's so bad about it? Let's begin.
The game opens with a spiky haired jerk taking less damage from an attack called "Machine Gun" than he does from a normal kick. He twirls his 5 foot logn slab of iron around in one hand, too. So then a black guy with a guy with a gun (how stereotype-dodging original /sarcasm) for an arm (how the hell does he load the ammo?) whose attack strength nis modified by strength joins. Yes. Guns modified by strength. KILL IT WITH FIRE.
Anyways, "Cloud" as the spiky haired jerk is known is overpowered as it becomed quickly apparent. Even with magic materia (lowers his HP and strength) equipped, he still ha more HP and attack than ANYONE ELSE IN THE CAST. Even without any Magic materia (increases magic and MP) he's ALMOST the best mage in the cast. By the endgame, he's hitting 5-7k damage while no one else can break 1.5-2k damage. He's severely unbalanced to the point of utter morinity. "Oh, just remove him from your party!" Yeah, problem. FF7 has the stupid flaw of not allowing him to be removed from the party, much like how FF8 couldn't see Squall removed. It's a terrible flaw because what if you don't even like them?
And as for Cloud as a person? He "had the physical build" he needed for a military group (called "SOLDIER" in all caps for NO APPARENT REASON) but lacked the mental strength. While this has the POTENTIAL to lead to a deep and immersive character, he falls more flat than his attempts to not get conveniently mind controlled by his nemesis (which conveniently is really only used to screw the party over once, when they could have all been killed in their sleep. Sephiroth is an utter failure of a villain in every way, shape, and form.) The rest of the cast? Get like 5 minutes in the spot light and that's it. They focus on the single worst character in every way, shape, and form.
And the fans just don;'t care, as made apparent by the two "love interests." Tifa is a slightly shy girl who's known Cloud since childhood. Her personality is somewhat girly and even innocent, with one exception being to infiltrate a brothel to get information (nothing happens.) On the flip side, "Aeris" whose real name is apparently "Aerith" and who has sparked fights worldwide, is bluntly forward and honest.The difference is how they dress. As a martial artist, Tifa wears a sleeveless shirt that shows her bellybutton, and shorts. Aerith wears a long dress. Because of this, fans clain Tifa to be the "slut" of the two. What? That's right, folks, the game is so bad, fans have to do this to derrive any enjoyment, and they're so blind, they don't care.
To give you an example of how badly designed this game is, let me use an early game example. The "Materia" command is locked until returning to the slums after the start of the game. Cloud has 2 spells, Barret has 0. Cloud only needs 1 and his physical attacks are stronger than Barret's. Finally, it gives you a heal materia right before the first boss AND YOU'RE NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO USE IT. That;s right. You cannot use a healing spell a game gives you right before a boss while you fight that boss, simply due to the fact that the menu category for it is still locked.
Honestly, the whole thing degrades into "omg big swords cloud and sephiroth fangasm" and quite frankly, I blame this for SO MUCH. Too many games have absolutely nothing outside of hype and flash, and FF7 was the game to start that trend ofm failure.
If you're a Final fantasy 7 fan, fine. Hell, maybe we could even get along. But for the love of god, learn to contain your fangasm ssince quite honestly, your game is the worst RPG I've ever played, and I've played over 100 of them!
No exceptions. Ever.
Ten years of forums have taught me this.
Post contains spoilers
Have you EVER spent ONE day online without having at least 20 people taking the fanboyism, concentrating it into phallic shapes, and trying to violate you in ways that not even your spouse violates you with them? Their life mission is to "enlighten the masses" and there's no possible way I could possibly dislike it so clearly I've never even played it, right? Wrong! Hell, I regret to admit I actually OWN a digital PSN copy when I mistakenly spent some time offline and decided to give it another chance.
It is, hands down, the worst FF game ever made, and the FF series as a whole is largely just average anyways! So, what's so bad about it? Let's begin.
The game opens with a spiky haired jerk taking less damage from an attack called "Machine Gun" than he does from a normal kick. He twirls his 5 foot logn slab of iron around in one hand, too. So then a black guy with a guy with a gun (how stereotype-dodging original /sarcasm) for an arm (how the hell does he load the ammo?) whose attack strength nis modified by strength joins. Yes. Guns modified by strength. KILL IT WITH FIRE.
