List of Games You Think are Overrated.

[leecho7]

Thread of games in which you think are overrated.

Overrated
Halo + Halo 2 (Bland graphics, what kind of name is 'Master Chief'? Aliens attacking humans? What an original idea.)

Grand Theft Auto (All of them. Just how many times can you 're-texture' a game and call it a sequal?)

World of Warcraft (Too many bugs to get the near perfect scores the critics are giving it.)

Half Life 2 (Just gets boring after a while after the initial shock from the beauty of the game. Plus Steam sucks.)

Fable (I played it, and said 'How could it have got RPG of the year with better RPG's like Star Wars KOTOR 2, Shin Megami Tensei, Skies of Arcadia, and Star Ocean coming out the same year?)

[Rob Williams]

I feel the same way with Halo. I just could never get into it.

I really, really enjoyed GTA Vice City, so I shouldn't talk there.

Half-Life 2 I agree to a point to. Very good game though, got my heart pumping a couple times. End sucks though.

[Mike Delorme]

half Life 2 ending was obviously set up for a sequal, ohwell.

Halo + 2 multiplayer is what gets me into halo.

[Muddy]

half life 2 is good story isnt that good but it sents grounds for future games. Too many bugs so far in singleplayer i had to cheat and skip 1 level cause a guy wouldnt talk to me and right now it wont let me load a map so im screwed.

[leecho7]

Another game I forgot to add, Doom 3.
Just like Half-Life 2, after the initial shock of the beauty of the game, it gets boring.
Plus I absolutely hate how they priced it $54.99. I can see it's starting a trend, Half Life 2 did it, the upcoming Age of Empires 3 will do it (last time I checked), the upcoming Shin Megami for the PS2 is doing it, and I bet many more titles that are in development are going to be 54.99.
I know it's only 5 bucks more, but to me 50 bucks is expensive for a video game.
(Keep in mind, I'm a cheap mofo. Anything that isn't 19.99 or less to me is expensive.)

[Dom]

Halo 2 was definately overrated, £39.99 for 11 hours of shiny metal suits? Of which half of that time was spent as the very thing you where trying to kill? lol

When I see games like that topping the charts and games like Star Ocean 3 get the obligatory 'Good game yea' remark, it really makes me wonder what state our markets are in.

[Kilamon]

WoW is so overrated. Cartoony, anime characters with the same mechanics that everyone has been using since the genre began in the 70s. So what if they made up a story line. I can make up a story line. Lame. It's Blizzard needing to push in and make money.

[leecho7]

WoW is fun, until Blizzard starts to 'fix' things. I was originally on the Hellscream server, but got sick and tired of the waiting que just to log in. I switched to Windrunner, started fresh and new, but then Blizzard allowed xfers form Blackhand to Windrunner... now I have a even longer wait in que than I did in Hellscream.

[dukeman]

I have to say Doom 3 is tops on my list. way overrated and pretty boring after 30minutes.

now Riddick is an awesome game. highly under-ratted.

[leecho7]

Chronicles of Riddick is a good game and underrated for that matter, thing is, I hate Vin Diesel. But I was able to see past that and enjoy it for the brief time I had it.

[dukeman]

another great underrated game is painkiller. it is a fun as hell just shot and kill game. plus the expansion BOH is awesome. the rollercoaster level has incredible graphics. i just like to ride the coaster to check out the scenes.

[Serry]

The only games I actually played on your list was the Gran Theft Auto (no xbox here) I really enjoy the game for more or less useless time killing...seriously who doesnt enjoy driving cars at highspeeds and crashing into random things.. but after a point some missions become rather difficult and I found that driving and shooting ppl just became tiresome. I've never played Halo or Halo 2 so I cant comment on that one, but Fable does look interesting, the concept anyways.

[DarkSynergy]

Not trying to piss anyone off but to me, Halo 1 is one of the greatest game ever released and Halo 2 is kick ass as well. To me, I think that Doom 3 was/is overrated. It's a turd of a game. I agree that the ending to HL2 was shitty but the game itself was amazing.


