Ok so put what are your top 5 most overrated games.

Half Life 2 ( i dont know why i just didnt enjoy it but i like portal and TF2 but I loved half life 3 )
COD 7,8 and 9 (The ones before were a laugh but then it went downhill.)
Halo Wars (WHY was this made i really hated it but i like the other halos a lot)
Oblivion (Again i just didnt enjoy it but i like skyrim a lot oddly)
Assassins Creed Brotherhood and revelations (I just hated these ones but i love 2 and 3 so much)

So there, bring on the valve fanboy rage.

Gears of War
Assassins Creed
COD post MW2
Bioshock 1

and gonna be honest: Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I didn't think it was bad mind you, but honest I was not as impressed with it as everyone else was apparently :/

I don't know if I can name 5. Certainly, while COD and the later Halo games have more than their fair share of fanatics, there are also a LOT of detractors. The early COD games were worthy of praise (specifically 1, 2, and 4:MW). Oblivion had its niggling issues like the unusual faces that jar with immersion, but if you can look past that it's too similar to Skyrim as far as the gameplay's concerned to be *THAT* bad.

I will say that one game I thought was horrifically overrated was Halo - the first one. I don't think I remember any reviews giving it anything less than 90%, and little mention of any problems. I will admit I was impressed with the vehicles, which at the time people had been waiting for for years. The limitation to two weapons and recharging shields were fresh too, if not *completely* original. But despite all this innovation, the slower pace of the game compared to previous titles meant it just wasn't as *fun*. Numerous times I would see attacks coming and not be able to evade because the controls were on the sluggish side compared to, say, Quake or Half-Life. By contrast, the enemies moved slower and so were easier to target... but would take some punishment before going down, making the weapons feel lacklustre. These little things added up to a feeling of frustration, not one of empowerment which is needed when the plot demands you're the big bad saviour of mankind as we know it.

 LordofHats wrote:
and gonna be honest: Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I didn't think it was bad mind you, but honest I was not as impressed with it as everyone else was apparently :/

Uhoh - urge to debate rising. Did you ever play the original, by any chance...?

#1: Final Fantasy 7. Yeah-it's over rated. Deal with it.
#2: Call of Duty
#3: Zelda. Pick one-they're all the same except the second
#4: Gears of War. I've tried to like it, I really have.
#5: Skyrim. Looks decent, but it looks to be WAY too much

 LordofHats wrote:


Uhoh - urge to debate rising. Did you ever play the original, by any chance...?

No but I hear the fans of the original despise the new one. I don't despise it. I enjoyed it just fine. But it was a strickly 'meh' game for me. I could take it or leave it.

@timetowaste85, Final Fantasy 7, as a game, in a vacuum, is horrid. But its universe and the "spin off" games that play part of the same story are great. No FF7 - no Crisis Core, and no Dirge of Cerberus. So in the end I have to disagree with you.

Games that come to mind are Bioshock and God of War.

Edit: And FIFA. Every time I hear someone speak of this game in favourable light, I get sick.

 LordofHats wrote:
No but I hear the fans of the original despise the new one. I don't despise it. I enjoyed it just fine. But it was a strickly 'meh' game for me. I could take it or leave it.

For the most part, then... you hear wrongly. I've heard the opposite - the things that were changed make sense in terms of how games have changed over the years between the two. You may have been hearing about Invisible War, which was a largely forgettable sequel released in 2003. Still a great game in its own right but a disappointment compared to the first.

DX:HR was *eagerly* awaited by us old-timers, but it has to be said a lot of things that Deus Ex introduced first time around have been shoehorned into lots of games since. Things like having skills to level up in a shooter, putting lore within the game in datapads and newspapers, having multiple choice conversations and even actions and missions that would permanently alter aspects of the plot... it's easy to see how these things can now be taken for granted.

A previous game in a series doing something new isn't really validation for a later game in the same series :/

Biggest Overrated Game of all time - Final Fantasy 7. *raises anti-flame shield just in case*

I have no idea about a good order for the other 4, but I guess I'll go with Halo, Gears of War, God of War 3, Infamous.

Oh wait, remembered some more: Call of Duty after the second one (the first 2 IMO were amazing. It all went downhill from there), all GTAs except 1, 2 and Vice City. Ya know, the ones that were actually FUN.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Biggest Overrated Game of all time - Final Fantasy 7. *raises anti-flame shield just in case*

I have no idea about a good order for the other 4, but I guess I'll go with Halo, Gears of War, God of War 3, Infamous.

Oh wait, remembered some more: Call of Duty after the second one (the first 2 IMO were amazing. It all went downhill from there), all GTAs except 1, 2 and Vice City. Ya know, the ones that were actually FUN.

I beat you to that first part. Nobody has killed me yet, so I think you're safe.

Minecraft has to be in here somewhere...

World of Warcraft maybe?


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Honestly, I could probably make an entire list by just saying "whatever indy steam greenlight game is popular this week".

(with the possible exception of KSP, but that's just because I like it)

Grand Theft Auto is the most overrated for me.

Followed by Dragon Age, Madden, Minecraft, and Left for Dead.

1. Red Dead Redemption
2. Skyrim
3. Call of Duty games past Modern Warfare 2
4. Battlefield: Bad Company 2
5. Most fighting games

1. Call of Duty past 4
2. Last of Us
3. Zombie games
4. Battlefield past Bad Company 2
5. Assasins Creed now they are doing one a year

I'll see your bioshock and raise you bioshock infinite.

 Macok wrote:
I'll see your bioshock and raise you bioshock infinite.

Oh God-Emprah, I'm an absolute fanboy of Bioshock and I liked Bioshock: Infinite but the game was so boring in certain parts D: Too much combat, way too much combat and many times we were just murdering police agents. I want my awesome Bioshock back D:

1. Grand theft Auto 3+ (I loved GTA 2)
2. Halo 2 +
3. World of Warcraft
4. Call of Duty 3+
5. Terrania.

Halo
Call of Duty beyond the fourth game
Mass Effect 3
Kane & Lynch
Saints Row the Third

skyrim
borderlands
minecraft
bf3

I can't remember a 5th one that I have played.

theninjabadger wrote:


So there, bring on the valve fanboy rage.

