Overrated and Underrated Games

[Guitar Woman]

What, iyo, are the most overrated and underrated games ever?

Mine are:
(overrated)
1. FF7
2. Earthbound
3. Halo 2
4. Megaman 1
5. Donkey Kong Country >:

(underrated)
1. Pokemon (Say what you will, but this is a fun RPG. The show made everyone hate it.)
2. Zelda 2 (I love this game and always will. Everyone says it sucks because it's hard. :P)

[Slothy]

I'll just state my most underrated as I tend to be very vocal about the games I find most overrated, and frankly don't feel like arguing over half of them.

Underrated:
1.Ico

And that's honestly the only one coming to mind right now. I'll be back with more if I can think of any.

[Chris]

Most Overrated (Not bad, just overrated):

#1 - Final Fantasy VII

Most Underrated:

#2 - Beyond Good and Evil

[Vyk]

I don't agree that Pokemon is underrated. They usually get good reviews despite how similar to their predicessors they are. Zelda 2 I don't think anyone thinks is a bad game. It just wasn't Zelda 1 enough. Never heard anyone complaining about how hard it is though. But I digress. Ico is a very good choice, but it's always put up on a pedastal. Much like Beyond Good and Evil. Those in the know, know they're good. I'll have to say Xenogears. Even though it says Square on it, I'm surprised more people don't know this beauty. In my opinion its well beyond the XenoSaga games, and even ranks up there with my favorite Final Fantasies. As for over rated... of the games I've played I honestly think FF7 deserves half its praise. Hm... Zelda The Wind Waker. I hated this game... Too quiet and... boring. I guess I was expecting something wonderful like Ocarina of Time (the only Zelda game I've bothered to finish). I hope the next one makes up for it.

[Guitar Woman]

Man, now I wanna play Xenogears. But I'm broke and I can't buy it. ;_;

And I meant the ORIGINAL Pokemon. With only Red and Blue versions. Not all this new crap.

[Chris]

You don't wanna buy "Beyond Good and Evil?"

[Guitar Woman]

I probably would if I knew anything at all about it.

But alas, I used my $20 Barnes and Noble gift card to get FF9.

Hey, did you guys know that BN sells games now? 'Cuz they do.

[Chris]

But alas, I used my $20 Barnes and Noble gift card to get FF9.

Don't make it sound so sad! FFIX is a great game.

[Guitar Woman]

Yeah, but I wish I had been given the thought of Xenogears before I ordered it. That way I wouldn't have any regrets about not waiting.


And Beyond Good and Evil looks OK, but it probably won't work on my computer. ;_;

[Craig]

I'd say that when Pokemon was really popular, the games were quite overrated.

[Guitar Woman]

When Pokemon was cool, I never saw anyone playing it on their Gameboy. All I saw was people playing the card game and trading cards and being general fags for Pikachu.

[Zeldy]

Its like Harry Potter games, i wasted my money and bought chamber of secerets.. I completed it in the same day

Underated
Zelda Oracle Of Seasons/Ages

Overated
Grand Theft Auto

[Polnareff]

Underated
Zelda Oracle Of Seasons/Ages

Amen to that, Nintendo and Capcom were on the ball with those two Zelda games.

Underrated:

Tech Romancer (great mech fighting game)
Cyberbots (a great 2d mech fighting game)
Armored Warriors (fun 2d beat-em-up with...mechs.... that appeared in Cyberbots a year later)
Egg Mania (fun puzzle game with many modes)
Super Double Dragon (great SNES beat-em-up)
Fatal Fury Real Bout (best Fatal Fury game yet, forget Garou MOTW ;D)

Overrated:

Uh... too many to count, sadly, xD

[SomethingBig]

Mine are:
(overrated)
1. FF7
2. Earthbound

Underrated
1. Pokemon

Okay, WTF. My brain is being torn out with trillions of knives.

Overrated:
1- MGS 3
2- Both Halos
3- GTA San Andreas
4- FFX

Underrated:
1- Wind Waker
2- Katamari Damacy
3- FFVIII
4- Majora's Mask

[Lindy]

Actually, Katamari Damacy is very highly rated by pretty much the whole internet and anyone who has ever played it, the sequel proves how successful it was, so I don't see where you're getting the "underrated" concept from.

Same with Ico, massively rated by teh intarweb, and thus we have Wanda and the Colossus or whatever it's called.

FFVIII is very underrated though >=(