Anyways, "Cloud" as the spiky haired jerk is known is overpowered as it becomed quickly apparent. Even with magic materia (lowers his HP and strength) equipped, he still ha more HP and attack than ANYONE ELSE IN THE CAST. Even without any Magic materia (increases magic and MP) he's ALMOST the best mage in the cast. By the endgame, he's hitting 5-7k damage while no one else can break 1.5-2k damage. He's severely unbalanced to the point of utter morinity. "Oh, just remove him from your party!" Yeah, problem. FF7 has the stupid flaw of not allowing him to be removed from the party, much like how FF8 couldn't see Squall removed. It's a terrible flaw because what if you don't even like them?
And as for Cloud as a person? He "had the physical build" he needed for a military group (called "SOLDIER" in all caps for NO APPARENT REASON) but lacked the mental strength. While this has the POTENTIAL to lead to a deep and immersive character, he falls more flat than his attempts to not get conveniently mind controlled by his nemesis (which conveniently is really only used to screw the party over once, when they could have all been killed in their sleep. Sephiroth is an utter failure of a villain in every way, shape, and form.) The rest of the cast? Get like 5 minutes in the spot light and that's it. They focus on the single worst character in every way, shape, and form.
And the fans just don;'t care, as made apparent by the two "love interests." Tifa is a slightly shy girl who's known Cloud since childhood. Her personality is somewhat girly and even innocent, with one exception being to infiltrate a brothel to get information (nothing happens.) On the flip side, "Aeris" whose real name is apparently "Aerith" and who has sparked fights worldwide, is bluntly forward and honest.The difference is how they dress. As a martial artist, Tifa wears a sleeveless shirt that shows her bellybutton, and shorts. Aerith wears a long dress. Because of this, fans clain Tifa to be the "slut" of the two. What? That's right, folks, the game is so bad, fans have to do this to derrive any enjoyment, and they're so blind, they don't care.
To give you an example of how badly designed this game is, let me use an early game example. The "Materia" command is locked until returning to the slums after the start of the game. Cloud has 2 spells, Barret has 0. Cloud only needs 1 and his physical attacks are stronger than Barret's. Finally, it gives you a heal materia right before the first boss AND YOU'RE NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO USE IT. That;s right. You cannot use a healing spell a game gives you right before a boss while you fight that boss, simply due to the fact that the menu category for it is still locked.
Honestly, the whole thing degrades into "omg big swords cloud and sephiroth fangasm" and quite frankly, I blame this for SO MUCH. Too many games have absolutely nothing outside of hype and flash, and FF7 was the game to start that trend ofm failure.
If you're a Final fantasy 7 fan, fine. Hell, maybe we could even get along. But for the love of god, learn to contain your fangasm ssince quite honestly, your game is the worst RPG I've ever played, and I've played over 100 of them!
World of Warcrap.
It's definitely the Wii of MMORPG's. It's absolute garbage, but everyone seems to play it anyway. And not only that but all of its competition seems to just copy it because of its success.
In fact, I think Blizzard in general is overrated. It's one of those companies that just needs to come out with one game every ten years, and even though it's a piece of crap all of their fans hop on the bandwagon and consider it the greatest thing ever.
It's definitely the Wii of MMORPG's. It's absolute garbage, but everyone seems to play it anyway. And not only that but all of its competition seems to just copy it because of its success.
In fact, I think Blizzard in general is overrated. It's one of those companies that just needs to come out with one game every ten years, and even though it's a piece of crap all of their fans hop on the bandwagon and consider it the greatest thing ever.
I tend to find the people who bash VALVe for the fact that they are VALVe worse.ZiggyE said:
Just the two some people say are the most overrated:
Portal, fantastic dialogue, new gameplay, great learning curve and pacing.
Half-life 2, varying level design, amazing tech (facial animation still looks fairly good) - first proper physics- etc, engaging storyline and characters, great pacing.
The only negative I'd give HL2 is that the weapons and fighting in general is very bland.