I wish that an airplane crashes on you, little kittens then eat your corpse and those little kittens get eaten by rats while burning in the eternal flames of hell.

5. Every Elder Scrolls that isn't the newest title (For clarification, that is not to say that the newer games are always necessarily better, only that the flaws of said older games, Morrowind's terrible combat for example, are ignored in lieu of bashing on the newest game)
4. Uncharted
3. See number 5, replace "Elder Scrolls" with "Fallout".
2. Final Fantasy XIII (In that people actually liked it)
1. Portal.

1. Any GTA game
2. Oblivion.
3. Call Of Duty series
4. Civilication series
5. Battlefield 3

1. Minecraft
2. Final Fantasy 7
3. CoD
4. Borderlands
5. Last of us

COME AT ME BRO'S.

But yeah, that.

Sol you like about 3 games...

I've played 3 different Assassins Creed games and all of them just bore me a bit. I don't get how they can take a game like that, and make it so bland.

Halo anything. Just forget it.

The left for dead games. Uhg, so much about it annoys me.

I'm sure there are others but I can't think of them currently.

Halo franchise.
Gears (though I actually found GoW3 to be a delight for its multi-player modes).
CoD games after the first Modern Warfare.
Oblivion, I thought the game was pure crap.
Any GTA game.

 purplefood wrote:
Sol you like about 3 games...

I like at least 50 games!

 Soladrin wrote:

 purplefood wrote:
Sol you like about 3 games...

I like at least 50 games!

Then you apply Soladrin's Rule, which is to divide the total he gives by the number of letters in the word 'Soladrin', halve the result, and then round down.

3 Games.

1. Grand Theft Auto (Though San Andreas was a good game, and the only one I've beaten )
2. Halo
3. TF2
4. Borderlands 1&2
5. Deus Ex: Human Revolution

The last two are because I just can't get through something about those games bugs me on a level that prevents me from playing them.

Borderlands 2 is best played in a group.

I hated that game so much playing it solo; but playing it with friends was fantastic.

Halo Franchise, The only reason Halo got any where at all was it was the only half decent game on the original Xbox.

Crisis. It was pretty to look at and all. But game play wise was a complete farse. You got Koreans, Space age nano suits, remote island, And Aliens. Thats a B-Movie Plot not even Bruce "the Chin" Campbell would touch. The suit ability's was completely made useless wile fighting aliens. as well.

COD anything after 2 was Terrible. MW was an OK game but still didn't have the Gameplay values of COD 1 or especially 2.

Lego games, I dont know why so many people like them, I cant stand them, And i should like them being as my GF's cousin is the bloody Head games developer for TT games. and i get them all for free. I just dont see why they are so popular. for kids yeah. but i see adults go crazy for them lol

Oblivian. Its pretty, and its massive. too masive. it gets boring really fast, and it lacks what Fallout 3 had in the way of its whit that made you want to keep playing and playing.

Ignoring the obvious ones (COD,Halo, Gears, ect)

The Borderlands series

Dead Space series

Bioshock series

GTA series

Assassin's Creed Series

 Macok wrote:
I'll see your bioshock and raise you bioshock infinite.

This this this.

Bioshock Infinite gets the Overrated Game of the Year award.

I probably would have listed Halo, but I'm so indifferent to that game series that it doesn't even enter my mind when I'm thinking about games I don't like!

Final Fantasy 7

Any Elder Scrolls past Daggerfall. The one word I would use to describe them would be somniferous; I just couldn't get into them.

GTA

Pokemon

 timetowaste85 wrote:
#1: Final Fantasy 7. Yeah-it's over rated. Deal with it.
#2: Call of Duty
#3: Zelda. Pick one-they're all the same except the second
#4: Gears of War. I've tried to like it, I really have.
#5: Skyrim. Looks decent, but it looks to be WAY too much

Skyrim overrated?

I DECLARE HERESY I SAY! HERSEY!

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 Soladrin wrote:

 purplefood wrote:
Sol you like about 3 games...

I like at least 50 games!

Then you apply Soladrin's Rule, which is to divide the total he gives by the number of letters in the word 'Soladrin', halve the result, and then round down.

3 Games.

I will start making a list if you keep this going.

I don't play enough games ...
All I can think of are:

1 - Mass Effect
2 - Final Fantasy 7

Why the hate for Bioshock? The game, the book ... everything about it is fabulous. Immersive as hell and creepy to boot. I might be biased as my wife's something of an Ayn Rand disciple though ...

 Necroagogo wrote:
my wife's something of an Ayn Rand disciple though

Ugh, sorry to hear that.

The first Bioshock was pretty good. The second was pretty meh. The third is just pretty.

Dragon Age 2 , highly disappointing effort.

GTA4 just ugggh.

Any WoW expansion past TBC.

Colonial Marines was a bit of a trainwreck.

CoD series overall.

Halo 2.
Halo 3.
Halo 4.
Halo: Reach.
Wow.

 daedalus wrote:
Halo 2.
Halo 3.
Halo 4.
Halo: Reach.
Wow.

No ODST?

 Alfndrate wrote:

 daedalus wrote:
Halo 2.
Halo 3.
Halo 4.
Halo: Reach.
Wow.

No ODST?

Criteria was for top 5. I could keep going, but WoW ranks up there pretty highly too.

halo series
Kingdom hearts
Final fantasy series
cod after the first modern warfare

FFVII

BioShock

Borderlands

Left4Dead

Dead Space

Edit - Grand Theft Auto also get an honorable mention.

COD series

Halo Series

Dragon Age series

Assassin's Creed series

Mass Effect series

In no real order

1. KotOR 2 : The Sith Lords
2. Morrowind
3. The Final Fantasy Series (Never played these, They just dont look even remotely fun/good to me and I dont understand why people like them)
4. Borderland series (same as 3)
5. Grand Theft Auto Series (Like 3/4 except I at least understand the appeal to them.)


honorable mention only because it doesnt get mentioned much but same as 3/4. Kingdom Hearts

I'm really shocked at the FF7 haters. Wow.

I'd say
FF X and X-2
Command and Conquer
All of the CIV games
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Dark Souls

Why do people hate Civ so much?

