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sgn43 · 01-12-2005, 03:26 AM

Totally agree with Halo being overrated. FPS just don't really impress me all that much anymore. The last FPS that I played that really seemed like it was a big difference from previous games of the genre was GoldenEye for N64, and that's only because that was the first time I was exposed to 4 player multiplayer with all the different modes.

I'd also have to say that GTA:Vice City was pretty overrated. Well, maybe not so much overrated as definitely did not live up to the hype for me. It did make some nice improvements, but it really just felt like a barely past half-assed rehash of GTA3. It might have just been over the extreme excitement over the game and the belief that it may just be the greatest game of all time.

j. dakar · 01-12-2005, 03:45 AM

halo/halo 2 --- i just don't see what the big deal is.

Man/Amazing · 01-12-2005, 07:44 AM

Halo 2, i was expecting so much more from this hyped piece of crap.

nohitters · 02-08-2005, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by omega2K4

ANY Final Fantasy game. Its the same shit every single fucking time.

For the most part, Omega, I agree. The final fantasy's are all based off of the same story line but you have to admit, FFVII was one of the best games of all time

Personally, I have to say most overrated game of all time has to be Greg Hasting's Tournament Paintball. That game was a no good, pile of shit, waste of space!

SitizenVZ · 02-08-2005, 10:34 PM

Yes, halo2 was definately way more hype than it was worth. The ending especially ruined it for me.

Robaggio · 02-08-2005, 11:17 PM

Halo 1/2.

FPS's for people with crappy computers or no computer at all.
Don't get me started on how little skill the game takes to make par- it has a very low plateu in the professional gaming scene. Pros play Halo to make money (microsoft sponsored 50grand tournies...), and they play other FPS games to regain their sanity/skill.

On the plus side, the game is extremely well polished. It IS a fun game to play, however, if you're at the any least bit competative, its low celing is too hard to live with.

Zelda: Windwaker
The atmosphere was great. The game was very well done- very well polished just like Halo. The game's challenge was rediculously easy. Exploration was stupid- sail an extra 10 minutes to another island with a stupid obvious puzzle. "Oh, there's a rock with a crack on it. Maybe I should bomb it?" Really, the puzzles were insulting- but then again, the game's probably geared towards people younger than me. (but that doesn't explain why people my age worship it)

hulk · 02-09-2005, 03:39 AM

With Zelda:TWW, it wasn't really Nintendo that spread the hype, but crazed game reviewers and industry 'experts' that didn't want to point out the fact that it really is aimed at young'uns. I played through the entire game without dying once, in fact, the only thing I've died to in the game is a pig that I turned hostile.

That said, it does play really, really well, and I'm looking forward to the engine in the next one, which won't be so easy

Stompy · 02-11-2005, 08:30 AM

Yeah, Wind Waker is a good choice.

It seems like Nintendo is making Zelda for 6 year olds, now.

*sigh*

I wish they'd at least let you change puzzle difficulty.

FngKestrel · 02-11-2005, 01:02 PM

Yeah, interviews with Shigeru Miyamoto do quote him as saying that he wanted to make a game that everyone (including kids) could finish. The next Zelda looks pretty crazy though, not aimed at 6 year olds, that's for sure.

Rdr4evr · 02-11-2005, 01:26 PM

The next Zelda is going to actually be rated T...a first in the Zelda series.

tspikes51 · 02-14-2005, 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Rdr4evr

Since we have a most under-rated game of 2004 thread, it is only fair to start a over-rated thread, only this time, list your most over-rated game of all time, not just 2004.

I personally would have to give this reward to Halo. After months of listening to all the hype of "this is the greatest game of all time" and "game of the year" and this and that, I figured, "holy crap, this must be some amazing game!"

I don't have an X-Box so I decided to wait it out till the PC version was released. Anyways, I purchased it when it came out for the PC and after about 1-2 hours of gameplay, I thought to myself, this is the game that everyone is going crazy over?

