FF7 is a popular game and gets all of the credit it deserves and is not overrated. i would say any FF's are overrated. im not sure what the most overrated game is.
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FF7 is a popular game and gets all of the credit it deserves and is not overrated. i would say any FF's are overrated. im not sure what the most overrated game is.
I loved both halo's, don't know what you kids are talking about
Anyways, I think Black and white was overrated
Eh, I think B&W was overhyped, but once it hit and we got to play it, we got a reasonably accurate appraisal IMO.Quote:
Originally Posted by stuffing
black and white again :P lol that game sucked..
anyone who says fable was overrated needs a slap <_<
slap me please....it was interesting for an hour or two and looked good, good voice acting, but the gameplay fell short of my high expectations
I would have to agree that the Halo series is overrated.
The reason Halo is so popular is because of two things: the mammoth marketing machine that is Microsoft telling us how great it is, and it was the first FPS on a console that played well.
Halo was a good game, but that's it. I was just good. If you compare the game to all the FPS's that have ever been made, then it just doesn't stack up. Far Cry, HL, No One Lives Forever, Jedi Knight, Max Payne, Undying, to name a few, were easily as good as or better than Halo, in terms of both story and gameplay. Wanna throw multiplayer in the mix and UT completely blows Halo 2 out of the water. The only distinction that Halo has over all the titles I've listed is that is was a console only game. So all the gamers out there that didn't have any 'good' FPS's for their consoles got Halo and Halo 2 and assumed that it was the only FPS that is good and nothing else could compare to it.
And of course, I must address the repetative gameplay, particularly in Halo. And by repetative I mean by stacking floor upon floor upon floor that look identical. It looked like the developers said, 'Hey our game is too short, just cut and paste that section you did earlier and slap it on top, or next to or whatever you need to do to add a couple more hours.' In Halo, the Library was the worst offender of this type as well as 343 Guilty Spark. This type of design wasn't quite so bad in Halo 2 but it was still present in some of the later levels.
I also got a kick out of one of my friends when he was talking up all the features of Halo 2 and how innovative they were, for example the dual wielding of weapons. I thought to myself, that's nothing new, games as far back as Blood and Shadow Warrior let you use guns akimbo and Heavy Metal: FAKK2 let you hold two weapons and control them independantly.
Anyway, to summarize: Halo was good, Halo 2 was better. But neither game did anything that anyone else hadn't done before, unless you limit your view to consoles.
yeah it kinda sucks at the beginning.. but so do most final fantasy games lmao look at final fantasy 8 el oh el and the whole of final fantasy 9 xD i slay ff9 :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Araciel
fable is immense towards the end so much to do.. i found a brothel on my 2nd time through game.. dug up the deeds, 'smurfed' :P all the people there then made it into a refuge lol.. and the humour is amazing.. an excellently crafted game is fable
I hated fable, what a horrible game. Probably the worst story ever.
And, you know, getting one of the only 10/10 scores in Edge magazine's history. That might have helped. (For those not in the UK, a 10/10 in Edge is as prestigious as a 40/40 from Famitsu.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Duncan
Halo is betterQuote:
Halo was a good game, but that's it. I was just good. If you compare the game to all the FPS's that have ever been made, then it just doesn't stack up. Far Cry,
Halo is betterQuote:
HL,
That's not even in the runningQuote:
No One Lives Forever,
Halo's betterQuote:
Jedi Knight,
That's not even FPSQuote:
Max Payne,
Bwahahahahaha!Quote:
Undying,
Name a few more, because the only valid thing you said there is that Unreal Tourney has awesome multiplayer, which it does. But so does TimeSplitters, and nobody considers that as highly as Halo or HL. Why? Because multiplayer is pretty much ALL it has. Halo has a much better story than most games in general, to be honest.Quote:
to name a few, were easily as good as or better than Halo, in terms of both story and gameplay. Wanna throw multiplayer in the mix and UT completely blows Halo 2 out of the water. The only distinction that Halo has over all the titles I've listed is that is was a console only game. So all the gamers out there that didn't have any 'good' FPS's for their consoles got Halo and Halo 2 and assumed that it was the only FPS that is good and nothing else could compare to it.
Yeah that's called being an FPS. Oh, and I'll tell the Forerunners to vary their architecture in case someone hundreds of thousands of years later gets bored.Quote:
And of course, I must address the repetative gameplay, particularly in Halo. And by repetative I mean by stacking floor upon floor upon floor that look identical. It looked like the developers said, 'Hey our game is too short, just cut and paste that section you did earlier and slap it on top, or next to or whatever you need to do to add a couple more hours.' In Halo, the Library was the worst offender of this type as well as 343 Guilty Spark. This type of design wasn't quite so bad in Halo 2 but it was still present in some of the later levels.
Point conceded.Quote:
I also got a kick out of one of my friends when he was talking up all the features of Halo 2 and how innovative they were, for example the dual wielding of weapons. I thought to myself, that's nothing new, games as far back as Blood and Shadow Warrior let you use guns akimbo and Heavy Metal: FAKK2 let you hold two weapons and control them independantly.
Originality isn't necessarily the criteria for good. Good is the criteria, actually. Halo didn't do anything particularly new, it just did absolutely everything extremely smurfing well. It doesn't need a hundred different types of enemies and ten setting changes per level because it does what it does incredibly well. Same way Dynasty Warriors is incredibly repetetive, and incredibly fun. The pure gameplay is the best the genre has seen, and that's why Halo is so loved. That's why there were something like 50 people waiting outside GAME for the midnight release of Halo 2 where I live.Quote:
Anyway, to summarize: Halo was good, Halo 2 was better. But neither game did anything that anyone else hadn't done before, unless you limit your view to consoles.
And yes, maybe it gets bonus points for doing all that on a console. Why shouldn't that demographic applaud it?
is one of the best games money can buy -_- especially 2 unless you're a moron who bums halo in its ass :PQuote:
Originally Posted by I'm my own MILF
also half life beats halo down.. hard
although i agree with you about jedi knight xD
But the thing that people love about Halo 2 isn't the singleplayer which you seem to have focused on, it's the multiplayer, which is one of the most balanced, fair and FUN multiplayers out there (I haven't played UT so I can't compare...)Quote:
Originally Posted by Duncan
fable...ah well, i didn't enjoy it. it promised that your character would change with the choices you made. it did that. i was thinking it would be like KOTOR but with more choices. instead it was like morrowind with less choices, and so falls somewhere inbetween those two in terms of how much i liked it.
Halo 2 multiplayer is cheap. Whenever my friend lets me play on his name in a sniper game, there are just people aiming at spawn points. I didnt even get to play, I was dead the whole time. Take a hint, ad some friggin spawn protection. Plus the community sucks, everyone ive played with thinks that they are the best and are the team captain and make me their little guinea bitch. And if I die, its my fault we lost and such. Thats why the multiplayer blows.
I agree with that. I found the game too easy and dissapointing. The praise it was given made it seem like it would be the game of the century. I thought the options would be plentiful, but I found myself becoming bored.Quote:
Originally Posted by Araciel
Rent the game and practice alone. You get better and better. DuhQuote:
Originally Posted by JaytodaP