VensersRevenge wrote:
Why do people hate Civ so much?

I hate it for the same reason I hate Minecraft. Not sleeping for days is hard on me.

VensersRevenge wrote:
Why do people hate Civ so much?

I don't hate it, I just think it's extremely overrated. It just gets really repetitive after awhile, no matter what type of victory you're going for.

True. I don't have the patience to beat most games, so any game with 20+ factions and a bunch of victory conditions can't be overrated for someone with videogame ADD.

 Manchu wrote:

 Necroagogo wrote:
my wife's something of an Ayn Rand disciple though

Ugh, sorry to hear that.

The first Bioshock was pretty good. The second was pretty meh. The third is just pretty.

My SO, who is soon going to have 2 degrees in American Religious History, says that Bioshock Infinite is her favorite game and easily one of the best mass market works pertaining to early 20th century religious thought ever.

So I think it depends a lot what you thought of the story and the attention to detail thereof.


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1. FFVII: It's not overrated in the same way as the others. It's just that it has aged QUITE badly and people haven't noticed yet. I would not say that it was overrated upon release. It was incredible back then. People overrate it as standing up to today's standards, which it does not.

2. GTAIV: Very high reviews, lack of coherency between narrative and gameplay, uninteresting story that works against the fun mechanics. Not as much bad as.. off somehow. The fun pieces that made the other GTAs are all there, but somehow it's just not fun this time.

3. Devil May Cry series: Competently made, good character design and such. None of them are anywhere near as mindblowing as you will hear them described.

4. Fable 3: This one isn't "overrated" as much as overhyped. I think by now everyone knows it wasn't actually very good, but there was a time when it was expected to change everything. lol whoops.

5. Halo 2: Same as above. When it first came out everyone just FREAKED out, but then after the dust settled, we realized it wasn't really that great compared to 1 and later to the superb 3.

 BrookM wrote:
Kane & Lynch

I don't think this one's overrated. I think it gets just the amount of praise it deserves. None at all

I much preferred H2 over the others, but that's probably because it had the most fun and most memorable multiplayer games I've played.

Rented Tritium wrote:1. FFVII: It's not overrated in the same way as the others. It's just that it has aged QUITE badly and people haven't noticed yet. I would not say that it was overrated upon release. It was incredible back then. People overrate it as standing up to today's standards, which it does not.

I think a lot of people picked it up recently or look at more recent FF games and judge it based on that. So agreed. FF7 when it came out was awesome. I spent so much time on that game.

2. GTAIV: Very high reviews, lack of coherency between narrative and gameplay, uninteresting story that works against the fun mechanics. Not as much bad as.. off somehow. The fun pieces that made the other GTAs are all there, but somehow it's just not fun this time.

I played the crap out of 3 and San Andreas. Played IV and couldn't get into it.

Lint wrote:I'm really shocked at the FF7 haters. Wow.

Yep. As well as Borderlands, but this whole thread is a case of 'Don't dislike what I like!' anyways, so...

Galdos wrote:
3. The Final Fantasy Series (Never played these, They just dont look even remotely fun/good to me and I dont understand why people like them)
4. Borderland series (same as 3)
5. Grand Theft Auto Series (Like 3/4 except I at least understand the appeal to them.)

Ahh, so you haven't played any of these but made a decision based on ... box art...? screenshots? Tea leaves?

honorable mention only because it doesnt get mentioned much but same as 3/4. Kingdom Hearts

Oh, you missed one that you hadn't played. lol

I thought FFVII was overrated when it came out, and still do.

It was my first console game, as bizarrely I got a snes after I got a ps1, so FF7 always will have a special place for me.

I am amused at someone going "Wow look at haters" for posting their lists and then when someone points out something on their list it's "oh I don't hate it, I just found it overrated".

 Ahtman wrote:
I thought FFVII was overrated when it came out, and still do.

Oblig:


That's cool though. Some people didn't like it. /shrug

Some people are also uncultured savages though.

Replying FF7 in the present, after games like mass effect, I found myself frequently wondering how I ever tolerated a game jerking me around that much.

The older JRPGs are extremely hostile toward the player, frequently hiding important information for the sake of "challenge". You notice it more now that we've gotten away from that.


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Kingdom Hearts: I really wanted to like it, but the gameplay was so dull to me and the levels felt dead and empty.

 Rented Tritium wrote:
Replying FF7 in the present, after games like mass effect, I found myself frequently wondering how I ever tolerated a game jerking me around that much.

The older JRPGs are extremely hostile toward the player, frequently hiding important information for the sake of "challenge". You notice it more now that we've gotten away from that.


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Kingdom Hearts: I really wanted to like it, but the gameplay was so dull to me and the levels felt dead and empty.

I enjoyed the gameplay of KH2 more than the first one...

 Rented Tritium wrote:
Replying FF7 in the present, after games like mass effect, I found myself frequently wondering how I ever tolerated a game jerking me around that much.

The older JRPGs are extremely hostile toward the player, frequently hiding important information for the sake of "challenge". You notice it more now that we've gotten away from that.


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Kingdom Hearts: I really wanted to like it, but the gameplay was so dull to me and the levels felt dead and empty.

The one JRPG that scarred me with the infrormation hiding was FFVIII. Finding the freakin' boat in the middle of the ocean, all we knew was it was near some island somewhere. I spent far too much time flying around looking for that damn boat...

KH I actually like a lot. KH I for me was spectacular, KH II was so-so but it had truly epic scenes.

 Rented Tritium wrote:
The older JRPGs are extremely hostile toward the player, frequently hiding important information for the sake of "challenge". You notice it more now that we've gotten away from that.

Trying to decipher this. Do you mean there is no prompt to tell you where things are in the game (no sparkles on objects you can interact with, etc)?

Kids these days...


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 TheDraconicLord wrote:
The one JRPG that scarred me with the infrormation hiding was FFVIII. Finding the freakin' boat in the middle of the ocean, all we knew was it was near some island somewhere. I spent far too much time flying around looking for that damn boat...

Wait, so everything wasn't spoonfed or in a nice line with some QTE in between?

