What games are overrated?

So an underrated games topic came to my attention but I'd be way more interested in what games people think are overrated and why if you want. I'll start.

Call of Duty Ghosts... commercials oversell it like they should I guess but it's just another FPS right?

World of Warcraft.... For the time I've seen put into this game it doesn't seem all that rewarding.

Final Fantasy XIII... Just didn't like it but maybe everyone else is on the same page.

FIFA, COD, Madden, Gran Turismo, Half Life, Counter Strike, Gears of War, Halo, Minecraft, Witcher, might be some others, but those are the ones that i don't really like

Every game you ever liked.

Every stealth game ever made.

All COD games after World at War. All the same, boring, little effort. This includes Nazi Zombies.

Battlefield 4 - A less fun version of BF3 with worse maps, a worse story, a less 'authentic' feel. They took the perfectly fine mechanics of medics and ruined them - medics are annoying now. I'll give it another try in a couple of months to see if they fix the annoying things about this game.

Most recently, GTA V.

Any new FPS. They were cool 10+ years ago, but now I'm just sick of 'em.

Everything I've played developed by Rockstar. they can cram new tech into games, but it seems they can't for the life of them actually make solid mechanics that aren't clunky as hell.

Although Max Payne 3 wasn't bad since it focused on the shooting.

@hrt_rulz01: Although short, how did you feel that game did not live up to expectation? I felt it was one of the best games of the year. The story-line was way above average. Multiplayer was "out of the box" design.

Every call of duty made after Call of duty 3. Halo as well.

You can pretty much argue that any game that wasn't a complete and utter failure is overrated.

• Mass Effect 2
• Metal Gear Solid 4
• Heavy Rain
• Resident Evil 5
• Splinter Cell Conviction
• Call of Duty series
• Sports games

Be careful when you call a game overrated though, because sometimes it's just that genre of gaming that is not for you. I've always thought Red Dead Redemption, GTA, and Elder Scrolls were overrated, but I guess it's just because open world games aren't for me.

The only game I think is truly overrated is Call of Duty. I think its popularity has to do with the addictive multiplayer, that's all.

Any game that has any sort of popularity.

the clunky movement mechanic is very annoying

Every popular game on the planet is overrated. /end thread.

Seriously, every game that is popular have a "Is Game X overrrated" or "Game X is so overrated" thread or claim to it.

They should have a rule against threads like these.

For me personally, I just don't think it's anything spectacular. Sure, technically it's very impressive and the scale of the world is amazing (especially with old technology), but I thought the story & the missions were average. Some missions were cool, but like GTA 4, they got repetitive to me after a while.

It's a good game, but not spectacular.

Indie games that somehow make it through the crowd and sales.

@locus-solus: That's what I'm saying. For all the technical achievement their games are, the basic mechanics always feel comparably clunky to many other games.

Apparently every game that is not PC centric or a Nintendo title. Well that is what the PC gamers and Nintendo fans keep telling me. Oh and remember, all modern video games are terrible. Also remember that all video games that aren't based around pure game design and tropes of this medium are nothing but terrible garbage that needs to be burned in a giant pile of poop and hit with keyboards and Wii-chucks until it stays dead.

Only good games like Fallout 2, Donkey Kong Country Returns, (insert PC game here) and all 9000 iterations of Mario are worthy of such high praise. The only great stories to be found in gaming are on PC and console games are trash. Cutscenes are an abomination and linear is a bad word.

Remember one last thing folks, the only way to truly judge anything is to take a class in the Ricky Bobby School of Comparisons... if you ain't first, you're last. In other words if you ain't the best than you're the worst.

This is what I have learned through my time on these forums. Oh and I'm wrong and anybody I debate with is right... I took awhile to grasp this but I finally got it now. I see clearly now the rain is gone.

• Mass Effect series
• Batman Arkham series
• Battlefield series
• GTA5
• Gran Turismo series
• Halo series

I just didn't see what the big deal was with these games, most aren't terrible but to me they didn't live up to the hype they had.

The Last of Us: Story and graphics are awesome, but the gameplay is frustrating.

Metroid Prime

Resident Evil (remake)

Grand Theft Auto 4 & 5

Super Mario 64

@187umKILLAH: I kind of agree with the Arkham games, in that I don't get why some people consider them to be the pinnacle of game design. Are they bad games? No, they're great ones, but they too have their fair share of flaws. People just don't seem to realize it.

Cod Games

Mass Effect games

Orion: Dino Horde is insanely overrated. That game is a piece of crap. More seriously though, I'm going to go with @Pedro on this one, apart from the banning of specific threads, I guess (that'd be a little bit too much). What does 'overrated' even mean when it gets used on every single occasion? As soon as there seems to be some tendency by critics or gamers to generally laude a game other people show up to say it's overrated. Popular games are always overrated. The way I see it, it's a meaningless term that people cling to in order to give their opinion more weight. Instead of saying "I don't like this game, because..." people say "this game is overrated, because...", as if their arguments have some universal relevance. A game can be infested with bugs and some people will still love it. There's nothing overrated about that. We only think it's overrated because we interpret opinions as claims of truth or because other people present their opinions as such.

Skyrim

Pokemon, Mario, The Last of Us, Bioshock Infinite.

