OverRated Games?

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Hey just wondering what game you guys think is overrated?


Personally I think *prepares to get flamed* OoT is a bit overrated. I think it's an excellent game, but I don't think that it's the all time greatest like everyone says it is...I mean the story was amazing, gameplay was fun, there was tons to do in the game, but I feel like there are better games out there, I actually enjoyed MM more xD

...so what are your guys personal opinions about games you think are overrated?
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Personally I think *prepares to get flamed* OoT is a bit overrated. I think it's an excellent game, but I don't think that it's the all time greatest like everyone says it is...I mean the story was amazing, gameplay was fun, there was tons to do in the game, but I feel like there are better games out there, I actually enjoyed MM more xD
I agree totally. I mean, OoT *is* terrific, but I can name a number of Zelda titles that I find better - and MM would be one of them.

Okami was a good. A solid outing. But it did not blow me away in any way.

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I personally feel that Final Fantasy 7 is VERY overrated.
People often refer to it as the best game in the series,
and while it's a good game with a very good story,
it's nowhere near to being the best in the series.
I still personally think that Final Fantasies 13, 10, 8, 4 and 6 are way better than 7.

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I never use the word overrated. If you say that a game is overrated then you are basically saying that your opinion is worth more than the opinions of all the people who rate that game highly. I think that no game is overrated. These are just popular games which you happen to not like.

I do not like Donkey Kong Country for instance I find it very boring.

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Ok some of these games I love but they are in fact overratted...

-Super Mario Galaxy 2 such a amazing game but that's why its overratted
-Brawl is very overrated without a doubt. Can't blame it the game is very fun
-Oot I agree the game is great and even I stands at my fav zelda game but it indeed is overrated
-Call of Duty don't know if I can actually say overrated everywhere but here its very overrated and Modern Warfare 2 was overhyped. My local Gamestop sold over 200 copies on the first day of release.
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I would say Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 is overhyped to me, everyone says it is awesome, I find it... Well... I dunno.

I will agree with OoT. Despite loving it so much, I do find other Zelda games better (MM for example, to me, just feels more... Well, harder and well done with the time thing).


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Call of Duty. I don't see why it's so popular (but then again, I'm not much of a fan of shooter games). Guess it's the multiplayer. And Halo. Good Lord. I like Halo, but people are so weird about it. Just like...stop geeking out about it. It's not the greatest shooter evar. And Halo 3 was overhyped. After it came out, I don't remember hearing a word about it.

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I never use the word overrated. If you say that a game is overrated then you are basically saying that your opinion is worth more than the opinions of all the people who rate that game highly. I think that no game is overrated. These are just popular games which you happen to not like.

I do not like Donkey Kong Country for instance I find it very boring.
That's not true, you can like, hell love a popular game and still think it's overrated (In my case OoT). And I'm not saying my opinion is worth more than others, I just like to here what games people think are overrated xD
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I do not like Donkey Kong Country for instance I find it very boring.
I agree. I just played the game it was very boring.

Maybe back in the day people just freaked out about the graphics. But today its nothing special.

Donkey Kong Land however is a truly terrific platformer.
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I would say my number one choice, but the last time I did I got trolled by an admin. ⊂(゚ヮ゚)⊃

I think...

Sonic Adventure 2. As the game that truly split the fans who like the good games of the Sonic series and the ones that like the horrible games and the crap ton of characters, even then, the game is underwhelming. I just wanted to play as Sonic (and I guess Shadow, not that I like him) but I had to wait up to an hour at a time for the cut scenes and the dull, mindless Tails and Eggman stages and the dull, confusing Knuckles and Rouge stages before I could finally get to the high speed action I GOT THE GAME FOR. Although Sonic Adventure had the Knuckles and GODAMN Big stages and the Tails and Amy stages were dumbed down Sonic stages, at least I could rent the game, beat Sonic's levels and be done with it. Sonic Heroes and even 06 got this right and Unleashed made the fatal mistake of the Were-hog stages. So, yeah. Not too fond of it.

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Okay.

1 - Kingdom Hearts: It's my all time favorite game. ALL TIME. I do admit its overrated. But by fan girls tho. But it still doesnt make me hate the game, Its my favorite game and always will be.

2 - Final Fantasy VII: It's a pretty much the most overrated game I have seen in a long while, all the squeals, Prequels, and side games they have, and I do admit its has a good story. and it is my favorite FF game of all time.

3 - Mario games: I like certain Mario games. But to be honest it's pretty much the same story, Princess Peach gets kidnapped by a large Koopa, named Bowser, and Mario goes save her butt, the end :D. But they are addicting tho.

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I never use the word overrated. If you say that a game is overrated then you are basically saying that your opinion is worth more than the opinions of all the people who rate that game highly. I think that no game is overrated. These are just popular games which you happen to not like.

I do not like Donkey Kong Country for instance I find it very boring.
Yeah, I pretty much have to agree with you on the over-rating part of your post. One may not like a game as much as the majority of the community, but that doesn't mean the game is "overrated". It just means that you don't find it to be as good as a game for whatever reason. I kind of wish people wouldn't use that term so loosely.

To get on topic, I didn't find Final Fantasy IV to be as good as people say it is. The difficult was pretty rough (well, too tough for me. Where's my easy mode? :(), the combat wasn't really that great in my opinion, and the story wasn't really any better than that of games like Fire Emblem. Of course, I didn't quite get all the way through it. I gave up on the Dark Elf encounter. I guess it just wasn't my sort of game.

Edit: How do you find Sonic Adventure 2 to be overrated, by the way? Really, it didn't score that well, did it? I personally enjoyed it, although I can see how people could hate it. I just don't really care about the Sonic platforming enough to be mad when it's only in 1/3rd of the game, I guess.


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there is a lot of older games here being called overrated. i know now they obviously aren't as enjoyable as some of the newer more advanced games but you have to remember when some of these games came out hey were the best in their genres and certainly their consoles. i remember playing ocarina of time and being thoroughly entertained but now it doesn't compare to say some of the mmo's i play or grand theft auto. not to prod anyone but i think we should just stick to new games, such as the new halo reach, halo in general i think is way overrated. the campaign is interesting but online is repetitive and buggy and online is suppose to be the main attraction of halo.

also can we hold all the abbreviations, i have no idea what some of these abbrevations stand for
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Sonic Adventure 2 overrated I'm a fan and I really don't think it is overrated at all. To some fans yes they consider it the best of the 3D sonic games but still. The originals are far more overrated then Adventure 2 if you get technical about it.

Anyway adding on
-Final Fantasy series. I love the series especially the originals but you can't say they arnt overrated
-Mario series as a whole, must I really explain this xD
-NFL/NBA *insert year hear* games, around here anyway. That's all I hear people talk about is how good they are one it. Is it really as a competitive games as say Brawl, or COD really.

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For me and especially in my country - CoD MW2, Halo, Battlefield Bad Company 2, WoW, Counter Strike 1.6 and definitely Tibia. Those last two are games, which people in my country are addicted to. They do really weird things to be the best in those games...