What are the top 10 most overrated games of decade?

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Hello friends,

so we have seen many best game of decade thread as decade ending in few days not just month. i decide to discuss what games are most overrated games of this decade. please note overrated doesnot mean its all bad. it may be quite decent but praise by critics and gamers so much that they may not deserve.

so friends heres the top 10 games i believe are most overrated games of this decade.

10. Control



So this game nominate for the game awards and also win IGN GOTY despite being worst Remedy game ever made. while last great remedy game Alan wake was ignored. this was not a bad game by any mean. it show its potential but its gunplay was terrible, enemies was bulletspongies and story was pretty bad. and jese have no personality imo. and sam lake used to create incredible protagonist like Max payne. the fact that it was nominate for GOTY made me realize this game is too overrated.

9. Assassins creed Origins



Now i believe this was most overrated AC game since AC2. the fact that it was praised as bring change to series was just bad as this game was worse than previous AC game by putting RPG elements and worse combat with enemy health bar. it turn series into even worse direction that it become RPG. and for that i consider it overrated because its praised by gamers and critics alike.

8. Resident Evil 2



This might be best game in this list. and infact its a decent game. but why put this into overrated list? because it is. its just a 6 hour action game with only 1 or 2 location that is praised like holy grail of gaming. RE7 was so much better and more varied but its success lead capcom to remake more RE games instead of working on new one.

7. Wolfenstein new order and new colossus



Machinegames wolfenstein, aka the worst modern FPS games ever made. they are so bad that they made COD feel like masterpiece. and yes im not joking. although wolfenstein new order was praised despite being terrible wolf 2 was also praised by critics but hated by gamers as we can see low scores on steam due to the fact that it turn it into even worse. they are the game that are chore to play. the shooting maybe good but everything else is bland. and cutscenes are too long as they trying to tell a terrible story. even Doom tell better story than this crap.

6. Mass effect 2



Mass effect 2 was released in 2010. near start of decade and it was praised as holy grail of gaming, best RPG ever, best game of all time and so on. i think i would include mass effect 3 but it was more hated so i include this instead. this was just a bland and poor third person shooter with some RPG elements that is praised as best RPG. it was terrible game. not just decent. a flatout bad. i just couldnot play it more than 1 and half hour.

5. Bioshock infinite



This was quite possible one of the worst AAA FPS ever made. it was praised more than Half life 2 by critics but only one thing it did good was unique setting, other than everything from gameplay to story to design was so bad. elizabeth was so annoying as sidekick. its just a poor FPS game overall. the fact that it was made by legend ken levine made me even more sad. whats the point of FPS when neither shooting nor level design cant done right?

4. Tomb raider reboot trilogy



Although this is the worst games i played especially rise of but i didnot include it in number 1 because after each entry its popularity decline in popularity. these games are just scrpited movie games with horrible gameplay in general and dinot even did shooting right which they focus on it alot in rise of tomb raider. although shadow have less shooting but it become even worse with hub system. this trilogy can be called one of the most overrated trilogy of this decade.

3. Metal gear solid 5



Well this is the game i never wanted to hate it. i want to like it and give it chance after chance. it has excellent gameplay but sadly the world is so bland, the missions are so repetetive made me think why do critics gave it 10/10?? how ? if it was not called MGS. it would hardly get 6 or 7/10. it was so boring and bland. plus there was literally no story at all. as cool as venom snake looks, he was boring character.

2. GTA 5



GTA. the most overrated franchise ever in the history. no matter what rockstar do. any game called GTA will automatically get 10. GTA series never did either shooting or driving right. but they get praised always. GTA5 is also like that. tried it for few hours and quit it like all previous GTA game. they are only good for messing around here and there but actuall playing missions are just booring. i prefer RDR over it simply atleast RDR offer unique wild west world but GTA. its generic city open world being done to death.

1. The witcher 3 wild hunt



The number 1 most overrated game of this decade goes to no other than the witcher 3. here it is folks. this game right here is by far most overrated game this decade. while its better than many games on list (wolfenstein, mass effect, bioshock) but the way it was praise as best game of all time. best game of decade. etc is beyond me. its combat is so bad, like terrible bad, its more of talking simulator where you engage in long boring dialouges over and over again. although its lore is good, its world is beautiful but its controls and actual gameplay was dull. This is not just most overrated game of decade but in my opinion its also among the most overrated games of all time too.

so here it is guys. its all opinion. I didnot include COD games because they are no more overrated as no one praise it most plus gamers mostly hate them so forget them.

so whats your top 10 most overrated games of decade? lets discuss.
 

