Most Over Rated Games EVER!

I know I'm going to get flamed for this

Most overrated:

Oblivion -> Boring, boring, boring... and well repetitive(after 2 or 3 oblivion gates). Some great mods that add to the combat, but still doesn't get me through some aspects of the game that are just flat out unappealing to play.

Fallout 3 -> Pretty much the same reason as oblivion, except the environment is extraordinarily bland (Oblivion > Fallout 3). Oh, and I hated the combat system.

Far Cry 2 -> God awful game... Horrid gunplay, AI, and story (****ing medication too). This game should studied to prevent future catastrophes.

Slightly overrated:

Starcraft -> Not saying it's bad, but it's not nearly as 'god like' as people make it out to be. 640x480 makes my eyes bleed...

CS 1.6 -> (see above comment as well)

Left 4 Dead -> Not much replay value for such a short game.

Crysis-> Needed better level design, more freedom, and less aliens.

[QUOTE="pelvist"]

Killzone 2

MGS4

HALO 2 and 3

MW&MW2

DMC series

Two Worlds

Just Cause 2

TerrorRizzing

Because I enjoyed those games and didnt feel that they were rated higher than what i thaught of them...

BTW, Gears wasnt exclusive and out of the 9 games I listed only 3 of those were exclusives. :lol:

Because I enjoyed those games and didnt feel that they were rated higher than what i thaught of them

pelvist

A lot of these games are looked upon as "overrated" years later. When they first came out, they did something that other games didn't (such as Halo 2's multiplayer changing the way console multiplayer was approached).

[QUOTE="Str8jackitz"]

What games do you think don't live up to the hype?

For me I think it would have to be:

1. Crysis

2. HALO

3. (Tied) Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare / Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

PredatorRules

I think you're wrong - maybe you're right about Halo.

anyway IMO most overrated game is GTA4 - a 10/10? it's the best in the series but a 10/10? I bet Mafia 2 won't get that score

[QUOTE="PredatorRules"]

[QUOTE="Str8jackitz"]

What games do you think don't live up to the hype?

For me I think it would have to be:

1. Crysis

2. HALO

3. (Tied) Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare / Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

PernicioEnigma

I think you're wrong - maybe you're right about Halo.

anyway IMO most overrated game is GTA4 - a 10/10? it's the best in the series but a 10/10? I bet Mafia 2 won't get that score

StarCraft 2Jd1680a

How is it overrated if it isn't even rated at all?

Halo
GTA III
BioShock

COD4 onwards

Assasins Creed series

Farcry 2

Most tom clancy games

[QUOTE="pelvist"]Because I enjoyed those games and didnt feel that they were rated higher than what i thaught of them

w4rrior17

No, If a game scores higher than I believe it deserved then I would call that game overrated which would be my opinion...

Just like coolmonkeykid above thinks COD4 is overrated and PernicioEnigma doesnt think GTAIV deserved the score it got, they are entitled to their opinions as much as you or me. Why not try adding something to contribute to the thread topic instead of posting multiple troll posts suggesting that peoples own opinions are wrong? Also show me where I said my view was the right one, ...thats right, you cant, because I didnt, Good deal! :roll:

[QUOTE="Mograine"]

[QUOTE="w4rrior17"]They either review it well because 1. They liked it. or 2. They were paid off. Either way being overrated has nothing to do with it. You calling a series overrated means you think your opinion is right, and theirs is wrong. But we all know opinions can't be either. The thread should be renamed something like "Popular games you don't like"w4rrior17

Deus Ex has a 8.2 here, Modern Warfare 2 has 9 on consoles and 8.5 on PC.

Now tell me something is not wrong here.

Opinion only goes so far. Saying Pink Floyd is better than a wedding band that never wrote a song is stating a fact, not opinion.

[QUOTE="Jd1680a"]StarCraft 2Mograine

How is it overrated if it isn't even rated at all?

Half Life 1/2

DanielDust

Although it's from your old list, I understood HL2, but the first?! Mind sharing what prompted you to it?

