Overrated Video Games: Your Opinions
What game(s) have you played, that you felt got really good reviews or quite a bit of hype, but when you played it, it turned out to be boring, underimpressive, or just suck?
I've been listening to the Zelda: Twilight Princess OST (one of my favorite games) and it got me thinking. I bought a ps2slim two years ago, and since then had been looking around for good games and such when I came across a game called Shadow of the Colossus.
In reviews of this game that I read/watched, about every one I can remember said it was awesome, epic, and "kind of like Zelda with just boss battles and no item collection." Well, I bought the game from GameStop at some point and though it didn't suck exactly, I just wasn't all that impressed. Sure, there are no load times, the scenery is pretty and the colossi are fricken huge, but that's about all there is to it. At some point in the game, I stopped killing them for a while and just wandered around trying random things like standing on the horse's back and jumping into the air to grab on to a bird (which serves no purpose) just to make the game longer.
Maybe I'm underimpressed because I played Shadow of the Colossus after Twilight Princess came out (which I mention because people compare the two) when it actually was released a year before, and so I felt the graphics in Zelda were better anyway and didn't see the point in all the hype. Not to mention I was bored with Colossus's storyline, or lack thereof.
I've been listening to the Zelda: Twilight Princess OST (one of my favorite games) and it got me thinking. I bought a ps2slim two years ago, and since then had been looking around for good games and such when I came across a game called Shadow of the Colossus.
In reviews of this game that I read/watched, about every one I can remember said it was awesome, epic, and "kind of like Zelda with just boss battles and no item collection." Well, I bought the game from GameStop at some point and though it didn't suck exactly, I just wasn't all that impressed. Sure, there are no load times, the scenery is pretty and the colossi are fricken huge, but that's about all there is to it. At some point in the game, I stopped killing them for a while and just wandered around trying random things like standing on the horse's back and jumping into the air to grab on to a bird (which serves no purpose) just to make the game longer.
Maybe I'm underimpressed because I played Shadow of the Colossus after Twilight Princess came out (which I mention because people compare the two) when it actually was released a year before, and so I felt the graphics in Zelda were better anyway and didn't see the point in all the hype. Not to mention I was bored with Colossus's storyline, or lack thereof.
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Oblivion
Half Life
Half Life 2
Halo
Diablo II
Warcraft III
Portal
BioShock
Also, funny, an "overratted" game
Deus Ex
Hopefully Sam & Max season 3?
Everything's overrated.
And what overrated games list is complete without the Call of Duty series?
Well... thanks for the input. -.-
I meant specifically, what game or games might you have personally played that you were told were fricken awesome and all that, but you just didn't like it when you actually got down to playing it.
Amen.
I'll add Pro Evolution Soccer, FIFA, NBA Live and Madden series to the list.
Also, Ocarina of Time. Now hold on, that doesn't mean it isn't an excellent game, but when a new Zelda game comes out everyone seems to want to compare it to that one and I don't think that's fair nor do I think it should be the one to set the best example of how a Zelda game should be done.
I like 7. I DO know it has so many flaws and I can see that the main anxiety behind the game was MONEY but... Tifa's my favorite character >->
I hate 8. I totally despise 8. It's even more overrated IMO.
Agreed on both. I loved FF up until 7 and then didn't even play them until 12. I just didn't like 7 and it annoys me how it's the one people keep calling the best.
As for Ocarina of Time, I loved the game, and didn't think it overrated when I first played it (or second, or third), but I agree that people seem to consider it the ultimate Zelda games or something and I feel there have been better Zelda games both before and since.
There was an 8? I just believed it skipped from VII to IX instantly and there CERTAINLY couldn't have been a terrible game where the main character is a wussy emo who used an impossible weapon, and it CERTAINLY wouldn't have been riddled with plot holes, and the main character CERTAINLY wouldn't have died and then become a live again in a totally different location with no mention of it afterwards. I mean, a game like that would be AWFUL :rolleyes:
Super Paper Mario indefinitely. The game is ok, But it wasn't a colourful RPG like the prior two- instead, it was a gimmicky platformer.
