Who is the most Overrated Developer?

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#1 deactivated-59b71619573a1
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We have had hundreds of overrated characters and games threads but I would like to know who you think is the most overrated Developer this gen?

Mine is probably Bethesda. They don't make good RPG games I think

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#2 peterw007
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Blizzard + Rockstar.

Both are extremely overrated.

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#3 turtlethetaffer
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Rockstar, without a doubt. RDR is not a masterpeice and GTAIV is almost unplayable.

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#4 HaloinventedFPS
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Bioware

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Bioware and Blizzard a thousand times.
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#6 TrapJak
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Someone says Naughty Dog and see how fast your life ends :twisted:.

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#7 TheFallenDemon
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Valve can come up with a decent concept for a game (like Portal and Left 4 Dead), but totally fail in the execution. And they can't write a good plot to save their lives. I do like Team Fortress 2 though.
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#8 doomguy9
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Rockstar, without a doubt. RDR is not a masterpeice and GTAIV is almost unplayable.

turtlethetaffer



This.

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Valve can come up with a decent concept for a game (like Portal and Left 4 Dead), but totally fail in the execution. And they can't write a good plot to save their lives. I do like Team Fortress 2 though.TheFallenDemon
notsureifserious.jpg :?

Anyway:

  • Rockstar
  • Blizzard
  • Bioware
  • Nintendo (not sure if you can call it an individual developer though)
  • Ubisoft
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[QUOTE="turtlethetaffer"]

Rockstar, without a doubt. RDR is not a masterpeice and GTAIV is almost unplayable.

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This.

I'm really happy I'm not the only one who shares this sentiment.

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#11 Tikeio
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We have had hundreds of overrated characters and games threads but I would like to know who you think is the most overrated Developer this gen?

Mine is probably Bethesda. They don't make good RPG games I think

seanmcloughlin

lol good one...

But I vote Rockstar. This topic should have been a poll :|

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#12 Lexter45
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Naughty Dog and Bioware

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#13 KillerJuan77
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Bioware

Valve

Crytek (FarCry is almost unplayable)

Rockstar Games

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Someone says Naughty Dog and see how fast your life ends :twisted:.

TrapJak

Oh I so got this :D

Rockstar easily. Their only decent game (IMHO anyway) is LA Noire.

Valve is overrated for Half Life, but their other games are excellent.

Naughty Dog is a bit overrated these days with Uncharted 2. I felt it was more movie than game, and I don't pay $60 for a movie. It seems everything went towards presentation and flash, rather than what you're actually gonna play. I still think they need to buy back the Crash Bandicoot IP and return to their true glory days.

Bioware is very overated. ME and DA are extremely boring. Not exactly bad (Except DA2, that's just horrible) but they just aren't my thing. DA:O was very good until about half way in where I got so bored I skipped everything I could just to get to the end faster.

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343 Come at Me! :P
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Valve overrated? *facepalm. Some people are hopeless.

Blizzard.

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#17 iano-87
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Valve overrated? *facepalm. Some people are hopeless.

Blizzard.

Angurvadal_88

Explain to me how valve being overrated is different to some of the other dev's mentioned being overrated?

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#18 HaloinventedFPS
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Valve overrated? *facepalm. Some people are hopeless.

Blizzard.

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Blizzard seriously need to get their act together

they got all their talent on Titan, the B-team is ruining Wow, they are ruining Diablo 3 in general by trying to appeal to the Wow crowd and thinking RMAH is a good idea, SC2 storyline being too hollywood like (Chris Metzen got called out on this and pretty much said sorry, HOTS better be good)

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[QUOTE="Angurvadal_88"]

Valve overrated? *facepalm. Some people are hopeless.

Blizzard.

iano-87

Explain to me how valve being overrated is different to some of the other dev's mentioned being overrated?

Cause every game they make turns out to be like the best of all time?
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#21 deactivated-59b71619573a1
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[QUOTE="seanmcloughlin"]

We have had hundreds of overrated characters and games threads but I would like to know who you think is the most overrated Developer this gen?

Mine is probably Bethesda. They don't make good RPG games I think

Tikeio

lol good one...

But I vote Rockstar. This topic should have been a poll :|

I was thinking about it but there are too many dev's and I would end up leaving out someone and I would get asked all about it in the comments.

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#22 with_teeth26
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Blizzard + Rockstar.

Both are extremely overrated.

peterw007

You, sir, are correct

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#23 peterw007
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[QUOTE="Angurvadal_88"]

Valve overrated? *facepalm. Some people are hopeless.

