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#1 jeffdoomsday
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1. Metal Gear Solid series- Bad gameplay, cheesy story

2. Half Life 2- Boring gameplay, bland artstyle

3. Gears of War- Short campaign, Broken multiplayer, tons of glitches

4. Mass Effect- Boring gameplay, short story, framerate issues(360 version), boring driving sequences

5. Grand Theft Auto 4- lack of features compared to SA, stupid characters, boring missions

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#2 Squall18
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Half Life 2 was great, and I beat it and the two episodes. But, some pc gamers religiously cling to this game and to me that makes no sense at all.

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#3 Cyberfairy
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hmm, mercenaries, too human, infinite undiscovery, haze and lair are kinda overrated. overrated at being bad that is.
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#4 deactivated-5b1e62582e305
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1. Metal Gear Solid
2. Half-Life
3. LOZ: Ocarina of Time
4. Halo
5. World of Warcraft

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#5 bobbetybob
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GTA4 is a snooze fest, I don't even own the game and I'm bored of playing it at friends houses, then again I hate all the GTA's, the only thing they were fun for was killing sprees and GTA4 ruined that by making it all realistic.
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#6 -Xeno-
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Halo series - 3 was great, the other two were boring. Ghost Recon - All of them are terrible Burnout - The first two were ok, 3 and onwards were horrible. Jak/Jak & Daxter - Terrible games, especially the first. Everything on XBLA/PSN/WiiWare that isn't a remake or port of an old game. Aside from a small handful of games all of these new downloadable games are rubbish.
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#7 Eddie-Vedder
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I can't stand these threads, the question is basicly what games don't I like and probably have never played...
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inafterhalo
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#9 EmptySki
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THe FF series is overrated or well not overrated, I just don't care for the games.
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#10 DivineSword  Moderator
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Halo is definitely the most overated in my opinion, I never got into it like others did.
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Half Life 2 was great, and I beat it and the two episodes. But, some pc gamers religiously cling to this game and to me that makes no sense at all.

Squall18

Most pc gamers see Half-Life 2 as the figure head to the entirety of the Half-life engine and the mods they have spawned.. Most people consider TF2, CSS, DoD and numeorus other thigns directly tied to HL2.. Hence why people rave abou tit.

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1. MGS

2. MGS3

3. MGS4

4. ICO

5. Shadow Of The Colossus

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#13 zassimick  Moderator
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I don't find these franchises overrated, just not my cup of tea:

Grand Theft Auto

Gran Turismo

Real-time and Turn-based Strategy games (army versus army ones)

Oddly enough, that's all I can think of. :P

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#14 xxThyLordxx
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Halo
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#15 sam280992
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1. MGS

2. MGS3

3. MGS4

4. ICO

5. Shadow Of The Colossus

BioShockOwnz

You think that Shadow of the Colossus is overrated? :shock:

Gran Turismo all of them... What is the huge deal about them?

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#16 better-than-U
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i hate moang obout how bad games are so im not going to mentiuon any games
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#17 REforever101
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the fact that you didn't include halo is appalling
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1:Oblivion: A broken rpg with just numerous bugs, balance problems, dumbed down mechanics or lack of.. Seriously it boggles the mind how this game pretty much across the board got AAA scores.. The majority of reviews Iread didn't talk about a SINGLE OF ITS MAJOR problems it had.. There isn't much I can say with this.. Ironically enough my number one game will have hte least amount of writing about it..

2: Call of Duty 4: For a multiplayer game it was alright, nothing spectacular it was a good multiplayer plain and simple.. Singleplayer was a massive mess to me.. Not only was the AI brain dead, but it cheated in the sense it always 80% of the time targeted you among 10 other team mates you had.. Even when you were behind cover and they were not.. Top that, it just took linearity to a whole new level.. I don't have problem with linear games, such as Half-Life 2, FEAR etc etc.. Those games at least gave me some realistic boundaries and some different passages you could go, or forks you could go for a weapon or fighting another guy.. And I could go at my own pace.. None such thing in CoD4.. You can't open doors, your path most times is on a track that seems to be a 12ft wide track.. No physics what so ever, normally I would consider this a nit pick but when a barrel some how starts blocking a dozen heavy caliabre rifles iwth out moving.. It just gets annoying.. The story on top of that was ok, personally I don't see how any one cared about it.. It was the typical Tom Clancy spheel with the stereotypical Russian arms dealers and Arabic terrorists/rogue forces.. That involves a bomb.. I felt zero attraction for it.. The game did have good presentation, but its overblown beyond belief..