Not only is Halo one of the worst single player experiences I've ever had the displeasure of playing, but every other aspect of it (I didn't play Mp) was absolute crap!

Never have I played such a repetitive and boring FPS in my life. Every level seemed to be a rehash of the previous level, either that or it was the same level except played in reverse. Not only that, but the amount of enemy re-spawns every 5 seconds was absolutely ridiculous and tedious.

In a nutshell, the gameplay consisted of this: kill 50 enemies, move 10 feet, kill 50 more enemies, move 10 more feet, beat the level, play the same level again in reverse, kill 50 more enemies and so on.

I give the single-player a score of 3/10.

If I hated Halo 1 this much, should I even give Halo 2 a shot, or is it the same garbage?

List your most over-rated game of all time.

You played it on the PC, and didn't play MP at a LAN party, so you wouldn't understand.

tspikes51 · 02-14-2005, 06:36 PM

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Originally Posted by ZenFilthPig

For me I'd say the Sims plus any add-ons. I tried to get into it but just couldn't bring myself to play more than 10-15 minutes. Too frustrating.

I'm with you here... my deluxe edition has been stowed away since a week after I started playing it.

Destrox · 02-15-2005, 05:09 AM

Tie breaker between Halo (1/2) , Myst Series, and Doom 3.

Oh and yes I played it on a Xbox, speaking of which, no FPS should ever go on a console again for its own pride.

Keist · 03-01-2005, 10:05 PM

Remeber all that hype before dikatana? ....yeah.

Eight · 03-02-2005, 04:00 AM

Few really -
Duke Nukem forever (if it ever appears, lol)
Doom3 (nice looking, crap game play)
Half Life 2 - Was ok but mega over hyped.

03-10-2005, 03:32 AM

i think the halo series at all is overrated. but i think a lot of games are really overrated. videogames have potential to be really fucking good, but noone ever tries to make them that new or exciting, or they do try but they just fail. devil may cry was fucking amazing, but they really messed it up when they tried to do it again. and then choas leigion, which i'd like to be able to say i like, but i really don't. one good game makes a new impact on the world of gaming, then a bunch of other people try and copy it until it gets old... and sometimes something good comes out of it. but it's always the new, fresh ideas that are worth playing. and halo was just... the same first person shooter i've ever played. there was nothing new or interesting about it, GOD you cant even RUN. i hate halo.

Gabbyness · 03-10-2005, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Keist

Remeber all that hype before dikatana? ....yeah.

Daikatana for the win!!!!

userasdf1234 · 03-10-2005, 07:47 PM

Halo's single player is so crap IMO. The multiplayer was the shit though. I can't really say much about Halo2 b/c i haven't played that one that much.

guy44 · 03-10-2005, 09:16 PM

Myst takes this one in a landslide.

Paradise Lost · 03-10-2005, 09:38 PM

I can't really think of any truely over-hyped game, why, because all of the ones people
have seem to have listed so far sold TREMENDOUSLY. Whether or not you think its over-
hyped is moot, because the fact is 9/10 people still play those games like mad.

If a game sold badly, and only 5% of the owners of the game actually did like it, then
we could qualify it as over-hyped, but from my general knowledge, this really doesn't
happen.

Although, if anything, I might... MIGHT say Doom 3. Because even though most
people think its awesome from purely a graphics stand-point, the replay value is almost
zero and it considered to be a generally bad game, gameplay wise.

