Overrated Games

Polar Spectrum said:
And jumpscares. Because lemme tell ya - about the 50th time REEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAA happened, it was more obnoxious than scary. And the minigames in FNAF 2 that end the same way - are disappointing. He coulda done something with that man :c The mini games could've been something else, something more creepy than just having ANOTHER jumpscare at the end. I will say the one where your camera is inside the suit, and the jack in the box thing just floats in front of your eyes no matter where you look is pretty eerie - but... If I remember correctly now, it still ends in somehow -a jumpscare.
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See, here's the thing, though. The jumpscares aren't apart of the horror. They're merely punishment. The true horror of FNAF comes from the atmosphere and the animatronics. I don't feel I need to go into detail about why exactly those two things produce the game's horror, but the jumpscares are merely a means to climax whatever suspense may be there.

I did mention earlier that as a horror game, FNAF2 isn't as good as FNAF. The picture you posted illustrates this pretty well. You have to do too many things, be aware of so many things, and it's far more spastic. You're not given much time to appreciate the atmosphere. Heck, one could make the case that FNAF2 is more of an Action Game than it is a Horror game (seriously, I play Osu! less intensely than you have to playing the later nights of this). This is a problem, as the old animatronics are truly terrifying (especially Bonnie) and all things considered, FNAF2 should be the scariest of the two games (and at the beginning, it is), but because the things that really made the first ones scary are kind of take a back seat.

But I really due think the first game is justifiably praised. The jumpscares aren't cheap, there's an added suspense due to the atmosphere (that, in this game, you're actually given the time to breathe and "explore") and a hidden story in the background (that integrates gloriously into the sequel). Then again, that's just me, but I do feel that a game that can get people thinking even after they've left the game while giving them enough to speculate with evidence and really get ingrained in what they're already done with (in much the same way Zero Escape does) is doing a good job.

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Having said all of that, I see where you're coming from and I don't disagree with you all that much. I actually find it respectable that you went out of your way to research the topic and came back with a revised opinion. God, this thread is weird.
 
We're calling popular, critically-acclaimed games "overrated"? Especially Ocarina of Time?

Hey, 2008 called, it wants this thread back.
 
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I could probably get shanked on the street for this, but I think the Super Smash Bros. series is sooo painfully boring. It's fun for a few games but it gets so old so fast and I really don't understand what makes the hype for the series go through the roof.

Uncharted is another series that surprised me with its popularity, too.
 
Wilhelm said:
I did forget to mention Majora's Mask. That one does interest me a lot actually. And I heard all bad things about Skyward Sword lol. Anyway this thread is supposed to be about voicing your opinion freely, yes? There's more to why I don't like it, I just can't quantify the rest into words. Like I said, the games just aren't for me.
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Oh I know, I just disagree with the reasons you gave, is all.
Mochi said:
I could probably get shanked on the street for this, but I think the Super Smash Bros. series is sooo painfully boring. It's fun for a few games but it gets so old so fast and I really don't understand what makes the hype for the series go through the roof.
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It's a series that can be a chaotic and fun party game or a deep and technical fighting game depending on what you want. You can see why so many people like it when it's a game that gives so many options for the player to play how they want.

and personally I love a good smash match
 
I think Call of Duty is over rated. Same thing every game, a new game almost every year, why is this still so popular? Too over hyped, it's just a shooting game.

I don't know if I can call the Zelda series overrated because it's obvious that it's been popular for SO many years, and part of the reason Nintendo has even became so popular. It has it's own flair that people have grown to love. But personally, it's not my kind of game. Tried getting into it and just couldn't even finish some of the games. Perhaps I have to play the newer ones, I've only played OoT and a link to the past.
 
Lunarose said:
I think Call of Duty is over rated. Same thing every game, a new game almost every year, why is this still so popular? Too over hyped, it's just a shooting game.

I don't know if I can call the Zelda series overrated because it's obvious that it's been popular for SO many years, and part of the reason Nintendo has even became so popular. It has it's own flair that people have grown to love. But personally, it's not my kind of game. Tried getting into it and just couldn't even finish some of the games. Perhaps I have to play the newer ones, I've only played OoT and a link to the past.
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You just described Pokemon as well. Just change a few words around.

"I think Pokemon is over rated. Same thing every game [rival, 8 badges, evil team, elite four and champion], a new game almost every year, why is this still so popular? Too over hyped, it's just a role playing game."
 
Alfieri said:
You just described Pokemon as well. Just change a few words around.

"I think Pokemon is over rated. Same thing every game [rival, 8 badges, evil team, elite four and champion], a new game almost every year, why is this still so popular? Too over hyped, it's just a role playing game."
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But if that's the case then why be a part of a Pokemon community? lol

I'm not a fan of shooting games in general. My brother owned almost all of them and they just seemed like the same thing each game. Even when I was playing it, it was just meh.

