Dota and LoL. I shamelessly judge anyone who regularly plays either of those games by choice. Way too many people seem to like them.
Candy Crush and the million remakes from the same publisher. Stole the core mechanic from Bejeweled but designed to be addictive instead of fun.
Also how are you so shameless that you’ll publish remakes of a game you stole in the first place?
I never understood why Breath of the Wild was so beloved. I played through it and Tears of the Kingdom, but I really wonder if they would have been as well received if they didn’t benefit from the Zelda franchise.
I found myself getting annoyed with the game more often than excited. I very quickly became annoyed encountering koroks, or shrines, or the stupid sign guy. I think the bevy of side quests and collectibles diluted too much of the narrative and enjoyment of the world.Zelda Ocarina of Time is probably a solid contender.
Played it on our 3DS and it just felt like a worse Twilight Princess.
– Frost
OoT benefits mostly from being first for a lot of people. Your opinion is fairly common for people who played more recent Zelda titles first then went backwards.
For most games, it depends on who you’re asking. I, for example, hate multiplayer looter-shooters, so the most overrated game to ME would be Fortnite. It literally hold no attraction for me and the thought of even playing it makes me shudder.
However, the universal answer is really any EA sports title.
It’s literally the same game every…damn…year…
Skyrim. It was at best “fine” for me. I really dislike level scaling. The combat felt unsatisfying. I don’t remember the story. It’s not weird like Morrowind. The magic and enchanting was over-simplified.
But for many people it’s their grand joy. So I guess that’s good for them.
Fallout 3 is the only game I’ve ever purchased new then sold after a few weeks of boredom.
has to be alien isolation. ai is ass, acts totally randomly, every room is the same, the environment doesnt make sense. i felt real pain playing it.
also control. whoever made those maplayouts and radar, they both should be shot on site right at the office.
AI was great until the gaming community does what it does best, dissect the everliving shit out of it. Once the game became known then all the charm was gone because the AI followed strict, easy to bypass rules.
EA sports/fifa.
I’ll play flappy bird over that any day.
For me it’s Mario 64.
I’m old enough to have tried it when it was new and my opinion back then was that the controls made it nearly unplayable. I tried it again a couple years ago and I still agree with my kid self.
I haven’t kept up since the Galaxies but to me SMB3 is the epitome
I’ll throw hands with anyone who doesn’t like SMB3
I just want, like, a bunch of new adventures using g the assets and rough blueprint of SMB3, Super Mario World, Super Matroid, and Link to the Past. I know there’s things out there people have done to the ROMs that are essentially this and I keep needing to go look for them and… not.
Skyrim. It’s a broken mess of a game that’s barely held together by duct tape and hope, and it would be treated as such if it wasn’t for the modding community. Most of the game is fetch quests, and the magic system is just bad. Melee combat sucks, too. All one handed weapons feel the same, all the two handed weapons feel the same. The only actually interesting path of progression is the stealth archer, and I’m pretty sure that’s an accident.
Probably the best sandbox ever made though, just a shit game.
I think Skyrim is the perfect answer to this question. It’s a good game. Everyone has played a billion files because while it’s good it’s entirely unfocused and mediocre so people don’t feel motivated to take their character to the end of the game
The fetch quests were particularly disappointing for me, given the history of Elder Scrolls games (cough cough Morrowind cough). I didn’t mind the combat system (being able to equip anything in either hand was an improvement over previous games), but much of it did feel the same.
Halo.
Look, I’m not saying it’s a bad game or you’re a bad person for liking it, but man, I have never been able to see the appeal. As someone who has played a lot of shooters (mostly PC) and read a lot of sci-fi, I find it exceptionally mid. And I’m not really fan of the militaristic reverence vibe it’s got going on like … bleh. Does it actually criticize this more as the series goes on or is it really just all oorah? I also kind of blame it for the trends of vehicle segments and only holding two weapons that leaked into other FPSes at the time (looking at you Bioshock Infinite - WTF), although I do admit that’s more of a petty, personal point. I respect that it pushed FPSes and online multiplayer forward on consoles, but when people tell me it’s their favorite game with one of the best storylines ever I’m like, “But have you played any other games?”
I used to work in a game store back when Halo 3 released and I was a much more fervent hater back then, I decided I was gonna play the original Marathon games so I could be a hipster snob and hate on them, too. Actually ended up really loving them, though they’re only loosely related, I think they had a lot more going on stylistically and story-wise even though the gameplay was more primitive.
