Most Overrated Games You've Played?

So I decided to play Dragon Age yesterday... It is now on my list of overrated games.

 

Same feeling and I was looking forward to Xenosaga so badd. Xenogears is truely a piece of art.

I hear some of the later XenoSaga games are better though, and Kos Mos is atleast easy on the eyes.

 

I feel bad for Halo being on many lists. I actually played it three times over (with breaks in-between of half a year). Apart from the similar level designs, I actually found it innovative (the damage system) and a good way spend my afternoon.

WOW, definitely. The conceit of Blizzard, despite all their brilliant games, is to continue making insane amount of money each month after an MMORPG whose novelty has clearly worn out. The problem with this is, other developers probably look to Blizzard as what they want to become. Deeply disturbing. God-level boars, anyone?

 

Assassin's Creed. It was basically the same thing over and over again, and the combat sucked. No subtitles, even.

Mr. Mysterious

 

I don't think Assassin's Creed could really be considered "overrated"; at least, that is, if you are referring to the very first one. It was pretty well-known that it eventually got pretty repetitive, and that the combat was very simplistic, which kinda makes it impossible for the game to be overrated for those reasons.

 

I haven't seen Batman: Arkham Asylum on any of these lists, but I have to say that it didn't exactly grab me after playing it for an hour or two. I've always suspected that I was playing it wrong, with the wrong settings or something. Is there any skill involved? It seemed to be just a clickfest, like a modernized version of Dragon's Lair or something.

 

Yes, I'm referring to the first one, and I knew those caveats before I purchased it.

But I don't know...I feel like Prototype was a similar game, but for some reason, it's many times better than the first AC. I haven't played Brotherhood or ACII, but only because I'm so wary of AC I. It kinda warned me about those kinds of games, you know?

Lol, I'd like to see you play a game without pressing any buttons (no clicks = no buttons).

Mr. Mysterious

 

Yes, yes, funny, but you know what I mean. Batman seemed to be click once and see the character do an animated move, click twice and see him do something else, click a third time and see him jump, click a fourth time and watch him throw his batarang... rinse and repeat. There seemed to be no strategy or skill involved. Just click the button and watch the story advance. If you're stuck trying to figure out which particular thing on the screen to click on, go into "detective mode" to find out. Shrug.

But again, everyone seems to love this game -- maybe I'm missing something? (I hope so, because it's sitting uninstalled, currently, in my Steam library.)

 

Maybe they loved it because of the recent Batman movies (which are excellent IMO), and because this is the first REAL, GOOD, Batman game that has come out in a very long time? Then again, you don't like it...but to each their own.

I don't like FPS, but everyone else apparently loves them Maybe it's because I'm stubbornly trying to attain 1337 status while using a controller, instead of a KBM.

Mr. Mysterious

 

I did give it a chance, growing up I was the biggest Nintendo fanboy, and most fav'd game was zelda Oot. It was hard to go from Majora's Mask (which lotsa people hate, and I dont understand why) to wind waker, it was a huge let down. I get that its artistic but cell shading has never been a favorite art style of mine, IMO fits DBZ games thats it. The plot didn't continue after Majora's Mask either, just kinda started a new plot which I wasn't a huge fan of. Oot, MM, were in the same plot line. I understand that zelda frequently cuts off plots and starts new ones, but after doing a few together and leaving Majora's mask with link still looking for Navi, I wanted more.... and got wind waker. A story based AFTER everything happened, mountain tops are island blah blah, ya what eves, does link find NAVI?????!!!! I cry myself to sleep still about this... Also this was the reason I purchased a PS2 and not a gamecube, this one game alone, no joke.

This is my reason for the hate on Wind Waker.

Also to add to games over hyped, ANY madden, or sports games, I hate people who buy into this garbage, go outside, im sure theres a park near by, do the real thing and play it in RL, im like any man, I enjoy watching a football game or two on tv, but to make these athletes into idols and worship them is just rediculous.

 

Developers did a very good job improving upon the sequels. They got rid of the repetitive missions and added some varieties. You might be surprised how much the game improved.

 

Metal Gear Solid 4 almost got it right with that feature.

 

XBOX 360 Kinect ? Looks promising

 

You still have to turn it on

Mr. Mysterious

 

Mostly any FPS aside from Team Fortress 2; from a personal standpoint, they're (mostly) all the same and too serious for my tastes.

 

I thought I was the only one who thought this .

 

I've never heard this complaint before, interesting point of view.

 

Most of the popular ones aim to be as realistic as possible and they all end up looking like the same game aside from different uniforms in different settings and guns (and even the guns part doesn't really count anymore).

I play games to get away from reality

 

The point is that XenoSaga is a story that spans in 3 lengthy games, and the 3 games have different types of classic j-RPG combat. In my opinion they are amazing as a whole, but I at the same time they are quite thick (and thus really not suited for everybody [regardless of being an RPG-gamer or not]).

 

Both me and HTWingNut (begining of this thread) have mentioned it ... .

 

Ha, yeah, well, you can't expect me to see it when it's hidden in the very first post like that.

 

NBA JAM!

Cmon! Chicago Bulls and no Jordan!? Instead they give us Horace Grant

 

sc2.

after going thru the gameplay of COH, sc2 just seems so 1990's gameplay-wise

 

Right. That's it. RTS's have evolved greatly but SC2 played it safe. I guess it's ok in some respects, but really I was hoping for something innovative. Then again, they had to cater to their biggest audience, and something different would have had all of South Korea up in arms. But then maybe they'd be so angry they'd go an kill Kim Jong Il.

 

Borderlands. Bought it after my friends said that it was amazing, but I never saw the point of it when I popped it into my 360. Sure, I like the cartoonish graphics, but I wasted $60 on a game I never play.

