So people who think it's deserving of the praise had it as their first open world game, otherwise they would think differently? Including almost every reviewer under the sun? Cool story bro.
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What's the most overrated game in your opinion
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I dislike the notion of this thread, if I'm being honest, and I almost refrained from posting in it. But so long as we can respect that one member's "most overrated game" can be another member's "best game ever" and that there's nothing wrong with that, I suppose I'll offer up a short list of highly-regarded games I've tried that, for one reason or another, haven't worked for me at all.
Minecraft
This game is a great teaching tool for kids and objectively speaking the works of art folks have built with it over the years are truly impressive. But building games do nothing for me and good Clarke is this one ugly.
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
The cutscenes are too brief. The story skips plenty of beats that ought to have been shown rather than told. The soundtrack isn't to my taste. Technical action games in general aren't my gig. There's pretty much nothing about this game that does it for me and overlaying it with a Metal Gear mesh wasn't enough for me not to return my purchase.
Grand Theft Auto V
I'm glad I watched my friend play this rather than played it myself. The only thing about Grand Theft Auto gameplay that I find enjoyable is driving around recklessly. Nothing else clicks. I'll grant that the script had something akin to wit to it from time to time but the Trevor character in particular is such an affront to my senses that I rolled my eyes dozens, if not hundreds, of times. Compounding issues is the fact that crime stories almost never interest me to begin with.
Yoshi's Island
Egads, I know there's a good game in here but the baby mechanic slaughters it for me.
Fortnite
You can toss in any other battle royale game here if you wish because I can virtually guarantee you I wouldn't like them either. I gave Fortnite the old college try, but I dislike virtually every online multiplayer game to begin with so the odds weren't exactly in my favor. Spoilers: nothing about that changed here and I uninstalled the game within a week.
Dead By Daylight
More like bored by daylight.
Tetris
I can't make it more than five minutes with this one. Not because I'm terrible at it (I'm not exactly great but I'm alright) but because it bores me to tears. If ever I am detained somewhere, my captors will surely break me like an egg if I am to be subjected to Tetris.
Final Fantasy VI
Unlike the rest of these entries, I actually really like Final Fantasy VI. The thing is, I disagree empirically every time I see someone say "aaaactually, the REAL best Final Fantasy is VI..." I dislike the game's magic-learning system, I find its characters on the whole less fleshed-out than plenty of characters in most of the Final Fantasies that followed it, the frequency of "a character in your party just said something, but due to the freedom of party selection afforded to you, we cannot tell you who!" bothers me a bit, and some (though not all!) of the "charming, goofy" moments the game is so lauded for just fall completely flat for me. Like I said, I really like this game. But nowhere near as much as some.
Undertale
I liked it... OK, but the bullet hell is obnoxious (it doesn't help that I'm bad at it) and I've been far more emotionally impacted by many other games I've played. Which is probably worth noting given how some of Undertale's fandom touts this game as the one truly emotional experience this gen or whatever. The final boss on the neutral path is the closest I've come to throwing my controller at the TV in... well, in history, really.
Minecraft
This game is a great teaching tool for kids and objectively speaking the works of art folks have built with it over the years are truly impressive. But building games do nothing for me and good Clarke is this one ugly.
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
The cutscenes are too brief. The story skips plenty of beats that ought to have been shown rather than told. The soundtrack isn't to my taste. Technical action games in general aren't my gig. There's pretty much nothing about this game that does it for me and overlaying it with a Metal Gear mesh wasn't enough for me not to return my purchase.
Grand Theft Auto V
I'm glad I watched my friend play this rather than played it myself. The only thing about Grand Theft Auto gameplay that I find enjoyable is driving around recklessly. Nothing else clicks. I'll grant that the script had something akin to wit to it from time to time but the Trevor character in particular is such an affront to my senses that I rolled my eyes dozens, if not hundreds, of times. Compounding issues is the fact that crime stories almost never interest me to begin with.
Yoshi's Island
Egads, I know there's a good game in here but the baby mechanic slaughters it for me.
Fortnite
You can toss in any other battle royale game here if you wish because I can virtually guarantee you I wouldn't like them either. I gave Fortnite the old college try, but I dislike virtually every online multiplayer game to begin with so the odds weren't exactly in my favor. Spoilers: nothing about that changed here and I uninstalled the game within a week.
Dead By Daylight
More like bored by daylight.
Tetris
I can't make it more than five minutes with this one. Not because I'm terrible at it (I'm not exactly great but I'm alright) but because it bores me to tears. If ever I am detained somewhere, my captors will surely break me like an egg if I am to be subjected to Tetris.