Blizzard.

HaloinventedFPS

Blizzard seriously need to get their act together

they got all their talent on Titan, the B-team is ruining Wow, they are ruining Diablo 3 in general by trying to appeal to the Wow crowd and thinking RMAH is a good idea, SC2 storyline being too hollywood like (Chris Metzen got called out on this and pretty much said sorry, HOTS better be good)

Not to mention a lot of Blizzard's former talent went to Runic Games to make Torchlight.

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Bungie, they've done a generic shooter and they are considered masters of the universe.

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#25 HaloinventedFPS
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[QUOTE="HaloinventedFPS"]

[QUOTE="Angurvadal_88"]

Valve overrated? *facepalm. Some people are hopeless.

Blizzard.

peterw007

Blizzard seriously need to get their act together

they got all their talent on Titan, the B-team is ruining Wow, they are ruining Diablo 3 in general by trying to appeal to the Wow crowd and thinking RMAH is a good idea, SC2 storyline being too hollywood like (Chris Metzen got called out on this and pretty much said sorry, HOTS better be good)

Not to mention a lot of Blizzard's former talent went to Runic Games to make Torchlight.

TL2 looks good

alot of the original Wow team moved to arenanet aswell, GW2 looks very good and maybe the actual Wow killer

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#26 deactivated-59b71619573a1
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[QUOTE="doomguy9"]

[QUOTE="turtlethetaffer"]

Rockstar, without a doubt. RDR is not a masterpeice and GTAIV is almost unplayable.

turtlethetaffer



This.

I'm really happy I'm not the only one who shares this sentiment.

I think so too. I thought RDR was a clunky mess with average game mechanics and a boring story

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#27 Messiahbolical-
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Epic, Konami, DICE, Bethesda, Blizzard, Bioware,Nintendo, Square Enix, Capcom, Bungie, Polyphony Digital, Lionhead Studios...

I'm sure there's more I can't think of too.

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Epic, Konami, DICE, Bethesda, Blizzard, Bioware,Nintendo, Square Enix, Capcom...Messiahbolical-

haha so who do you like?

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#29 cain006
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Valve for sure, if only for Half Life 2.

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#30 SquirrelTamer
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[QUOTE="turtlethetaffer"]

[QUOTE="doomguy9"]

This.

seanmcloughlin

I'm really happy I'm not the only one who shares this sentiment.

I think so too. I thought RDR was a clunky mess with average game mechanics and a boring story

This! It had great atmosphere but that's it. Everything else was average at best! Atmosphere alone doesn't justify those scores

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[QUOTE="TrapJak"]

Someone says Naughty Dog and see how fast your life ends :twisted:.

ChubbyGuy40

Oh I so got this :D

Rockstar easily. Their only decent game (IMHO anyway) is LA Noire.

Valve is overrated for Half Life, but their other games are excellent.

Naughty Dog is a bit overrated these days with Uncharted 2. I felt it was more movie than game, and I don't pay $60 for a movie. It seems everything went towards presentation and flash, rather than what you're actually gonna play. I still think they need to buy back the Crash Bandicoot IP and return to their true glory days.

Bioware is very overated. ME and DA are extremely boring. Not exactly bad (Except DA2, that's just horrible) but they just aren't my thing. DA:O was very good until about half way in where I got so bored I skipped everything I could just to get to the end faster.

7 Days. 7 days are all you have left. Enjoy them while you can.

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#32 iano-87
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[QUOTE="iano-87"]

[QUOTE="Angurvadal_88"]

Valve overrated? *facepalm. Some people are hopeless.

Blizzard.

SquirrelTamer

Explain to me how valve being overrated is different to some of the other dev's mentioned being overrated?

Cause every game they make turns out to be like the best of all time?

lol, sarcasm, i get it :)

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Id maybe. They haven't really made a great game since quake.

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Nintendo.
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[QUOTE="ChubbyGuy40"]

[QUOTE="TrapJak"]

Someone says Naughty Dog and see how fast your life ends :twisted:.

TrapJak

Oh I so got this :D

Rockstar easily. Their only decent game (IMHO anyway) is LA Noire.

Valve is overrated for Half Life, but their other games are excellent.

Naughty Dog is a bit overrated these days with Uncharted 2. I felt it was more movie than game, and I don't pay $60 for a movie. It seems everything went towards presentation and flash, rather than what you're actually gonna play. I still think they need to buy back the Crash Bandicoot IP and return to their true glory days.

