Most overrated game.....

IGN wrote an article debating whether Ocarina of Time is overrated. I say only slightly because there are other stellar Zelda games, including Link To The Past. What do you think the most overrated game of all time is?

I think Halo games, God of War games, Call of Duty games are generally overrated. But the most overrated game off all time has got to be Final Fantasy VII. I do like the game and I think it has the best combat system in the series. But the story has to be one of the worst in the series and the games graphics have aged poorly. I rather be in the medieval themes of IV and V, the steampunk theme of VI, the european futuristic theme of VIII, the classic theme of IX, the south asian tropical theme of X, and the sky city theme of XII than be in the ugly cyberpunk theme of VII. Only some setpieces in VII look great, such as the Ancient City where Aerith is killed and Yuffie's town. The story has little heart (except for some scenes), unlike the other FF games, ESPECIALLY VI and X. While the killing of Aerith was stunning and well done, its not like they haven't killed playable characters before, some characters in II, alot of characters in IV including twin kids Porom and Palom, a party member in V, Shadow and Gogo in VI. Other than a couple of scenes with Aeris and Tifa, the game has no heart. The story is also heavily metaphysical and confusing, unlike VI's simpler but more effective story. Barrett is just an awful character and the translation is poor as well. Sephiroth is also an overrated villian, a cool looking one, but he is no Kefka. But when the game came out, I liked it. Like I said, the battles are well done and revolutionary, although the summons last way to long. But after I beaten it twice and played the newer ones as well as VI, I just don't connect to it as much as the others, and it is the story and characters. XIII needs to be like VI, light on the metaphysics (enough to tell the story), but heavily on the humanity.

GTA4sukraj

The reason why FFVII is known as greatest is because

It's the first FF game to have some depth to it's story.

and it's the last FF game that has story that makes sense.

In other words, FFVII is the only numbered FF game to have a good story.

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I'll vote for Oblivion.

As a MMORPG player sometimes you think it'd be cool if there was a single player version of some MMORPGs, but then when you play Oblivion and it is, in effect, a single player MMORPG, you realize that it's a horrible idea.

Oblivion is one of the most boring games of all time on top of having one of the worst character development systems of all time. Great graphics don't compensate for the overall suck of the game.

Bioshock. It isn't immersive at all, and it gets VERY boring. I would give it about a 6 because it has good graphics and atmosphere.

GTA4 was good but not a 10. It deserved about an 8 or maybe a 9. Saints Row 2 should have gotten that 10.

GTA and gears of war. you'd think they were the only games on the earth the way they are advertised and promoted.

...such as the Ancient City where Aerith is killed and Yuffie's town. texasgoldrush

zelda; OOT

Don't get me wrong, the game was revolutionary for it's time...but it really hasn't aged that well. Hell...I'd go as far as saying that TP surpassed it.

Bioshock or GTAIV for most ever. I bought both of these and really regret it. I own every GTA game dating back to 1, and I liked them all. I think GTAIV was ruined for me because they made the driving more difficult, you could be shot in your car, and you can go flying through the windshield. I'm not 100% sure what my problem with the game was, but that's just my guess. With Bioshock, I can't stand how you can just die. I just got bored w/ the game. Games need consequences for dying. I played the game for a few hours, and am by NO means an expert but the only way I found to kill Big Daddys was to pretty much just pump all of my ammo into them and die a couple of times.Arcain48

GTA & COD series...

It has to be Halo 3 for me!

I liked the game but has nothing special. Doesn't even have a proper cover system

MP is probably quite good if you spend 100 hours getting good anough at it but it is ruined by the "younger" gamers

OOT isn't over rated. I've played it again recently & still think it's pretty good considering it's about 10 years old

GTA4 is absolutely the most overated game ever, for a game which fell way short of hopes by comparison to what its predecessor achieved it makes no sense for it to be so highly revered.zarshack

HALO!..... just kidding. It's kinda overrated but still really good despite what naysayers would say.