MrDwhitey wrote:
I am amused at someone going "Wow look at haters" for posting their lists and then when someone points out something on their list it's "oh I don't hate it, I just found it overrated".

I think you mistook my meaning I meant it as "Wow, I (naively) honestly thought everybody loved that game." I'm genuinely surprised that people don't love it. Yes, yes, stupid I know.

And the overrated comment about the CIV series was to clarify, since the title of the thread is, you know, OVERRATED games.

And please feel free to quote me next time you get "amused" at something I say.

 pretre wrote:

That's cool though. Some people didn't like it. /shrug

Some people are also uncultured savages though.

But I didn't say I didn't like it, I said it was overrated.

 Ahtman wrote:

 pretre wrote:

That's cool though. Some people didn't like it. /shrug

Some people are also uncultured savages though.

But I didn't say I didn't like it, I said it was overrated.

You know I'm not taking this thread entirely seriously, right...?

Let me give this a shot:

1. Spore (don't get me started, we'll be here all week.)
2. Minecraft (A game with no point, tons of features that never happened and lackluster improvement since release)
3. Spore (still raging)
4. Spore (you could put the Fable series here, if you like....)
5. Spore (why not pretend the Crysis series is here instead)

Enjoy.

 Rolt wrote:
2. Minecraft (A game with no point, tons of features that never happened and lackluster improvement since release)

I would argue that Minecraft isn't even a game, tbh.

 Ratius wrote:
Dragon Age 2 .

Numerous people and 99% of DA:O fans hated this game. I have no idea where you're getting the overrated part.
I would actually put Dragon Age: Origins much, much, much higher in the overrated line (and still not in the top 5).

 Void__Dragon wrote:
5. Every Elder Scrolls that isn't the newest title (For clarification, that is not to say that the newer games are always necessarily better, only that the flaws of said older games, Morrowind's terrible combat for example, are ignored in lieu of bashing on the newest game)
4. Uncharted
3. See number 5, replace "Elder Scrolls" with "Fallout".

I'm going to have to fight this now. When Fallout first came out, it was in a day when the game fallout 3 couldn't have existed. Not just because fallout 2 hadn't even come out yet mind you, but because graphics and general computers weren't that advanced. That truly isn't a fair comparison. Especially since the two first fallout's were designed for a completely different gaming generation, and fallout 3 was born in a generation, which clearly wouldn't accept a game like fallout's 1 and 2.


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 pretre wrote:

 Rented Tritium wrote:
The older JRPGs are extremely hostile toward the player, frequently hiding important information for the sake of "challenge". You notice it more now that we've gotten away from that.

Trying to decipher this. Do you mean there is no prompt to tell you where things are in the game (no sparkles on objects you can interact with, etc)?

Kids these days...


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 TheDraconicLord wrote:
The one JRPG that scarred me with the infrormation hiding was FFVIII. Finding the freakin' boat in the middle of the ocean, all we knew was it was near some island somewhere. I spent far too much time flying around looking for that damn boat...

Wait, so everything wasn't spoonfed or in a nice line with some QTE in between?

Gaming politics in a nutshell. Fantastic.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

The one JRPG that scarred me with the infrormation hiding was FFVIII. Finding the freakin' boat in the middle of the ocean, all we knew was it was near some island somewhere. I spent far too much time flying around looking for that damn boat...

THE WHITE SEED SHIP OH MY GOD YES.

Everyone who ever played that game got stuck there and used a guide, or just stumbled on it by luck.

 Rented Tritium wrote:

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

The one JRPG that scarred me with the infrormation hiding was FFVIII. Finding the freakin' boat in the middle of the ocean, all we knew was it was near some island somewhere. I spent far too much time flying around looking for that damn boat...

THE WHITE SEED SHIP OH MY GOD YES.

Everyone who ever played that game got stuck there and used a guide, or just stumbled on it by luck.

...Yup, I used the guide...

Still loved that game though!

 mega_bassist wrote:

 Rented Tritium wrote:

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

The one JRPG that scarred me with the infrormation hiding was FFVIII. Finding the freakin' boat in the middle of the ocean, all we knew was it was near some island somewhere. I spent far too much time flying around looking for that damn boat...

THE WHITE SEED SHIP OH MY GOD YES.

Everyone who ever played that game got stuck there and used a guide, or just stumbled on it by luck.

...Yup, I used the guide...

Still loved that game though!

Oh yes, FFVIII is my favorite Final Fantasy so far, followed closely by VI or IV ( I can't decide between those 2) but that damn SHIP

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

Oh yes, FFVIII is my favorite Final Fantasy so far, followed closely by VI or IV ( I can't decide between those 2) but that damn SHIP

Those were awesome also, but my favorite is Tactics Advanced 2...I put over 200 hours into that game...

I was pleasantly surprised by Tactics Advance 2. I loved Tactics and did not like Tactics Advance very much. The second one was a pretty nice combination of the thing I DID like about Advance with the level of strategy I was accustomed to in Tactics.

Ok, here we go. I'm actually making a real list:

1. Minecraft (it's not even a game, it's a creative time waster)
2. Spore (ok game, compared to hype it was horrible)
3. World of Warcraft (why do people even play this?)
4. Super Smash brothers (it's a fun casual game. The fact that tournaments of this game exist proves some people take it way too seriously)
5. Day Z (yes I know it's a mod. I blame the community on this one, not the game. Bloody human psychology...)

Honorable mention: whatever indy steam greenlight game is popular this week.

There we go.

I absolutely hate games that aren't even close to what the devs hype it to be. Like the original Fable. It was an ok game but nothing like they said it was going to be.

That is all peter molyneux games.

 KingCracker wrote:
I absolutely hate games that aren't even close to what the devs hype it to be. Like the original Fable. It was an ok game but nothing like they said it was going to be.

Fable: The Lost Chapters was fantastic on the other hand. It was the original Fable plus another 33% more content, and was the PC version. They did release it as the Platinum Hits version for the xbox.

I may go install it this weekend

1.Cod
2. Battlefield (BF And Cod are too much a like now a days.)
3. Company of heroes 1-2. (Really?..it's such a great ww2 rts that just lacks all the major historical battles,and of course both Germans and Russians speak English..i can go on forever on this one lol.)
4. Star craft 2. (Yeah okay its star craft 2..but it feels more like 1.5 than a freaking new game to me.)
5. C&C 4 (So much freaking hypes and media talk about this game and yet it turned out to be so disappointing for being the final game in the C&C universe.