I'd have to disagree with Call of Duty. Everyone wants to hate on it, but either most of those people have never played it or they just don't get it, and they think everyone else should hate it too. It's one of the easiest games to pick up a controller and play with friends, it's one of the most fun games to relax and play and it's an absolute blast night after night, year after year. Everyone always says "oh it's the same every year", well what do you expect them to change? You don't change every mechanic every year, you add new maps and a few new features and that's all you need.

Same goes with Madden and FIFA. Once they have it down to a nearly perfect representation of the sport, what do you want them to do? Start changing the rules of the NFL? Football is football (in both cases) and it's worth it every year.

How so?

There's no point in listing overrated games here simply because for each one of us they're different. It's all a matter of taste and preference. This doesn't differ from arguing about which music genres should be considered good and which bad. In the end you just go on listening to what you like no matter what people say.

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All of the elder scrolls games.

the last of us

starcraft

dota 2

all of the final fantasy games

mega man series

metroid series

legend of zelda series

metal gear

halo

madden

gta

Oh, and The Last of Us is hella' overrated.

I think as a rule of thumb any game that's had more than three sequels to it. Usually after the third it's just the game developers tweaking an existing game-play system for an extra payday.

I'm sure that I'm going to get a lot of hate for this, but I think GTA is insanely overrated.

Dragon Age: Origins is overrated. I am fine with the graphics. After playing it for a dozen hours or so, I came to the conclusion that the majority of its appeal is that story, stat building, and character customization. There is indeed character customization and stat building, but the actual combat in which those traits are used is quite automated. Dialogue between characters is decent and the relationship system is interesting, but those are not enough reasons to call it the best role-playing game of the year it was released.

The ability to make many spoken decisions in that game is probably why it is regarded well as a role-playing game. However, that is not enough for me. Demon Souls is a more interesting experience partially be it has different ideas about Middle earth-like settings. In comparison, Dragon Age: Origins has the same races as usual. Those are human, dwarf, elf, and ogre.

That is not a rule I use for anything. In regards to video games, each Street Fighter is different enough to be a different game and each version of a numbered entry such as Street Fighter IV and Super Street Fighter IV is almost a new game because of all the new characters, moves, and rebalancing done. Fighting games are like that. Each numbered Final Fantasy game is distinct from all of the other main games. There is Final Fantasy XIII and then XIII-2, but those are very different from XII, XI, and so on. The Metal Gear Solid series has plenty of new content with each new addition and it is a standard of excellence in the gaming industry. Actually, all the games I mentioned by name are and they have at least four other games with them as part of the same respective series which are at least more than one you limited good sequels to.

Batman Arkham City - Buttonmashing combat followed by cutscene. Repetitive. Awful overworld

Red Dead Redemption - Predictable formula. Ride to A. Cutscene. Ride to B. Shootout. Ride to C. Cutscene.

Halo Reach - A character-building story with horrible two-dimensional characters. Tried to copy LOL of Duty too much.

Metal Gear Solid 4 - People are impressed by graphics. LOL. Another repetition + cutscene game.

Bioshock - Just a series of fetch quests with a pretentious story. In a repulsive maze-like level design.

Mass Effect 2 - Corridor shooter with laughable morality system. I still enjoyed it though.

Zelda: Wind Waker - An empty simplistic poorly designed game glossed with amazing graphics.

Lost faith in humanity again ! Skyrim is overrated??!!! Mass Effect ??? Batman Arkham Series???? Bioshock????? RDR????

These are among the best games ever made .....seriously dunno what u want !

Most of the Resident Evil fans were disgusted with 5's route and it did not get universal praise. Conviction was seen as good but not amazing and fans were disappointed with is action oriented gameplay.

I would appreciate you explaining how the story in Bioshock is pretentious.

Okay. Let's start with Ayn Rand and Objectivism. It totally steals the story of Atlas Shrugged, but even as it's trying to show the flaws of the book, I couldn't help but feel Ken Levine could've picked a better opponent. As it is, Objectivists and extreme Libertarians are a very small minority and making a game to refute them is much like making a game to refute Joe McCarthy or J. Edgar Hoover. It just lacks modern-day relevance. Also, it does discuss genetic modification but doesn't seem to make any meaningful statements about it.

In the end, it's hard not to feel like, aside from all the flashy violent imagery, the game isn't saying very much, despite wanting to be super-political. Yes, it's more ambitious than most games, but even as a story game it's well below par the average movie and novel.

Final Fantasy 7. Awesome game but it has one of the weaker casts in the series and there are aspects of it that haven't aged well.

agreed

Do you even like video games? lol... I've never heard of mega man being overrated.

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The setting of Bioshock is an alternate reality based on our own and it is ultimately meant to be considered a fiction. I understand that Objectivism was not popular during Ayn Rand's lifetime or anytime after. The idea of Rapture is of a place in which it is popular. That "what if" scenario is the same foundation for many games such as Fallout and the post-apocalypse, Deus Ex and the future of a technologically advanced humanity, and Street Fighter with people throwing fireballs at each other. The relevance of the details of the hypothetical scenarios is important, but if you keep in mind the foundation of these video games and other fictional media, your critical stance might be better used on other aspects of that game.

@ChiefvsGordon: Funny

I would have to say batman arkham, the combat is super boring. Its fun to button mash dozens of enemies at once? I would rather play double dragon or tnmnt on nes.

There is no such thing as overrated games. People who say a certain game is overrated is just them saying "Hey, this game is super popular and I don't even think it's that great".

Notice how this board is already full of big titles that were released this past gen.

Final Fantasy VII

xD