Good thing they put in the gravity gun to spice it up a bit...
I'd have to say halo. Coming from a level design background this game pisses me off so much.
I mean they have good base design, but they suffer from a shocking amount of repetition. Painful amounts of it.
Hrm... the tough part about this is that there are two ways to look at it - highly rated games that one just didn't get in to, or games that, upon further review, the general community just didn't agree were as great as the reviews.
The first category is pretty subjective. I am 'meh' about shooters at the best of times, but Halo *really* made me shrug. I don't think I made it past the first level. It just bored me to tears. I don't like RTS games, either, so anything in that category I don't even look at anymore.
I'm having trouble thinking of games that dropped and were subject to rave reviews, but were met by a resounding 'meh' by the gaming community. I'm sure someone here can fill in a few. That being said, games that *were* given stellar marks, and generally loved by the gaming community are not, IMO, over-rated. That includes Halo, Warcraft 1-3, Mass Effect 1-2, Half-Life... they're good, really good. If *you* didn't get in to them, that doesn't make them over-rated. You just didn't get into them - which is fine.
The first category is pretty subjective. I am 'meh' about shooters at the best of times, but Halo *really* made me shrug. I don't think I made it past the first level. It just bored me to tears. I don't like RTS games, either, so anything in that category I don't even look at anymore.
I'm having trouble thinking of games that dropped and were subject to rave reviews, but were met by a resounding 'meh' by the gaming community. I'm sure someone here can fill in a few. That being said, games that *were* given stellar marks, and generally loved by the gaming community are not, IMO, over-rated. That includes Halo, Warcraft 1-3, Mass Effect 1-2, Half-Life... they're good, really good. If *you* didn't get in to them, that doesn't make them over-rated. You just didn't get into them - which is fine.
I love how people say Call of Duty and Halo. I very much doubt that they've played the entirety of either series (Treyarch games excluded because they actually are terrible). Even Yahtzee, who called Halo an "insipid boom-fest" has stated on several occasions that he never played the first 2 games, and Halo 3 was hardly a jumping in point. It was a mostly satisfying conclusion to the trilogy and could only be enjoyed as such if you had played the first games and possibly read the books. I'm not saying it's some pinnacle of gaming like the first 2 and last 2 were, I just hate how people demonize it so much. But enough of my rambling. Most overrated game for me is easily World of Warcraft. I downloaded the free trial actually expecting to like, and after half an hour of absolutely nothing happening I realized I was forcing myself to play it. Hopefully The Old Republic isn't a WoW clone like everybody's saying it is.
Call of Duty series, FF7 (I liked it though), Halo series, ME 2, Fallout 3, Fable series, Assassins Creed series, Portal (liked though), Dead Space, Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, GOW 2, Batman Arkham Asylum, Boarder Lands, Half Life 2, WOW, Star Wars the Force Unleashed (7 millions copies sold because of franchise...), Streat Fighter 4, and much more...
I completed and finished all the above games, some even several times, but they are no were near as great as they are claimed to be. Some of them are complete piss in my opinion, COD, Fable, Dead Space, SWTFU, Halo 3, and Boarder Lands single player.
I completed and finished all the above games, some even several times, but they are no were near as great as they are claimed to be. Some of them are complete piss in my opinion, COD, Fable, Dead Space, SWTFU, Halo 3, and Boarder Lands single player.
Bioshock and not even close imo. It's a good game but the way people praise that game almost wants to make me throw up.
Red Dead Redemption is also pretty over rated as well but not to extent Bioshock is.
Red Dead Redemption is also pretty over rated as well but not to extent Bioshock is.
the COD franchise.
as far as I know it didn't really change that much over the years beside it,s graphics the gameplay remains the same and it only made the focus on MP over SP worse.
as far as I know it didn't really change that much over the years beside it,s graphics the gameplay remains the same and it only made the focus on MP over SP worse.
I couldn't get into the Witcher at all. Same for Bioshock. I still don't quite get the appeal of the first Portal, but it was good for being free with the Orange Box. Not necessarily bad games.
These threads seem to pop up quite often, but strangely never under the name of "Games other people enjoy, but you don't".