The AI in Halo was very well done. I have had a chubby for Halo since the XBOX dropped way back in 2001.



Fable did not live up to it's hype....100% let down. It is still a good game but I was expecting my head to blow up out of coolness when I first played it. Needless to say, my head is still where it should be....no, not up my ass.

[Mike AC Ryan]

Fable was a very nice game (played it on the PC)..too bad it was sooooo short!! and 0 replay value :(.

Halo1 was the bomb..no doubt about it... LAN gaming with Halo was soo much fun, as well as the single player was quite nice.

WoW is very good imo.. It got boring for me after playing a couple of months for like 60hrs/week (i kid you not...6days of the week off and playing this game). I recently just started again and like it a lot again..

Bugs? What bugs? I have only had one real bug which the GM's solved withing 30 mins... In L2 i had to wait days for something to be fixed >.<... At least wow gives Patch Notes whnever they patch something..rofl..

WoW is a good game, not overrated, not underrated. It depends a bit on your playstyle if u like the cartoonyness (i first thought i didn't, but now i actually dont mind).

Havent played Hl2 Single player htough.

GTA was a good series of game... Goign into 3d was a big and exciting step for the game, and imo Vice City is still the best...the kickass music, motorcycle stunts and the missions are helluva fun (RC Helicopters ftw!).
Havent really played the older ones very much, but Vice City was really great

Just my 2 cents :P

[madstork91]

Thread of games in which you think are overrated.

Overrated
Halo + Halo 2 (Bland graphics, what kind of name is 'Master Chief'? Aliens attacking humans? What an original idea.)

Grand Theft Auto (All of them. Just how many times can you 're-texture' a game and call it a sequal?)

World of Warcraft (Too many bugs to get the near perfect scores the critics are giving it.)

Half Life 2 (Just gets boring after a while after the initial shock from the beauty of the game. Plus Steam sucks.)

Fable (I played it, and said 'How could it have got RPG of the year with better RPG's like Star Wars KOTOR 2, Shin Megami Tensei, Skies of Arcadia, and Star Ocean coming out the same year?)

Star ocean Ill agree with you on... fable was alot worse than SO... KOTOR 2 though? That entire realtime d&d never winter nights style rpg is imo one of the things thats keeping decent rpg's out of the market... I mean really. That games sucked. And i tried so hard to like it. Really hard. I played it for like 10-15 hrs. But alas I hated it.

HL2 I wasnt too impressed even with the graphics.

WoW: It was a decent concept in the begining. Then blizzard took a great idea, fired some of the people who had it while under corp restructuring, then had "writters" who had no tie to the original story line [bleep][bleep][bleep][bleep] up wc3's story enough to make it fit into some sort of an MMO which had factions (something that wasnt in the original plan but was becoming popular during development so they decided "[bleep][bleep][bleep][bleep] the story we'll do this") Then on top of it their best ppl for rpg's (blizzard north) left/got fired/quit/resigned or wtf ever and began work on guild wars. I'm so [bleep][bleep][bleep][bleep]ing pissed about this game its unreal. Way to become money grubbing whores and then [bleep][bleep][bleep][bleep] your bread and butter with a deseased dick blizz.

GTA: ok its just a remake of the old ones... with "interactive prostitution" now! :D But come on... it was original. And you cant tell me you dont get a kick outta putting in some cheat codes and seeing how long you can live with 5 stars.

Halo + Halo 2: The single player is ok... not great. I hated H2's single player, wasnt near long enough and being the alien imo was gay at times. The real action here is the multiplayer! 16 ppl linked up all going at it = OMG! if youve never had a lan party with this game your missing out on what multiplayer console games are truely capable of being.

[Blumen]

F.E.A.R. is extremely overrated. It looks pretty, but the gameplay is not special at all.

[Word.]

