Over-hyped video games
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God I'm gonna sound so terribly unoriginal but whatever:
Valve's games, they're all either average or extremely underwhelming. The praise they garner I feel is very undeserved, some commendation is fine but it drives my head in when people praise valve as gaming paragons.
Modern Warfare...oh Modern Warfare, how NOT so amazing you are. Aside from being a competent shooter, it's this gens definition of overhyped. I played it all the way through, TWICE just to see what was so damn good about this game. What i got was tiresomely annoying scripting, forgettable single player experience, unbalanced and uninteresting multiplayer, and competent gameplay. When a games only real good aspect is that it has competent gameplay then there is something wrong.
ODST, 60 dollar expansion pack nuff said.
Final Fantasy series, yes I adore the games but even I as a fan must quell the inner fanboy and acknowledge the truth. This is blamed squarely on the god damn fans that won't STFU and paint a bad image for the series than the more modest fans who know when to keep our traps fucking shut. It's these fantards that give newcomers a bad interpretation and therefore help fuel the hate even more.
Mass Effect, I like you ME2...but your predecessor was a massive pile of underwhelming average through and through. I'm a sci fi geek and I can appreciate Mass Effect, but fuck was the first one ever an undeserving praised game. I have this odd love hate relationship with it, but I still lean more towards pure HATE for it's not so impressive gameplay and poorly paced story with only 1 or 2 decent characters and a shit ton of wasted opportunity and potential.
Look at me!! I'm original!! That's just to name a few games.
Valve's games, they're all either average or extremely underwhelming. The praise they garner I feel is very undeserved, some commendation is fine but it drives my head in when people praise valve as gaming paragons.
Modern Warfare...oh Modern Warfare, how NOT so amazing you are. Aside from being a competent shooter, it's this gens definition of overhyped. I played it all the way through, TWICE just to see what was so damn good about this game. What i got was tiresomely annoying scripting, forgettable single player experience, unbalanced and uninteresting multiplayer, and competent gameplay. When a games only real good aspect is that it has competent gameplay then there is something wrong.
ODST, 60 dollar expansion pack nuff said.
Final Fantasy series, yes I adore the games but even I as a fan must quell the inner fanboy and acknowledge the truth. This is blamed squarely on the god damn fans that won't STFU and paint a bad image for the series than the more modest fans who know when to keep our traps fucking shut. It's these fantards that give newcomers a bad interpretation and therefore help fuel the hate even more.
Mass Effect, I like you ME2...but your predecessor was a massive pile of underwhelming average through and through. I'm a sci fi geek and I can appreciate Mass Effect, but fuck was the first one ever an undeserving praised game. I have this odd love hate relationship with it, but I still lean more towards pure HATE for it's not so impressive gameplay and poorly paced story with only 1 or 2 decent characters and a shit ton of wasted opportunity and potential.
Look at me!! I'm original!! That's just to name a few games.
Zelda, Halo, Final Fantasy (insert ANY number here), and Sims
The only ones I've actually owned are Zelda and Sims. I get WAY too bored of those WAY too fast. The only Zelda games I've been able to endure most of the way through are Twilight Princess and Four Swords.
I've only done Multiplayer for the original 3 Halos and played bits and snippets of Final Fantasy. Neither of which look interesting or were fun when I played them. Don't see what the big deal is all about for either of them.
The only ones I've actually owned are Zelda and Sims. I get WAY too bored of those WAY too fast. The only Zelda games I've been able to endure most of the way through are Twilight Princess and Four Swords.
I've only done Multiplayer for the original 3 Halos and played bits and snippets of Final Fantasy. Neither of which look interesting or were fun when I played them. Don't see what the big deal is all about for either of them.
Left 4 Dead.
Partly because I was following the game when it was with Turtle Rock Studios, then it was picked up by Valve and completely changed from a Co-Op Horror Survival game into a Multiplayer Zombie Shooter with no story or horror elements at all. It's a good game but far from what I wanted.
Partly because I was following the game when it was with Turtle Rock Studios, then it was picked up by Valve and completely changed from a Co-Op Horror Survival game into a Multiplayer Zombie Shooter with no story or horror elements at all. It's a good game but far from what I wanted.
Sorry, but your the first guy to bring up halo.wooty said:2 others said halo too, why do I get the aggro?megaman24681012 said:
On a serious note though, maybe your right with bungies advertising hyping it up, I mean all that stuff that appeared in the adverts, where the hell was it in the game?
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wait, O.O your defending me? thats a first.
Wouldnt say defending, but agreeing. If Bungie hadnt commissioned those adverts to paint a picture of what the game was supposed to be, then I probably wouldnt have been as dissappointed at the finished article. Makes sense reallymegaman24681012 said:Sorry, but your the first guy to bring up halo.wooty said:2 others said halo too, why do I get the aggro?megaman24681012 said:
On a serious note though, maybe your right with bungies advertising hyping it up, I mean all that stuff that appeared in the adverts, where the hell was it in the game?
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wait, O.O your defending me? thats a first.
In sort of a reverse example, Fallout 2. I got into the series with 3, and decided to check the others out because I'd heard great things about them. I loved 1, but 2 didn't click with me like the others did for a few reasons, but mostly because it was unreasonably hard.
I don't mind it when people "over-rate" a game in general, as long as I realise the game was over-rated before spending any money on it. What gets on my nerves more is when they release thousands of game trailers for the same game on places like shacknews.com. I swear there must be 50 Just Cause 2 trailers. And don't get me started on how many promos there are of the next Splinter Cell. Just get on with it and release a game - don't advertise so early and then leave us in the dark for a year or two.
Are you serial or just mildly trolling?Onyx Oblivion said:
Come on man, you can work this out. You can do it!
I dunno if that counts, really.StANDY1338 said:
I mean, I guess they hyped it, but only in the "hardcore" MMORPG crowd, really.
Spore...big time... i was so excited about that game...will wright talked about it like it was the game of all games...