Most overrated game ever..
 

What do you believe is teh most overrated game ever that sooo many people tlak about etc?

Final Fantasy VII.. Nuff said.. They have milked that game with a series of games that takes place before and after the main game.. here's the whole list.
Oh btw, this info was found on Wikipedia.

-Before Crisis (Mobile Phone)
-Crisis Core (PSP)
-Final Fantasy Snowboarding (Mobile Phone)
-Dirge Of Cereberus (Ps2)
-Lost episode - Dirge Of Cereberus (mobile phone)
-Last Order (anime)
-Advent Children (dvd, UMD movie psp, Blu-Ray)
-Maiden Who Travels the Planet (Novella)
-On The Way To A Smile (Novella)

So this is the stuff that revolves around the ff7 universe..

The Devil May Cry series feels pretty damn overrated to me. Just because it has a "bad ass" main character who has some sweet moves doesn't make the game a classic. The story sucks, the controls suck, the gameplay is repetitive, and Dante swings the other way. Awful.

And by the way. Maybe there were a bunch of extra games and whatnot off Final Fantasy VII because the story was good? Just a thought. The games could suck, but it's mostly because the story was great, and the fans wanted more. I wouldn't really call that milking, because the fans want it. Milking is unwanted extra games. But after a talk with Peanut, I also agree that FFVII is overrated. It's so successful because of the story, not the gameplay. Story is a major factor in the determination of a great game, but it shouldn't be hailed as the best RPG ever just because of the story. I actually have played better RPG's that cover more than just the story.

I find Halo to be pretty over rated even now that I like FPS games I don't see the rave. Just another sci-fi shooter nothing I haven't played. Plus I hate alien guns, I like real guns better. Bullets are cooler then energy beams any day.

I also think Gears is way over rated. It's a good game but it's not THAT good. For how short it's story mode is and it's story isn't really that great either. Game was made for multiplayer it seems.

Oblivion, it's a good waste of time. I mean like a GTA game I can have fun in it screwing around but other then that it's useless since most of it's quests are terrible and not much fun to do.

On the subject of GTA, GTA games are terrible. Better yet GTA:SA is terrible. I liked 3 alot*It did alot right that 2 just didn't* and then Vice City was cool because I liked the setting but they didn't change alot. SA comes along with not only a subject matter I don't like but the exact same gameplay and game really as the previous year. They add almost nothing hardly re-vamped.

Metal Gear Solid, honestly this series gets alot of praise and maybe it does have a good story but I paid for a video game not an interactive movie. I could beat the first game in like 90 minutes if I skipped the cut scenes and that was before I was super good at it. And MGS 2 is just*Shivers* 3 was a huge improvement but it's still short without the cut scenes. The boss battle modes and such added alot though.

Finial Fantasy...I need not go into detail about this. They were original at one point, and yes even though I don't like 7 it was a ground breaking game. But the others after were just pure crap, espcially 8.

I could probably think of more but right now this is what comes to mind. These are just my opinions though. I know a lot of you would disagree. I know I already disagree with some choices but I don't want to start a flame war or anything.

The first Black & White game for PC. Awfully boring game hyped to be the new revolution-bringing Pong.

This thread is just going to end up in a fight. Someone lock it.

Haha, let's see what happens!!

Metal Gear Solid is overhyped, not overrated, if you ask me. People make way too much fuzz about the whole thing, praising it to the heavens and back. It is good, we get that, but not to the point where you have to constantly remind us. And I never felt that the cutscenes were too much. They added so much atmosphere to the whole thing and they looked awesome. So I can live with that.

By the way, I'm still upset about how easy it actually was to beat Psycho Mantis when you knew the trick. Those Bastards!

Let's have some fun.

Ocarina of Time.


*E* Just read Peanut's post. Can't believe I forgot Metroid Prime. That's my serious answer.

That's why I said almost.

OK, so let's see. Overrated, hmmmm.

