Over-rated games?

[Iceglow]

For a lot of people, Halo was the literal definition of "next-gen". The Pillar of Autumn was the best opening level to any game I'd ever played (Probably still is). The FPS genre doesn't have a huge amount you can really do with it - it's all gonna be the same old . You run, you shoot stuff. 90% of any extra stuff is gimmicky crap that won't matter if the game itself isn't solid. But Halo did the same old in a retardedly expert manner, and at the time what it did was so shiny that it was doing new things - it was an FPS on an epic scale. Some popular games are overrated, certainly. And some games really are as good as everyone says. The original Halo is one of these.

Throw me in the "Halo is overrated" camp please. Funny you should mention the opening level; frankly it bored the crap out of me like the rest of the game. Nothing Halo did was done exceptionally well. The core gameplay (and by this I mean the controls and weapons) were done reasonably well for a console FPS, but I found the level design, particularly later in the game, horribly boring and repetitive. Throw in AI that wasn't half as amazing as many people liked to claim it was (enemies really had no clue what to do if you were fighting them at close range most of the time), and vehicle and weapon designs that weren't particularly original, or interesting, and you have a mediocre FPS at best. For a console FPS, it's pretty decent, but overall, it doesn't even come close to the likes of Half-Life 2.

And so everyone knows, I have played through the vast majority of the game, and played multiplayer extensively with friends of mine, so my opinion is based on my own experience with the game.

In my opinion Milf is right you are wrong. Halo was exceptionally well executed the fact that it comes along a good few years before Half-life 2 proves another thing, Milf was right when he said any half decent fps since halo has borrowed heavily from it, Half-life 2 borrowed from Halo, then again it admitted the borrowing most designers would be a fool not to say "hey we saw that this game is loved so we tried looking at what makes it loved and work something out for our game to hopefully give it the same desirability." As for AI in halo, did you even try Legendary? it was insanely difficult. I loved the challenge of it and the AI was pretty intelligent for the time, how many times did you get a new fps out the box and see enemy troops run blindly in to the grenade you threw not caring that in ohhh...*booom* seconds the grenade will explode killing them prior to Halo? Quite a lot of it actually. Halo also made it fun to play FPS games it wasn't like the awful rendition of quake 3 on PS2 where you just fought bots in the levels. It was beautiful I still play Halo 1 and Halo 2 and will definitely buy a 360 for 3 even if it's the only game I want for it.

Personally I am going to agree with Milf again on Half life series being overrated. I found it dull mind destroyingly dull. I loved Counterstrike when I used to play it but even that got taken over by people who saw it for more than just a bit of fun. I tried to complete Half-life 1 and failed completely not 'cause I couldn't do it, that wasn't the problem it was because I couldn't find the will to beat it I was so bored.

Another genre of overrated games in my eyes is wrestling games, they're games based around fat greasy men in speedos grappling with each other in what can only be described as an all too homo erotic way. Each one is repeated every year with the same dumb moves in it in the same dumb button sequence the only difference is the speedos change by a half tone of colour. The story lines suck and just why? Ok so maybe I dislike wrestling and football and could sit here bashing away at them both for hours if not days on end but still. It doesn't need to have a new wrestling game out every year and the fact that there is more than one each year is simply blatant money grabbing, they know people are dumb enough to buy it even if there is no changes from the last one they'll buy it because the box changed colour.