Halo 2 did suck, Doom 3 was just lame ass,
I dont like games that i can't see what im shooting who cares if you give me a 1$ flash light they just suck. Most Dark games that you can't see whats in front off you will make me not even bother to play the game.

Fable i just got done finishing, i thought it was a great game for certain people.
But it was extremly easy to play for me :|"Maybe cause i game all day everyday" Well anyway Maybe its just me.. Half life 2 was heart pumping action for me, nice and bright lots of action till i got to the end..."Your all out of time" Hahaha what a lame ending Lawl.

[Drew]

I enjoyed Halo, as long as i had someone else to play it with me. The single player version for me was but i found it more enjoyable playing co-op with a friend or of course against each other. I love the PC version but only the online play couldn't stomach the single plyr version again.


* an aside * Does anyone have any thoughts about Star Wars Battle Front II? I have read some mixed reviews about it and haven't goteen a chance to try it? Just would like feedback if anyone can offer any.

[Lt. Dan]

Just to throw one out there, and maybe keep the thread alive...........

Try F.E.A.R. ..... great game, light years better than Doom3. Not as dark, but every bit as scary as hell.

Halo/2 are pretty good.... but HalfLife pissed me off.... Steam really sucks.

[Rob Williams]

I agree with FEAR although I haven't played it that much. It reminds me a LOT of Doom, but far better and not as repititious.

[Jakal]

I've played both WoW and Guild Wars and I've got to tell you GW is a lot better graphic wise. You're actually a person and the world must be twice as large as WoW. I like the profession ability in WoW but I like the gameplay better in GW. It's really a matter of opinion and what type of play style you like. No monthly charge is another great thing about GW.

I think that the new Burnout games are overrated. Since EA bought out the original maker the game has gotten worse in my opinion. Burnout 2 was the most fun. Me and some friends would play the crash game for hours on end. Now you've got to struggle just to get a silver medal.

I love Battlefield 2 though. The map selection could be better but gameplay is great.... except when you can't get out of your base because a plane keeps bombing you. I haven't figured out how to make my left shift the crouch key yet, but it's a great sequal.

[leecho7]

I play Battlefield 2 here and there. Haven't got the Special Forces expansion yet. BF2 actually suprised me, and I enjoy it a lot.

I've been on a real slump in video gaming lately... I just can't come to sit down and take the time to play anymore.

[fussnfeathers]

Easy list.

Halo 2, Doom 3, HL2, the GTA series, any game that relies on TV commercials every 10 minutes to remind you it's being released in a month or two.

I've tried WoW, and liked it, as well as Guild Wars. Both have their strong points, but honestly, unless you have a regular group of friends online, both get really boring really quickly.

I still play Star Wars Galaxies, have for over two years now, but SOE's totally screwed it up. I used to play 5-6 hours a night (it's huge, and when I first started, you had 10 minute waits for shuttles, and you had to walk everywhere........walking 9000 meters takes a LONG time), now I might log in 3-4 hours a week. Count that one in the overrated category now.

I enjoy F.E.A.R., probably more because I never saw any real ads for it (beyond the occasional one in Maximum PC) so I went into it with no real expectations.

[dibene]

I so wanted to fall in love with Doom 3, and I came close for about 3 hours.

The hype on how many servers Blizzard was going to run WoW on was overrated. I'm a current player on 5 servers, though my primary is Uther - the one that usually gets nailed to the floor with 300+ users in the queu.

They did release a statement that new equipment would be implemented in the coming patch, thus fixing the lag... We'll see. Seems awfully silly to run 100 servers and not have identical hardware top to bottom (only 10-12 servers have issues).

[dibene]

Figured I'd add this screen cap I just took:

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/3804/wow1pr.jpg

:( They simply should have consulted :techgage: Techgage :techgage:

[Rob Williams]

I honestly couldn't imagine playing an MMO that had a damn queue! That's hilarious! I heard about queues happening at times, but I had no idea they were so prevelant.