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I think you need to go back and play Alan Wake. It doesn't hold up as well you think. One location that makes everything very samey. Terrible support cast. I hoped his manager would die because good he is the worst. Wake is the whingest brat that acts like a teenager. Some of the most cringey and cheesy dialogue. The amount of enemies are incredibly limited.

That being said, stage horde mode with Barry as back up was pretty fun.

Edit: Control may still be worse than this for you. I liked being the poltergeist, rather than being subjected to a poltergeist
 

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Overrated? I thought Metal Gear Solid 5 was divisive.

I don't know how you think GTA never got Driving a Car right. Those always worked good.

And I think your being FAR too harsh on Resident Evil 2 Remake. Everyone wanted RE 2 and 3 to be remade in the quality of the first game's remake.
 

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- The division. That game get's way more praise than it deserves.

- Destiny. Yes the shooting is amazing. But otherwise the only good thing about destiny is the people who play it.

- Assassins creed origins/odessey. They striped all that was good about the original trilogy.

- Red dead redeption. This is a borderline cowboy simulator.

- Call of duty: Modern warfare. The industry is apparently starved for mature shooters.

- Borderlands 2/3. The games mechanics are okay at best, and the writting is highschool level cringe.

- Death stranding. It's an artsy fartsy Slog of a game.

- Overwatch. It's an inferior version of battleborn ( which was underrated).

- Bloodborn: Inferior to dark souls in every way. Play any of the other from software games .They are all miles better .

- The entire Battle royal genre. I remember when the hunger games came out and everyone made threads on make a battle royale type game. BR focuses so much on FOMO it' not even funny. No progression. no story. Sub par mechanics. All it has going for it is that its free and children like it ( mostly due to fomo and peer pressure).
 

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For the resources it had available to it, the Witcher 3 being as good as it is is something pretty amazing. I think the way it's rated is due to fans recognizing that the game was made not by a rich western AAA studio but by a smaller Polish one. In a way I think the praise it gets is about that aspect of the game as much as it is about the actual story and gameplay and so on. A way of rewarding the few rare and deserving ones.

But yeah, completely disagree with Bioshock Infinite. I am not a fan of fps games and that is the one game outside of doom 2016 I played to completion during the last decade, due to actually enjoying it. If it can make genre apathetics like myself get into it as much as I get into genres I am a fan of it must have done something right.


As for actually overrated games, I never got what's interesting about Overwatch. It even won a game of the year title. I don't think it has any place next to the likes of Sekiro that won this year lol.
 

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Firstly, pretty much every game is overrated as everything is like 7+/10 good and very few games are that good, especially in the AAA landscape.

Nier
-Critics didn't overrate this but the fans did saying it's the best story like ever in a video game. I even recall one post saying TLOU ripped off the plot of Nier. The plot is "fine" at best, there's a few good characters, the gameplay is far below average, and the only saving grace on the gameplay side is how it completely mixes things up keeping the very weak gameplay just barely interesting enough. Also, it makes you play through the game multiple times to see the whole "fine" story for really no reason and only artificially lengthens the game.

Danganronpa
-Some of the worst writing I've ever experienced in my life. I hated this game with a passion so much so that I still vividly remember that the only entertaining bit of the game was a conversation about milk tea.

Batman: Arkham Knight
-Batmobile... And the story didn't really pick up from Arkham City like I was hoping. Rocksteady really didn't do much to improve the gameplay like they did with Arkham City.

Gravity Rush
-I really wanted this game to be good but the combat was so simple and repetitive. I enjoyed the tone of the game and characters but the gameplay stopped being fun very quickly. I still remember the level where you're falling for what seems like forever, it has to be the level of all-time that most overstayed it's welcome.

Spiderman
-The game is just fun; the webslinging is great and Insomniac evolved Arkham combat but that's really it. Everything else from open world design to mission design is as generic as it gets.


