Most overrated game ever?

MGS4 and maybe Portal.

Spore. PERIOD.

Spore. PERIOD.

stupiddk

Metroid Prime. Sorry I really just didn't like it.SteverXIII

You must be kidding!

Its the best console game ever made......

Greg K. underrated it, it should have received a perfect score.

But this is a PC forum anyways, Prime belongs in a different forum.

Call of Duty series

Half Life 2

Morrowind

Homeworld

Diablo

All games that are mediocre at best.

bogaty

I disagree with you on all of those.....no surprise there ;)

Starcraft and World of Warcraft.

Anyway, seeing as no one answered my question, I'll have to say that the most overrated games by this website are Oblivion, Fallout 3, Halo: Combat Evolved, Call of Duty 2, Modern Warfare 1 and 2, the entire Command and Conquer series, the Age of Empires series, Batman: Arkham Asylum and least of all the Half Life 2 series. All games that were fairly polished, but entirely uninteresting in every other aspect.

[QUOTE="flukki"]

Half-Life 2

It has 95,xx % on Gamerankings - lol

MEOWWW123

...Must..not... flame....

oh, please excuse me, mr. cs fanboy ...

[QUOTE="bogaty"]

Call of Duty series

Half Life 2

Morrowind

Homeworld

Diablo

All games that are mediocre at best.

AFBrat77

I disagree with you on all of those.....no surprise there ;)

Bioshock, worst gunplay in a shooter in ages, and in terms of atmosphere and characters games as Undying or Riddick did it better years ago.

Anyway, seeing as no one answered my question, I'll have to say that the most overrated games by this website are Oblivion, Fallout 3, Halo: Combat Evolved, Call of Duty 2, Modern Warfare 1 and 2, the entire Command and Conquer series, the Age of Empires series, Batman: Arkham Asylum and least of all the Half Life 2 series. All games that were fairly polished, but entirely uninteresting in every other aspect.

Barbariser

*Red stamp of approval*

[QUOTE="AFBrat77"]

[QUOTE="bogaty"]

Call of Duty series

Half Life 2

Morrowind

Homeworld

Diablo

All games that are mediocre at best.

kdawg88

I disagree with you on all of those.....no surprise there ;)

Second indeed. He's just a critic for the sake of being a critic... No, he doesn't look smart or "hardcore"

I forgot how dissapointing half life 2 was for me. I remember seeing all those 90+ review scores and when i got the chance i picked it up. Man was it redundant.SteverXIII

So was I. Got 96/100 here in the biggest PC Magazine and I was like 'WOW, Half Life 1 was so incredible, I'll have to buy that'!

Played through it twice (second walkthrough was already quite boring): 'Oh well, this is the new holy grail of fps?! Or as even some say: Best PC game of all time?!?! :roll: '

P.S. @ all the trolls: This is a forum, why shouldn't people be able to tell what's "overrated" in their opinion?

Half Life games

Call of Duty series

WoW

Most Bioware games (I did like DA:O and the original Baldur's Gate)

P.S. @ all the trolls: This is a forum, why shouldn't people be able to tell what's "overrated" in their opinion?

flukki

Yeah, its funny how real trolls are often the ones accusing others of doing so.

The games i found overhyped and over-rated, were gta series

I said it before, but thats just my opinion..

As other posters in here have said... It all comes back to preference...

Many people follow a game because many people follow that game... (that has been a proven fact... alot of people judge what game they should get purely on its community)

But it is preference, just because you don't like a certain game, doesn't mean it is a bad game...

But one thing i think most of us "who think" can agree on is: most games now-a-days, and from the last 5-8 years, have been over-hyped... HYPE IS one of the main things that lead to disappointment.

can we just have them announced, a couple of videos here and there... All this "Finally the game(s) you have been waiting for, has just been announced. and we will continue to manipulate your perception of this game, until it actually launches... you buy it, and as usual doesn't live up to the hype we just paid millions to force feed to you"

[QUOTE="kdawg88"][QUOTE="AFBrat77"]

I disagree with you on all of those.....no surprise there ;)

yourmajesty90

Second indeed. He's just a critic for the sake of being a critic... No, he doesn't look smart or "hardcore"

Oh naturally. :roll: How dare I have an opinion which differs from yours? And way to launch right into personal attacks. "OMG he doesn't like a game that I like! I must defend it unto death! Quick, to the slandermobile!"

