Over-rated games?

[Old Manus]

Shadow of the Colossus, unless I completely missed the point.

*waits for the flames*

[UltimaMasamune]

I really don't give a goat's ass about how popular a game is , as long as I like it than I am happy

Shadow of the Colossus, unless I completely missed the point.

*waits for the flames*

flames j00

[Shoeberto]

I think MGS is overrated...its good yeah, infact VERY good but no where near the greatest PS1 game ever like the mags make out...

I think I can agree with that, yeah.

[UltimaMasamune]

I think MGS is overrated...its good yeah, infact VERY good but no where near the greatest PS1 game ever like the mags make out...

while do agree that MGS1 is not the greatest PS1 game ever (there isn't one due to the big variety of kickass games), the MGS series is very good and deserve the praise it gets

[Slicksword45]

Gears of war. To repetive and crap teammate AI

Though the chainsaw was cool, it got boreing after so long.

[aquatius]

Grand Theft Auto.

[Araciel]

E.T. for atari

even though everyone says it sucks...that's still way too much praise

[No.78]

Rename this thread "Popular games you don't like" lol, that seems to be what's going on here XD

btw Tekken is totally underrated

[Nifleheim7]

Grand Theft Auto.

[Wolf Kanno]

Though I would generally jump on the FFVII band wagon on this one, I feel I need to point out the other overrated FF game. (Holmes beat me to it though ) and it would be FFX.

I can't understand why people love this game. It's an interactive movie with linear dungeons that are there for the sole reason for getting you from Cutscene A to Cutscene B. Half it's cast is just poorly written while the other half is just unlikable, and it's story is riddled with pointless plot devices that do nothing more than convulate the plot while adding nothing to it as a whole. I still believe that FFX is Squenix's tech demo for the PS2. It was only made to show what the PS2 was capable of, not to actually create a good game or story.

Also, Youjirou. About a Link to the Past. Yes, you did need to have played it back in the day to truly appreciate it. But your whole post pretty much describes the experience of playing any of the Zelda games. I had a similiar experience recently when I finally got to play Ocarina of Time (Nintendo, why do you insist on making Zelda a platformer when you're not going to give Link a Jump button?), I can see why people love it so much but it has aged badly.

[XxSephirothxX]

Final Fantasy VIII (though this is so hotly contested, I don't know how highly rated it is. The people who love it love it way too much, but the people who hate it are vehement as well.)

Metal Gear Solid. I really tried to like the series, and I want to give it more of a shot, because from what I played of The Twin Snakes I really enjoyed the story, Snake, etc. But the gameplay is just blech. I've never been one for stealth games, really.

I thought Halo was overrated until I actually played it a lot. I used to be so anti-Xbox, just like every other Nintendo fanboy. But once I'd really played the game...yeah, that was gone.

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

Shadow of the Colossus, unless I completely missed the point.

*waits for the flames*

I still wondering how to beat the first Colossus, though the game itself seems interesting...

FF VII, while I find it is a good game and all it is not as amazing as everyone puts it up to be.

[Lawr]

Shadow of the Colossus, unless I completely missed the point.

*waits for the flames*

*Flames*

[I still wondering how to beat the first Colossus, though the game itself seems interesting...

FF VII, while I find it is a good game and all it is not as amazing as everyone puts it up to be.

Shadow of the Colossus is pretty 'gosh dawrn' easy and really fun to me.

But if I start talking about FF8 I'll probably explode.
*Waits for Flying Mullet*

[UltimaMasamune]

Metal Gear Solid. I really tried to like the series, and I want to give it more of a shot, because from what I played of The Twin Snakes I really enjoyed the story, Snake, etc. But the gameplay is just blech. I've never been one for stealth games, really.

play MGS3 the gameplay is twice as good

[Vincent, Thunder God]

I actually think Halo is very underrated. For every one person who likes it there are at least two who think it's crap only because it started out on a console made by Microsoft.

No, it is. Every Xbox fan several years ago craved for a game to get there console attention. Halo was probably the first good game to come along to help them. Ever since then, they think this very by the books FPS is the greatest gaming franchise ever created. There is still a large minority who dont own any Microsoft system, who will just bash whatever comes from the console, without even playing it. Both sides are in the wrong.

This is coming from a 360 owner who thinks the system is great. Halo is a good series. But theres so much more better things coming from the system.

I agree with this completely. It's a solid series, but as Dreddz says, it doesn't deserve all the attention, postive or negative.