Bioware is very overated. ME and DA are extremely boring. Not exactly bad (Except DA2, that's just horrible) but they just aren't my thing. DA:O was very good until about half way in where I got so bored I skipped everything I could just to get to the end faster.

7 Days. 7 days are all you have left. Enjoy them while you can.

Coming into this thread even you yourself knew they would be mentioned. Otherwise you wouldn't have posted like you did :P

Anyway you never gave us your answer

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[QUOTE="SquirrelTamer"][QUOTE="iano-87"]

Explain to me how valve being overrated is different to some of the other dev's mentioned being overrated?

iano-87

Cause every game they make turns out to be like the best of all time?

lol, sarcasm, i get it :)

Nope it's true. Look here: Half Life 2: Considered on of the best of all time Portal 2: IS the best game of all time. Portal 1: Isn't much worse than Portal 2 TF2: Also considered on of the best although I don't get why really.. doesn't take away from those 3 superb games. They'd probably all be in my top 10 list. L4D & HL1: People like this. Never played it.
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343 Come at Me! :PShadowDeathX
Never heard of it? I would say epic. Good games but I just can't get over the fact that they would expect me to pay 45$ for useless DLC.
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[QUOTE="ShadowDeathX"]343 Come at Me! :PRickTophen
Never heard of it? I would say epic. Good games but I just can't get over the fact that they would expect me to pay 45$ for useless DLC.

343 Industries, a video game developer working on Halo 4 and the Halo 1 remake...they haven't even released a game yet.

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[QUOTE="ShadowDeathX"]343 Come at Me! :PRickTophen
Never heard of it? I would say epic. Good games but I just can't get over the fact that they would expect me to pay 45$ for useless DLC.

I don't understand why all there characters look like they have sacks of potatoes for shoulder padding. Even the girls in Gears 3 look beefed up

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Infinity Ward? I love Rockstar

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#42 Tikeio
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Looking through this topic again, I think it's safe to assume that most people don't know what "overrated" means....

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Lionhead. Molyneux hasn't been great since when he had Bullfrog backing him up.
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Looking through this topic again, I think it's safe to assume that most people don't know what "overrated" means....

Tikeio

Always happens

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Infinity Ward? I love Rockstar

soapman72

When rockstar release a decent PC version of a game I might be able to get on board with them

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#46 peterw007
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Looking through this topic again, I think it's safe to assume that most people don't know what "overrated" means....

Tikeio

Then what's your definition of overrated?

Mine is a game developer that everybody loves to death for some reason with incredible scores on all of their games (and maybe used to be great) but in reality just isn't that great anymore.

Developers like Rockstar and Blizzard fit that bill wonderfully.

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Every one of them! :twisted:
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[QUOTE="Tikeio"]

Looking through this topic again, I think it's safe to assume that most people don't know what "overrated" means....

peterw007

Then what's your definition of overrated?

Mine is a game developer that everybody loves to death for some reason with incredible scores on all of their games (and maybe used to be great) but in reality just isn't that great anymore.

Developers like Rockstar and Blizzard fit that bill wonderfully.

nintendo even more. I see much more rockstar bashing(although relatively deserved) than nintendo bashing
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#49 iano-87
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[QUOTE="iano-87"]

[QUOTE="SquirrelTamer"] Cause every game they make turns out to be like the best of all time?SquirrelTamer

lol, sarcasm, i get it :)

Nope it's true. Look here: Half Life 2: Considered on of the best of all time Portal 2: IS the best game of all time. Portal 1: Isn't much worse than Portal 2 TF2: Also considered on of the best although I don't get why really.. doesn't take away from those 3 superb games. They'd probably all be in my top 10 list. L4D & HL1: People like this. Never played it.

Just because you made a list doesn't make it true. While I played and loved most of those games, I still dont see why somebody choosing valve as their most overrated dev' is any different from somebody else choosing somebody different. Saying Portal 2 is the best game ever are you? source?

ps. Do you think that is all of the games valve has ever made?

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[QUOTE="Messiahbolical-"]Epic, Konami, DICE, Bethesda, Blizzard, Bioware,Nintendo, Square Enix, Capcom...seanmcloughlin

haha so who do you like?

Irrational Games, Valve, Sony Santa Monica, Guerilla Games, GameFreak, Naughty Dog, Atlus, Retro, Insomniac, Sucker Punch, InfinityWard/Treyarch(Mainly COD4 and Black Ops), Incognito, Rocksteady Studios, The Console Assassin's Creed Devs... probably more I can't think of right now.