Bioware on the box.

-wildflower-

Even NeverWinter Nights (NWN) 1?

My list:

1. GuildWars: OMG! I bought this game like 50-60$ with all the hype and played not even 40 hours then, after not running it for a few weeks, I thought I should sell it while it's worth something.
2. Oblivion: Good engine, graphics and side-quests but the main quest SUCK! I like the game overall but can't get past the fail.
3. Halo: Not so bad as I saw the suckage from a mile away but all the hype... This game make me think of what a good expansion of Unreal Tournament X (latest version) would be like, but not much of a standalone.

[QUOTE="-wildflower-"]

Bioware on the box.

DynV

Even NeverWinter Nights (NWN) 1?

I thought the original campaign for NWN was pretty mediocre at best. Some of the mods people made for the game were pretty fun but I don't really like to include what the community does with a game as part of my opinion of said game. Although things like community patches that fix or restore content are probably my one exception to that rule.

Halo: Combat Evolved.

Halo 3 and Bayonetta.

Inb4massiverage.

Halo 3 and Bayonetta.

Inb4massiverage.

Ikuto_Tsukiyomi

You post on System Wars for mass-rage.

Halo 3 and Bayonetta.

Inb4massiverage.

Ikuto_Tsukiyomi

How do you expect to get raged here. They're not even PC games and we're on the PC boards. lol

[QUOTE="DanielDust"]Half Life 1/2DynV

2 was enjoyable but still, I didn't find it as superb, flawless as others did, in fact it had lots of glitches (and I managed to play it just last year since I couldn't stand before because of the horrible FOV and motion sickness, but I played it little by little and finished it, still....bugs/glitches after years? and they weren't some hard to spot ones, they were right in your face).

[QUOTE="Ikuto_Tsukiyomi"]

How do you expect to get raged here. They're not even PC games and we're on the PC boards. lol

Mograine

I don't really know, Lol. I assumed Xbox 360 fanboys would lurk here and then at the moment they see us insult them there grabbed there rage face and begin qqing all over the board.

[QUOTE="Ikuto_Tsukiyomi"]

Halo 3 and Bayonetta.

Inb4massiverage.

Vesica_Prime

You post on System Wars for mass-rage.

I know i was watching a big mass-rage on it. It was funny tbh.

I don't really know, Lol. I assumed Xbox 360 fanboys would lurk here and then at the moment they see us insult them there grabbed there rage face and begin qqing all over the board.

Ikuto_Tsukiyomi

Nah, that only happens when a big exclusive flops hardly and SW gets bloated up with damage control threads. We don't see many lemmings here on the PC board.

still....bugs/glitches after years? and they weren't some hard to spot ones, they were right in your face

DanielDust

This is definitely an issue! Developers having their eggs in different baskets (consoles) surely will amount to neglect. Another thing, just like music industry, it seem people are much more invested in their first product to make a name for themselves and just "keep the recipe" for other ones thus not thinking it enough, another factor for neglect.

I guess if more people would read reviews and magazines, their sale would be affected (not even buying in the first place instead of being disappointed) and it would become "enough"of a problem...

In my honest opinion of-course it's Mass Effect 2. Not only it's the most shallow RPG I've ever played, but it's also boring, pretentious, badly written, relies on fetch quests, and it doesn't get good until the last hour of the game.

People criticize Oblivion for being too shallow...honestly.

Two words:

Bioware

Rockstar

1) both Left 4 Dead's

2) Halo series

3) Just Cause 2

since we are bringing console games into it, demons souls is the most overrated game of all time, atleast by critics and hardcore sony fans. I swear everyone I know who tries it hates it because of its extreme clunkiness, narrow dark hallways, and genericness. These people should try a few pc rpgs!

TerrorRizzing

I love my ps3 and enjoy alot of the games on it but man... I just cant see why peopel love Demon Souls so much?
Its not even an rpg and the gameplay was borign as hell to me personally.

