Over-rated games?

[Fatal Impurity]

FF10 is HUGELY overrated...the sphere grid is a nightmare, the characters have little back story or histories to them, the main playable character is a whining bitch and the game concentrates way too heavily on the love story between yuna and tidus.

I agree that it focuses too much on Tidus/Yuna, but seriously. Wakka, Lulu, Kimahri, and the entire Al Bhed all have totally awesome stories. And the story itself has like the second best "Oh snaps" I can remember seeing in a game (The best being in Star Ocean 3).

I dont think so there isnt very much backstory to nay of these characters which is a direct side effect of the story mainly concentrating on Tidus and Yuna.

Afterall Lulu = grumpy guardian who lost her first summomer. Used to love a crusader and now loves his brother.

Wakka = Used to have a crusader brother but brother died because of sin and now he loves his brothers girlfriend.

Kimahri = Has 2 ronso's on his back who used to be his friends one of which broke off his horn. Met a dying Auron at bottom of Mt Gagazet and was told to protect Yuna.

As for the Al Bhed well all they have for a story is that thier original home got destroyed by Yevon and now they scavenge technology for thier city in the Bikanel desert which they call "Home"

You call this GREAT character development...i think you are mistaken.

[escobert]

Final Fantasy X, I hates everything about this game. Mario. Anything mario besides mario kart. Metal Gear. I just can't get into the MG games. Same with the metroid games.

X was ok but it was ruined by Tidus! Super Mario is one of the classic games that you cant slag off a lot like sonic or final fantasy and Metal Gear Solid is one of the best games ever!

I agree Tidus overall ruined it for me. I may not have disliked it so much if it were a different main character. I just dunno... I hate mario. I think all the games are crap. I just don't like them and think they suck. That's my opinion. I know most people don't agree with me. Not that most people ever do agree with me same with the other games. I just couldn't get into them at all.

[Roto13]

FF10 is HUGELY overrated...the sphere grid is a nightmare, the characters have little back story or histories to them, the main playable character is a whining bitch and the game concentrates way too heavily on the love story between yuna and tidus.

I agree that it focuses too much on Tidus/Yuna, but seriously. Wakka, Lulu, Kimahri, and the entire Al Bhed all have totally awesome stories. And the story itself has like the second best "Oh snaps" I can remember seeing in a game (The best being in Star Ocean 3).

I dont think so there isnt very much backstory to nay of these characters which is a direct side effect of the story mainly concentrating on Tidus and Yuna.

Afterall Lulu = grumpy guardian who lost her first summomer. Used to love a crusader and now loves his brother.

Wakka = Used to have a crusader brother but brother died because of sin and now he loves his brothers girlfriend.

Kimahri = Has 2 ronso's on his back who used to be his friends one of which broke off his horn. Met a dying Auron at bottom of Mt Gagazet and was told to protect Yuna.

As for the Al Bhed well all they have for a story is that thier original home got destroyed by Yevon and now they scavenge technology for thier city in the Bikanel desert which they call "Home"

You call this GREAT character development...i think you are mistaken.

What's wrong with all of that?

[Monol]

Wow i love videogames

[Renmiri]

I agree that it focuses too much on Tidus/Yuna, but seriously. Wakka, Lulu, Kimahri, and the entire Al Bhed all have totally awesome stories. And the story itself has like the second best "Oh snaps" I can remember seeing in a game (The best being in Star Ocean 3).

QFT

It seems that fans tend to split between VI/IX and VII/X.

I have seen more and more FXII defenders crucify X. I guess they are jealous X beats XII hands down

[Yuriev's ghost]

New Super Mario Bros is a half decent game but it was hardly the ‘ULTIMATE MARIO GAME’ like some people make it out to be. Pretty much every Mario game I’ve played is better (yes even SMB2 USA).

It amuses me to no end that FFXII of all games was the only installment in the series to gain a perfect score in Famitsu. I haven’t had so little incentive to complete an FF game since FFII. Boring characters, stale plot, stupidly broken battle system; yeah, totally the best.