Also, for people who yell at the Final Fantasy series, you have to understand
that the people who play/hype them are nerds. You have to be to like
Role Playing games. It's all extremely repetitive from a rules standpoint.
Where it gets fun is story-line, tactics, gameplay, etc. So while
the fact that you have to fight, cast spells, and fight enemies never changes,
the way you fight, cast spells, and attack enemies and how you interact
with your environment changes from game to game. The people who play
Dungeons and Dragons do the same thing over and over again, but its the
storyline and adventure that makes it exciting for them and keeps them
coming back time after time, something that the people who don't play can't
seem to understand (in general.)

boothisman · 03-10-2005, 11:21 PM

ive gotta say cs is the most over rated game of all time because i think its the most popular fps game of all time yet the physics behind the game are pure shit. in fact when viewed in slow-mo the guns shoot bullets in patterns that are physicaly impossible. Nothing like basing a realism game on impossible physics.

wolf · 03-11-2005, 08:00 AM

Definitely Halo 2. Really could have been better.

Dragonlich · 03-11-2005, 11:50 AM

Well, a lot of games are seen as over-rated because people expected too much from them. Personally, I'd put Deus Ex 2 on the list (not top of the list, though) for that exact reason.

The original was brilliant (if sluggish), the new version could never be as good as I wanted it, but they could at least have *tried*... The game is slow as hell (even when compared to the original), has very small levels, and really doesn't allow you a lot of choices of where to go or what to do. On the other hand, if only the graphics engine was faster, the levels larger, the game longer, the replay value greater... it could have been perfect.

Kinda like Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines; it's a great game, but it's too short, too small, too buggy at times. I can't wait for a sequel or expansion pack, but I'm afraid that new version will be worse, and it'll become the new "most overrated game of all time"...

iccky · 03-12-2005, 12:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Luquado

Awwww hell naw. Oregon Trail gave birth to the Oregon Trail drinking game, which is one of the greatest drinking games of all time. Thus, by association, Oregon Trail doesn't belong on that list.

Oregon Trail drinking game? Dude, you have to post the rules.

And most overrated game? Halo. Good, yes, but not mind bendingly good or good in any way that haden't been done many times before.

kangaeru · 03-12-2005, 09:39 PM

Most overrated Game of this year was Doom 3 by FAR. Totally overhyped, made your hardware buckle, that was about it. Eye candy to the extreme.

That being said, FPS games are now about online competition. Playing over broadband ala xboxe live with halo 2 has already been very popular for games like Quake 3, counter-strike, unreal tournament, etc. "E-Sports" is a rapidly growing area of gaming. Don't believe me?

www.gotfrag.com

www.thecpl.com

That's where FPS games are headed.

SVT01Cobra · 03-12-2005, 09:56 PM

Umm...CPL and gotfrag.com have been around for a LOOOONG time.
FPS aren't "now" about competition, they've been about competition for like, the past 5 years.

As for the most over-rated game of all time? World of Warcraft.
Oh yes, I went there.

01-12-2005, 03:26 AM	#81 (permalink)
sgn43 Insane Location: Los Angeles	Totally agree with Halo being overrated. FPS just don't really impress me all that much anymore. The last FPS that I played that really seemed like it was a big difference from previous games of the genre was GoldenEye for N64, and that's only because that was the first time I was exposed to 4 player multiplayer with all the different modes. I'd also have to say that GTA:Vice City was pretty overrated. Well, maybe not so much overrated as definitely did not live up to the hype for me. It did make some nice improvements, but it really just felt like a barely past half-assed rehash of GTA3. It might have just been over the extreme excitement over the game and the belief that it may just be the greatest game of all time. __________________ To be great is to be misunderstood. -Emerson

01-12-2005, 07:44 AM	#83 (permalink)
Man/Amazing Crazy Location: Houston,TX	Halo 2, i was expecting so much more from this hyped piece of crap. __________________

02-09-2005, 03:39 AM	#87 (permalink)
hulk C'mon, just blow it. Location: Perth, Australia	With Zelda:TWW, it wasn't really Nintendo that spread the hype, but crazed game reviewers and industry 'experts' that didn't want to point out the fact that it really is aimed at young'uns. I played through the entire game without dying once, in fact, the only thing I've died to in the game is a pig that I turned hostile. That said, it does play really, really well, and I'm looking forward to the engine in the next one, which won't be so easy __________________ "'There's a tendency among the press to attribute the creation of a game to a single person,' says Warren Spector, creator of Thief and Deus Ex." -- From an IGN game review.

