Most overated game ever

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Hi all

I was looking at the "Sonic is overated" thread and replyed to it as I disagreed. But honestly I hadn't watched the video.

After watching the video my response is:



It was just one bad argument after another.

So it made me think, what is the most overrated game ever?

I couldn't think of a single one. Every game I didn't like, was not really all that bad, it just wasn't to my personal taste.

For example: World of Warcraft bored me silly, but over 3 million people or more love it. MMO's just arn't for me. Also I get motion sickness so I cant play first person games. That doesn't mean they suck though.

So i cant answer the question. What do all of you think?

[Cvslfc123]

Any Call Of Duty game.

[魔界5号]

Metroid for NES.

It might have been groundbreaking at the time to have a game of such a large scale on the NES, but playing it now that we have Super Metroid, Metroid: Fusion and Metroid II, it's just not very good. No map, no save system, and everything looks the same. It's so easy to get lost that it just makes the game way too difficult to the point where it's unfair. I understand they had to pad them out for people to justify buying them, but there's a limit.

[Dub H]

Dark Souls. Not even close to me. The only game where design flaws are praisesed as git gud difficulty

[The Sam]

Any David Cage game.

[1 Free Moon-Down with Burger]

Jul 29, 2016 8:46:14 GMT -5 Cvslfc123 said:

Any Call Of Duty game.

See, everybody says this to the point of it being underrated.

The Call of Duty games have made a huge impact on games and their genre. Anybody who says it's overrated is just upset at how massively popular it is. (Or was)

[ERON]

I always found the Mortal Kombat arcade games to be highly overrated. Like many of Midway's arcade games (NARC, Smash TV, etc.), there were a lot of other, better games of the same type out there - Street Fighter II, Tekken, King of Fighters, and so on - but Mortal Kombat got all the hype because of the gory fatalities, despite many flaws like herky-jerky controls and a "let's squeeze as many quarters out of these kids as possible" difficulty curve. The newer MK games for current consoles are much improved.

[beamanhogan]

Jul 29, 2016 8:48:42 GMT -5 魔界5号 said:

Metroid for NES.

It might have been groundbreaking at the time to have a game of such a large scale on the NES, but playing it now that we have Super Metroid, Metroid: Fusion and Metroid II, it's just not very good. No map, no save system, and everything looks the same. It's so easy to get lost that it just makes the game way too difficult to the point where it's unfair. I understand they had to pad them out for people to justify buying them, but there's a limit.

The Famicom version does have a save system. I would argue that for a NES game, a password system is an valid substitute. The areas in Metroid look similar in some ways, yet each area has different subtle changes in how it is laid out. You may enter a room thinking it looks identical to the next room, but there is always some thing a little different. It might be as simple as one platform, but there is a difference. The game also doesn't require you to get everything to pass it. You don't need to get 255 missiles. You don't need the wave beam. You don't need Varia. You don't need screw attack. I don't think it is that hard of a game in general, however, it does have a solid learning curve. There are tricks that help like bombing on top of the pipes that generate enemies to refill your health and missiles. Dying in the game isn't that big of a deal because when you get continue with your password, it takes you back to the last elevator you came in on. You might need to go back through the tough parts, but it also gives you an out if you were lost.

[A Platypus Rave]

Your favorite game -_-

That's right I went there!

[Deleted]

Jul 29, 2016 9:16:58 GMT -5 ERON said:

I always found the Mortal Kombat arcade games to be highly overrated. Like many of Midway's arcade games (NARC, Smash TV, etc.), there were a lot of other, better games of the same type out there - Street Fighter II, Tekken, King of Fighters, and so on - but Mortal Kombat got all the hype because of the gory fatalities, despite many flaws like herky-jerky controls and a "let's squeeze as many quarters out of these kids as possible" difficulty curve. The newer MK games for current consoles are much improved.

I think you might have it.

Mortal Kombat 1 is a pretty crappy game when you think about it. Without the fatalities it very weak as each fight has the exact same fighting style. They also charge at you throwing punches all fight while the Street Fighter characters would back off, adding more strategy to the fight.

Especially compared to the other fighting games, it really is all about gore.

[Lupin the Third]

Jul 29, 2016 9:28:33 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

Your favorite game -_-

That's right I went there!