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - Most flawed of any Zelda game. Doesn't deserve the high scores it received. Gamespot had it right.

Final Fantasy 7 & 12 - There are so many better playing RPGs than FF7, yet people fall in homo erotic love with the characters and can't let it go, for fear that they'll be left alone for the rest of their life, which is true. 12 because it plays like sh*t, yet gets over scored simply because it's a Final Fantasy game.

Metal Gear Solid (series) - Stealth game play that's 1up'd at every turn by a real stealth game like Splinter Cell. Terrible terrible cut-scenes with laughable writing, stiff voice acting and dumb characters. Luckily for the lobotomized, there's more of these delightful cut-scenes than there is game play. MGS: PO further proves the point that people are morons. The game plays like complete and utter sh*t, and every single gaming website admits this fact, yet gives it 9's because it's a MGS game and they like the horrendous story. Complete joke.

Devil May Cry (series) - Giving this series of games anything above a 7 is a joke. Horribly repetitive game play and shaky control only make the game fun to mindless people. Ridiculously feminine main character, horrid voice acting and a joke of a story.

Halo: Combat Evolved - Terrible over use of levels. The Library is, bar-none, the worst level in a big name FPS ever. The fact that it scored higher than Halo 2, yet had such game breaking, horrible levels is a mystery. The pistol is a POS. Let it go Halo:CE fan boys.

Resident Evil 4 - Pretty, yet all together boring. The shooting controls are clunky and fighting the same 4 or 5 villagers in slight variation is boring. Can't stand how the game plays, the pacing is questionable, the story is crap, and everything in the environment looks like it was smeared with sh*t.

Metroid Prime - Boring, repetitive, underwhelming. That pretty much sums up Metroid Prime. Exploration from the first person isn't very fun, the shooting is pretty bare bones and without much excitement. Back tracking is completely and utterly lame.

And for the record, yes FFVII is being milked. They're just trying to cash in on the pathetic losers who still base their entire life around a game that's been around for nearly 10 years. Let it go already.

I hope not, because it is.

I am half kidding. It is one of the greatest games ever made, but some people really need to admit that it's 2007 and it's no longer the 'pinnacle of gaming'.

Hmmmm....

As for Gears of War being overrated? No. Wrong. It's fantastic. Over hyped? Yeah. But it delivered. And if you say multiplayer is why it was made, that's dumb, the single player is much more enjoyable.

RE4? It essentially reinvented the RE franchise. And reinvigorated a character that almost got left behind. And it was covered in **** for a reason... So you could tell the difference between clean, Americans, and the dirty, evil non-americans. (I'm not joking, the enviornment is dirty,which is good, but anyone who isn't American, or working for Umbrella, they look like they just went dumpster diving.)

But, again, the idea of this thread lies heavily on one's opinion and how they see things.

My list?

-Oblivion
-Any Final Fantasy game...This doesn't mean I didn't like FF7 or 8, but they are all overrated.
-Smash Bros., Not that fun.
-Grand Theft Auto, anything after 3. 3 remade the franchise.

Just because I said the game is over rated doesn't mean I don't like it. I just think it doesn't deserve all the attention it gets when there's other good games out there they over shadow.

I happen to like the MGS series I've been playing it since Solid on the PS1 and have all the games*Except the PSP ones*, even VR missions. And while I think Gears Of War is over rated I own that too, still fun to play.

