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[bmwcrazy]

ITT we list the best games ever made.

[blaidfiste]

Madden

[I SOLD MY SOUL TO BIOWARE]

I really don't care for calling things I don't like 'overrated,' personally.

[Master Warder Z_]

Telltale's Walking Dead.

[spirosz]

I really don't care for calling things I don't like 'overrated,' personally.

[Liamv2]

The word overrated is overrated.

[CronoDragoon]

I really don't care for calling things I don't like 'overrated,' personally.

 

It's not the same thing, though. Calling something overrated has implications that saying you don't like something doesn't. For example, one can really like or even love a game and still think it's overrated. Obviously someone will find the *most* overrated games to be ones they don't like, but I think The Witcher 2 is overrated while also finding it to be a great game. Usually being overrated entails a failure on the part of the fanbase to acknowledge a game's flaws, which every game has whether one acknowledges it or not.

[AresKeith]

It's not the same thing, though. Calling something overrated has implications that saying you don't like something doesn't. For example, one can really like or even love a game and still think it's overrated. Obviously someone will find the *most* overrated games to be ones they don't like, but I think The Witcher 2 is overrated while also finding it to be a great game. Usually being overrated entails a failure on the part of the fanbase to acknowledge a game's flaws, which every game has whether one acknowledges it or not.

 

Usually yea, but the word has been misused for something people don't like

[cronshaw]

It was GTA IV, until GTA V came out.
I've never stopped caring about story and characters faster than in those games.

[JeffZero]

Disliking games is overrated.

As is liking them, btw.

[Newschmoo]

oblivion hated it.

I wouldn't use the word "hate", more frustrating. The combat mechanics in Oblivion were so clunky and a bit of a chore, I gave up.

I do however love Skyrim, it was such a massive improvement. Definitely not overrated in my eyes!

[Il Divo]

Gonna toss out Baldur's Gate. I thought the game was pretty terrible.

[FlyingSquirrel]

Well, I never managed to finish the original Deus Ex, but it's more a case of "I personally didn't like it that much, though I can understand why it was huge when it came out" than really thinking it's "overrated." I don't think it stands up to present-day RPGs because of the clunkiness of the combat and the graphics, and I got especially frustrated with the mechanics of playing the stealth approach - it was much easier to get spotted by an enemy or just get lost in a map than it was in DX:HR. Still, if I try to recapture what little I knew of the gaming universe from back when it came out, I can see how it was probably a breath of fresh air.

 

I do think the original Bioshock is somewhat overrated. I was partially spoiled on the fact that there'd be a mid-game "twist" in terms of who your allies and enemies are, but even if I hadn't been, the whole world of Rapture and all its conflicting agendas and ambitions was so bizarre that it didn't seem like that much bigger of a deal than all the other craziness I was coming across. Plus, for a game that purports to emphasize the player's morality, it seems wildly inconsistent for your character to agree to play assassin for Sander Cohen without any sort of choice. At least one of the guys that Cohen wanted dead wasn't doing anything at all to me and actually tried to run away the first time I saw him. If I can save the Little Sisters, why can't I tell Cohen to go screw himself and then look for another way out of the area where I was trapped? It was a decent action game with an above-average setting and premise, but that's about as far as I'd go.

[Han Shot First]

Skyrim.

 

For me at least, Bethesda tends to make some of the most dull RPGs on the market. They craft beautiful open-worlds to explore, but that focus on the game world comes at the expense of the characters populating the gameworld. Compared to Bioware or CD Projekt Red games, Bethesda's characters feel lifeless. I've yet to finish Skyrim for that reason. After a couple weeks it just got repetitive and bored me to tears.

 

Now to be fair to Bethesda, I realize that this focus on the game world over characters is intentional. And it does appeal to lots of gamers. It just doesn't appeal to me at all. I prefer character-driven RPGs.

[happy_daiz]

^ Yep, that must be why I have over 1200 hours in Skyrim. It's "beyond boring". 

 

To you, you mean. 

 

 

To answer the OP... I hate to say it, but The Witcher 2.

 

I really wanted to like it, (and I thought Iorveth was dee-lish), but Geralt was a very boring protagonist to me. I was mostly into it at the time, but after one run, never touched it again.

[Han Shot First]

I read somewhere a game critic said Skyrim "was an ocean with the depth of a puddle". Pretty much my thoughts too. Skyrim, even though it's really moddable and has some amazing mods, is trash when unmodded. It's beyond boring.

 

I think that is the best description of Skyrim that I've read. It sums up the game perfectly.

[Raizo]

Final Fantasy VII. Don't get me wrong, it's a damn good game, it's a great game and one of best Final Fantasy games but it it does not live up to its reputation. I swear, the way certain FF fanboys go on about you would think it were gaming perfection.

[happy_daiz]

Jesus Christ, I couldn't go 10 hours without installing some mods!

 

But yeah, some people of course think it's one of the best games ever made. "Beyond boring" is definitely just an opinion.

 

Sure, and I get that. I've noticed that Bethesda games are quite polarizing. Either you love that type of game, or you don't. Neither is right or wrong, it just is.   

[JeffZero]

Skyrim is an odd case for me. It took me a bigger clock time than I had ever committed to a single save file on a previous game for me to suddenly realize I felt an odd sense of underwhelmed by it. I need better characters than Bethesda focuses on creating.

I think I had ~200 hours and then I just kind of never put it back in my 360.

I gave it another whirl while I briefly owned a PC. It was a damn good PC, too. Spent lots of time researching which mods I wanted. It was... better, but still didn't really solve my major personal-taste quibble.

Damn fine game that I'll likely never touch again.

[JeffZero]

Final Fantasy VII. Don't get me wrong, it's a damn good game, it's a great game and one of best Final Fantasy games but it it does not live up to its reputation. I swear, the way certain FF fanboys go on about you would think it were gaming perfection.

I feel like VII stopped being meta-peerless a decade ago and moved into this terrible "I love to bash it" phase for a long time. Only recently has the game simply become too ancient for people to take pleasure in slamming it to hell and back.

Of course this may be biased; it *is* one of my all-time favorites. And I'm certainly beginning to see the onset of "hey guys, you know what'd be edgy? Let's bash Skyrim", which is essentially what happened to FFVII a very long time ago indeed.

[SlottsMachine]

Disliking games is overrated.

As is liking them, btw.

 

YES!!!!

 

[Isaidlunch]

ME1. I don't get why so many people treat it like the golden child of the trilogy, I really don't.