The games I listed are all, in my opinion, vastly overrated, simplistic, and boring. If you get enjoyment out of them, great. That's not going to change my opinion.

Halo.

Half-Life 2, so hard.

[flameshield]

The Game...

Which I just lost...and so did you

black sucks hard

Eneru112

i think ive seen that film

San Andreas. biggest_loser

This. +9 ratings, numerous mods, Gordan won last year, and the game is really a mediocre FPS.GazaAli

There you go 8) , i never called hl2 mediocre, just average. I guess i can pass my "hl2 hater" title to my friend here.

[QUOTE="MrLions"]How is Crysis overrated O_o It was purdy and it was kick ass to grab a Korean and hurl him through the jungle whats not fun about that? :o Artosa

Same here, i thought the gameplay was pretty much lackster, like they focus on 90% on graphics and for "whatever" reason you name it.

[QUOTE="Artosa"][QUOTE="MrLions"]How is Crysis overrated O_o It was purdy and it was kick ass to grab a Korean and hurl him through the jungle whats not fun about that? :o dakan45

Same here, i thought the gameplay was pretty much lackster, like they focus on 90% on graphics and for "whatever" reason you name it.

I thought it was decent, but that's it, besides, the enemies were bullet sponges, 3 shotgun headshots to take a normal enemy? WHAT!?

[QUOTE="dakan45"][QUOTE="Artosa"] graphics don't make a good game, crisis in the gameplay department was quite average.KillerJuan77

Same here, i thought the gameplay was pretty much lackster, like they focus on 90% on graphics and for "whatever" reason you name it.

I thought it was decent, but that's it, besides, the enemies were bullet sponges, 3 shotgun headshots to take a normal enemy? WHAT!?

and i guess i was the one who sucked at crysis :roll: Anyway its not 3 legit headshots but for some reason it feels like that, it feels like you have to hit the bad guys many times. So yeah it felt like that too, shooting felt awful. Glad we agree.dakan45

I thought I was the only one who felt that way about Crysis, I just want this things from Crysis 2:

-Better Performance

-Better Story

-Improved Art Style

-Better Dialogue (Dropping F bombs every 2 seconds doesn't make you cool)

-Improved shooting and hit detection

Now we just have to wait to see if that's even going to happen.

I thought it was decent, but that's it, besides, the enemies were bullet sponges, 3 shotgun headshots to take a normal enemy? WHAT!?

KillerJuan77

3 shotgun headshots are enough to take down a nano-suited korean.

A single shotgun shot to the belly is more than enough to kill a "normal enemy" or one of those creepy floating armor-ctopuses.

[QUOTE="dakan45"]and i guess i was the one who sucked at crysis :roll: Anyway its not 3 legit headshots but for some reason it feels like that, it feels like you have to hit the bad guys many times. So yeah it felt like that too, shooting felt awful. Glad we agree.KillerJuan77

I thought I was the only one who felt that way about Crysis, I just want this things from Crysis 2:

-Better Performance

-Better Story

-Improved Art Style

-Better Dialogue (Dropping F bombs every 2 seconds doesn't make you cool)

-Improved shooting and hit detection

Now we just have to wait to see if that's even going to happen.