I retry every few years, but never get very far. Maybe I should skip to 2 because one is so bland I get bored of it.
Halo CE is definitely a but dated now, but 2 is one of the best campaigns even still. I’m not sure it can be overrated though. 3\odst is some of the best multiplayer experience there was before the series was infected with CoD.
You need cursed halo. All of the silly without any of the serious is exactly how I like my vidya
Expedition 33.
It won practically every single award even tho didn’t really deserve it.
Not an indie game either.
Yeah I bought it on GOG based purely on the hype. Mistake. I played maybe 10h, got throught the introductory areas and started the main game. I just couldn’t. I am not sure why it gets so much praise.
Oh yeh that looked cool I was pretty pumped about that. Is it not so good after all?
Obviously tastes differ. I thoroughly enjoyed it and felt it deserved the praise.
- The setting is original.
- Turn based with Parry/Dodge isn’t original (super Mario RPG) but it’s pretty satisfying here
- The stat/build system is fairly original and gives a lot of depth
- I thought the story was a solid examination of grief
If you enjoy RPGs it’s very good. Great soundtrack, good story, and to me very fun combat loop. Most of my friends love it too. But some people seem to bounce off it. It won every award for a reason.
To me the game very much lived up to the hype and I’d highly recommend giving it a try
It was very pretty, and the soundtrack deserved the praise it received. Nothing too innovative about the gameplay though, and the story was good but typical for this genre.
That being said, I did enjoy it a lot. But that gameplay style is one of my favorites, so the visuals and music were just perks.
According to this thread overrated means either “games I didn’t like” or “games that didn’t work for me”.
Yes? I don’t understand this comment I don’t think. Isn’t that exactly what it means, the majority of people like this thing, and I don’t? Making it over rated? It’s not like there’s the “game rater” on earth like you might find a “name rater” in pokemon. Not like you can say “oh this guy objectively got this one wrong”.
No clue what name rater in pokemon is, but you do have OpenCritic, MetaCritic and the various awards some games get. I don’t think liking a game and thinking it’s overrated are mutually exclusive.
Okay. So what’s overrated to you then? You seem to have a different view than I do.
Is it AAA games that don’t deserve all the reviews and attention, so by definition, they’re overrated?
I’m genuinely curious too, maybe I should think of “over” or “under” rated, as more than just another way of saying “hot take” and expressing a generally contrarian opinion.
No, I don’t think it’s just AAA games that don’t deserve all the hype, I think indie games can be overrated too. To give an example of both categories:
For AAA, it has to be The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for me. And, I suppose, by extension Tears of the Kingdom. Good games, great characters and I really like the guardian enemy designs. Additionally, the game is a great showcase of what the hardware in the Nintendo Switch is capable of. The game is also highly rated on review sites and has received so many awards, wikipedia actually has to list them in a spreadsheet.
However, I genuinely think previous Zelda games are more fun. I think the vast, open world actually hurts the game, as it gradually becomes less about exploring and more about checking off tasks like finishing shrines and finding korok seeds. Previous Zelda games had smaller, more focused worlds and I think they were better for it. And even one would choose to ignore that, there’s the fact that weapons break every two seconds and you constantly have to replace them, which I feel most reviewers just glossed over. Combat is pretty frequent, after all, so it does get grating. In previous Zelda games you get the weapon and you keep it.
For indie, I have to point at Don’t Starve. And I want to focus on the original, not Don’t Starve Together, which has a slightly different approach. Very pretty, with great animations, involved game mechanics and great replayability. It is also well reviewed and was nominated for several awards (I think it only won one, but being nominated is impressive enough, I think).
I liked it well enough, but ultimately bounced off it. Reason being, I found the game kind of stingy with telling you how some of its mechanics work, so I played it with a wiki open in my browser. I also couldn’t bring myself to make additional playthroughs because of its glacial progression.
Sorry for the wall of text, but I hope this explains my position a little bit.
The Witcher 3
Clunky combat, simplistic gameplay (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but when everyone and their damn mother praises the game nonstop…), too long of a story.
I finished it, but had no real desire to keep going or try different choices or whatever. I played Hearts of Stone, but still kinda had to force myself to finish it, and I only got an hour into Blood and Wine before calling it quits entirely. There’s just too much.