Final Fantasy 7 - I can't stress enough how overrated this game was. All I ever hear about is how great it is and I see a million spin offs all over the place. Honestly, I thought it was good but not THAT good.
Chrono Trigger - A good RPG that for some reason is considered to be one of the greatest. Honestly, I see nothing special about this game. The gameplay is very similiar to almost every other RPG in existance and the story was pretty good. Only thing I saw that made the fighting system unique was double and triple techs. Honestly, I thought Cross was a much better game. At least it had a unique fighting system. Only problem it had was there was way too many characters.
Zelda: Ocarina of Time - What was so great about Ocarina of Time still escapes me. Honestly, I think the 3d environment still needed work. With distance weapons you were very dependant on Z targeting to do most of the work with aiming or you had to sit there like a statue carefully aiming while hoping nothing came up and owned you from behind or the side. Also it really became very annoying having to constantly adjust your view so you could see properly using C up. This was also the first zelda game to lack an element I consider very important, challenge. Even though the distance weapon system sucked your foes were still very easy. Nothing really did a lot of damage to you while you had more hearts than ever before. Also, how dare they get rid of one of my favorite elements, sword beams when your hearts are full. Level designs and story were good but gameplay was medicore. I very much prefer Link to the Past.
Halo 1 & 2 - The most medicore FPS games I have ever played. Nothing in my mind makes the Halo series stand out. I've played single player and multiplayer in both games and get very little enjoyment out of either. The lamest element in Halo is truely the shields. Having regenerating shields was probably the worst thing they could've possibly done IMO. It basically very much encourages people to run away and make everyone's life difficult and frustrating. If anything, items should regenerate your shield so you have to find them and hope they're still there. Now in the original Halo it wasn't too bad because shields only took a few shots to get down but in 2 your shield is about as high as your life and takes even less time to regenerate. Vehicles really have a negative impact on the gameplay as well. It wouldn't be so bad if you could destroy certain ones a bit more easily but most of them having incredibly broken firepower anyway. Against the bigger vehicles, you basically have a rocket launcher or can't do anything. I really don't see how that improves gameplay. I really don't see how either even touches the greatness of Perfect Dark or Goldeneye for 64.
Gran Theft Auto series - It's very amusing for about 30 minutes, after that I found it to be very repetitive and boring.

I just know I'm going to get agro for this post but it's how I feel.

So you see it's good to not lock this topic.. Having different opinions show that all the great games we love are not liked by others.. So why I wrote this topic is because I feel that certain games that people love are disliked by others.. You know..

I just cleaned up the arguments in this thread. Just like in the Best Games thread, let's please have a little self-control here and avoid attacking each other over something so trivial. Like I said last time:

If someone's list makes you angry to the point where you must attack them no matter what, at least have the decency to keep it off the forums. This thread gets one more chance before it gets locked.

Final Fantasy VII

Perfect Dark ftw :evilgrin:

Goldeneye 007

Wow. I remember being called stupid for saying that not so long ago. How the tides have turned.

Well, I can imagine it hasn't aged very well, but it was quite the sh*t back in the day.

Final Fantasy X (Not 10)

It's not worth all the praise it recieves.

The Final Fantasy series is okay, but yeah, it's way over rated for it's own good (however, I do enjoy watching the rabid fan girls oggling over Cloud :lol: Ah...how I do love teasing those fans...) The stories are okay from what I've played (Seven and I think eight. The one with the gunblade in it), but I just don't really like the battles and the controls. But maybe that's just me *shrugs*

Also the Spyro series has become waaay over rated. The first three original games were great, but the latest one just seemed a bit washed out to me. The trailer for the game is like an epic "The Da Vinci Code" trailer, complete with a choir of people singing with an orchestra pulling out dramatic chords over the top. Along with all of these big name Hollywood stars providing voices. What happened to the simpler time of Spryo trying to stop the Sorceress from stealling all of the dragon eggs in order to become beautiful forever? Instead we have Spyro trying to save the world from the darkness that is of a dark dragon with dark minions and dark crystals in a dark world with dark darkness...

...yeah, I'll stop now :|

Spyro? Overrated? A game that gets no praise and crappy reviews can't be overrated, just as a heads up.

Who called Spyro oveerrated? Lol. Spyro is underrated. the best spyro games were the first 3 on the ps1 and only the best.. if you can, get the spyro collection for ps1.. it's worth the price if u can find it.

I had all 3 Spyro games I still think I have one of them somewhere. I liked them as a kid but I never went back to them. I liked Crash Warped alot but I lost it, I still have Crash 2.