At least Pokemon has been adding new features to each game. Don't forget the spin-offs.
 
Lunarose said:
But if that's the case then why be a part of a Pokemon community? lol

I'm not a fan of shooting games in general. My brother owned almost all of them and they just seemed like the same thing each game. Even when I was playing it, it was just meh.

At least Pokemon has been adding new features to each game. Don't forget the spin-offs.
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Well it wasn't my opinion. I was just showing you that your opinion could have been turned around to describe another franchise or genre.

I'm not a fan of shooting games myself but being repetitive shouldn't be seen as a flaw when many game series are guilty of rehashing the same game with a few new features.
 
Lunarose said:
At least Pokemon has been adding new features to each game. Don't forget the spin-offs.
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It's not much different, really. I'm not a Call of Duty fan, but I can say that the two are definitely similar cases. Especially in the last several years, where Pokemon games have been coming out every year or two. Sure, they add some things between generations, but prior to Gen VI (and after Gen II or arguably III), but ultimately if you compare the two, what's added in between is quite similar between the titles.
 
Really, why call anything "overrated"? 9 times out of 10, it's not, and it's just you being a dipshit hipster.

I hate the word "overrated" so much, by the way. I remember back in 2008 and 2009, every Youtube ranter, blogger, forum poster, troll, and their grandmother throwing around the word to express some sort of ill-placed and ill-justified disdain for...pretty much everything under the sun, but especially if that something was popular and/or critically-acclaimed.

I've seen it way too much. The very sight of that word induces burning fury in me. I've seen enough of it years ago and if I could go the rest of my life without ever seeing it written or someone speaking it again, I will die a happy man.
 
Alfieri said:
Well it wasn't my opinion. I was just showing you that your opinion could have been turned around to describe another franchise or genre.

I'm not a fan of shooting games myself but being repetitive shouldn't be seen as a flaw when many game series are guilty of rehashing the same game with a few new features.
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I think repetitiveness can be a flaw in a lot of cases. If a series is doing the same thing every game, it's just gonna cause a loss of interest if there isn't any progression within it.

Some series' like Smash for example have progressed for the casual audience. They still keep the essence of their original game though, fight until you're the last one standing or have the most points, or whatever. It can be considered repetitive to some, but there's still a lot of modes you can choose from and many ways to play it. One thing I'll miss is story mode.

machomuu said:
It's not much different, really. I'm not a Call of Duty fan, but I can say that the two are definitely similar cases. Especially in the last several years, where Pokemon games have been coming out every year or two. Sure, they add some things between generations, but prior to Gen VI (and after Gen II or arguably III), but ultimately if you compare the two, what's added in between is quite similar between the titles.
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They've generally kept their original 'recipe' since gen 1, but it can't be denied that they have definitely progressed their features, especially for the competitive/veteran audience.
 
Lunarose said:
They've generally kept their original 'recipe' since gen 1, but it can't be denied that they have definitely progressed their features, especially for the competitive/veteran audience.
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They've sharpened them, sure, but there's a difference between sharpening existing features and adding completely new ones that sets the sequel apart from the game before it. In that sense, it's pretty similar to CoD, where their "evolution" rates are pretty similar.

I mean, Smash Bros has become more competitive as well, but those are tweaks (though, in the case of Smash Bros they certainly have a larger impact on the gameplay and can be considered changes and additions). Difference is, Smash Bros isn't annual, and each entry is vastly different than the last. That's because they change a vast majority of the game as well, besides simply the gameplay mechanics. If those battle tweaks in Pokemon were the most important thing, fans might as well just play Pokemon online and battle there. They're not, of course, and competitive Pokemon battlers are the minority of Pokemon gamers (which is important to note, because unlike Smash Bros where each change will affect every player, regardless of whether they play competitively or not, in Pokemon, meta changes will mostly only be felt by those who play competitively).
 
Persona 3 Portable was a pretty damn unpleasant experience. It started off really strong and intriguing, and the sharp contrast between school life and dungeon crawling complemented the setting of the game, but everything just dragged...and dragged...and dragged. I'd probably get more enjoyment out of it if I actually cared about the social links or story, but it felt like the game would rather push its awful dungeon crawling and incredibly dull combat system.

I also couldn't find myself caring for Mass Effect 2 either. I never cared for binary morality systems, the writing itself was questionable, the characters (sans Garrus) never interested me, and the combat was a dull cover based shooter with the most basic RPG elements. Despite being a WRPG, barely any of the choices you made felt significant or well thought out, and the whole experience felt extremely linear, although it had none of the advantages a more linear experience would bring.

CarcharOdin said:
Really, why call anything "overrated"? 9 times out of 10, it's not, and it's just you being a dipshit hipster.