[QUOTE="biggest_loser"]San Andreas. mo0ksi

[QUOTE="mo0ksi"][QUOTE="biggest_loser"]San Andreas. UbiquitousAeon

[QUOTE="mo0ksi"][QUOTE="biggest_loser"]San Andreas. UbiquitousAeon

• The story became ridiculous the minute you were out of Los Santos. It tried to be compelling and serious, but the outrageous crap you were doing didn't help in its favor.
• Stat building was very tedious
• Horrible, horrible sound effects
• CJ was a bad protaganist
• Flight school was incredibly frustrating the first time
• A lot of the property looked the same
• A lot of the missions involving the rural side were tedious and sometimes frustrating
• The street races were very unbalanced
• Aside from CSR and Master Sounds, the game had a disappointing soundtrack.
• Poor enemy and friendly AI
• Gang wars just sucked. Enemies would be stuck in a wall, forcing you to drive out the warzone to kill them and by that time the territory is lost.
• The last few hours of the game were very repetitive
• Some features and options were poorly implemented

And this is just the stuff I thought of from the top of my head.

[QUOTE="UbiquitousAeon"][QUOTE="mo0ksi"] This. I'm a huge fan of the GTA franchise, but San Andreas was just *loaded* with so many flaws, both big and small, that I don't know how anyone can even consider it as the best in the series.mo0ksi

• The story became ridiculous the minute you were out of Los Santos. It tried to be compelling and serious, but the outrageous crap you were doing didn't help in its favor. Opinion
• Stat building was very tedious Opinion
• Horrible, horrible sound effects Sounded fine to me.
  
• CJ was a bad protaganist Opinion
• Flight school was incredibly frustrating the first timeOpinion - I thought it was easy.
  
• A lot of the property looked the same
• A lot of the missions involving the rural side were tedious and sometimes frustrating Opinion - I didn't find them frustrating.
  
• The street races were very unbalanced - They were too easy in my opinion.
  
• Aside from CSR and Master Sounds, the game had a disappointing soundtrack. Opinion - that I agree with.
  
• Poor enemy and friendly AI - Agreed, but I also found the AI in the previous games to be poor as well.
• Gang wars just sucked. Enemies would be stuck in a wall, forcing you to drive out the warzone to kill them and by that time the territory is lost.
• The last few hours of the game were very repetitive - Opinion - I loved the last missions.
• Some features and options were poorly implemented - Such as?

And this is just the stuff I thought of from the top of my head.

Overrated huh.. I think most games deserve the scores they get but not the attention / amount of purchases they get. Such games like halo, the sims, madden and mw2. Just pains me to see better games get only a fraction of the attention these games are enjoying.

Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. It's a very good game but it's not THE best RPG ever made.

Aside from CSR and Master Sounds, the game had a disappointing soundtrack.

mo0ksi

• The story became ridiculous the minute you were out of Los Santos. It tried to be compelling and serious, but the outrageous crap you were doing didn't help in its favor. Opinion I'm sorry, but I just can't see how anyone could take it seriously.
  
• Stat building was very tedious Opinion When you're doing nothing put tapping the same button for minutes at a time, I don't see how it can be anything else BUT tedious.
  
• Horrible, horrible sound effects Sounded fine to me. Did we play the same game? The 9mm in the game literally sounded like noisemakers, and the AK sounded like someone was knocking on a door.
  
• CJ was a bad protaganist Opinion Seeing as how he was responsible for some of the bad stuff that happened towards the game, I don't see how he's a good PROTAGANIST. Notice I didn't say character.
  
• Flight school was incredibly frustrating the first timeOpinion - I thought it was easy. Fair enough.
  
• A lot of the missions involving the rural side were tedious and sometimes frustrating Opinion - I didn't find them frustrating.Fair enough.
  
• The street races were very unbalanced - They were too easy in my opinion. You basically agreed with me then.
  
• Poor enemy and friendly AI - Agreed, but I also found the AI in the previous games to be poor as well.But none of them got stuck into the walls as frequently as in SA.
  
• The last few hours of the game were very repetitive - Opinion - I loved the last missions. Notice I didn't say missions. The last mission was fun. But everything leading up to that point was very repetitive, as it was nothing but gang war after gang war.
• Some features and options were poorly implemented - Such as?Courier missions, robberies, some of the races, and some others
  

UbiquitousAeon

[QUOTE="mo0ksi"]

Aside from CSR and Master Sounds, the game had a disappointing soundtrack.

shakmaster13

The entire Halo series.