Most overrated games on pc?

Some games are popular and idolized, but really not so great. So what games that get a lot of attention you don't find to be all that good?

Here are my picks:

Batman archam asylum and city - the games have great graphics, atmosphere and a decent story. But the two elements that make the majority of the gameplay - jumping and combat are both simplistic and rather limited. For instance you can't push or pull someone from rooftops which makes it not as fun as it could have been. In general combat is all about clicking one button and batman does the rest of the job himself, sure you can counter the attacks (when an icon indicating that the opponent is about to strike flashes) and use some of your gadgets, but it doesn't quite change things dramatically. The jumping suffers from the simplification of modern games - all you need to do is run towards the edge and hold space, what happened to prince of Persia type of jumping?

(sorry if I wrote something untrue, since I only completed the archam asylum and I couldn't bring myself to finish city)

Assassins creed - can I go as far as to say that I honestly think that the main idea of the story is simply dumb? I don't feel that old but maybe I don't understand what people these days find interesting. For me, the idea of a guy being captured and forced to go back to ancient times, because he is an assassin and 95% of gameplay is in the ancient times feels unnecessary complicated and just silly. Like imagine if we had the same story of Forest Gump but he was also a robot? Or in the end of The Shawshank Redemption when camera pans out,we would find out that everything we saw took place on Mars. Also the elements of the gameplay really didn't impress me.

Call of duty series - the first few instalments were exciting, but now they have a new game coming in such a short time it all feel rushed and without fresh ideas.

The Sims series - do I really need to tell why?

Those aren't really fully fledged PC games though, that is why, they're ported from consoles.

The first Call of Duties were good because they hadn't been made mainstream yet and it was PC only.

Although, I thought Batman AA & AC were great...

The Sims is a niche product, can't call that overrated. Millions of people all over the world are faithful Sims addicts who camp out on nights like last night just for an expansion pack. You don't have to like the game, but I don't think it fits the overrated pile. For what it does it serves its purpose. My wife is a longtime Sims addict so I speak from experience lol. I don't see the big deal with it, but holy crap the "Simmers" do.

COD, it is the multiplayer that makes this game, not the single player. If only talking single player then yes, very overrated except for the first MW and the first COD imo.

Assassins Creed, 100% agree. Too "console" for my tastes for one, not to mention the silly storyline as you point out. Everytime I was just getting immersed in the world it would remind me I wasn't there.

My most overrated games I can recall in recent history were Bioshock and Gears of War. Just did not see the greatness in those games that was supposed to be there.

Hmm, most overrated has to be Assassins creed Brotherhood and Revalations.

But the ones who take the top is Call of Duty, Modern Warfare, Battlefield and the dozen other FPS games which are all so alike that you would think it was made by the same person.

Those aren't really fully fledged PC games though, that is why, they're ported from consoles.

The first Call of Duties were good because they hadn't been made mainstream yet and it was PC only.

Although, I thought Batman AA & AC were great...

PcGamingRig

The Sims is a niche product, can't call that overrated. Millions of people all over the world are faithful Sims addicts who camp out on nights like last night just for an expansion pack. You don't have to like the game, but I don't think it fits the overrated pile. For what it does it serves its purpose. My wife is a longtime Sims addict so I speak from experience lol. I don't see the big deal with it, but holy crap the "Simmers" do.

COD, it is the multiplayer that makes this game, not the single player. If only talking single player then yes, very overrated except for the first MW and the first COD imo.

Assassins Creed, 100% agree. Too "console" for my tastes for one, not to mention the silly storyline as you point out. Everytime I was just getting immersed in the world it would remind me I wasn't there.

My most overrated games I can recall in recent history were Bioshock and Gears of War. Just did not see the greatness in those games that was supposed to be there.

vfibsux

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Those aren't really fully fledged PC games though, that is why, they're ported from consoles.

The first Call of Duties were good because they hadn't been made mainstream yet and it was PC only.

Although, I thought Batman AA & AC were great...

TheDude184

The Civilization series. I just can't get the hype.

Counter Strike (1.6 and Source)

Some games are popular and idolized, but really not so great. So what games that get a lot of attention you don't find to be all that good?

Here are my picks:

Batman archam asylum and city - the games have great graphics, atmosphere and a decent story. But the two elements that make the majority of the gameplay - jumping and combat are both simplistic and rather limited. For instance you can't push or pull someone from rooftops which makes it not as fun as it could have been. In general combat is all about clicking one button and batman does the rest of the job himself, sure you can counter the attacks (when an icon indicating that the opponent is about to strike flashes) and use some of your gadgets, but it doesn't quite change things dramatically. The jumping suffers from the simplification of modern games - all you need to do is run towards the edge and hold space, what happened to prince of Persia type of jumping?

