Most overrated games and franchises (no order)

**-=kenshin=-** · 06-23-2006, 01:01 AM

Dakatana by ion storm - years in develpoment but i'm not even sure if that game got released lol

**Timman_24** · 06-23-2006, 01:12 AM

How can you bash on EQ? The game didnt make the game, the people did. Just like any online game. I loved the player base and miss the "old times."

**James** · 06-23-2006, 01:14 AM

Originally Posted by monroeski

I'll throw the MGS series in as overrated. They're pretty good, but I don't think they're anywhere as good as people make them out to be.

Ahh...

The original Metal Gear for NES. That game ruled...

To the original poster, I would be curious, with all of the hatred being sent to the "overrated" games, which games would you consider to be "rated just right"?

**Transfurzz** · 06-23-2006, 01:20 AM

Originally Posted by James

Ahh...

The original Metal Gear for NES. That game ruled...

To the original poster, I would be curious, with all of the hatred being sent to the "overrated" games, which games would you consider to be "rated just right"?

Yes, I would very well ike to know your taste in games too. I'm guessing he's an RTS player or a very hardcore RPG player.

The Sims ? Its a very original game. Why do you consider it mindless.

The game opens up a lot of creativity and had a huge modding community back in Sims 1. Their getting better at modding Sim 2 right now. It expanded gameplay in large ways on many areas with its many expansion packs. It wasn't even more of the same.

**LiquidCrash** · 06-23-2006, 01:57 AM

I disagree with Xenogears and EQ. Two games I enjoyed highly, and not because some reviewer told me to like it, or because it was the thing to play. In fact, I don't even think I read a review on Xenogears when I made the purchase. It was one of the gifts I got for Christmas from my parents. And seriously, there's not even that many anime scenes in the game to really justify that as a selling point. The ones they do have, they're all pretty short.

Probaly the biggest selling point for me was the music in Xenogears. I've been a musician for most of my life, so it's not just the graphics and gameplay that tilt my opinion. Music is probaly the main reason I play RPG games... followed closely by gameplay.

But yeah, I realize this is all opinionated. If I was to add to the list, I'd add Halo.

**monroeski** · 06-23-2006, 10:13 AM

Originally Posted by -=kenshin=-

Dakatana by ion storm - years in develpoment but i'm not even sure if that game got released lol

Yes, it got released, and was mercilessly bashed by any and all who played it. Saying that it is overrated is like saying that eating your own feces is overrated.

**taggart6** · 06-23-2006, 10:38 AM

Originally Posted by monroeski

Yes, it got released, and was mercilessly bashed by any and all who played it. Saying that it is overrated is like saying that eating your own feces is overrated.

So I take it Dakatana was played alot in Japan?

**Spaceman Spiff** · 06-23-2006, 10:55 AM

Originally Posted by monroeski

Yes, it got released, and was mercilessly bashed by any and all who played it. Saying that it is overrated is like saying that eating your own feces is overrated.

It didn't help that the pre-release hype and advertising for the game pretty much crossed the line of good taste.

With real ads for the game like "John Romero is going to make you his b*tch" and similar.

When a game has THAT kind of advertising, basically saying your game will be so good you're insulting your game buying audience, they are going to expect a masterpeice (and I think rightfully so), and as well know, it was thoroughly average at best.
That's a perfect example of hype going way too far overboard, but at least Romero caught it in the butt from gamers and to this day has never lived it down.

**monroeski** · 06-23-2006, 11:30 AM

Pre-release, yes, it was massively overhyped/overrated. This thread being about games post release, though, I didn't think Daikatana fit.

**Spank_Me_Hard** · 06-23-2006, 01:42 PM

Originally Posted by Soul Assassin

I only played Nude Raider.

Too funny!

Its pretty pathetic how many of us downloaded this patch!

I remember one site that had nude pics, the patch, and a porno sounding bit of all of her grunts and groans.

Ridiculous.

But I do have to admit...

I did like the "money shot" of her from behind on her hands and knees...

Yes.

I am pathetic.

**Spank_Me_Hard** · 06-23-2006, 01:47 PM

This is an interesting, and HARD thread.

Its hard to call any game that has legions of dedicated followers "overrated".

But then again, you watch some of the garbage that comes out of Hollywood and what kind of money it makes, and some of the points that people are making here start sounding good.

Personally, I have never cared much for RTS games.

I miss the day when turn based games ruled the strategy genre.

For me, I'd call the whole RTS genre "overrated".

**Timman_24** · 06-23-2006, 02:08 PM

I think it is funny that if some one did not care for a game because of personal preference they say it is overrated. Perhaps it is just not your style?

**MadeYouLook** · 06-23-2006, 02:37 PM

Final Fantasy 7

**PCJ** · 06-23-2006, 02:45 PM

Originally Posted by MadeYouLook

Final Fantasy 7

Yes. I never understood what's so great about it.

**schultz** · 06-23-2006, 02:57 PM

Overrated, not overated. Rated just right. Really in the end, it all comes down to personal preference. It's obvious just from this thread and the varying opinions people have stated.

Either way, though, it can still be very interesting to see how people view the games they do not look.

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