 

Can I say Gears of War without sounding like a troll? That's probably what I'd pick, but it's not entirely fair since I've never really cared for most shooters. Good game, just not quite life-changing.

 

You don't sound like a troll, I too feel that Gears of War was overrated.

 

I'm going to withdraw my opinion that Fallout 3 is tremendously over-rated. I have installed it again, now on my able-to-play-it desktop, and I've been enjoying it immensely. It's not that true to the Fallout originals, but it's a good game nonetheless.

 

Console games have auto-aim type helpers when you play an FPS with a controller. FPS on the PC doesn't. And even with auto-aim, KBM is simply superior for that style of game, as well as with games like RTSs.

Using a screwdriver to pound in a nail doesn't make you 1337, it makes you insane I love controllers for the right games. I wouldn't want to try to play Ratchet and Clank with a KBM, and Batman:AA is a perfect game for a controller from what I hear. But I like to use the right tool for the job.

 

Definitely. And I think the experience of working with Fallout 3 will benefit the boys at Bethesda during the production of Elder Scrolls V, a game that I might actually lock myself away to play from start to "completion".

 

Ahhh so playing borderlands on PC with an 360 controller is an exercise in futility. I didn't know that shooters on the consoles (that is PS3, 360) had that auto-aim feature.

Then again, my friend was able to play and finish Borderlands on my pc using my controller...maybe I need more practice, lol.

And exactly, Batman AA is the best game I've played that uses a controller effectively and intuitively. I had no problems with it, hardly ever died and have been playing it numerous times

Mr. Mysterious

 

Portal. Spent an hour on it then once I looked away from my computer I got the hugest headache and felt like vomiting. Quit and never came back xD

 

Well in my opinion all of the Total war games were overrated. Any RTS that you can pause and change tatics like that have no challange at all!

 

- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and onwards. Call of Duty 4 was the last good game of that series.

- Heroes of Newerth... a rip-off of DOTA. DOTA was a fun custom game on Warcraft 3 when IceFrog was still supporting it, but as HoN was a standalone copy of DOTA, it really isn't that great of a game. Not to mention, the gaming community in HoN is horribly rude and selfish.

- Bioshock 2. Carbon copy of the original Bioshock, with the same terrible coding. No improvements in terms of both gameplay or story.

- Fallout 3 (that includes New Vegas). Played it for a few hours and immediately put it up on ebay for sale. There's just something about that game that turned me off. Maybe it was the fact that the game didn't know exactly what genre it belonged to. It wasn't a true RPG, nor an FPS, and the exploring/wandering couldn't have been more boring. I also played New Vegas at a friend's house thinking that the dev team might have improved the game, but nope. Same game, different location, just as bad.

- SC2 (somewhat). The game is very polished and balanced, but like other people have said, Blizzard played it too safe and SC2 ended up being not too innovative.

- TF2 (somewhat also). Team Fortress is fun and all, but it gets repetitive really fast. There seems to be too many things happening and too many players, that you end up feeling like your character isn't contributing much to the game, despite having a 5:1 KD ratio.

 

oh c'mon! just because you can pause? Its the only game in its genre, its a mix of turn strategy with RTS combat just without the building part of it.

 

Protip: K/D means nothing in TF2. There's a reason the scoreboard lists POINTS instead of KILLS, and deaths aren't even listed.

 

Crysis. I didn't like it at all.. however Crysis 2 is awesome. COD has always been good except for world at war which was ok but not good at all.

 

Call of Duty Black Ops : A Meh game for me. There was way too much hype built up for this game where I live, non-stop talk, at school, church, whatever. When the game came out I just didn't know if I wanted it or not. Too many people play it, it's just one of those games where when you see waaaay too many people play it, it just becomes an over-rated over-played game. Sure it can be fun, but seriously, it's just a video game.

 

A good game is meant to be played a lot, so being "over-played" doesn't necessarily make it an over-rated game.

But in the case of Black Ops, I completely agree. I don't see how so many people can play that game for that long. If the game were branded under any name other than Call of Duty, then I guarantee it wouldn't have sold as much as it did. Again, all hype, minimal content.

 

Far Cry 2 - Such a boring game. Had so much potential, but I found it repetitive and boring. AI wasn't that great either. Such a massive shame as it could have been so damn good... The first one was brilliant.

 

TFC >>> TF2

 

Classes were so broken in TFC lol.

 

I just finished it Friday and I don't know if it's vastly over rated, as metacritic score is only 82, but Dragon Age II was a serious downer for me. I'm actually surprised it averages that high. If it hadn't been a "sequel" maybe my expectations wouldn't have been so high. It did have a very good story and some decent characters, but virtually everything else that made DA:O so wonderful was missing from or altered to make this game.

If it hadn't been preceded by DA:O, I probably wouldn't be so hard on it, but what can I say...decent game, but not worthy of the franchise name IMO.

 

HoN: I loved this game... any online gaming community is going to have its s. Very intuitive, Indie Devs that listen to its community, and new content every week- 2 weeks. Graphics are beautiful and engine is coded extremely well.

Bioshock 2 : wow just beat it last week... drill charge is too awesome. I loved Rapture. Really, which game has it's setting in an underwater city?

SC2: well, it didn't want to scare away the competitive scene, so it didn't really have any chance to innovate. It HAD to keep the core gameplay.


For me:

Farcry 2.. Damn graphics are beautiful, the story line is set yet all the quests are get a mission, go to a merc or straight to the mission, complete mission in one of 2 ways

 

Amnesia. Didn't scare me. At all. Zip. Nothing. Zero. Nada.