I find Gothic1-3, The Witcher, Lost Odyssey, Risen and Dragon Age to be much better rpgs this gen but Demon Souls gets RPG of the year and alot think its best rpg this gen.

I just didnt see what all the fuss was about.

every Blizzard game without the word "Diablo" in the title. it's not their fault their fans are morons who hail unoriginal (if well-executed) games as the creators of genres. unfortunately more complex and influential and innovative games have been swept under the rug as a result of this.chaingun543

In my honest opinion of-course it's Mass Effect 2. Not only it's the most shallow RPG I've ever played, but it's also boring, pretentious, badly written, relies on fetch quests, and it doesn't get good until the last hour of the game.

People criticize Oblivion for being too shallow...honestly.

GeneralShowzer

A guy with a chris nolan movie as his sig is calling something pretentious. I love it.

do you know what pretentious means? i suspect not. ME2 has the plot of basically a generic action sci fi movie, and it knows it. Someone needs to tell Christopher Nolan his movies aren't that important ;) Calling something shallow / badly written and not specifying at all is more pretentious than ME2.

I think ME2 is a great example of an action RPG. ME1 was extremely tedious and many of the RPG elements were simply useless. ME2 ramped the gameplay up (which is usually a weakness in bioware games) and did a better job developing better characters. It's not Baldur's Gate 2, but it's hardly overrated. And when you look at the quality of writing of most video games, ME2 is quite a bit better (though not amazing obviously...shepherd in particular has a lot of cheese, but the interactions with the characters is really well-written most of the time).

I'd love to discuss it in more detail but you just threw out a bunch of stock pseudo intellectual criticisms so I can't really refute anything concrete.

No 'Halo' answer from me. If any Halo game comes close to not deserving its praise, I'd say it's Halo 3. It's simple fun.

For me, the most overrated of this generation would be MW2. I was a little irked by MW1 already, and I just can't stand Call of Duty anymore, especially the multiplayer. I haven't had tons of fun with COD since COD 2, where not everything was special forces and small squads. It changed my perception of war, and the set pieces wee brilliant, not generic like mw's.

The military aspects were more modern, without a doubt (battles aren't as huge, as I've hinted), though I ultimately ended up not enjoying MW's campaign as much. What was really the final straw for me was the MP. I couldn't find any games that had under 24 people and were not HC. I managed to joined a local clan for a while and MW's multiplayer became a whole other game, and things were slower but definitely more fun.

No 'Halo' answer from me. If any Halo game comes close to not deserving its praise, I'd say it's Halo 3. It's simple fun.

For me, the most overrated of this generation would be MW2. I was a little irked by MW1 already, and I just can't stand Call of Duty anymore, especially the multiplayer. I haven't had tons of fun with COD since COD 2, where not everything was special forces and small squads. It changed my perception of war, and the set pieces wee brilliant, not generic like mw's.

The military aspects were more modern, without a doubt (battles aren't as huge, as I've hinted), though I ultimately ended up not enjoying MW's campaign as much. What was really the final straw for me was the MP. I couldn't find any games that had under 24 people and were not HC. I managed to joined a local clan for a while and MW's multiplayer became a whole other game, and things were slower but definitely more fun.

r4v3gl0ry

Agree with everything you've said here. (except the halo comment, those games are overrated as **** :))

They took a great franchise and turned it into a Michael Bay movie.

Aside from the unforgivable fact that MW2 has no dedicated servers, it's pretty sad how gimmicky the multiplayer has become. The original Call of Duty, a game with no killstreak bonuses, no perks, no unlockable weapons, somehow had a much higher skill cap and required much more strategy as a team and lent itself far better to competition. To me, that says everything.