Final Fantasy VI
Unlike the rest of these entries, I actually really like Final Fantasy VI. The thing is, I disagree empirically every time I see someone say "aaaactually, the REAL best Final Fantasy is VI..." I dislike the game's magic-learning system, I find its characters on the whole less fleshed-out than plenty of characters in most of the Final Fantasies that followed it, the frequency of "a character in your party just said something, but due to the freedom of party selection afforded to you, we cannot tell you who!" bothers me a bit, and some (though not all!) of the "charming, goofy" moments the game is so lauded for just fall completely flat for me. Like I said, I really like this game. But nowhere near as much as some.
Undertale
I liked it... OK, but the bullet hell is obnoxious (it doesn't help that I'm bad at it) and I've been far more emotionally impacted by many other games I've played. Which is probably worth noting given how some of Undertale's fandom touts this game as the one truly emotional experience this gen or whatever. The final boss on the neutral path is the closest I've come to throwing my controller at the TV in... well, in history, really.
Maybe it's time to walk away from the thread instead of going after every single person who doesn't like the game you like.
Love when folks say that a game is just a polished *game that came like 9 years later*
Especially since Devil's Third isnt exactly polished lol
I'm not going after people. Saying you can only enjoy a game because it's the first one in the genre for you is a ridiculous notion, and I would call them out on it no matter which game they are talking about.
If these 2 posters (every single one of them) I've responded to would have actually bothered to argue with any sort of good reasoning I wouldn't even have quoted them. I make simple points against their poor reasoning, that's all. Plenty of people here think Bloodborne is overrated and I haven't responded to a single one of them, because they aren't using bullshit reasoning to justify their opinions.
Try again.
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Nah, you're getting a bit too intense for a video game discussion. Take a step back.
Crysis is one of the best fps games ever released. Everyone knows and talks about it 12 years after it released. It didnt go anywhere
Maybe the game didn't want to hold the hands of a Western half gamer.
Is it? Do they? I feel like it's beloved in certain enthusiast circles, but nothing approaching the love for say, Halo, CoD, Half-Life, or Metro.
Where did I get intense lol. Please point to that, I'm curious. Some dude says people think BoTW did crafting first and has Ubisoft towers, and the other says people can only think a game is that great if it's the first one they played in a genre. I told them they are talking nonsense for a multitude of reasons.
Those were two people, not "every single one" like the other poster claimed for whatever reason.
That's all there is to it.
If trying to discuss things means "getting too intense" and throwing oneliners at each other before bailing is the favourible form of communication, I guess I really am wrong here.
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Fortnite.
It's unique but the building aspect is awful.
Shoot somebody and they build a 2 storey mansion around themselves, irritating.
It's unique but the building aspect is awful.
Shoot somebody and they build a 2 storey mansion around themselves, irritating.
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Yeah that depends on your definition of empty or full.
In terms of content, the world starts feeling empty very quick into the game. Random encounters are often a copy paste effort. Hunting becomes a repetitive and meaningless task. Even the main and side story are a mindless effort of "rob and shoot at location A and disperse, repeat at location B".
In a literal sense the world is full. It just became stale to me way too soon.
Sure, its doesnt have the reverence of Halo or COD. The game had people trying to diminish it since it was revealed. You had basically the entire console audience at the time trying to downplay it. You have to this day the "'its a tech demo" mantra paroted by, i could bet, many poeople who havent played it.
Its a systems driven fps that prioritises freedom, player expresion and unscripted results. This doesnt go well with many people, especially fans of cinematic, linear or story driven games.
Ive had an occasion where i shot a missile into a helicopter that at exactly that point was flying over me. The helicopter exploded and a piece of the wreckage fell and hit me over the head - i died. Thats damn amazing that this can happen in the game.
I'll grant you folks can savage things they're not familiar with, I'm not one such. I enjoyed my time with it (particularly the opening chapters where the map was a jigsaw puzzle of encounters and stealth), found it lacking in more than a few areas, and ultimately wasn't interested in checking out Warhead and the sequels.
Yes. The underrated thread seems to be "popular games you do like" as well.
Imagine getting this made that someone doesn't like some video games.
I kind of dislike the term "overrated," people like what they like
I'll say that, in terms of critical and market success, Fallout 4 really surprised me
I'll say that, in terms of critical and market success, Fallout 4 really surprised me
Any game I have no interest in playing but millions of people do. Which works for the games I have interest in which they don't. So every game ever is overrated. And Underrated. Which is to say I don't concern myself with games I have no interest in. Which is to say the script that used to hide threads based on keywords stopped working after the last big update to this website and it's a real bummer.
COD multiplayer for sure.
Now that they finally dropped the campaign I have pretty much no reason whatsoever to consider picking it up and have always felt like running around a yard in circles playing digital tag and how popular that is...is just wierd and pretty absurd.