These threads seem to pop up quite often, but strangely never under the name of "Games other people enjoy, but you don't".
Uncharted 2; while playing, I didn't want to stop, but when I was done, the experience just felt so empty.
I was never that impressed with the Halo, Call of Duty, or Gears of War series. I played about a level and a half, and some death matches, of Halo 2 with a friend, but that was it. I played the first Gears of War, and a tiny bit of Call of Duty. There just wasn't enough there to bring me back to any of them.
On the playability side of things, I think Daggerfall was overrated. It was just too big and too buggy and was always collapsing under its own weight. I got about halfway through the main plot (I'm guessing at that figure) and just gave up. The fact that I had to dosbox my computer, and this somehow removed the ability to swim normally without using a no-clip or teleport devcode/workaround didn't do me any favors. Whenever I hear people who claim to prefer it over Morrowind, I get a little confused. Maybe it worked perfectly on 1996 computers in 1996, but considering its Bethesda pedigree, I doubt that.
On the playability side of things, I think Daggerfall was overrated. It was just too big and too buggy and was always collapsing under its own weight. I got about halfway through the main plot (I'm guessing at that figure) and just gave up. The fact that I had to dosbox my computer, and this somehow removed the ability to swim normally without using a no-clip or teleport devcode/workaround didn't do me any favors. Whenever I hear people who claim to prefer it over Morrowind, I get a little confused. Maybe it worked perfectly on 1996 computers in 1996, but considering its Bethesda pedigree, I doubt that.
Well I can tell you that Final Fantasy VI is the most criminally over rated JRPG I've ever seen. Literally everything good I've ever heard about it (none of which had anything to do with gameplay, btw) turned out to be less true than anyone hoped I would think, or just outright false.
Soundtrack: 25% of it is excellent, the rest is either meh or actually attrociously bad, and not just because it's trying to be cute.
Plot: Kill me, but far too simple, pretty boring, if nothing else it really gets left in the dust because of the focus on . . .
Characters: This is the big one. So you have like 40 playable characters (numbers exagerated) and you're telling me you didn't have the common sense to focus on maybe 15 of them (NUMBERS EXAGERATED), and leave the rest to either simplistic backstories or just relying on entertaining personalities? That is BASIC 101 JRPG writing right there. I honestly lost track of who I was supposed to be caring about in any given moment. That, and frankly, I jsut found their entire characters to be based around a single characteristic that they drove into the ground. This, coming from the game that's supposed to be outright Tolstoyan in the scope and deppth of it's character development. That, and there are characters liek Edgar who have their signature characteristic show up in one scene, and then dissapear forever. Not to mention I don't find, say, Locke's unstoppable optimism or Edgar's flirtation to be at all endearing.
An honorable mention for this genre goes to Chrono Trigger, which had pretty much nothing to offer that was new except really fluid character animations. Actually, let's be fair, it has pretty much the best graphics Square did on SNES, still, that game is just empty as a piece of art.
Soundtrack: 25% of it is excellent, the rest is either meh or actually attrociously bad, and not just because it's trying to be cute.
Plot: Kill me, but far too simple, pretty boring, if nothing else it really gets left in the dust because of the focus on . . .
Characters: This is the big one. So you have like 40 playable characters (numbers exagerated) and you're telling me you didn't have the common sense to focus on maybe 15 of them (NUMBERS EXAGERATED), and leave the rest to either simplistic backstories or just relying on entertaining personalities? That is BASIC 101 JRPG writing right there. I honestly lost track of who I was supposed to be caring about in any given moment. That, and frankly, I jsut found their entire characters to be based around a single characteristic that they drove into the ground. This, coming from the game that's supposed to be outright Tolstoyan in the scope and deppth of it's character development. That, and there are characters liek Edgar who have their signature characteristic show up in one scene, and then dissapear forever. Not to mention I don't find, say, Locke's unstoppable optimism or Edgar's flirtation to be at all endearing.
An honorable mention for this genre goes to Chrono Trigger, which had pretty much nothing to offer that was new except really fluid character animations. Actually, let's be fair, it has pretty much the best graphics Square did on SNES, still, that game is just empty as a piece of art.