Over-hyped video games

[Ryuzaki001]

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)

pretty much read what I said to Onyx about Ocarina of time.. don't feel like reiterating myself.

out of curiosity, when did you start playing final fantasy games?

I would definitely agree with all you said.
As for when I started playing FF, it has not been that long. When the remake of 3 came out for the DS, I got it as a gift and really liked it so I decided to see what this whole Final Fantasy thing was about. Shortly after, I got 12 followed by 10 then went old school with the GBA remakes of 1, 2, and 4. I just couldn't stop. Finally got my hands on 7, 8, and 9 and...yeah...that's my FF history...the abridged version.

 

[RedFox042]

Pretty much anything made by Valve or Bioware.
Especially DA:O... hype was so undeserved for that generic game.

Mostly this, but i really liked KOTOR. DA:O? it was lacking... something

 

[WendelI]

Ocarina of Time.

Finally played in in December...WTF?! This is THE BEST GAME OF ALL TIME?

Wow...umm...Nostalgia is powerful. It's just like every other Zelda.

Are you serial or just mildly trolling?

Come on man, you can work this out. You can do it!

100% Cereal.

Nostalgia is a funny thing, but you're looking at it with anti-nostalgia. You're seeing it as derivative of games that came after it. Ocarina took the zelda model and gave it a scale that was unseen prior to ocarina. I'm not even a raving Ocarina fanboy and I can tell you that. I was there when it first came out, it was a pretty huge thing. It may not stand up to today's standards, but it still ages better then almost any other N64 game.

Pokemon gets hammered down my throat constantly. they (room mates) told me it was better before... turns out it was the same game, i actually belie the newer games are better because of small tweaks. but even so they are all carbon copies with small adjustments. cant belive people still buy this shit. 20 year old people...

same it is with the Zelda series. i know its a good formula but come on!

 

[Altorin]

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)

pretty much read what I said to Onyx about Ocarina of time.. don't feel like reiterating myself.

out of curiosity, when did you start playing final fantasy games?

I would definitely agree with all you said.
As for when I started playing FF, it has not been that long. When the remake of 3 came out for the DS, I got it as a gift and really liked it so I decided to see what this whole Final Fantasy thing was about. Shortly after, I got 12 followed by 10 then went old school with the GBA remakes of 1, 2, and 4. I just couldn't stop. Finally got my hands on 7, 8, and 9 and...yeah...that's my FF history...the abridged version.

yeah, you're not going to like FFVII in that case.. if I had known you then, I could have told you that... it's something that truly only excels in its own time.. you had to be there when it first came out, and was the biggest and most expansive and impressive feat of computer graphics and gameplay...

My mom is the same way, although her pedigree isn't quite as full as yours... she started with 10, loved 10-2, 12, then played 8 and 9 and loved those.. she started to play 7, and she was just like "-.^.. wtf is this?".

It's ok, all nostalgic fanboys need to get with the times anyway imo.. I love final fantasy vi, and would probably buy a remake, but I don't go to sleep thinking about a game that is 14 years old.. It's true of any nostalgic pursuits.

That being said though, I can understand WHY things are nostalgic, at least if I was there for them when they first arrived (and in FFVII and Ocarina's case, I was there)

 

[Treblaine]

Modern Warfare 2.

kinda goes without saying but yeah

+1 for that

Myself though, it's MGS4.

God that game was such a monumental let down, I thought Kojima had gotten his shit together after MGS3 turned out so well, but no, Raiden returned, the patriots are back, it all doesn't make sense to spite 9+ hours of cutscenes it all remains 100% bullshit. The stealth mechanic is broken, the boss battles boring, the set pieces don't even live up to MGS1's standards which somehow to spite everything remains the best in the series.

Finale makes no sense and is so contrived, pedantic and anti-climatic I wonder if I accidentally got the secret joke ending...

MGS1 was the only game that made me cry at the end.

Yet every games since has failed so utterly (though MGS3 was quite cool).

 

[BlackndEclipse]

Darksiders seemed kinda overhyped, but its just a copy and paste hack and slash with no real story XD

 

[Cody211282]

Bioshock, Far-Cry, Final Fantasy 12, Spore and Modern Warfare 2, they all had potential and just didn't seem to live up to it

 

[BlackndEclipse]

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)

pretty much read what I said to Onyx about Ocarina of time.. don't feel like reiterating myself.

out of curiosity, when did you start playing final fantasy games?

I would definitely agree with all you said.
As for when I started playing FF, it has not been that long. When the remake of 3 came out for the DS, I got it as a gift and really liked it so I decided to see what this whole Final Fantasy thing was about. Shortly after, I got 12 followed by 10 then went old school with the GBA remakes of 1, 2, and 4. I just couldn't stop. Finally got my hands on 7, 8, and 9 and...yeah...that's my FF history...the abridged version.

yeah, you're not going to like FFVII in that case.. if I had known you then, I could have told you that... it's something that truly only excels in its own time.. you had to be there when it first came out, and was the biggest and most expansive and impressive feat of computer graphics and gameplay...

My mom is the same way, although her pedigree isn't quite as full as yours... she started with 10, loved 10-2, 12, then played 8 and 9 and loved those.. she started to play 7, and she was just like "-.^.. wtf is this?".

It's ok, all nostalgic fanboys need to get with the times anyway imo.. I love final fantasy vi, and would probably buy a remake, but I don't go to sleep thinking about a game that is 14 years old.. It's true of any nostalgic pursuits.

That being said though, I can understand WHY things are nostalgic, at least if I was there for them when they first arrived (and in FFVII and Ocarina's case, I was there)

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

 

[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.