The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess is overrated as hell Jeff Gerstmann gaved it a proper score of 8.8 and then millions of fanboys flooded him with hate messages.

Ocarina of Time > Twilight Princess

GTA IV, Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid 4,assassin'screed and rock band 2.

GTA IV for plain gameplay and visual problems not many but still enough to make it not worth a 10.

Final fantasy for just plain boring.

Metal Gear Solid 4, boring and bad controls(way to complicated).

Assassin'sCreed just not worth it due to flaws.

Andpersonally it also think rock band 2 because it was no where near as good as GH:WT it just had tons of dlc which was mainly songs from Rock Band 1 and some even from GH:WT or earlier Guitar Hero Games(yes i know that the old maker of GH games now makes Rock band but Activision carries the name now so they are their songs and after the greatest hits game comes out no one from the from the many that say there should be dlc for old songs for GH:WT will be able to complain.

GTA IV, Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid 4,assassin'screed and rock band 2.

GTA IV for plain gameplay and visual problems not many but still enough to make it not worth a 10.

Final fantasy for just plain boring.

Metal Gear Solid 4, boring and bad controls(way to complicated).

Assassin'sCreed just not worth it due to flaws.

Andpersonally it also think rock band 2 because it was no where near as good as GH:WT it just had tons of dlc which was mainly songs from Rock Band 1 and some even from GH:WT or earlier Guitar Hero Games(yes i know that the old maker of GH games now makes Rock band but Activision carries the name now so they are their songs and after the greatest hits game comes out no one from the from the many that say there should be dlc for old songs for GH:WT will be able to complain.

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Actually, I think San Andreas is the one that is overrated. The shooting in GTA IV is much iimproved. While GTA IV is slightly overrated, especially with reviews it was getting, it hasn't been doing as well with Game of The Year awards...Fallout 3 has won the most of those.

The controls are slightly evolved. san andreas's controls arent as good as GTAIV but are better then Vice Cities. but the extra addition with how much content there was in san andreas far outweighs anything in GTAIV :/

San Andreas has a bigger game world and has alot more in it that actually matters, army tanks, harrier jets, gambling, buying safe houses, flying planes, hidden packages that actually give a decent reward and the list goes on...

fact GTAIV is on the top of the meters on most review sites such as metacritic.. its just wrong =[

I really don't get the deal with FFVII in terms of how much people both praise it and bash it. When it first came out I'd certainly agree that it was overrated as hell, but nowadays while I agree that it was never all that I don't understand why people hate on it so much. If anything FFVI is far more overrated now because it's always the game that people bring up when they want to bash some aspect of FFVII. I mean, Kefka is a psychotic clown, why do people always knock down Sephiroth/JENOVA for being less psychopathic when they are solid examples of villans (I personally hold Seph as my favorite villan, though I know I'll be accused of being a fanboy because he's so popular)? In any case I much prefer the way FFVII handled its story and characters then the 'have heaps of long cutscenes where characters discuss their emotions' approach that certain games take.

p.s. The Aerith death scene really got to me dispite knowing beforehand what was going to happen. If anything the fact that I knew it was inevitable is what make me care about it more then I would have otherwise.

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Actually, I think San Andreas is the one that is overrated. The shooting in GTA IV is much iimproved. While GTA IV is slightly overrated, especially with reviews it was getting, it hasn't been doing as well with Game of The Year awards...Fallout 3 has won the most of those.zarshack

The controls are slightly evolved. san andreas's controls arent as good as GTAIV but are better then Vice Cities. but the extra addition with how much content there was in san andreas far outweighs anything in GTAIV :/

San Andreas has a bigger game world and has alot more in it that actually matters, army tanks, harrier jets, gambling, buying safe houses, flying planes, hidden packages that actually give a decent reward and the list goes on...

fact GTAIV is on the top of the meters on most review sites such as metacritic.. its just wrong =[