02-11-2005, 08:30 AM	#88 (permalink)
Stompy Banned from being Banned Location: Donkey	Yeah, Wind Waker is a good choice. It seems like Nintendo is making Zelda for 6 year olds, now. sigh I wish they'd at least let you change puzzle difficulty. __________________ I love lamp.

02-15-2005, 05:09 AM	#93 (permalink)
Destrox Metal and Rock 4 Life Location: Phoenix	Tie breaker between Halo (1/2) , Myst Series, and Doom 3. Oh and yes I played it on a Xbox, speaking of which, no FPS should ever go on a console again for its own pride. __________________ You bore me.... next.

01-12-2005, 03:45 AM	#82 (permalink)
j. dakar Upright Location: alabama, usa	halo/halo 2 --- i just don't see what the big deal is.

02-08-2005, 10:34 PM	#85 (permalink)
SitizenVZ Tilted	Yes, halo2 was definately way more hype than it was worth. The ending especially ruined it for me.

02-08-2005, 11:17 PM	#86 (permalink)
Robaggio Crazy	Halo 1/2. FPS's for people with crappy computers or no computer at all. Don't get me started on how little skill the game takes to make par- it has a very low plateu in the professional gaming scene. Pros play Halo to make money (microsoft sponsored 50grand tournies...), and they play other FPS games to regain their sanity/skill. On the plus side, the game is extremely well polished. It IS a fun game to play, however, if you're at the any least bit competative, its low celing is too hard to live with. Zelda: Windwaker The atmosphere was great. The game was very well done- very well polished just like Halo. The game's challenge was rediculously easy. Exploration was stupid- sail an extra 10 minutes to another island with a stupid obvious puzzle. "Oh, there's a rock with a crack on it. Maybe I should bomb it?" Really, the puzzles were insulting- but then again, the game's probably geared towards people younger than me. (but that doesn't explain why people my age worship it)

02-11-2005, 01:02 PM	#89 (permalink)
FngKestrel Junkie	Yeah, interviews with Shigeru Miyamoto do quote him as saying that he wanted to make a game that everyone (including kids) could finish. The next Zelda looks pretty crazy though, not aimed at 6 year olds, that's for sure.

02-11-2005, 01:26 PM	#90 (permalink)
Rdr4evr Banned	The next Zelda is going to actually be rated T...a first in the Zelda series.

03-01-2005, 10:05 PM	#94 (permalink)
Keist Upright Location: Gold Coast, Australia	Remeber all that hype before dikatana? ....yeah. __________________ -Keist

03-02-2005, 04:00 AM	#95 (permalink)
Eight Crazy Location: UK	Few really - Duke Nukem forever (if it ever appears, lol) Doom3 (nice looking, crap game play) Half Life 2 - Was ok but mega over hyped.

03-10-2005, 03:32 AM	#96 (permalink)
kitsune Guest	i think the halo series at all is overrated. but i think a lot of games are really overrated. videogames have potential to be really fucking good, but noone ever tries to make them that new or exciting, or they do try but they just fail. devil may cry was fucking amazing, but they really messed it up when they tried to do it again. and then choas leigion, which i'd like to be able to say i like, but i really don't. one good game makes a new impact on the world of gaming, then a bunch of other people try and copy it until it gets old... and sometimes something good comes out of it. but it's always the new, fresh ideas that are worth playing. and halo was just... the same first person shooter i've ever played. there was nothing new or interesting about it, GOD you cant even RUN. i hate halo.

03-10-2005, 07:47 PM	#98 (permalink)
userasdf1234 Tilted	Halo's single player is so crap IMO. The multiplayer was the shit though. I can't really say much about Halo2 b/c i haven't played that one that much.