(sorry if I wrote something untrue, since I only completed the archam asylum and I couldn't bring myself to finish city)

Assassins creed - can I go as far as to say that I honestly think that the main idea of the story is simply dumb? I don't feel that old but maybe I don't understand what people these days find interesting. For me, the idea of a guy being captured and forced to go back to ancient times, because he is an assassin and 95% of gameplay is in the ancient times feels unnecessary complicated and just silly. Like imagine if we had the same story of Forest Gump but he was also a robot? Or in the end of The Shawshank Redemption when camera pans out,we would find out that everything we saw took place on Mars. Also the elements of the gameplay really didn't impress me.

Call of duty series - the first few instalments were exciting, but now they have a new game coming in such a short time it all feel rushed and without fresh ideas.

The Sims series - do I really need to tell why?

TheDude184

Batman AA/AC and Ass Creed are console games. Can't expect super-complicated mechanics that go beyond a controller.

CoD is a simplistic online shooter made for consoles pretty much.

Sims series is great, I don't see a problem with it. My only complaint is they added too much unnecessary "social stuff" that I didn't care for, you know GUYS sometimes want to play these games too, and we don't want to deal with how many times I need to hug somebody so I can advance in my career or afford extensions to the house. For me Sims 1 is still the best.

I love the new Batman games. :(

I do agree about CoD though.

Starcraft II IMO. I don't play online much in RTS games (maybe that's why I don't like it) but it just feels like whoever has the bigger army wins to me. I much prefer tactical RTS games like the Total War series or CoH, where you need to flank & such.

If I had to pick (and don't kill me) I'd say Counter Strike and Half Life 2. Idk I think they are solid games but I just don't see how they are always talked about as being the "best." They just seem kind of bland and normal honestly. I also played them when they were released.Croag821

HL2 is best appreciated by people with a historical perspective ie, people who played HL back in the day when it was actually groundbreaking.

Nowadays it's not that impressive but you gotta realize games have come a long, long way and at the time this series was the creme of the crop, and is still pretty dang good.

BY FAR.

Spore... I followed that game for over 5 years before it got released. A universe in a box, creating your own species all the way up from a single cell level; how cool is that!? The idea was fabulous, but way to ambitious... Spore turned out to be a shallow showcase with nothing left of the original concept. The biggest let down ever!!!

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Those aren't really fully fledged PC games though, that is why, they're ported from consoles.

The first Call of Duties were good because they hadn't been made mainstream yet and it was PC only.

Although, I thought Batman AA & AC were great...

PcGamingRig

Counter Strike (1.6 and Source)

Mizeak

COD: The 1st, United Offensive and 2 were all great but then the series was ruined with number 3 (console only) and then things got even worse when it went "Modern". Ever since then they have been releasing the same game with a different skin and charging stupid amounts of money for some maps that your basically forced into buying if you want to continue to play multiplayer.

Spore: Gets a special mention, played it for a total of 10mins and i destroyed it, the creature creator was more fun than the actual game.

[QUOTE="Croag821"]If I had to pick (and don't kill me) I'd say Counter Strike and Half Life 2. Idk I think they are solid games but I just don't see how they are always talked about as being the "best." They just seem kind of bland and normal honestly. I also played them when they were released.ZombieKiller7

HL2 is best appreciated by people with a historical perspective ie, people who played HL back in the day when it was actually groundbreaking.

Nowadays it's not that impressive but you gotta realize games have come a long, long way and at the time this series was the creme of the crop, and is still pretty dang good.

Starcraft II IMO. I don't play online much in RTS games (maybe that's why I don't like it) but it just feels like whoever has the bigger army wins to me. I much prefer tactical RTS games like the Total War series or CoH, where you need to flank & such.

Majistrate

If you think flanking and tactics arent important in sc2 you probably didnt play above silver league and its great that things like bonus damage when flanking ARE NOT in the game but still you need to do it to get a good position on your opponent (which is much more realistic imo). If you make 1 tactical mistake in sc2 you are dead 80% of the time.

I think games like CoH just make it much to easy for you as you ONLY need to control your attacking units. There is absolutly no macro involved (means no base building, not much resource management etc.) Its just like they cut SC2 in half and let you just do the attacking while adding some shiny flags to capture on the map to give you the ressources.

Also you cant say a game is overrated if you dont even understand the game mechanics. Thats why I dont say CS is overrated, because I did never play it on a decent level, even if I think that games like Quake are just much more demanding. But oh well I think most people want to go the easy route and dont have the patience to learn a challanging / competitive game.

While not specifically a PC franchise, the Mass Effect series is seriously overrated. Fusing bad, clunky game-play with terrible writing/storytelling and dumbed-down RPG elements does not make a good game. I honestly see nothing redeeming in this series and its popularity escapes me.

skyrim

The sims is not overrated. It dosen't appeal to the 'hardcore' gamers but it does appeal to casual gamers. I enjoy it sometimes.