[Drew]

I have to say that i enjoyed Halo 1 too. Many nights i wasted with friends from work playing that on the Xbox and i also enjoy the PC version as well. Great after a hard day to just sign in to multi-player and shoot stuff and blow things up. No better way to un-wind. I will say this thought after the first go-around the single player version losses its appeal pretty quick.

[liqnit]

i am not original but i think HL2 and Doom 3 were very very overrated.
they were good games but still not to the hype they made.

[BlindMonk]

Katamari Damacy. While it was certainly quirky and different, it failed to hold me for any length of time. I give them due credit for a good arcade style experience packaged in a whimsicle, if not utterly insane psuedo-Japanese package, but the core gameplay just didn't involve me in the same a Super Mario RPG or Call of Duty or even Tetris would.

[leecho7]

I would also have to add Guild Wars to that list.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the PVP parts of the game, but I was just... bored with the game in a matter of hours.

[DarkSynergy]

I will agree now that Halo 2 was over rated. Now I dont know if it's just because I loved the first one so much and had pretty lofty expectations but I will defend the first at all times.

With the 360 now, being able to play Halo 2 on XBOX live is incredable! I never got the chance on the first XBOX because I modded it and was unable to get online with it. Now I have rediscovered the beauty that is the world of Halo.

Nothing, that I can imagine, will replace all the nights my roommate and myself would spend playing co-op Halo. House partys with 3-4 TV full of users was amazing as well. We still get togeather and play Halo 2 but to me, it just isnt the same experience.


I am rather selective when buying games so I really haven't had a lemon in a long time. For all it's faults, I didn't exactly hate Doom 3 but on the same note, I certainly didn't love it. It paled so much against Half Life 2 and Far Cry. Both of which are classics in my book.

[BlindMonk]

lol, in the grand scheme of things FarCry and HL2 were just released. How can they be classic just a moment later? ;)

(btw, howdy DarkSynergy)

[DarkSynergy]

You probably wont find Far Cry in the Classic "Gold" "Platinum" hits section anytime soon but I wouldn't count HL2 out. They are however classic to me. I can play both through again because the storys were just that good.

Welcome Blind, so glad you could bring your sence of humor over to Techgage. :p
:techgage:

[anibalX]

And what about Need for speed most wanted? I'm still playing that game, is veery fun.. and gta san andreas is a very good game :)

[=CDU=Above]

BF2! The new patch fixed the bunny hopping issue but I just don't care for the game.
HL2 was a very cool single player..just couldn't get in to the multiplayer side of it. If they release a HL2 Team Fortress, I think I'll have to check it out. Played the original for years.

[BlindMonk]

B2 and HL2 ... overrated? How? I don't go along with the "I just don't care for it" approach. For instance, I can't really get into the quirky style and atmosphere of Katamari Damacy, though that doesn't deny its mass arcade appeal and accessible gameplay (the simplicity of which I must admire).

I always envisioned "overrated" as being something describing the likes of a Boondock Saints, which can be fun and enjoyable and laugh-out-loud funny but is nowhere near the pinnacle of cinema its ardent fans will swear by.

[=CDU=Above]

I just don't care for BF2. I run a ranked BF2 server as well as two Desert Combat servers with server side mods.
I think BF2 is flawed in many ways. I don't care for the fight dynamics of the aircraft. I think the ranking system was a bad idea and is easily subject to exploitation. The fact that the players are able to jump the height of their own head to escape attack.
Look, I just don't like it. Maybe it's only because I expected a game more like DC. There was much anticipation waiting for the release of BF2 and BF Vietnam and both games missed the boat....in my opinion. But I recognize that there is a good amount of players that like the game so we run a ranked server.
As I said, my hope is that a mod for BF2 will come along and it will be something that liked as much as the DC mod for BF1942. Until that happens.....I'll play DCFX. Oh we run a DCFX server too.

[andanton]

The most overrated game was Diablo 2. I was waiting 6 months for that game to be released, and when it was, I was extremely disappointed. I would not even classify that game as a RPG. It was an arcade shoot-em-up type game and was not even close to being a RPG.