Your top overrated games

After posting on the thread GOW v DMC it got me thinking about games that people think are great which I just can't get my head around God of War in the case of that thread being mine. So I want you to choose as many games as you like that you think is average despite what others think and give your reasons why.

So here are mine

1. God of War - because I found the storyline to be boring and having it told through random flashbacks was stupid when you could have told it completly in the introduction. I also think there were far too few bosses for the game and so you are just left with repetitive battles and wtf is that movement you are supposed to do to get out of being frozen or when someone is clinging onto you when crossing a rope lol (but that is just me :p).

2. Any GTA past Vice city - lets see because they are essentially the same game over and over just different stories and improved cities I say up to Vice city because 3 changed the format of the series completly and Vice city was a well improved version but after that they are doing the same thing as they did with Vice city take the same game and dont change the core at all and when it gets to the 3rd time of doing this I think it is just lazy so how anyone can give a game that has had the same missions for the past 4 games a 10 is insane its just kill somone get in a car and run grab some drugs get in a car and run or the even more original lets steal a car..... and run.

GTA4 isprobably themost overated game ive ever played, its slow and boring compared to the rest of the series. I thought Nico was a very weak main character aswell.

Definitly agree with God of War and GTA 4. WAAAAAAAAAAY Overrated games right there.

I also nominate Ico for the PS2. People worship that game, yet I found it quite meh

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Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty. One of the most uninteresting shooters I've ever played. Loved sitting through the hours of utter nonsense that comprised the cutscenes, and that chick who wanted to talk about our relationship about 100 times - while I'm in the middle of trying to save the world :roll:

Medal of Honor Frontline - actually more unintersting than MGS2.

the final fantasy series.

Super Smash Bros. series

1. Anything Halo

2. Anything Final Fantasy

oh boy where to begin...halo 3, gta 4, metal gear solid 4 (good,but no way a 10), and any final fantasy after 9. final fantasy basically became an interactive japanese pop music video and most of the people who worship it, as well as metal gear 4, are anime fanboys.

Kingdom Hearts 2 and Final Fantasy XII

GTA San Andreas. A terrible, terrible game that did absolutely nothing as well as its predacessors. Bad plot, unlikeable characters and a stupid "gangsta" setting made the game unbearable.

FFXII. It wasn't absolutely terrible, but it was the weakest of all the ones I've ever played.

Mortal Kombat Armageddon. I know it wasn't as highly acclaimed as other games, including its predacessors, but it still wasn't very good. The reviews it got really over rated it.

GTA4 was somewhat overrated, a great game just doesnt deserve the perfect scores it got.

FF12 I found to be very overrated, I lost interest after about 30 hours.

Doom 3 was kinda overrated too, it kinda felt too generic, it had amazing graphics but it was very monotonous

Final Fantasy VIII

Halo 2 and 3

Kingdom Hearts series

(Donkey Kong 64)

I know alot of people love this game to death but i never understood what made it better than most games. The game was alright but it somehow managed to score a 10 everywhere when it was essentially banjo kazooie with more collecting, which brought nothing new to the table and just copied a game that came before it. *hides behind blast shield to avoid fallout*

(Halo Series)

While it was decent at first it has spawned the massive amount of FPS games that now flood the industry, and when a game is advertised at 711 that's when its gone too far with its own hype.

(Every Tekken after 3)

The first 3 were great for the time when 3d fighters first appeared but every game since 3 hasn't done a thing different and still feels just as stiff control wise, and the characters are just not that interesting or creative except for a few of them.

(Madden series/sports games)

essentially the same game every year with slight tweaks and roster updates is just mundane IMO. Sports games have never interested me but i just think its a shame that games that are hidden gems don't sell anywhere near as much as madden and other sports games do, and whats worse is that sports games are absolutely worthless once you take off the the plastic wrap, this goes as far back as nes games since usually at specialty game stores you will see a pile of sports games nobody wants.

and for the record I hate the word overrated, its used so much now its lost all meaning and people use it usually in the wrong context. All of this is my opinion of coarse and many will probably see it differently.

-end rant

Well, call me odd, but here are some of mine:

1)Anything by Valve - EVERY #$%@ING TIME Valve releases something, it gets praised up like crazy. As to why, I haven't the foggiest. I played Half-Life 2 and Left 4 Dead, and from what I played of the former(I only played for two or three hours), I found pretty mediocre(and I didn't like the fact that you didn't get any good weapons very soon either...two hours in, all I have is a crowbar and a pistol...WTF?!) and what I played of the latter wasn't even fun at all(Run, shoot, run, shoot, die, get revived, run, open a door, win. Hooraaaaay! And I like that there's 4 enemies and 6 weapons in the entire game.)...

2)Street Fighter IV - Okay, back in the day(the day meaning 1994...?), I suppose Street Fighter II might have been a boatload of fun(Having never played SFII until about a year back at a friend's for a few minutes, I wouldn't really know...XD), but now we have 3D fighters, with stuff like sidestepping. SFIV comes out, and hearing it's some sort of massive awesome epicfest, I go and pick it up...using $70 I'd been saving for a while. And what do I get?! Street Fighter II with still-ugly 3D graphics(I've seen Dreamcast games better than, or at least on par with, this...XD), almost the same music(which, mind you, aged terribly...) and a few new characters. Nothing evolved gameplay-wise, the characters seem dreadfully imbalanced and the game seems to EXPECT you to play it regularly and memorize everything in it(I can't beat Seth on Beginner in this but I can beat Jinpachi from Tekken 5 and Algol from Soul Calibur IV on Hard, I think something's wrong...plus the AI pulls off insane combos and spams no matter what difficulty you're on. It's like you're playing online offline! YAY!). Seriously, try changing the game and making it easier for people to pick up and play, Capcom...=/

3)Shadow Of The Colossus - Errr...well, first of all, the game has no normal enemies, just huge bosses. For another, the plot's so abstract I can't make sense of it. For another thing, the game plops you in with a horse, a sword and a bow. No objectives, it just assumes you know where you're supposed to go to find the first Colossus. Finally, the Colossi are INSANELY hard to kill without some sort of walkthrough. Me and my friends spent 3 hours trying to kill the first Colossus by ourselves, we never got it below half health...=/ Well, I guess it looks nice for a PS2 game...

4)Starcraft - Okay, this game doesn't SUCK, but everyone says this game's the greatest RTS ever. If you ask me, I'd say all the Warcraft RTSes outclass it, but none of them get much attention anymore(probably because of World Of Warcrap, but...)...=/

Well, call me odd, but here are some of mine:

1)Anything by Valve - EVERY #$%@ING TIME Valve releases something, it gets praised up like crazy. As to why, I haven't the foggiest. I played Half-Life 2 and Left 4 Dead, and from what I played of the former(I only played for two or three hours), I found pretty mediocre(and I didn't like the fact that you didn't get any good weapons very soon either...two hours in, all I have is a crowbar and a pistol...WTF?!) and what I played of the latter wasn't even fun at all(Run, shoot, run, shoot, die, get revived, run, open a door, win. Hooraaaaay! And I like that there's 4 enemies and 6 weapons in the entire game.)...

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lol I think in terms of mechanics Half life 2 is extremely good the way it uses physics etc however where it loses me is the story I mean you barely know what the heck is going on which is "apparently" what makes the whole you only see it from his view so great lol

You cant put down Portal I mean yea it was short and simple but it was so well written and Left 4 dead I think could be amazing if they tweaked it I think some sort of ranking system maybe a unique boss for each level and a variety of weapons maybe like the COD4 ranking system and it would be brilliant