3:Halo series: Well I don't particularly hate this series, I found the multiplayer in the third one with friends great.. Its just overblown in many aspects as some how being ground breaking or innovative to the genre.. When ever I hear people cry out that "master chief ownz", " The story is amazing and innovative", I just roll my eyes.. The story it self is nothing original or has a unique twist to it.. We have heard stories like this decades before teh game was released.. And I am sorry but I find Master Chief the most stupid character out there... His appearence is generic where he seems to borrow from Xgames Motocross gear.. His tone is the stereotypical deep ragged war type.. He never ever really talks or says anything important to know we have insight on the character.. Infact when ever I ask them about this, most of the fanboyz cries out that I should go read the book by independent authors who fleshed them out them selves and got it approved by the devs that it was with in their supposed vision.. This isn't to say they are bad, I just think they are completely overblown.. I love teh co-op ideas as well as the multiplayer and think they are one of the best multiplayers for the console..

4: Madden Series: Honestly its a crime with just how little change they release these games.. And it is the closest thing I have seen that comes toa monopoly..

5: World of Warcraft: THe game is good there is no doubts about it.. But its not the amazing hieghts as people has claimed, there are balance issues.. and in the end Blizzard is plagued with some of the worse communities I have ever seen of little kids, immature people, and absolute morons and jerks.

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#19 Microsoft1234
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out of those def gta IV should've been a 9 at the most.
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#20 loganh92
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Gears of war by far.

Very mediocre and little to no replay value.

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#21 hiphops_savior
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*prepares for flameshield*

Bioshock, IMO. The game really just isn't fun for me. The graphics are good, and the story rivals Half-Life at times, but I just couldn't find what's so fun about it.

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#22 gasmaskman
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GTA4, with Gears a close second.
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#23 Burnsmiesta
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I wouldn't say the MGS series is overrated as such, I've been a fan since the original, but I would say the 4th is overrated. Due to a large group of gamers that had never experienced the MGS series before IV and now claim its the game to end all games.

EDIT: I'd give the accolade to the Halo series though as the effect I've mentioned above has happened 2 times over.
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#24 RobbieH1234
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  1. Oblivion
  2. GTA IV
  3. BioShock
  4. Mass Effect
  5. Ocarina of Time
I might want to elaborate on Ocarina of Time. I don't think it's the best Zelda game (I prefered Link's Awakening, Link to the Past and Majora's Mask), let alone the greatest game ever made. Hell, I don't think it was the best game released that month (or year, if you want to be generous). The rest of the list, maybe with the exception of Mass Effect, explains itself.

Halo, Gears, Black and White and Tom Clancy's Everything almost made the list.
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#25 mephisto_11
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MGS4

MGS4

MGS4

MGS4

MGS4

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#26 kenshinhimura16
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This generation:

Crysis, the biggest piece of crap ever, yet it received amazing scores. Its a beautiful game, but its shallow, and mediocre in its gameplay. Proof that this gens, games get high scores on graphics.

Gears of War, but not for much, I gave it a 9.0 which is a more fitting score imo

GTA4. R* dropped the ball seriously here.

MGS4 should have been a 9.5, since it has requirements to enjoy it so unless you are like me, who has followed the series, from day 1, you would not understand the greatness of the game.

Any EA sports games, specially FIFA.

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#27 StealthSting
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[QUOTE="BioShockOwnz"]

1. MGS

2. MGS3

3. MGS4

4. ICO

5. Shadow Of The Colossus

sam280992

You think that Shadow of the Colossus is overrated? :shock:

I don't see why not... bear in mind that I've enjoyed the hell out of both of those games. They both delivered a memorable experience all around for me. What I do find overrated about them though, is the over the top forced praise they recieve by gamers about their artistic value towards the video games industry. In the end, it's all subjective.

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This generation:

Crysis, the biggest piece of crap ever, yet it received amazing scores. Its a beautiful game, but its shallow, and mediocre in its gameplay. Proof that this gens, games get high scores on graphics.

Gears of War, but not for much, I gave it a 9.0 which is a more fitting score imo

GTA4. R* dropped the ball seriously here.

MGS4 should have been a 9.5, since it has requirements to enjoy it so unless you are like me, who has followed the series, from day 1, you would not understand the greatness of the game.

Any EA sports games, specially FIFA.

kenshinhimura16

Wait wait wait.. You Think Crysis is a piece of crap.. But you say that Gears of War should get a 9.0..

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#29 DragonFlyJ
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1. Halo
2. Gears of War
3. Final Fantasy (after VII)
4. Sims
5. Mario (after Mario 64)

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#30 Rage010101
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first thing that came to mind was halo series...although i did like the 1st one combat evolved... 2 adn 3 were crap imo...and yes i own all 3 of them
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#31 EuroMafia
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1. MGS4

2. MGS

3. MGS2

4. MGS3

5. MGS PO

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#32 JohnnyFuel
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Why is there no Halo on the poll? Isn't that the most over-rated game of all time?
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SPORE. Stages 1, 2, and 3 are terrible. Hopefully 4 and 5 make up for it.

I am so unimpressed right now.

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#34 kenshinhimura16
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[QUOTE="kenshinhimura16"]

This generation:

Crysis, the biggest piece of crap ever, yet it received amazing scores. Its a beautiful game, but its shallow, and mediocre in its gameplay. Proof that this gens, games get high scores on graphics.