Yeah, well, you're a platypus.

[Dub H]

Jul 29, 2016 11:28:21 GMT -5 Lupin the Third said:

Jul 29, 2016 9:28:33 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

Your favorite game -_-

That's right I went there!

Yeah, well, you're a platypus.

HE DOESNT EVEN HAVE THUMBS, HE CANT PLAY VIDEO GAMES.

[Sephiroth]

Jul 29, 2016 11:35:43 GMT -5 Dub H said:

Jul 29, 2016 11:28:21 GMT -5 Lupin the Third said:

Yeah, well, you're a platypus.

HE DOESNT EVEN HAVE THUMBS, HE CANT PLAY VIDEO GAMES.

This is why man shall prevail and his kind will never dominate the earth..,

[Powerline]

If I had a dime for every second I've had fun playing any game in the Uncharted franchise, I'd have...maybe a dollar.

[SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman]

Slender: The Arrival

It's a shovelware piece of shit that somehow manages to feel less professional than the amateur freeware version of the game. It's absurdly short (completed in less than 1 hour on my first try), it's glitchy, it's horribly optimized, it does nothing with the Slenderman mythos, has no story to speak of (and no, a few random texts that don't even form a coherent narrative do not count as a story), it's overly easy and repetitive, the only way you can lose is when Slendy just straight up teleports right in front of you or IN you, making the game rely on random luck rather than any actual player input, you do the exact same thing in every level and there is absolutely nothing scary about this supposed "psychological horror" game, complete bare of any tension or atmosphere.

It's amazing how they managed to take a creature that's been made so terrifying in so many FAR superior works and failed to make it give you any reaction. Unless of course you're a click-baiting Youtuber who likes to give blatantly forced screams to anything even vaguely "spooky" you see no matter how poorly done, cliché and predictable it is. In fact, I'm pretty sure the only reason it was a success is because PewDiePie's hivemind of a fanbase brainwashed themselves into liking it because their god decided it was good. And I blame this game for killing the Slenderman mythos because I can't help but notice pretty much all major Slenderman related works slowing down or outright sopping around the time this game was released.

You want a game with a similar concept but done well? Try SCP: Containment Breach. You also have to escape from a supernatural entity that wants to kill you but there's more to it than collecting several of the same items, with puzzle elements, multiple other creatures, various objects you can interact with, some of which will help you while other will hinder or kill you, the gameplay is strong and there is a lot of variety and a lot of replayability since the map is semi-randomly generated (as opposed to Slender where only the items you have to collect are randomly placed, sometimes in the same goddamn room to make the gameplay even more pointless than it already was) but the game still gives you your game's "seed" (a code that tells the game how to setup the level) each time you play (when you die, IIRC) so you can give your favourite configuration another go. The icing on the cake? It's freeware!

And oh yeah, it's actually scary! With atmosphere and build up and stuff! Turns out there is more to psychological horror than stupid phoned-in jump scares to give the YouTubers their cue! Who knew?!

[J is Justice]

I like the series (well... just the three Dark Souls games), but Demons/Dark Souls/Bloodborne. They're extremely tedious what with there being very few checkpoints. Demon's Souls went way too far with you having start the whole dungeoun over.

God of War. Just too button mashy for my liking. I much prefer DMC if we're talking hack and slash.

Most indy games.

Kingdom Hearts II. The worst opening two/three hours of any game ever, OP Sora made the game incredibly easy, Pirates of the Carribean world, 'we're totally gonna own you lamers', etc.

[Porky's Butthole]

Any FPS.

[wakko]

Jul 29, 2016 9:28:33 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

Your favorite game -_-

That's right I went there!

I'm reporting you for bullying!!!



On topic, I honestly can't think of one.  There are games I don't like and are sick of hearing about, but overrated is a term that shouldn't be thrown around for everything we don't like.

[thirteen3]

Jul 29, 2016 9:28:33 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

Your favorite game -_-

That's right I went there!

Yes, as much as I love Half-Life 2 I agree. It's certainly begging to show it's age and not being able to skip the scripted in game cutscenes are a pain. And the less talked about that boat sequence the better.

[Cyno]

The Kingdom Hearts series in general. Boring combat and a ridiculously convoluted plotline that only seems to get even more convoluted as more prequels and interquels come out.