Your overrated and underrated games?

[Captain Pirate]

Overrated: Dragon Age Origins. Shit game, simple as.
Underrated: MW2. And Infinity Ward. They get more hate than praise now by far.
OT Underrated: Aliens vs Predator. Multiplayer's sometimes shit, but when it gets it right it really does, and is the scariest, tense-ist multiplayer I've ever played and I bet I will ever play.

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

Overrated: As mentioned many times before, Modern Warfare 2. Contrary to the beliefs of many people around me, it isn't the Second Coming and felt tacked on. Then again, I'm just not a fan of FPS games.

Underrated: Jade Empire, actually.

 

[Asukane]

Overrated:
-Most FPS games
-FF (All of them)
-Starcraft (Good but there are better)

Underrated:
-007-Nightfire (One of the few FPS games that I loved)
-C&C (Well.... most of them)
-Armored Core

 

[Mikeyfell]

Overrated: Final Fantasy 7
Underrated: the 2008 Prince of Persia

I don't think the 2008 Prince of Persia was under rated, it didn't get good reviews but to me it got exactly what it deserved
one of the few games that I agreed with the reviews for

It got excellent reviews but nobody bought it and it's apparently one of those "worst games ever" in the eyes of the community.

compared to the other Prince of Persia's it was
I got it used for $19 and thought it was good for the price
anyone who payed full price for it has the right to be pissed off at it
it'll be hard to ever beat Sands of Time. they should stop trying

 

[Legion IV]

Overrated: Portal,halflife most valve and bioware games really.

Underrated: metro, FF13,Diablo.

 

[Skeleton Jelly]

Over-rated: HALF LIFE 2. Just so boring in almost every way for me.

Under-rated: Condemned: Criminal Origins/ Baten Kaitos

 

[Legion IV]

Overrated:
-Most FPS games
-FF (All of them)
-Starcraft (Good but there are better)

Underrated:
-007-Nightfire (One of the few FPS games that I loved)
-C&C (Well.... most of them)
-Armored Core

I want to smack you for the FF and SC(favorite game) comments but you rep armored core lol so your my friend. I will bring orca back in memory of a man ahead of his time... in honor of Maximillion Thermidor...

 

[ArtPhsyc]

Overrated: Madden anything.

Underrated: Going Outside.

 

[Tokikaz]

I like to think that I enjoy all kinds of games.

Overrated: Final Fantasy (especially XX and XIII), Halo, Uncharted (it's OK), Kingdom Hearts
Underrated: Eternal Darkness (Weird as hell but awesome), Ico, COD: WaW (maybe I'm wrong about this one but I think it was great and it didn't get a lot of recognition for it's solid points)

 

[theSovietConnection]

I think for overrated I'd be tempted to put Valve down, but that's really just because of the fanboys, I don't mind the games too much. And Morrowind, but really only on here, and because of the arguments for it. Why mod Morrowind to add what I like from Oblivion when I could mod in what I like from Morrowind into Oblivion?

As far as underrated, I have a few:

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series

Cryostasis

Metro 2033

Saboteur

Disaster Report

Steambot Chronicles

There are more, but I can only think of these ones right now.

 

[daftnoize]

I like to think that I enjoy all kinds of games.

Overrated: Final Fantasy (especially XX and XIII)

Yeah I thought final fantasy 20 was crap too !!!

 

[Kryzantine]

I might anger a few people:

Overrated:
Oblivion
Morrowind (Yes, you're reading this right)
Baldurs Gate 2

Underrated:
Far Cry 2
Alpha Protocol
Metro 2033

 

[miscelaneous]

Overrated: Red Dead Redemption

Underrated: Fuckin' Luigi's Mansion

Yeah! Luigi's Mansion! It's an easy way to kill 5 hours.

 

[ecoho]

overrated:
Fallout3-Ok we know you can make a big world so how bout sign posts or a map or for that matter a dam person within oh say 25 feet of were you start to tell you were the fuck you are.

CODMW1&2-good game but seriously not any better then halo odst.

Raceing games-ok if i want to race cars ill go down to the speedway and do it my self some how i think ill get more out of it.(ALL THE HOT PURSUIT GAMES ARE EXCLUDED)

underrated:
Blue Dragon-best turn based rpg of this generation enoth said.

Too Human-yeah i know the dam controls are a ***** to master but once you get them down its a pretty fun game. even with the rediculously long death sequinces.

prototype-i refer you to its Zero Putuation reveiw as to why i like it.

Phantom Crash-fucking great mech combat game. The mechs were easy to control and the game had a kick ass sound track with a few realy bad songs that just made you laugh.

 

[Ace of Spades]

Overrated: BF:BC2
Another 'realistic' multiplayer shooter... I can barely contain my excitement.

Underrated: Skies of Arcadia: Legends
I realize that there are plenty of people who love this game, but it would have been nice to see it do well financially so as to encourage more games like it.

 

[Tokikaz]

I like to think that I enjoy all kinds of games.

Overrated: Final Fantasy (especially XX and XIII)

Yeah I thought final fantasy 20 was crap too !!!

HAHA, Wow, I meant X-2. I'm dumb XD;

 

[daftnoize]

Anyone played the dark cloud series, just got the 2nd one and am really enjoying it think thats under appreciated

 

[Sacman]

Overrated: The entire military shooter genre...
Underrated: a tie between Gungrave...
and Nier...

 

[Gameslayer_93]

Overrated: Goldeneye (N64, not the annoying PS2 "Rogue Agent)
Underrated: Perfect Dark (N64)
don't get me wrong, Goldeneye WAS an excellent game, and Perfect Dark did effectively copy the style, but ive always thought that Perfect Dark pulled it off just a little bit better than Goldeneye

EDIT: oh, another overrated one was FF13, that was just godawful, trying to combine real-time and turnbased just killed the game stone dead

 

[SteveeVader]

I really don't see how people are saying Okami and Shadow of the Colossus both games everywhere got 10/10 in the uk they did and they have over 90% metacritic scores.

Overrated = Starcraft 2 and anything by blizzard except diablo 2 however playing it the other day for the first time in a couple of years it does not age well. Starcraft 2 especially since the story was half assed, predictable, the gameplay was unimaginative and literally a copy and paste of starcraft on a newish engine. Multiplayer is swarmed by trolls who practically live up blizzards ass. The idea of having to be online to play a single player makes the single player asinine as you are constantly online and any sense of the game being yours is lost.Along with it being full priced is frankly a joke.

Underrated - Mirror's Edge, the sabateur and Alan Wake - wake did not review well across the bored however in terms of scaryiness and narrative it is up there with silent hill 1. Sabateur is just extremely fun and the way colour slowly bleeds through as you curb the oppression is interesting