Now that they finally dropped the campaign I have pretty much no reason whatsoever to consider picking it up and have always felt like running around a yard in circles playing digital tag and how popular that is...is just wierd and pretty absurd.
I didn't like Golden Sun 1 & 2 at all. Those games actually started to irk me during my playthrough. Camelot's previous turn-based RPG, Shining the Holy Ark, was far more engaging in atmosphere, story, combat and exploration. For a beginner RPG I don't think it's exactly overrated though, and it was graphically impressive for Game Boy Advance.
The Final Fantasy series has provided me with a lot of enjoyment (II, VI, VII, IX, XV) but also a lot of the opposite: Final Fantasy X, 4 Heroes of Light, Lightning Returns and The After Years are games that I consider to be some of the least enjoyable RPG's I've played. I don't know the general consensus on them other than just excitement leading up to release, so I didn't go in with high expectations and was still sorely disappointed.
The Final Fantasy series has provided me with a lot of enjoyment (II, VI, VII, IX, XV) but also a lot of the opposite: Final Fantasy X, 4 Heroes of Light, Lightning Returns and The After Years are games that I consider to be some of the least enjoyable RPG's I've played. I don't know the general consensus on them other than just excitement leading up to release, so I didn't go in with high expectations and was still sorely disappointed.
Horizon, Bloodborne, Final Fantasy VI, Mario Odyssey, The Last Of Us, Spider-Man PS4
Specifically on Era? Bloodborne. BY FAR.
Specifically on Era? Bloodborne. BY FAR.
...Then Proceeded to trash like 50 games.
1 GAME. 1 GAME ONLY.
This wasn't a supposed to a be a free pass to just dig into a bunch of people to start a flame war.
Not a game but a franchise. Uncharted. I don't understand how a franchise with very poor level and gameplay design, average popcorn movies main character and paltry story can be so overhyped. Maybe it's because it's a first party title. I know Crystal Dynamics turned Tomb Raider into a similar but better game and were rosted for that.
I mean you said COD Multiplayer but basically described every multiplayer mode in every game ever.
Mainly Sony western releases and modern Rockstar games to me. Not that they are BAD games, they are actually good games most of the time but there's a lot of praise when they release as if they had carried gaming to new heights. And a couple of months down the line you start seeing people in forums, sites or all across you tube highlighting it's faults.
- GTA V: Probably until I am able to check RDR2 on PC, this is the most overrated game of all time. I remember most console folk treating this game as the second coming and posting images all over PC threads (not in Era, I wasn't part of the forum back then) suggesting that PC gamers were missing the best game of the generation. Then I played when it released on PC maxed out and while it had impressive graphics and production values, it still had the same faults that plague R* games: 2004 quest design, massive but dead world, clunky controls and more.
- Third person cinematic games from Sony: Very nice games to take screenshots and show off the hardware (most of these games have Photo mode, so Sony is aware of this as well. They know their target audience damn well I must say) Plus decent controls and good stories that keep you going for the most part. Risk averse games though. Perfect 8/10 games to me. I'd love the fact that they keep investing in SP games, that's commendable of them. Now...10/10 masterpieces? I am not so sure.
- GTA V: Probably until I am able to check RDR2 on PC, this is the most overrated game of all time. I remember most console folk treating this game as the second coming and posting images all over PC threads (not in Era, I wasn't part of the forum back then) suggesting that PC gamers were missing the best game of the generation. Then I played when it released on PC maxed out and while it had impressive graphics and production values, it still had the same faults that plague R* games: 2004 quest design, massive but dead world, clunky controls and more.
- Third person cinematic games from Sony: Very nice games to take screenshots and show off the hardware (most of these games have Photo mode, so Sony is aware of this as well. They know their target audience damn well I must say) Plus decent controls and good stories that keep you going for the most part. Risk averse games though. Perfect 8/10 games to me. I'd love the fact that they keep investing in SP games, that's commendable of them. Now...10/10 masterpieces? I am not so sure.
Nope...A lot of multiplayer games actually don't make you feel like you're chasing your tail.
If anyone starts a flame war based on what I made crystal clear are my opinions, the issue is with them, not I.
Games are rated and experienced in the context of its time.
HL2 might have more flaws now but does not mean that its impact for the industry and in 2004 as a game in contrast to other releases then it was incredible.
HL2 might have more flaws now but does not mean that its impact for the industry and in 2004 as a game in contrast to other releases then it was incredible.
- Symphony of the Night. Good artistic direction, badly designed game. Super Metroid and Aria of Sorrow shit on it.
- God of War. I dropped it after 5 hours.
- God of War. I dropped it after 5 hours.