Gears of War, but not for much, I gave it a 9.0 which is a more fitting score imo

GTA4. R* dropped the ball seriously here.

MGS4 should have been a 9.5, since it has requirements to enjoy it so unless you are like me, who has followed the series, from day 1, you would not understand the greatness of the game.

Any EA sports games, specially FIFA.

sSubZerOo

Wait wait wait.. You Think Crysis is a piece of crap.. But you say that Gears of War should get a 9.0..

They are games whose main focus comes from gameplay. In that aspect, Crysis fails terribly. It brings nothing new, nor does it refine a previous technique. Crysis "fondness" from players comes from graphics, nothing else. If you play it in VL, you will find yourself with a mediocre game, while Gears focus is on gameplay, which it does well.

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#35 thepwninator
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I did a thread a while back on this-I'm too lazy to type my answer right now.
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Half Life 2. Its a great game, but its only reaches AA in my opinion. I just dont see whats so special about it. It does have those moments, but theres a lot of boring sections that bring it down, like the buggy and boat sections.

GTA IV. It was fun for the first day or so, but it seems to lack in replayability. The missions get repetitive and arent that fun. And other than the missions, theres no real reason to come back.

Motorstorm. I know it only got a 7.9, but even that was too high for this game. The lack of content is ridiculous, and the game can be punishingly difficult at times. I hope the second has a lot more content, and they work on the balancing issues.

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#37 rockguy92
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RPG's
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#38 potatoez
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1. GTA IV, however other gtas arent overrated

2. Mario

3. Mario Kart

4. super smash brothers

5. metroid

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#40 nVidiaGaMer
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1. Metal Gear Solid series- Bad gameplay, cheesy story

2. Half Life 2- Boring gameplay, bland artstyle

3. Gears of War- Short campaign, Broken multiplayer, tons of glitches

4. Mass Effect- Boring gameplay, short story, framerate issues(360 version), boring driving sequences

5. Grand Theft Auto 4- lack of features compared to SA, stupid characters, boring missions

jeffdoomsday

Wanna talk about an overrated series how about Zelda and Mario those games have cheesy stories and bad gameplay.

MGS ftw.

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#41 Burnsmiesta
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Half Life 2. Its a great game, but its only reaches AA in my opinion. I just dont see whats so special about it. It does have those moments, but theres a lot of boring sections that bring it down, like the buggy and boat sections.

GTA IV. It was fun for the first day or so, but it seems to lack in replayability. The missions get repetitive and arent that fun. And other than the missions, theres no real reason to come back.

Motorstorm. I know it only got a 7.9, but even that was too high for this game. The lack of content is ridiculous, and the game can be punishingly difficult at times. I hope the second has a lot more content, and they work on the balancing issues.

-DrRobotnik-


You should play through Half-Life again. I'm just done playing through Half-Life 2, Ep. 1 and 2 and I've definitely enjoyed them more than their first play throughs.
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#43 Tykain
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Halo 3 is the most overrated. Don't get me wrong tho, it's a great game. But too many people think of it as the best and most innovative FPS ever, and it's definitely not.
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#44 insomnia37
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I don't think any of those series are over rated. IMO the most over rated games are halo and any thing with mario, luigi,wario or yoshi.
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[QUOTE="BioShockOwnz"]

1. MGS

2. MGS3

3. MGS4

4. ICO

5. Shadow Of The Colossus

edo-tensei

All Playstation exclusive games talk about Sony haters. :roll:

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#47 pyromaniac223
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[QUOTE="mephisto_11"]

MGS4

MGS4

MGS4

MGS4

MGS4

nVidiaGaMer

Crysis

Crysis

Crysis

Crysis

Crysis

most overrated game ever good graphics and nothing more ... gameplay bored me in 30 min.

Did you actually, like, take it off armor mode?
And weren't you the guy who said KZ2 has better graphics that Crysis because KZ2 won best graphics of the show awards at some sites?
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[QUOTE="BioShockOwnz"]

1. MGS

2. MGS3

3. MGS4

4. ICO

5. Shadow Of The Colossus

edo-tensei

Ithink you just hate anything playstation but well if that's your opinion then ther is no sense arguing with you

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#49 edo-tensei
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[QUOTE="edo-tensei"][QUOTE="BioShockOwnz"]

1. MGS

2. MGS3

3. MGS4

4. ICO

5. Shadow Of The Colossus

nVidiaGaMer

All Playstation exclusive games talk about Sony haters. :roll:

who are you calling a hater

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#50 nVidiaGaMer
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[QUOTE="nVidiaGaMer"][QUOTE="edo-tensei"][QUOTE="BioShockOwnz"]

1. MGS

2. MGS3

3. MGS4

4. ICO

5. Shadow Of The Colossus

edo-tensei

All Playstation exclusive games talk about Sony haters. :roll:

who are you calling a hater

Anyone who thinks that all Sony exclusives are overrated.