Not sure where you got that from, all Blizzard fans say that Blizzard games are great and some of the best in the genre, some call them the best ever (like most do, when it's about their favorite games), but I personally never saw a single Blizz fan, in these 17 years of being a Blizzard fan, say that Blizz's games started a revolution, one game could be called a revolution, Blackthorne but sadly it's mostly forgotten, it's like it never existed. Diablo might be their only revolutionary game, because it pretty much was and still is the best this genre ever achieved, the rest are just solid, fun, huge (wow), diverse and highly balanced (starcraft) games.

[QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"]

In my honest opinion of-course it's Mass Effect 2. Not only it's the most shallow RPG I've ever played, but it's also boring, pretentious, badly written, relies on fetch quests, and it doesn't get good until the last hour of the game.

People criticize Oblivion for being too shallow...honestly.

chaingun543

A guy with a chris nolan movie as his sig is calling something pretentious. I love it.

do you know what pretentious means? i suspect not. ME2 has the plot of basically a generic action sci fi movie, and it knows it. Someone needs to tell Christopher Nolan his movies aren't that important ;) Calling something shallow / badly written and not specifying at all is more pretentious than ME2.

I think ME2 is a great example of an action RPG. ME1 was extremely tedious and many of the RPG elements were simply useless. ME2 ramped the gameplay up (which is usually a weakness in bioware games) and did a better job developing better characters. It's not Baldur's Gate 2, but it's hardly overrated. And when you look at the quality of writing of most video games, ME2 is quite a bit better (though not amazing obviously...shepherd in particular has a lot of cheese, but the interactions with the characters is really well-written most of the time).

I'd love to discuss it in more detail but you just threw out a bunch of stock pseudo intellectual criticisms so I can't really refute anything concrete.

Fable is a 2004 game, Oblivion 2006...they don't even compete with each other, and nobody should compare them since even that insignificant game has more life into it than Oblivion, Patrik Stewart is great, but he alone can't turn garbage into gold.

1. Assassin's Creed - I just didn't have any fun playing this. Very repetitive, and the parts that repeated weren't really interesting.

2. Bioshock - It's a really cool atmosphere, but the gameplay didn't grab me, and people talk about it like it's the best game ever.

3. The Halo franchise - The first one really was a big deal, but it's since jumped the shark.

4. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - It's fun, don't get me wrong. But people were ready to call it GOTY... gimme a break.

5. Metroid Prime - The Metroid franchise hit its peak with Super Metroid on the SNES... and then proceeded to completely change the formula.

Other than that, I can understand the hype most other popular games get, even if they're just not my thing.

@dakan45

Far too many of your games you say are overrated because either their sequels or games that came out years after them were better?

GTA

Halo

GOW lqtm (both god of war and gears of war)

Madden

Counterstrike

TF2

WoW.

Crysis

COD

HL2

Even though I may like (some) of these, they are over-rated.

Fable is a 2004 game, Oblivion 2006...they don't even compete with each other, and nobody should compare them since even that insignificant game has more life into it than Oblivion, Patrik Stewart is great, but he alone can't turn garbage into gold.

DanielDust

@dakan45

Far too many of your games you say are overrated because either their sequels or games that came out years after them were better?

bowlingotter

gears of war ftl

read dead redemtion

left 4 dead 2 (1>2)

half life 2

oblivion

Hmm, 1.halo ( too simplistic and weak graphics and gameplay, yet it gets high ratings and not get criticized by reviewers for its weak parts that other fps do get bad criticisms ) 3.gta iv (Gta sa had better: story, characters, more guns, more vehicles, more and bigger maps, more things to do and more unique missions with less repettion, if anything its a step back yet it gets a dakan45

Max Payne was the highest rated shooter on pc the year Halo was released. As much as I like Max Payne, I have to say Halo wipes the floor with it. Combat Evolved is a fitting name to add onto Halowhen you consider the best pc shooters of 2001 were Red Faction, Serious Sam and RTCW.

I personally like the story and characters better in GTA 4. GTA 4 is a huge evolution over GTA SA in many ways. Physics, ai and combat are hugely improved. Bigger maps automatically makesa gamebetter? So I guess Just Cause 2 is the best open world game then?