 SneakyMek wrote:

3. Company of heroes 1-2. (Really?..it's such a great ww2 rts that just lacks all the major historical battles,and of course both Germans and Russians speak English..i can go on forever on this one lol.)
.

I actually dont care that this made your list. Im confused on your reasons.

The games cover many of the major historical battles including, Carentan, St. Lo, Omaha, Cherbourg, Operation False Pocket, Caen, Op. Goodwood, Op. Market Garden, Stalingrad, Moscow, Berlin, That Polish city I forgot the name of, Leningrad.

In fact, I find the only battle it was missing was Kursk (seriously, how the feth was that NOT in the game?)

as for the speaking English, personal preference, I hate it when it is the other way around( they speak their actual language, I dont speak German or Russian so not understanding my men pisses me off)


There are plenty of reasons why those games would make the list so you dont need to defend yourself, I just found those 2 reasons to be strange_)

1: Counter-Strike. (Generic CoD clone number 639! But it's "the hardcore" and anyone who doesn't like it is a "nooby console scrub"! Also it has atrocious gameplay, terrible balance, and one of the worst communities this side of League of Legends!)
2: I Wanna Be The Guy (It has literally no interesting features other than being stupidly difficult)
3: DOTA 2/LoL (Basically a WoW-alike MOBA with RTS controls in both cases. I'm listing them both because LoL is basically a clone of DOTA 2, and they're both awful)
4: Super Mario Bros 3 (Compared to, say, Super Mario World, Super Mario 64 or any of the new Mario games, this one is just...bad)
5: The original Legend of Zelda for the NES (looks hideously ugly, way too difficult, only about 4 music tracks, confusing, just plain boring...Out of the entire Zelda franchise, it and the criminally bad Zelda 2 are the only ones that aren't excellent)

 Squigsquasher wrote:
1: Counter-Strike. (Generic CoD clone number 639! But it's "the hardcore" and anyone who doesn't like it is a "nooby console scrub"! Also it has atrocious gameplay, terrible balance, and one of the worst communities this side of League of Legends!)

Counter-Strike came out 3 years before Call of Duty...

blood lance wrote:

I'm going to have to fight this now. When Fallout first came out, it was in a day when the game fallout 3 couldn't have existed. Not just because fallout 2 hadn't even come out yet mind you, but because graphics and general computers weren't that advanced. That truly isn't a fair comparison. Especially since the two first fallout's were designed for a completely different gaming generation, and fallout 3 was born in a generation, which clearly wouldn't accept a game like fallout's 1 and 2.

Your point in reference to my post being?

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 Squigsquasher wrote:
1: Counter-Strike. (Generic CoD clone number 639! But it's "the hardcore" and anyone who doesn't like it is a "nooby console scrub"! Also it has atrocious gameplay, terrible balance, and one of the worst communities this side of League of Legends!)

Counter-Strike came out 3 years before Call of Duty...

It's still yet another generic, boring military FPS. Regardless of which one came first, they're both terrible games that should not exist.

 Squigsquasher wrote:

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 Squigsquasher wrote:
1: Counter-Strike. (Generic CoD clone number 639! But it's "the hardcore" and anyone who doesn't like it is a "nooby console scrub"! Also it has atrocious gameplay, terrible balance, and one of the worst communities this side of League of Legends!)

Counter-Strike came out 3 years before Call of Duty...

It's still yet another generic, boring military FPS. Regardless of which one came first, they're both terrible games that should not exist.

As much as I don't like both of them today, I have to say I have the utmost respect for the people responsible for Counter-Strike. This game with I don't know how many fans all started as a humble mod for Half-Life. Someone just had this awesome idea about a team of Terrorists vs Counter-Terrorists for an online game and got together with some friends and started coding it. After some Betas, Valve itself looked at it and said "Say, that is looking mighty good, want some help?" and lo', Valve teamed up and the CS fever truly began full steam ahead.

Same thing for whoever had the idea for the "custom map" in Warcraft 3, the Defense of the Ancients. Another person who had a vision and BAM, world-wide phenomena.

P.S: And CoD 1 and 2 are absolutely awesome

Halflife 3 cannot live up to what people want.

Does that count?

 Squigsquasher wrote:
1: Counter-Strike. (Generic CoD clone number 639! But it's "the hardcore" and anyone who doesn't like it is a "nooby console scrub"! Also it has atrocious gameplay, terrible balance, and one of the worst communities this side of League of Legends!)
2: I Wanna Be The Guy (It has literally no interesting features other than being stupidly difficult)
3: DOTA 2/LoL (Basically a WoW-alike MOBA with RTS controls in both cases. I'm listing them both because LoL is basically a clone of DOTA 2, and they're both awful)
4: Super Mario Bros 3 (Compared to, say, Super Mario World, Super Mario 64 or any of the new Mario games, this one is just...bad)
5: The original Legend of Zelda for the NES (looks hideously ugly, way too difficult, only about 4 music tracks, confusing, just plain boring...Out of the entire Zelda franchise, it and the criminally bad Zelda 2 are the only ones that aren't excellent)

I'm not dismissing the choice of games, but there are some really weird explanations in this post.

People explaining why they do not like games that are good are what make this thread good.

I find it odd to say a game is overrated if you've never played it (though there is no requirement to do as such, just my thoughts).

I'm having trouble creating this list, so in no particular order:
1. The early Assassins Creeds. Got reeeeaaal repetetive for me (heard they have gotten better, may have to take a look again).
2. Candy Crush
3. Most Final Fantasy games (but not KH series, odd I know).
4. The new Mortal Kombat (it was cool, but meh).
5. WoW ( I guess cause I've been entrenched in the Diablo camp for so long).

1. COD Modern Warfare 2
2. Battlefield 3
3. World of Warcraft
4. League of Legends
5. COD Black Ops 2

1-5) Diablo 3: It might have worked as a bad diablo clone if they had chosen a different name. They even deviated from the perfect controls of Diablo 2 to implement the atrocious controls common of a bad diablo clone. To top it all they thought it wise to have horrendous item drop chances and have us scour the auction house instead of really playing the game to acquire any useful equipment.
.