I've never played FFVII, so I can't complain about the overrating thereof. But I do have a question, just out of curiosity: if FFVII is so overrated, what's your guys' favorite Final Fantasy?

And Spyro... heh. :) I've always liked Hunter, just because he's a cheetah. He's a tad annoying, and I'd like to see his design smoothed out a bit, but still... he makes me smile just for being there.

Nononononono. Not like that! :lol: I mean in the advertisements for the latest game (I really should think before I post :lol: ) And yeah, every game made after the third instalment has been absolutely crap. I should know, since I own "Enter the Dragonfly" *shudders uncontrolably*

A good example was that I was babysitting my neighbours one day. The three of us, the two kids and myself, were watching TV. Then the new ad for Spyro came on. It was the first time any of us had seen it. The kids were excited, after all, their friends kept on going on about how good the ads were. I, however, was not. But still, the kids I was looking after AND all of their friends at school were absolutely flipping for this ad, and just couldn't wait until they got the game

Halo.

I went there. I've played it. It's crap.

Oh, and Dead Rising. Third party waste.

Oh noes if Nintendo didn't make it's evil :cry:

DR is a great arcade style game. Guess I just like gore and zombies alot <_<

Dead Rising was waaaay overrated. If it had come out anywhere but the huge drought it debuted in, it would probably have gotten trashed. The game is just broken. Poor design choices and such. It's still fun to play, though.

And yeah, Halo is way overrated too.

A lot of people mentioned FFVII (I'm not even gonna get into whoever mentioned OoT), and I wanted to add that I stayed away from this game for a good 9 years until I actually sat down and beat it this past May. The reason I avoided it for so long is that I used to carry the impression that it was overrated due to the overwhelming amount of rabid fan-people the game had. Just a natural reaction, I guess. But then all the hype over Advent Children was going around and I ended up hearing some really amazing music from the game, and when I actually gave it a chance I was very impressed with everything about it and became hooked on some of the characters, especially Vincent, who I'd count among my favourite VG characters overall at this point.

FF VIII. I absolutely adored that game, which is quite unusual because I'm not an RPG fan and I very much disliked VII. Perhaps it's more about personal taste than anything else, but I really loved the graphics, the futuristic setting, and the overall storyline.

final fantasy VI is my favorite. it's coming to the gba next month.

Even though it came out in a dry period it still sells like mad though so in a sense doesn't that sorta prove it's successful.

I agree it's overrated but I still love it, though I don't know if I could bare beating story mode again, and the only thing I haven't done is survival mode to get the sword.

It doesn't sell like crazy. Stop saying it does.

I...Well...You're...DUMB!!!

Halo...

I am brand new to the series and really xbox in general as I just got a 360 for Christmas and had never played an Xbox title before. I figured even though it was a xbox title, the proper way to break in my 360 was to play THE xbox game thats talked about left and right. So I picked up Halo 2. I just finished it yesterday actually and overall I was very, very underwhelmed. Obvioulsy the ending is a TOTAL letdown but even the final boss battle (if you can really call it that) was crap. The battle had basically just begun and I don't think I hit him once when I all of sudden I hear something like "noooooooooooo"; he must of fell off of the platform. Enter cutscreen and terrible ending.

It was a solid game dont get me wrong. Just not fantastic. It was no Metal Gear title for me thats for sure. I'll definately pick up part 3, but I wont be camping out for it. The online component though is pretty fun.

Also, my favorite Final Fantasy is 9, which incredibly underrated in my mind.

Over a million copies is pretty damn good. That was months back it hit that so it's higher now. It's one of the most purchased 360 games.

I think as it stands Oblivion is still the #1 360 game in terms of sales. I don't think Gears has caught up yet.

Dead Rising just broke 1 million units shipped, dude. Just. And only shipped, not sold. And Gears is already at 3 million, so Oblivion isn't top selling.