03-10-2005, 09:16 PM	#99 (permalink)
guy44 Somnabulist Location: corner of No and Where	Myst takes this one in a landslide. __________________ "You have reached Ritual Sacrifice. For goats press one, or say 'goats.'"

03-11-2005, 08:00 AM	#102 (permalink)
wolf Ravenous Location: Right Behind You	Definitely Halo 2. Really could have been better. __________________ Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as Gods. Cats have never forgotten this.

03-10-2005, 09:38 PM	#100 (permalink)
Paradise Lost "Afternoon everybody." "NORM!" Location: Poland, Ohio // Clarion University of PA.	I can't really think of any truely over-hyped game, why, because all of the ones people have seem to have listed so far sold TREMENDOUSLY. Whether or not you think its over- hyped is moot, because the fact is 9/10 people still play those games like mad. If a game sold badly, and only 5% of the owners of the game actually did like it, then we could qualify it as over-hyped, but from my general knowledge, this really doesn't happen. Although, if anything, I might... MIGHT say Doom 3. Because even though most people think its awesome from purely a graphics stand-point, the replay value is almost zero and it considered to be a generally bad game, gameplay wise. Also, for people who yell at the Final Fantasy series, you have to understand that the people who play/hype them are nerds. You have to be to like Role Playing games. It's all extremely repetitive from a rules standpoint. Where it gets fun is story-line, tactics, gameplay, etc. So while the fact that you have to fight, cast spells, and fight enemies never changes, the way you fight, cast spells, and attack enemies and how you interact with your environment changes from game to game. The people who play Dungeons and Dragons do the same thing over and over again, but its the storyline and adventure that makes it exciting for them and keeps them coming back time after time, something that the people who don't play can't seem to understand (in general.) __________________ "Marino could do it." Last edited by Paradise Lost; 03-10-2005 at 09:46 PM..

03-10-2005, 11:21 PM	#101 (permalink)
boothisman Upright	ive gotta say cs is the most over rated game of all time because i think its the most popular fps game of all time yet the physics behind the game are pure shit. in fact when viewed in slow-mo the guns shoot bullets in patterns that are physicaly impossible. Nothing like basing a realism game on impossible physics.

03-11-2005, 11:50 AM	#103 (permalink)
Dragonlich 42, baby! Location: The Netherlands	Well, a lot of games are seen as over-rated because people expected too much from them. Personally, I'd put Deus Ex 2 on the list (not top of the list, though) for that exact reason. The original was brilliant (if sluggish), the new version could never be as good as I wanted it, but they could at least have tried... The game is slow as hell (even when compared to the original), has very small levels, and really doesn't allow you a lot of choices of where to go or what to do. On the other hand, if only the graphics engine was faster, the levels larger, the game longer, the replay value greater... it could have been perfect. Kinda like Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines; it's a great game, but it's too short, too small, too buggy at times. I can't wait for a sequel or expansion pack, but I'm afraid that new version will be worse, and it'll become the new "most overrated game of all time"...

03-12-2005, 09:39 PM	#105 (permalink)
kangaeru Crazy Location: on the road to where I want to be...	Most overrated Game of this year was Doom 3 by FAR. Totally overhyped, made your hardware buckle, that was about it. Eye candy to the extreme. That being said, FPS games are now about online competition. Playing over broadband ala xboxe live with halo 2 has already been very popular for games like Quake 3, counter-strike, unreal tournament, etc. "E-Sports" is a rapidly growing area of gaming. Don't believe me? www.gotfrag.com www.thecpl.com That's where FPS games are headed.

03-12-2005, 09:56 PM	#106 (permalink)
SVT01Cobra Psycho Location: Somewhere, Missouri	Umm...CPL and gotfrag.com have been around for a LOOOONG time. FPS aren't "now" about competition, they've been about competition for like, the past 5 years. As for the most over-rated game of all time? World of Warcraft. Oh yes, I went there.