 Galdos wrote:

 SneakyMek wrote:

3. Company of heroes 1-2. (Really?..it's such a great ww2 rts that just lacks all the major historical battles,and of course both Germans and Russians speak English..i can go on forever on this one lol.)
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I actually dont care that this made your list. Im confused on your reasons.

The games cover many of the major historical battles including, Carentan, St. Lo, Omaha, Cherbourg, Operation False Pocket, Caen, Op. Goodwood, Op. Market Garden, Stalingrad, Moscow, Berlin, That Polish city I forgot the name of, Leningrad.

In fact, I find the only battle it was missing was Kursk (seriously, how the feth was that NOT in the game?)

as for the speaking English, personal preference, I hate it when it is the other way around( they speak their actual language, I dont speak German or Russian so not understanding my men pisses me off)


There are plenty of reasons why those games would make the list so you dont need to defend yourself, I just found those 2 reasons to be strange_)

This, I don't understand why people nitpick Company of Heroes so much.

For instance:

"Why are my units standing near each other but missing?"
"Why are the germans speaking english?"
"Why don't my tiger tanks one shot shermans across the map?"
Conversely: "Why don't I get free air and artillery strikes all the time whenever I see a german tank?"
"Why are they doing World War 2? its so boring!"

I can assure you that other games commit far worse historical sins, but CoH always seems to be in the firing line.
/rant

1. Call of Duty anything.
2-5 in no specific order:
-The Fallout series.
-Assassins Creed.
-Grand Theft Auto series. Yeah, they're cool and fun. But not the best damn game.
-Pokemon.


Just no.

1) Rage - Loved a lot about the game but the story felt rushed and it was about 3 hours long.
2) Homefront - If they had actually finished the story I may have enjoyed the game... not that there was a lot to the story anyway..
3) ...
Okay I'm gonna have to think for the rest of them...

 purplefood wrote:
1) Rage - Loved a lot about the game but the story felt rushed and it was about 3 hours long.

I really liked that game-still have't completed it actually.

Im going to be hated for saying it, but Fallout 3.

Dont get me wrong, i love the story telling and the background but the combat.... I HATE the combat system for it, its a spray and pray game, until you hit RB and just click. Its messy and ruins the flow of combat, as it pulls you out every few seconds. The combat turned me off so much that i couldn't even be bothered to pursue the story any more.

(Shields activate)

Oh god Pokemon is good.

Everytime I hear my friends talk about it I think "you are about 22-25. What the hell are you playing that for?"

Because the INNER DEMON CHILD INSIDE HAS AWAKENED!

 Galdos wrote:
Oh god Pokemon is good.

Everytime I hear my friends talk about it I think "you are about 22-25. What the hell are you playing that for?"

To be fair, the first Pokemons still kick the crap out of a lot of RPGs thanks to it's simple but arse-kicking battle system.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 Galdos wrote:
Oh god Pokemon is good.

Everytime I hear my friends talk about it I think "you are about 22-25. What the hell are you playing that for?"

To be fair, the first Pokemons still kick the crap out of a lot of RPGs thanks to it's simple but arse-kicking battle system.

I always found Pokemon boring, even when I was six.

1-5 Elemental call of magic , worst game ever. It was and will always be rubbish , yet somehow the developers and weird fanboys thought it was good when all it was was a buggy unfun mess. I now refuse to buy anything released by stardock.

Most of this is probably me just bitching about games I don't like as opposed to actual objective analysis so prepare for whinging and complaining.

1. FF7. Never been a fan of FF at all and I've always felt like the praise that game has gotten like it's the second coming of Jesus riding a motorcycle made of sex is completely unwarranted. If you hate games that are extremely bloated and difficult to understand, you probably hate JRPGs and this is the top of the pops when it comes to JRPGs. Innovating your static JRPG combat system doesn't impress anyone and its status as 'da first 3d FF gaem on PS1' isn't that big of a deal considering 90's polygon graphics are ucking fugly and having to switch disks all day isn't fun. It probably would have been better as a game like Castlevania SOTN that tried to make a better 2d game with a newer console as opposed to horribad 90's 3D console graphics, plus the game could have been more refined with more disk space.

2. Uncharted/The Last of Us. Yeah. I only played TLOU for maybe 2 hours after I thought to myself "Hey, this game is like Uncharted! No wait, this game feels exactly like Uncharted." My biggest problem with both of those games is there's basically no reason to play them multiple times instead of 'I want to play them again." I could never bring myself to pay $60 for a game I could feasibly blow through in one day and have no real reason to play through multiple times. Also, the overabundance of cutscenes annoys the gak out of me, which is why MGS4 was fething unplayable for me (although, the difference between these games and MGS4 is that MGS4 actually gets gak for having too many cutscenes, how bout that.)

3. Battlefield 3. Every time I hear someone talk about BF3 there's always some stealthy criticism of CoD in there somewhere and how this game is just liiiiiiiightyears ahead of CoD and I just don't see it. Everything from the control scheme to the framerate just feels sluggish compared to CoD (which, you have to admit, it's pretty cool that CoD's developers got a modern graphics engine to maintain 60fps on consoles), the gameplay is really too similar to CoD's to be that much better, and its singleplayer mode feels almost exactly like MW3's down to the stupid cliche military lingo and the 'OH MY GOD SOMETHING FELL OVER BLACK OUT AND SWITCH CHARACTERS NOW' moments.

4. Doom 3. You know, I'm quite fond of pre-2005 games but I reaaaaaaaally hated this one. It's competing against games like Half Life 2 and Halo 2 and I still don't understand why it's even considered a 'classic' of the last console generation. It's a big, ugly, clunky melon-fether of a game that's trying as hard as it possibly can to be scary and failing hard. It's difficult to be scared of monsters jumping out at me when I've got a shotgun that sounds like it could split The Hulk in half and I've got plenty of ammo. Doom was never a horror game and trying to make it into a combination of Dead Space and Quake 3 just doesn't feel fun.