COD series isn't overrated because everybody seems to hate it here.

Assasins Creed, Yeah I agree. What's with the yearly installments recently?

Batman: Nah, They're great.

portal 2 and starcraft 2

If I had to pick (and don't kill me) I'd say Counter Strike and Half Life 2. Idk I think they are solid games but I just don't see how they are always talked about as being the "best." They just seem kind of bland and normal honestly. I also played them when they were released.Croag821

I think that might be because the HL series has always set new standards for the fps genre throughout each installment, now all the games have taken stuff fromthese gameswhich madethem so amazing and put it togetherwith thier own imrovements.I remember how amazed I was over the destructionengine in HL2, when you hit a crate with your crowbar and it fell to a lot of pieceswho didn'teven fadeout 1 second later like they used to in previous shooters.

Crysis, FarCry, WoW and Half Life 2.

Call of Duty; The Sims; Simcity; Diablo; Starcraft.. Just my opinion, don't shoot me.

Call of Duty; The Sims; Simcity; Diablo; Starcraft.. Just my opinion, don't shoot me.

tjricardo089

I won't shoot you, but really: Sim City? Which one!?

Actually you can pull someone from the rooftop, you just do it in such a way that won't kill them, one of Batman's main rules. If you shimmy along a ledge and a baddie gets close enough you can grab them so they hang off it.

My choice recently would unfortunately be Alan Wake. I'm just bewildered at how people think that this is a great game or even a great story. Its hopelessly convoluted with uninteresting characters. The gunplay and light mechanics are gimmicky at best. Very underwhelming considering how long it was in development. Its just a linear shooter, with some simple puzzles. How did this game take 5 or 6 years to make?

Fallout 3

Bioshock was overrated. Still a good game, but overrated. I stopped following hype after that game.

CALL OF DUTY

Batman is great, I can't really say its overrated.

Assassin's creed is overrated.

COD is overrated no doubt, but the hate it receives, balances it out.

TF2 I feel is overrated.

GTA is very overrated, but I think thats more of a problem on consoles than on pc.

Sims? IDK, I don't really feel that it is, but I can see how one would think that.

Guild Wars and Wow are a little overrated too.

All my opinon.

Make a thread for over-hated games. COD, SWTOR, Mass Effect will all be listed in there. They all receive a lot of hate they don't warrant. Like a below post for example, hide behind insults like Biodrones, and Activision fanboys, and think that their OPINION is authority.

*insert picture of WoW logo here*

BY FAR.

csftar

yep

Quake 3 Arena. I said it. I'm expecting to be pelted with rotten vegetables. It was a fun game, but IMO UT99 kicked the crap out of it in almost every way. I can think of dozens of console-ported PC games from the last decade that are very overrated, but those aren't true PC games. I also thought Far Cry was quite overrated.

Yes, World of Warcraft. There are so many fantastic MMOs with much more interesting game worlds and way better graphics. I'm a big fan of Blizzard and I don't dislike this game, because I've never really given it a proper try, but I do agree that it's probably one of the most over-rated games on PC.

to the opi thought batamn ac had deep combat system. pause the menu and look up the moves, there were tons of cool fighting moves for batman to do. it is also not a button mahser, you hae to use your brain slightly while fighting. please name another action game that lets rip a bat out of someones hand , smash their face with the bat, then elbow them in the stomach, shot a bolt of electricity into someone, glide 15 feet towards them knocking them out, then swatting someone with your cape, flip over them , to throw a freeze grenade at them......... etc.......... catch my drift. simplistic? for a character that does not use guns or swords as a primary weapon , i would say batman is a very diversified fighter which is proven flawlessly in batman ac

Starcraft II IMO. I don't play online much in RTS games (maybe that's why I don't like it) but it just feels like whoever has the bigger army wins to me. I much prefer tactical RTS games like the Total War series or CoH, where you need to flank & such.

Majistrate

Watching a couple of blink stalkers take out a whole swarm of banelings is just beautiful...

skyrim, assasins creed, and WoW id say are very overrated

Actually you can pull someone from the rooftop, you just do it in such a way that won't kill them, one of Batman's main rules. If you shimmy along a ledge and a baddie gets close enough you can grab them so they hang off it.

My choice recently would unfortunately be Alan Wake. I'm just bewildered at how people think that this is a great game or even a great story. Its hopelessly convoluted with uninteresting characters. The gunplay and light mechanics are gimmicky at best. Very underwhelming considering how long it was in development. Its just a linear shooter, with some simple puzzles. How did this game take 5 or 6 years to make?

biggest_loser

To answer the topic, Farcry and Crysis, I could brag about them all day but I think people would just be annoyed by it.