Xenogears is so flawed it’s almost laughably bad at some points, yet often do I hear it being called the ‘greatest jRPG ever’. I often wonder what they saw in the game that made up for the dismal “WE WILL NARRATE THE PLOT TO YOU” second disk.

Lunar Silver Star Story Complete is filled with so much mind-numbing cliché anime bull that it amazes me that people can stand to play more than a few hours of it. What the hell’s with that flying cat thing with the stupid voice? Did its mother get raped by a bat or something? They probably explain it at some point, I don’t care.

Perfect Dark is better than Golden Eye 64.

There are probably more.

[Wolf Kanno]

I agree that it focuses too much on Tidus/Yuna, but seriously. Wakka, Lulu, Kimahri, and the entire Al Bhed all have totally awesome stories. And the story itself has like the second best "Oh snaps" I can remember seeing in a game (The best being in Star Ocean 3).

I have a confession about Kimahri... When I was playing FFX-2 and got to Mt. Gagazet, where you meet Kimahri again, I didn't know who he was. He kept talking like he knew my party and was part of what happened in FFX but I just could not remember him actually being in my party. I was like "You couldn't have been a playable character in FFX, I think I would have remembered a 7'6" blue cat being in my party." I literally saved the game, popped in FFX and checked to see if he was in my party and lo and behold there he was... Definetly didn't leave much of an impression on me I'm afraid...

I have seen more and more FXII defenders crucify X. I guess they are jealous X beats XII hands down

No, it's because the FFX fans are the first to say "FFXII SUCKS! I mean in FFX we had Tidus and Yuna making googly eyes with each other for like forty hours and Vaan and Lady Ashe have barely spoken to each other..." I decry FFX in the XII forums only when someone tries to compare the two as though FFX was the end all be all to existence, it's not...

[Renmiri]

I have seen more and more FXII defenders crucify X. I guess they are jealous X beats XII hands down

No, it's because the FFX fans are the first to say "FFXII SUCKS! I mean in FFX we had Tidus and Yuna making googly eyes with each other for like forty hours and Vaan and Lady Ashe have barely spoken to each other..." I decry FFX in the XII forums only when someone tries to compare the two as though FFX was the end all be all to existence, it's not...

Point taken

But surely you agree that people who like X, which has emphasis on story and emotions and has old stale game-play just have a different taste than people who like XII which is just the opposite.

Basically if you worshipped X you won't like XII and vice-versa.

[Wolf Kanno]

I will agree with you on that, but... I still hold to my opinion that FFX's story and characters are poorly executed and it's the game's main weakness; besides being linear and refusing to let the player even play the game...

[Setzer Gabianni]

Since when Renmiri, can your opinion speak for everybody else? I loved X, but obviously saw better in XII. WE ALL THINK DIFFERENTLY

*bitchslaps*

[black orb]

the sphere grid is a nightmare dream

[Madame Adequate]

Perfect Dark is better than Golden Eye 64.

/seconded

Wakka = Used to have a crusader brother but brother died because of sin and now he loves his brothers girlfriend.

If you think that's all Wakka's story is, then I can pretty much discount your opinions because you've obviously not been paying attention. Same goes for the others, but this is by far the most striking example.

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

It amuses me to no end that FFXII of all games was the only installment in the series to gain a perfect score in Famitsu. I haven’t had so little incentive to complete an FF game since FFII. Boring characters, stale plot, stupidly broken battle system; yeah, totally the best.

I would agree about the plot (I personally thought it a bit too small and thinly stretched) but I would not say that the battle system is broken. I personally loved the battle system, at times slightly annoying, but that is because I wish it could read my mind and that Fran had more gambit slots.

[Yuriev's ghost]

Being able to defeat most bosses purely with quickenings = broken battle system.

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

Being able to defeat most bosses purely with quickenings = broken battle system.

Between the beginning and middle of the game, I would have to agree with you, but once you get towards the end, or do any of the harder hunts, that becomes far from the case.

Also that is only one aspect of the whole battle system. Most people do not bother with quickenings since they drain your MP and somewhat based on agility and luck.