5. Portal 2. Remember when I said I didn't really like games that you really only will play through once without good reason? Yeah. Bought this game, played it through in 2 days, never even installed it again. Yeah Wheatley was funny and GLaDOS and blah blah I'm still trying to stop cringing over the stupid repetition of jokes from the first game (feth you if you think 'the cake is a lie' is still funny, by the way). It was entertaining but there were a lot of points that I got stuck and the puzzles sometimes seemed impossible and the story just can't make up for that. It was quite entertaining, of course, but I just couldn't in good faith claim that that game really was Game of the Year 2011. There's no universe where that game was literally better than EVERYTHING that came out that year.

Honorable Mention: Dark Souls. This game is so well designed it kills me but the game is so completely inaccessible and devoid of any hints as to what to do ever it really straddles the boundary between 'a hard game' and 'this game is fething with you on purpose'. Yeah, I probably hate it because I can't beat it, but whatever.

When Doom 3 came out I recall people calling it a "decent tech demo" but a "bad game" for quite awhile. I didn't realise it became a hit afterwards.

Halo, (any Halo really, they aren't that good.)

Gears of War (same)

Bioshock (I just can't get into it)

Resident Evil 4: A lot of people say this is the only good one, I really didn't like it.

Forza.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 Squigsquasher wrote:

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 Squigsquasher wrote:
1: Counter-Strike. (Generic CoD clone number 639! But it's "the hardcore" and anyone who doesn't like it is a "nooby console scrub"! Also it has atrocious gameplay, terrible balance, and one of the worst communities this side of League of Legends!)

Counter-Strike came out 3 years before Call of Duty...

It's still yet another generic, boring military FPS. Regardless of which one came first, they're both terrible games that should not exist.

As much as I don't like both of them today, I have to say I have the utmost respect for the people responsible for Counter-Strike. This game with I don't know how many fans all started as a humble mod for Half-Life. Someone just had this awesome idea about a team of Terrorists vs Counter-Terrorists for an online game and got together with some friends and started coding it. After some Betas, Valve itself looked at it and said "Say, that is looking mighty good, want some help?" and lo', Valve teamed up and the CS fever truly began full steam ahead.

Same thing for whoever had the idea for the "custom map" in Warcraft 3, the Defense of the Ancients. Another person who had a vision and BAM, world-wide phenomena.

P.S: And CoD 1 and 2 are absolutely awesome

Actually... Dota on warcraft 3 is not where the idea came form. Starcraft 1 had map called Aeon of Strife which is the actual origin of this type of game.

And squigsquasher... so you think a few of the top games from the 90's are terrible... yet you like Rage?

Pretty much anything made by Lionhead Studios.

 Soladrin wrote:

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 Squigsquasher wrote:

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 Squigsquasher wrote:
1: Counter-Strike. (Generic CoD clone number 639! But it's "the hardcore" and anyone who doesn't like it is a "nooby console scrub"! Also it has atrocious gameplay, terrible balance, and one of the worst communities this side of League of Legends!)

Counter-Strike came out 3 years before Call of Duty...

It's still yet another generic, boring military FPS. Regardless of which one came first, they're both terrible games that should not exist.

As much as I don't like both of them today, I have to say I have the utmost respect for the people responsible for Counter-Strike. This game with I don't know how many fans all started as a humble mod for Half-Life. Someone just had this awesome idea about a team of Terrorists vs Counter-Terrorists for an online game and got together with some friends and started coding it. After some Betas, Valve itself looked at it and said "Say, that is looking mighty good, want some help?" and lo', Valve teamed up and the CS fever truly began full steam ahead.

Same thing for whoever had the idea for the "custom map" in Warcraft 3, the Defense of the Ancients. Another person who had a vision and BAM, world-wide phenomena.

P.S: And CoD 1 and 2 are absolutely awesome

Actually... Dota on warcraft 3 is not where the idea came form. Starcraft 1 had map called Aeon of Strife which is the actual origin of this type of game.

And squigsquasher... so you think a few of the top games from the 90's are terrible... yet you like Rage?

Yep.

Rage was fun, had awesome music, looked fantastic, had great gameplay, cool characters and a big open world that still let you know where you were meant to be going.

These "top games of the 90s" are the opposite-ugly, frustratingly difficult, confusing, clunky, pretty lacking in the sound department, just awful.

Rage was okay, would have been better if they had finished more than 1/3 of the game...

 Squigsquasher wrote:

 Soladrin wrote:

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 Squigsquasher wrote:

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 Squigsquasher wrote:
1: Counter-Strike. (Generic CoD clone number 639! But it's "the hardcore" and anyone who doesn't like it is a "nooby console scrub"! Also it has atrocious gameplay, terrible balance, and one of the worst communities this side of League of Legends!)

Counter-Strike came out 3 years before Call of Duty...

It's still yet another generic, boring military FPS. Regardless of which one came first, they're both terrible games that should not exist.

As much as I don't like both of them today, I have to say I have the utmost respect for the people responsible for Counter-Strike. This game with I don't know how many fans all started as a humble mod for Half-Life. Someone just had this awesome idea about a team of Terrorists vs Counter-Terrorists for an online game and got together with some friends and started coding it. After some Betas, Valve itself looked at it and said "Say, that is looking mighty good, want some help?" and lo', Valve teamed up and the CS fever truly began full steam ahead.

Same thing for whoever had the idea for the "custom map" in Warcraft 3, the Defense of the Ancients. Another person who had a vision and BAM, world-wide phenomena.

P.S: And CoD 1 and 2 are absolutely awesome

Actually... Dota on warcraft 3 is not where the idea came form. Starcraft 1 had map called Aeon of Strife which is the actual origin of this type of game.

And squigsquasher... so you think a few of the top games from the 90's are terrible... yet you like Rage?

Yep.

Rage was fun, had awesome music, looked fantastic, had great gameplay, cool characters and a big open world that still let you know where you were meant to be going.

These "top games of the 90s" are the opposite-ugly, frustratingly difficult, confusing, clunky, pretty lacking in the sound department, just awful.

