Over-hyped video games

[Riobux]

The entire Halo series. Maybe followed by Metal Gear Solid 4's story.

 

[Altorin]

Your mum played Final Fanatsy? wow thats awesome, wish my mum would take an interest into gaming D:<

*plays*

we're getting her Final Fantasy XIII for her birthday next week.

and I get that a lot actually

 

[vallorn]

everything by Bungie, Activision or Tim Schafer.

also Peter Molenuex is overhyped.

 

[Phenakist]

Anything from Lionhead? And also MW2. I enjoy playing it, but the way it was hyped you would have thought it was the Second Coming.

I wouldn't say ANYTHING from Lionhead, just Fable 2 everything else was worth the little or no hype it got. MW2 was not worth a shred of the hype all it did was bring gaming to the ASBO's, more so than Fifa and Pro Evolution Soccer did.

[sub]I used that avatar myself in my early days and March Mayhem last year [/sub]

 

[Srdjan]

Doom 3

 

[Incompl te]

Uno from the 360 Marketplace.


But seriously,

I could never and still can't see the brilliance of Half Life. I have it, have played it (not to completion) but can't get into it. It just seems waaay too basic as well as linear.

 

[Jandau]

Demon's Souls - Got to play it for a while last week. I don't get it. It's Diablo in current gen graphics. It's not bad, but I don't see how it's so earth-shatteringly amazing. Aside from a few gimmicks, it's fairly standard stuff. It was heralded by some people on this forum as the second coming of the Christ, and all I saw was a regular hack&slash with the difficulty turned up...

 

[feather240]

Obviously, any game in the Halo/Call of Duty series
Left 4 Dead 2 (first one was soooooooooo much better)

Wait, do you mean the characters? I don't really see how it goes down in gameplay or the background story.

 

[Dark Angel Warlord]

most of the tomb raider sequels hyped up and failed to deliver

 

[Helios_(DEL)]

halo 3, gears of war 2 and who could forget spore

 

[Gentleman_Reptile]

Killzone 2. The realisation that it was a poor investment has only just now, right this second, sunk in. Fuck.

 

[Mechanix]

Empire: Total War. Biggest disappointment I've ever had, gaming-wise.

This, times 10000000000.

I'll be honest.

E:TW is the biggest, over-hyped piece-of-shit game I've ever played, and I've played Halo Wars.

Spoiler

Whoever's arsechild ETW is should be flogged and given to the Iranians as nuclear coolant.

I still can't believe my first impressions: "Oh cool Indians!" I say as I start up the US campaign. "Jamestown's one of my favorite historical places!" Then I proceed to lag through it. "Screw this I'd better turn the graphics down to low!" "Hmm every single person looks like dogshit... medium?" Well believe it or not medium worked, and until the part after Bunker Hill I was happy due to the new game smell, even though I had it since it came out I had just been able to download Steam due to my gaming PC having no Internet connection. Anyway, I had build up a sizeable navy, and had even captured a 4th rate and another 5th rate! So then I send my lovely navy of 10 ships at the british navy off Maryland's coast, which consisted of a Third Rate which scared the bejezus outta me, 2 6ers, and the other 8 were damaged brigs. The first time I sink most of the brigs, lose several of mine, and capture all the rest. Then my computer not only crashes, but entirely restarts. It was 1 step away from the Blue Screen of Death. Then an hour later after I recover from my anger and convulsions, I try it again. I get even better results, sinking only 2 brigs and losing 1 of mine! Then the unbelieveable happens: my PC crashes again. Finally, after my multiple strokes, I try the battle a final time. Unbelievable! I don't lose a single ship and capture all of theirs. BUT THEN MY COMPUTER RESTARTS AGAIN! FUCK THIS CAMPAIGN I SAY!

A week later I start up a Marathras campaign, and the new game fun comes back. Eventually I think "maybe my computer was just acting weird that day..." and try the naval battle again. Lose a ship or 2, sink some of theirs, but nonetheless a good performance. Then, when the loading screen is seconds from... loading... it crashed again!!!

Another day or so later, I pick up my Marathras campaign. Then IT starts to crash. "You know what, CA? Fuck your half-assed game and fuck your new attitude to your fanbase. If anyone needs me I'll be playing Rome."

My thoughts exactly man, couldn't run the damn game no matter what I did. Shame, it had potential, it really did.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

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 agree with this guy, Fallout 1 and 2 have horrible controls, I couldn't even figure it out but I DO enjoy the stories and the characters

 

[Quiet Stranger]

Bioshock, Modern Warfare, Mass Effect, Halo 2, Halo 1, Halo Wars, Bioshock 2, Mass Effect 2, Modern Warfare 2, Wii Version of Twilight Princess(Gamecube version blows it away COMPLETELY) Super SMash bros brawl... and many others.

I'm not trying to be flaming or anything (or whatever the hell they call it) but what was so bad about the Wii version? I myself never played it but I had the Gamecube version, so yeah Im just wondering what was so bad but to me the most overhyped game is Fable 2 although the only guy who was hyped for it really was Peter

 

[JBGigas]

GTA4. PERIOD!

 

[Anticitizen_Two]

Obviously, any game in the Halo/Call of Duty series
Left 4 Dead 2 (first one was soooooooooo much better)

Wait, do you mean the characters? I don't really see how it goes down in gameplay or the background story.

Yes, the characters are part of it, but I prefer L4D to L4D2 because of better atmosphere and a greater feel of simplicity. I felt the new weapons/items to be unneeded. I don't know, this is probably just me, but Valve really let me down with L4D2.

 

[ECasThat]

I'm gonna place myself on a land mine and say (pleas don't hate me) Half-life 2 ep 3 is going too be THE most OVER-HYPED game! EVER!

 

[Bonkekook]

Grand Theft Auto IV
The Modern Warfare games

And whoever said the OoT is overhyped for being the best game ever. The phrase "best game ever" is relative. There's never going to be a concrete definition for the best game ever because standards are always changing.

Especially with today's over-caffeinated gaming population. What's fun one year is out of date the next. Most gamers nowadays will never play OoT just because it looks worse than everything else.

As someone who played that game when it came out, though, it changed how I looked at gaming, along with Mario 64.

No game since has had that great an impact on my views. And that's why "best game ever" is relative. Everyone has something that makes them tick. And its not going to be the same for everyone.

 

[Jamiemitsu]

Final Fantasy 7...I am sorry, but as a die hard Final Fantasy fan and hearing that it was the best one of all time I was severely disappointed. Don't get me wrong, I loved the game, but it was not the best one of all time. (That award goes to 9)

To be fair, I think it was the fact that the graphics and atmosphere were amazing for the time, and it had such shocking moments like you know who dying, and meteor. Not to mention, it was the first JRPG most pepole played, so that resulted in a lot of nostalgia.

Overhyped? Halo in general (and CODMWF to a lesser extent). People should not get so exited over a series which seems to suck originality out of a once quirky and unpredictable genere.

 

[Optimus Hagrid]

I was expecting so much more from Portal. I found it astonishingly easy, really not very funny and very short. The song was pretty much the only part I liked about it.

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising was basically the first game, except ridiculuosly linear. It makes you follow waypoints like a trail of breadcrumbs.

edit: I may have got over-rated mixed with over-hyped, so I'm not sure if my Portal example applies.