B-Cell said:
6. Mass effect 2

Mass effect 2 was just a bland and poor third person shooter with some RPG elements that is praised as best RPG.
Mass Effect is an RPG first and foremost as most of your time spent with the game isn't shooting enemies, it's role-playing as your own unique Shepard, thus it's more RPG than 99% of RPGs out there.

B-Cell said:
1. The witcher 3 wild hunt
Nothing gameplay-wise is actually good in the game. The writing is good and that's it. And the game design is just kitchen-sink RPG design from open world design to a loot system that literally makes no sense to the main character. Also, a Ubisoft level amount of "points of interest" that are the same 2/3 things ad nauseam.

Lufia Erim said:
- Overwatch. It's an inferior version of battleborn ( which was underrated).
Battleborn is was way better. I remember both betas came out at like the same time and I played Battleborn probably daily and I deleted Overwatch after like 2 matches. I, of course, bought Battleborn and played it a ton until Gearbox totally fucked up Mellka (my favorite character) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pau4uC0YRMw] and didn't play it since then.

Lufia Erim said:
- Bloodborn: Inferior to dark souls in every way. Play any of the other from software games .They are all miles better .
BB removes much of the stuff in Souls that doesn't work like shields and magic and fixes the parry system. It was Miyazaki doing "Design by Subtraction".

Lufia Erim said:
- The entire Battle royal genre.
Yeah, it's horrid game design, but it's actually what most people want. What do most of the players in other online shooters do? Camp and only go for kills and KDR, which is the whole concept of battle royale. That's why I never even played one outside of like a couple matches way back when MGO2 (MGS4's online had the 1st one of these) had the mode called Stealth Deathmatch (even the slowly closing circle and everything). Yeah, I totally want a mode where camping like bitches is rewarded and everyone is doing it, sign me up, it'll be so much fun!!! [/sarcasm]
 

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Whatever, just wash your hands.
That one game you played that meant everything to you and you love, its totally overrated and you have bad taste for enjoying it.
 

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Worgen said:
That one game you played that meant everything to you and you love, its totally overrated and you have bad taste for enjoying it.
Best reply in this dumb, done-a-billion-times-before, thread. High five!
 

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The guy who knows next to nothing about video games makes yet another thread about video games. You don't even know what overrated means. You're just salty that people like a game that you don't like. And games that you don't like can neatly be summarized as either games where one of the playable characters can be a woman, and games that require more than clicking at things until they die.
 

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Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order.

I am seeing this game given 10/10 on just about every review websites on the internet. I think this is because it's a fully-fledge singleplayer game from EA to make eat their own words. While it is a great attempt from Respawn, I can't help but to feel the game is greatly overrated.

The story is very "Star War-sy". Not that it's bad, but all the character archetypes are something we've seen before. I thought the villains would be more interesting, but they are spewing the same old "Dark side is stronger" sith propaganda we've seen dozens of time before.

The world exploration and collectibles, while nice, feels underwhelming and unrewarding. 90% of puzzles are "come back later when you get the force power" types, and when you do get the necessary powers the solutions are insultingly easy or annoyingly gimmicky. And your reward for solving them are cosmetic items? Really?

As for the combat, while I appreciate Respawn from trying to add tactical elements, I feel they should've either made it Jedi Academy-esque free combat or Dark Souls-esque combat. Because it is currently sitting somewhere between. If you ever played sekiro, chances are you'll steamroll through this game, because the parry window is much more generous.

For me, this game is more of 7/10. Great game, but not good enough to make me playthrough again. Really wish I waited for the sales, and not pay $60 + tax on the release
 

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CoCage said:
Worgen said:
That one game you played that meant everything to you and you love, its totally overrated and you have bad taste for enjoying it.
Best reply in this dumb, done-a-billion-times-before, thread. High five!
Threads like this only exist to annoy people, I view it as my civic duty to take them down a notch.
 

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Worgen said:
That one game you played that meant everything to you and you love, its totally overrated and you have bad taste for enjoying it.
That only makes sense under the assumption that everyone's favorite game is also an overrated one. I have to question how many people that applies to haha.


Like for me, that'd be one of the most polarizing FF games for example, FFVIII.
 