I really don't get the deal with FFVII in terms of how much people both praise it and bash it. When it first came out I'd certainly agree that it was overrated as hell, but nowadays while I agree that it was never all that I don't understand why people hate on it so much. If anything FFVI is far more overrated now because it's always the game that people bring up when they want to bash some aspect of FFVII. I mean, Kefka is a psychotic clown, why do people always knock down Sephiroth/JENOVA for being less psychopathic when they are solid examples of villans (I personally hold Seph as my favorite villan, though I know I'll be accused of being a fanboy because he's so popular)? In any case I much prefer the way FFVII handled its story and characters then the 'have heaps of long cutscenes where characters discuss their emotions' approach that certain games take.

p.s. The Aerith death scene really got to me dispite knowing beforehand what was going to happen. If anything the fact that I knew it was inevitable is what make me care about it more then I would have otherwise.

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I really don't get the deal with FFVII in terms of how much people both praise it and bash it. When it first came out I'd certainly agree that it was overrated as hell, but nowadays while I agree that it was never all that I don't understand why people hate on it so much. If anything FFVI is far more overrated now because it's always the game that people bring up when they want to bash some aspect of FFVII. I mean, Kefka is a psychotic clown, why do people always knock down Sephiroth/JENOVA for being less psychopathic when they are solid examples of villans (I personally hold Seph as my favorite villan, though I know I'll be accused of being a fanboy because he's so popular)? In any case I much prefer the way FFVII handled its story and characters then the 'have heaps of long cutscenes where characters discuss their emotions' approach that certain games take.

p.s. The Aerith death scene really got to me dispite knowing beforehand what was going to happen. If anything the fact that I knew it was inevitable is what make me care about it more then I would have otherwise.

texasgoldrush

FFVII had less heart?

the ****??????????????????????????????????????????

Sakaguchi made FFVII as tribute to his dead mother. FFVII had MOST heart out of all FF games.

and you call Sephiroth bizzare? And Kefka is NOT? At least Sephiroth has very good reasonings behind his actions.

I really don't get the deal with FFVII in terms of how much people both praise it and bash it. When it first came out I'd certainly agree that it was overrated as hell, but nowadays while I agree that it was never all that I don't understand why people hate on it so much. If anything FFVI is far more overrated now because it's always the game that people bring up when they want to bash some aspect of FFVII. I mean, Kefka is a psychotic clown, why do people always knock down Sephiroth/JENOVA for being less psychopathic when they are solid examples of villans (I personally hold Seph as my favorite villan, though I know I'll be accused of being a fanboy because he's so popular)? In any case I much prefer the way FFVII handled its story and characters then the 'have heaps of long cutscenes where characters discuss their emotions' approach that certain games take.

p.s. The Aerith death scene really got to me dispite knowing beforehand what was going to happen. If anything the fact that I knew it was inevitable is what make me care about it more then I would have otherwise.

FFVII had less heart?

the ****??????????????????????????????????????????

Sakaguchi made FFVII as tribute to his dead mother. FFVII had MOST heart out of all FF games.

and you call Sephiroth bizzare? And Kefka is NOT? At least Sephiroth has very good reasonings behind his actions.

GTA4 GOT A 10!?........................Being Serious!? GTA4 was crap...the most overated game ever! I completed the damn thing in two days, how can you call a game a 10 when it takes 2 days to complete it, it lacked everything from San Andreas...all it had was graphics and half decent physics thats it. Where the * is San Andreas 2! You can't put less in a sequel and it be better then the rest! GTA4 official rating 7.5 and thats because I am in a good mood! Ocarina of Time overrated!? are you being serious? the game is still one of the best games in the world it was top for more then any other game has been and for those that didn't know Majora's Mask is actually supposed to be an expansion to Zelda OoT so that just makes it even better...I don't know whats happened to IGN the past 3yrs but seriously the people who work for it are the most amatuer gamers to ever rate games...ever! I will personally visit there site and * there * heads to a * beyond a shadow of a *, IGN are a bunch of *! As for FF series the most overrated FF is without question FF7, it was good but the way fans talk about it...as if no other RPG has ever existed...FF7 good game but way overrated. FF10 was little overrated but still one of the best FFs of all.stike22