I hate the word "overrated" so much, by the way. I remember back in 2008 and 2009, every Youtube ranter, blogger, forum poster, troll, and their grandmother throwing around the word to express some sort of ill-placed and ill-justified disdain for...pretty much everything under the sun, but especially if that something was popular and/or critically-acclaimed.
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Why not call a work overrated? There's nothing wrong with criticizing an acclaimed or respected work, especially if it's in a field where the majority of critic reviews feel like advertisements instead of critical analysis. There's nothing wrong with healthy, critical discussion, and trying to shoot down any opinions that differ from the norm as the words of a dipshit hipster doesn't do any good for anyone.
 
I feel like after I stop playing a very popular multiplayer game, I often feel that they are overrated once I leave the community and see it from another perspective.

TF2:
I recently stopped playing this game (recently as in 6 months ago) and I've started to not like it as much. It's a mix of both the community and Valve's support for the game. What started out as an extremely balanced fps, that had a lot of potential for being an amazing eSport, evolved into a casual "fps" that in most situations did not rely on player skill, rather random events and unbalanced weapons. Valve showing no support for a competitive side of the game lead to the community for anything beyond public play small and underfunded. I have played many lobbies and was involved in a team, but the very small (and unforgiving) competitive side less developed and well, fun than with other eSports.

Minecraft:
I also used to play this game a lot. I stopped about 2 years ago, and now I hate it so much. Minecraft is honestly one of my least favorite games. What started out as a poorly optimized, badly coded boring survival game exploded into an extremely popular game. I hate it mostly because of it's terribad community and Mojang. Considering its Mojang's only game, you think they would actually update it more than twice a year. Also, the community floods my recommendations box on youtube with "Minecraft BUTTER Mod" and "If wood was RARE - Minecraft". I can't believe I played it for like a year, considering how mundane and unfinished the survival mode is, which people give endless praise.

Sorry if it got kinda ranty towards the end, I tend to write essays for posts.
 
For me it was the Fallout series in general.


Sure, the exploration bit was nice but that lasted 5 minutes before it got so boring that I'd sooner get a cat to start clawing my back so I wouldn't fall asleep while playing this glitch infested mess.
 
Idk why people are defending games or denouncing the act of calling a game overrated; all of this is opinion and it's your opinion that such opinions are pointless or stupid. Sensitive people should try to avoid topics that they know will upset them.

Anywho

Pokemon G/S/C: I never really saw the huge and overwhelming appeal to these games. The massive amounts of nostalgia and etc. Maybe for people who played gen 2 first, but still. Gen 1 gets the nostalgia points and Hoenn gets the nostalgia points + revamp points. Gen 2 just feels like a typical sequel/

Ocarina of Time: plenty of people have already explained this. There was just no story, a bland and empty world, bland characters (besides Saria, I <3 <3 <3 Saria) and typical 3D gameplay. I. Don't. Care. that it was the first 3D game.

Any first person shooters: I'd rather just play darts.

SEGA: I'm still a Nintendo fanboy. Blast-processing was bullshit.
 
I never understood the massive following for the Halo franchise. I enjoyed the first game for sure, but everything after just got worse and worse for me, until knockoffs were just being created to beat the dead horse.

Recently, I have been feeling like this a lot. Games that I pick up that have been hyped by everyone just fall short of my expectations. If games are given +90% ratings, constantly hyped, in my face and have everyone ranting and raving about it, I expect the game to be out of this world. Yes, not everyones opinion is the same so one person saying +90%, another can say 70%, but I am not so uniform in my thinking and playing that if I dislike a game, doesn't mean I can't appreciate the storyline/graphics/audio/atmosphere and so on.

Maybe I'm just hard to please recently.

*Shrug*​
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I've got a bone or two to pick with Naughty Dog. Uncharted 3 & The Last Of Us. I don't get the 'hype.' I've played Uncharted 3 and while I do admit that it is a very pretty game and has some great voice acting...Everything else was a bit meh to me. I wasn't convinced it was worth a '10,' certainly something in the 9's, but not a perfect score. This may be because the third game is the only one I've played in the series, but as a newcomer, I didn't buy in the whole 'Indiana Jones-Playstation style' thing they were going for.

And then there's The Last Of Us. Yay...another dystopian game with the same befuddled plots as countless other post-apocalyptic movies all fused together. Honestly, the whole thing just screams the Walking Dead to me. Why all the praise when its simply another game in a over-saturated genre?

If anyone wants to contradict me, feel free to. But I've said my piece so I should probably leave before I rant about other overhyped games that didn't wow me either. Haha.
 
Metal Man said:
Ocarina of Time: plenty of people have already explained this. There was just no story, a bland and empty world, bland characters (besides Saria, I <3 <3 <3 Saria) and typical 3D gameplay. I. Don't. Care. that it was the first 3D game.
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Oh, do I love using that clip.
 
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