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Metal Gear Solid 5 got plenty of criticism, righty, for it's story, padding and the fact Act 2 is essentially unfinished and half complete at best. And then there's the whole cringe-fest with Quiet.

It looks good, it plays really well but it's been well noted that the rest of the game is flawed.

Lufia Erim said:
- Assassins creed origins/odessey. They striped all that was good about the original trilogy.

Normally people accuse AC 3 or maybe Unity of that. Origins tends to get some credit for trying something new within the franchise, having one of the most likable protagonists since Ezio(Conner is divisive and few people will claim to like Arno) getting people interested in the series again. I know I'd pretty much lost interest years ago and finally got back into it when I saw Origins Odyssey kept me going for a while, despite it's flaws such as being bit overlong, based on it's setting alone.

And by Trilogy, do you mean AC 1, 2 and 3 or the Ezio Trilogy of 2, Brotherhood and Revelations?
 

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trunkage said:
I think you need to go back and play Alan Wake. It doesn't hold up as well you think. One location that makes everything very samey. Terrible support cast. I hoped his manager would die because good he is the worst. Wake is the whingest brat that acts like a teenager. Some of the most cringey and cheesy dialogue. The amount of enemies are incredibly limited.

That being said, stage horde mode with Barry as back up was pretty fun.

Edit: Control may still be worse than this for you. I liked being the poltergeist, rather than being subjected to a poltergeist
I was never able to get over how Alan was a gigantic douche that seemed to hate being around his wife at the start of the game yet suddenly turns into a super concerned "I will give everything to find her" character once she goes missing. It was such an extreme character shift.
 

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trunkage said:
I think you need to go back and play Alan Wake. It doesn't hold up as well you think.
Alan Wake can't even step over an ankle-high garden border. He's useless.
 

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Yoshi178 said:
Disco Elysium.
Is it because there's no disco dancing in the game or is there a more substantial reason for this one?
It's a highly rated game that doesn't have a Switch port. /joke.
 

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Baffle2 said:
trunkage said:
I think you need to go back and play Alan Wake. It doesn't hold up as well you think.
Alan Wake can't even step over an ankle-high garden border. He's useless.
Surprisingly odd considering it?s from the Max Payne folks.


Lufia Erim said:
- The division. That game get's way more praise than it deserves.

- Destiny. Yes the shooting is amazing. But otherwise the only good thing about destiny is the people who play it.

- Assassins creed origins/odessey. They striped all that was good about the original trilogy.

- Red dead redeption. This is a borderline cowboy simulator.

- Call of duty: Modern warfare. The industry is apparently starved for mature shooters.

- Borderlands 2/3. The games mechanics are okay at best, and the writting is highschool level cringe.

- Death stranding. It's an artsy fartsy Slog of a game.

- Overwatch. It's an inferior version of battleborn ( which was underrated).

- Bloodborn: Inferior to dark souls in every way. Play any of the other from software games .They are all miles better .

- The entire Battle royal genre. I remember when the hunger games came out and everyone made threads on make a battle royale type game. BR focuses so much on FOMO it' not even funny. No progression. no story. Sub par mechanics. All it has going for it is that its free and children like it ( mostly due to fomo and peer pressure).
Agreed aside from:

RDR2 - imo the closest thing to a virtual Westworld playground is a really good thing, especially with level of detail that?s second to none in almost all aspects

Bloodborne - Both have excellent atmosphere and level design. I still like Souls sword n board gameplay especially in DS3, but as PhoenixMGS said it trimmed the fat on other things. The weapons are also more unique and the regain mechanic added intensity and more risk/reward playoff. The musical score is also one of the greatest in gaming history, whereas most of Souls soundtracks are serviceable with a handful of above average tracks

I haven?t played Death Stranding yet but would like to think it?s more about the journey than destination. Apparently there?s loads of little details there to appreciate as well if the player looks for them
 

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bluegate said:
Dalisclock said:
Yoshi178 said:
Disco Elysium.
Is it because there's no disco dancing in the game or is there a more substantial reason for this one?
It's a highly rated game that doesn't have a Switch port. /joke.

Isn't it getting ported to consoles soon? I remember hearing something to that effect. It's reception prolly helped make that the case too.