Now on a personal level & not media buzz kinda thing, I would have to say Sonic 06 (The worst game ever made in my opinion). I was quite naively expecting it to be Sonic Adventure 3. I mean the team thing from Sonic Heroes (which I hated) was gone, it had an overworld which you could explore between stages (much Like SA1 *my favorite Sonic game* had), There were single character stories (once again similar to SA1) instead of the good or evil paths (the style in which SA2 used... I love the game itself, but the way the story was handled always annoyed me), the graphics were great (for the time)... I mean what could go wrong? Well besides the terrible control, camera & level design absolutely nothing.
In-DEED.
But still I think the idea of the gunblade is pretty great and it would be nice to see if it was used correctly. You know, like in a sitcom or something.
FFVIII destroys VII any day of the week. I would say it is the 4th best in the series, behind VI, IV & IX.
Different games, so when you say it's overrated in your opinion I say you are completely wrong and played it the wrong way.
And I also say reviewers and reviews are laughable matters.
Also, of course, SotC is far more innovative and ground breaking to videogames than Twilight Princess - which anyway has still some of the best dungeons in the series.
I would like to have an argument about that but it'll be pointless since personal taste is an involving aspect so I'll just say this;
I'm gonna be the forum meathead and stick up for CoD for the sake of Devils Advocate. If anything i'd say there's a big ol' backlash against the franchise. It sells well because people like it, and for ages it was the media darling, but now everyone's bitching about it (whilst still playing it, the Stimulus DLC sold like crazy on Xbox Live)
My point, outside of personal opinion when you've got those sales numbers and player numbers that Infinity Ward have then it's probably not that overrated.
Though I understand the many many valid reasons why people don't like the franchise, ye just have to swuitch off and have fun at the end of the day to enjoy it I think.
I think a lot of indie games aren't exactly overrated, but I think opinion tends to be a lot more lenient on them than big studios. Wether this is good or bad is a whole different kettle of fish
Hey, its just like an FPS!
For me I have to say most modern FPS like Gears of War or Modern Warfare, as well as the entire GTA series. It's boring. Drive around, do some stuff you don't care about, blow some stuff up, shoot people, meh. Boring. I had more fun playing Simpsons Hit and Run than I did playing GTA 4. Oh, and Super Mario RPG. While it's great, don't get me wrong, plenty of better Mario RPGs have come down the pike by now and it's hardly still the greatest among them.
People compared the two in the store and in reviews so I'm gonna mention that.
Also, I don't CARE about "innovative" and "groundbreaking." I didn't play it until 2008, and by then I had already played other games with similar or better graphics.
Innovative and groundbreaking... hmph. I've seen movies that won academy awards for being innovative and groundbreaking, yet they still sucked. I'm not playing games merely for artistic value.
The only dialogue is from the "gods" which tell you what Colossus to kill next. You have the ability to ride your horse in different ways (hanging from the side, standing on it or crouching on it) yet they never have a use so it doesn't matter. The colossi are huge, but the difficulty lies in learning the right tactic to kill them. Actually doing it is easy so replayability is low. AND I hadn't played Ico before playing SotC, so I had to look up in Wikipedia what the ending to SotC was all about. By itself the ending is, though unexpected, kind of a letdown.
idk about playing it after playing Ico (for which it's said to be a "spirital prequel" not a direct one), but as a standalone game, the story is weak and the game is short once you know the right tactics.
Suffice it to say, I bought it from GameStop, beat it in a few days and then took it back for a different game. And I didn't even no-life playing it at all. It really is that short. It might be a good rental, but it certainly is not a good game to buy.
1. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
2. Fallout 3
3. Day of the Tentacle
4. Curse of Monkey Island
5. World of Warcraft
6. Scribblenauts
7. LittleBigPlanet
8. Bioshock
9. Animal Crossing
10. Harvest Moon
Oh god yes, and so many other MMO's. I remember when I had the trial for World of Warcraft and finally decided to try it. My friend was all "NO DON'T DO IT, I DON'T WANT TO LOSE YOU" and I said "relax, how addictive can it possibly be?" So I loaded it up...
I ran around and button mashed a few things to death, then sat in a pumpkin patch and went "hmmm, yep" and logged out. That was that.
Oh and Persona 3. My friends wouldn't stop talking about this damn game. Thus I am playing it RIGHT NOW so I can get to playing the supposedly superior Persona 4. Now the story can get pretty interesting and it has hilarious moments, (holy crap you have a knife-wielding dog for a party member) but the gameplay is so horrid. Normally I dislike mostly all other turn-based rpg's but at least some of them have interesting settings. Tartarus is soooo boring to explore and the full moon bosses are nothing special.
I mean clearly if you played it 2008 for the first time, of course there were games with better graphics! That doesn't stop people like me from loving Megaman 2 though. It might not be your taste, but ignoring what the game did in the time it was released is a bit harsh
Also you have to know where the focus point of this game is. For me it always seemed that the main focus of this game is exploration and epic battles. You can basically go everywhere you like. Even better, in the second playthrough you can get even more power ups and items which will help you explore even more. This is the replayability, along with trying to fight them as fast as possible.
It never seemed really fair to me to compare it to Zelda, only because there was a boy on a horse wielding a sword. That would be like me comparing Silent Ocean (that diving game for the Wii) with Tomb Raider.
Also they different poses on the horse DO have a use. If you strife for killing those bosses as fast as possible, you need ways to get from your horse to the weak point of that enemy very fast. Those poses do help a lot with that.
Bioshock
Resistance
Yakuza
Resident Evil 5
I would say Brawl is even underrated. Not so many gamers care Wii anymore so Brawl kinda bit the dust.
I mean lots of people buying it, playing it, I know that but, I can't see the hype I expected.
blasphemy!!!
EVEN BIGGER BLASPHEMY!!!
If anything, Yakuza is heavily underrated. Hell, I couldn't name 2 other people in my general area who have played any of them.
You've kind of won my heart.
Very much a similar deal with Oblivion. What happened, Bethesda? You did great things with Daggerfall and Morrowind. And then OBLIVION came out, and I honestly stopped caring about the Elder Scrolls franchise.
Also, nobody can hate or dislike World of Warcraft and in the same breath think that Animal Crossing is worth a damn.
LittleBigPlanet is my most liked on that list. I just don't think it's a "game" so much as a "software toy". A pretty competently put-together toy, but it's so rare to find good user-made levels. Because a lot of the users are idiots that flood the level space with crap.
I assume you mean that one left-right button mash one, that required you to be very fast?
I can. What are you going to do now Mr. Philosopher?
On another important note... You wanted to know how someone could dislike WoW & like Animal Crossing? Really? Well for starters Animal Crossing is a casual, calm & relaxing single player game (with the option of inviting your friends into your town for multiplayer) whereas WoW is a life consuming, anger inducing MMO game where 45 year old men pretend to be hot 18 year old chicks just so they can live out there weird sexual fetish of dirty talking to young men over the internet.... there is a BIG difference
Why yes, the MAIN REASON the game sucks is that it takes what is a well-known and beloved franchise and replaces it with something that has only passing, cosmetic similarities to it. That tends to make something a HORRIBLE SEQUEL in almost anybody's eyes. And no, not in the tiny details. The entire moral of the story is raped by Mothership Zeta's audio logs. The very character of the Brotherhood of Steel is changed completely. The black humor is almost completely removed in favor of something a lot safer. The core values of atmosphere, of how the stories are told, of how the game is played? EVERYTHING. No, it's only in the small details that you find something that was done even remotely right.
But it's also a terrible game in its own right.