...waaaaaaaaaaaaaat.... Ugly, well, graphics were great back then and IMO a lot of them still hold up fine, guess that´s an age thing so fair, you´ll get that one. Frustratingly difficult? Awardingly difficult, games these days are way to easy, I breeze through everything on hard nowadays. Clunky? NOPE. Lacking in sound department...... I have yet to find a game with a better soundtrack then the first few command and conquers just to name one franchise from back then.

Also, if we view Rage through the same scope of it's age. TERRIBLE textures, forgettable music and sound, crap story, terrible ending, easy as balls and not a single mechanic that actually helped immersion.

In the end though, to each their own. Something about opinions and arses.

1. Ghost Recon games.
2. Halo 2 & ODST
3. COD Modern Warfare
4. Metal Gear Solid
5. GTA 4 - honestly was a step back from GTA: SA

In no particalur order:
Minecraft
Any cod game after MW2
Uncharted 2/3
Dirt 3
Super mario galaxy 1

RAGE was what id had been doing for a while now: A gakky game that worked better as a tech demo to showcase a new engine for other companies.

Oh wait, those fething id witches said PC gaming was never a top priority with RAGE, those fething witches.

 BrookM wrote:
RAGE was what id had been doing for a while now: A gakky game that worked better as a tech demo to showcase a new engine for other companies.

Oh wait, those fething id witches said PC gaming was never a top priority with RAGE, those fething witches.

Calm yourself.

Besides, if they want to focus on a console release as a priority then there's nothing wrong with that. Just play it on a console. One particular gaming crowd can't have everything all the time.

Next thing you know we'll have people shouting at Nintendo for not bringing poor old Mario to the PC/Mac/Xbox One or whatever.

Has anyone mentioned World of Tanks?

I'll admit that it's good fun to begin with, but rapidly spoils when you reach the higher levels. And the amount of effort people make and the amount of money some spend I find genuinely frightening..

World of Warcraft the moment the first expansion was released.

 Pacific wrote:
Has anyone mentioned World of Tanks?

I'll admit that it's good fun to begin with, but rapidly spoils when you reach the higher levels. And the amount of effort people make and the amount of money some spend I find genuinely frightening..

World of Warcraft the moment the first expansion was released.

I beg to differ! The first expansion was fantastic and added my favorite raid of all time, Karazhan, allowing me to raid with only 9 other people and everything was tough as nails back then . After WotlK it all went downhill from there :(

 nomsheep wrote:


Bioshock (I just can't get into it)

that dosen't make it overrated kid.

1. WoW
2. Pokemon games
3. FF 7
4. Halo 3 and any Halo game after that
5. Gears of War series

1. World of Warcraft - Everquest did FPMMORPGing better
2. Halo.
3. Grand theft Auto after 2
4. Settlers after settlers 3. The whole point of settlers was CUTESY GRAPHICS.
5. Runescape. Gah. That game is just.....a timewaster now.

 Doctadeth wrote:
5. Runescape. Gah. That game is just.....a timewaster now.

/Implying it was ever anything more than a timewaster.

God , I remember all the other kids used to play Runescape. Even back then I thought it looked like gak. I was always in the Club Penguin camp. It made me very popular with the girls, but seeing as I was 10 the humour was lost on me.

Also, can I say I do not see what all the fuss over the original Deus Ex is? Sure it looks like a fun game and I'd like to try it, but...I dunno, it just looks like another Half-Life style, "edgy" shooter.

 sing your life wrote:
that dosen't make it overrated kid.

Except that these are "games you find overrated". Everyone has differing opinions.

 Squigsquasher wrote:

 Doctadeth wrote:
5. Runescape. Gah. That game is just.....a timewaster now.

/Implying it was ever anything more than a timewaster.

God , I remember all the other kids used to play Runescape. Even back then I thought it looked like gak. I was always in the Club Penguin camp. It made me very popular with the girls, but seeing as I was 10 the humour was lost on me.

Also, can I say I do not see what all the fuss over the original Deus Ex is? Sure it looks like a fun game and I'd like to try it, but...I dunno, it just looks like another Half-Life style, "edgy" shooter.

Except for where it's mainly a stealth RPG right?

 Soladrin wrote:

 Squigsquasher wrote:

 Doctadeth wrote:
5. Runescape. Gah. That game is just.....a timewaster now.

/Implying it was ever anything more than a timewaster.

God , I remember all the other kids used to play Runescape. Even back then I thought it looked like gak. I was always in the Club Penguin camp. It made me very popular with the girls, but seeing as I was 10 the humour was lost on me.

Also, can I say I do not see what all the fuss over the original Deus Ex is? Sure it looks like a fun game and I'd like to try it, but...I dunno, it just looks like another Half-Life style, "edgy" shooter.

Except for where it's mainly a stealth RPG right?

I dunno. I've never played it. I want to, but...I dunno. Like a lot of games from that sort of era, like System Shock and the like, the really primitive 3D graphics make it kinda hard to take seriously though. Like Half-Life-great game I'm sure, but goddamnit it looks awful.

I still want to play it though.

There are numerous texture and graphics mods available for those games though.

 Soladrin wrote:
There are numerous texture and graphics mods available for those games though.

Aye, but I'm talking about the base games themselves. At the end of the day you could mod the PC version of Call of Duty into a space flight simulator if you worked hard enough. I'm solely judging the games by, well, the games as they are.

Although, like I say, I haven't played them yet, although I want to.

There's going to be an official release of the Sven mod for half-life co-op. You should just wait for that and play through with a friend.

Pfffft, took them long enough.

 BrookM wrote:
Pfffft, took them long enough.

Not as long as Half Life Thr-

And remember, you are talking about a team of fledgling modders doing this in their spare time, and not being paid to do so.

Can't wait for Stadium and Heroes of Half-life.

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Pfffft, took them long enough.

Not as long as Half Life Thr-

Shoosh, every time you mention it, three children are sacrificed to the G-Man and the release date gets pushed back 5 years.

 Alfndrate wrote:

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Pfffft, took them long enough.

Not as long as Half Life Thr-

Shoosh, every time you mention it, three children are sacrificed to the G-Man and the release date gets pushed back 5 years.

That actually seems quite legit. I remember how much my hopes went up when Portal 2 was released....but alas...