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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.