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[Sad Dragon]

Overrated: Any game made by Peter Molyneux



Underrated: If true that the sales where low - Grim Fandango. Awesome game that one.



/TSD

[Kenrae]

Overrated: Any Elder Scroll game. Soooo boring.



Underrated: King of Dragon Pass, mainly because very few people know it, everybody that has played it has loved it. Being "indie" does that to you, I suppose.

[Valtor232]

Underrated. Deadly Premonition

[Smithers777]

World of Warcraft

[Smithers777]

World of Warcraft is dookie.
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Modifié par Smithers777, 12 avril 2010 - 12:20 .

[rage9345]

For underrated, I'd have to say Mount and Blade, and the Warband expansion. After reading the Gamespot review I thought it would suck, but when I saw it for sale on Steam for $5 and reading some of the user reviews, I decided to just go ahead and buy it. Though it doesn't have a ton of depth or amazing graphics, the combat more than makes up for its short-comings. Bought Warband about 5 days ago, and I haven't stopped playing the single player campaign, probably going to get back into the multiplayer later on tonight (played the multiplayer beta non-stop for about a month).

[ObserverStatus]

Underrated: Conker's bad fur day

[thepiebaker]

overrated: gears of war



go ahead and flame me, i've come prepared





underrated: bulletwitch

[pdspazzz]

overrated:Halo1 2 3 and all the others


Underrated:Brave Story Psp en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_Story_New_Traveler

Modifié par pdspazzz, 12 avril 2010 - 02:56 .

[marquiseondore]

overrated: FF7



underrated: ActRaiser and Zombies Ate My Neighbors (when they were first released).

[Jonp382]

ApolloCloud wrote...

Overrated: All Bioware games

Take away the choice based storytelling, a design I feel hurts a story more than helps it (I can expand on this if required), and you're left with very generic, unimaginative, and simplistic stories.

If role-playing or even choice making turn you off, then you shouldn't
play role-playing games. Perhaps you might be more interested in Braid.

[DeviantJoker]

 My two under-rated games have already been mentioned. And as it's been pointed out, moreso, overlooked than overrated. Psychonauts and Beyond Good & Evil. I've lended them out to all my close friends at one point in college and they've pressed the word, too. Most people enjoy the experience once they get their hands on it. I especially liked Psychonauts.

As for Over-rated. While I thought Oblivion was a pretty game on my PC - I really could not get over the boring "combat". Egh. It was not my cup of tea. I suppose I like the accuracy and skill needed in "twitch" games or at least the isometric feel of BG or DA with it's tactical feel.

marquiseondore wrote...

Zombies Ate My Neighbors (when they were first released).

Gah! Loved the sound-track for this game when I played it as a kid. I use to load up the game just to hear the first level's song. I'm humming it right now just as I think about it!  

Modifié par DeviantJoker, 12 avril 2010 - 11:09 .

[Dudebag]

andyr1986 wrote...

Overrated: Crysis

It is quiet simply rubbish. There have been better shooters before and since. Crytek should stick to making tech demos and engines. They just can;t make good games.

Looks like somebody is a bit upset that Crysis wasnt released on their console.

I mean sure you can call it overrated, I would disagree with you but you can call it overrated. What you cant call it however is rubbish, even if you hate the FPS genre you do have to acknowledge that the game was well made. Crysis has to be one of the better (if not the best) FPS titles released in recent years.

ApolloCloud wrote...

Overrated: All Bioware games

Take away the choice based storytelling, a design I feel hurts a story more than helps it (I can expand on this if required), and you're left with very generic, unimaginative, and simplistic stories.

Hmmm while I agree that most Bioware games and the company itself are a bit overrated I do have to question your criticism of choice based story telling. It isnt that choice based story telling is dragging the games down it is more that Bioware needs to improve on the formula.

But please I would love to hear your thoughts on the subject about how choice based story telling is a bad thing.

[Dudebag]

thepiebaker wrote...

overrated: gears of war

go ahead and flame me, i've come prepared


underrated: bulletwitch

I dont think you will find many people that will flame you for calling Gears of War overrated, after all it was here that many players voiced their disgust about how they claimed that Bioware was turning Mass Effect into "A dumbed down Gears of War clone".

However I must say that I do enjoy the Gears of War franchise even if it is a bit overrated, over the top and a little bit silly.

scyphozoa wrote...

heavy rain

You have no idea how much I agree with this statement, in fact I would have to give Heavy Rain the title of most overrated game ever.

[crysischaos]

ApolloCloud wrote...

Overrated: All Bioware games

Take away the choice based storytelling, a design I feel hurts a story more than helps it (I can expand on this if required), and you're left with very generic, unimaginative, and simplistic stories.

Well one game that I don't think was overrated, or really tradionally a high rated Bioware game was their somewhat weird game Sonic Chronicles.

[enormousmoonboots]

Captain Chordata wrote...

Underrated:
Final Fantasy VIII
Silent Storm
Jagged Alliance
Battlezone (the 1999 FPS-RTS hybrid)
Stalker
Vampire: Bloodlines
The two Riddick games
Dwarf Fortress (AKA the greatest fantasy game in history)

Yeah, my lists ended up running a little long.

Okay, this one I have to ask about. FF8 gets a lot of flak, but it's well-deserved. The romance develops at a whiplash pace, 'lol everyone grew up in the same orphanage', the combat system is so very very broken, and once Edea made her turnaround, it lost any kind of compelling villain. It had some potential, but the final product is a damn mess.

also 2cat

[8DKimone]

enormousmoonboots wrote...

Captain Chordata wrote...

Underrated:
Final Fantasy VIII
Silent Storm
Jagged Alliance
Battlezone (the 1999 FPS-RTS hybrid)
Stalker
Vampire: Bloodlines
The two Riddick games
Dwarf Fortress (AKA the greatest fantasy game in history)

Yeah, my lists ended up running a little long.

Okay, this one I have to ask about. FF8 gets a lot of flak, but it's well-deserved. The romance develops at a whiplash pace, 'lol everyone grew up in the same orphanage', the combat system is so very very broken, and once Edea made her turnaround, it lost any kind of compelling villain. It had some potential, but the final product is a damn mess.

also 2cat

I rather enjoyed FFVIII, warts and all.  It's by no means FFVII (still my favorite of the FFs I've played, which actually isn't that many) but still enjoyable.  It took me a couple of playthroughs to "comprehend" the nuances of the storyline and combat tactics.

[ApolloCloud]

On the issue of choice based storytelling:



It filters the creativity (and let's be honest here, this is not something that the Bioware storytellers possess in abundance), time, effort, vision, and ambition of the storytellers into multiple different storyline scenarios, and as such the quality of any single given scenario is not being maximised to the full potential of the storytellers (this can also warrant the use of multiple storytellers which can create inconsistencies as far as creative design, vision, ambition, style and content are concerned).



It also removes a lot of the artistry and meaning behind storytelling because events don't necessarily occur because thay are thematically and stylistically meant to in accordance with the vision and design of the storyteller, but simply because that was the particular variable path chosen by the player.



What it can do to aid the art of storytelling is to allow the audience a level of influence over the storyline, but is that really a good thing? The entire purpose of storytelling is to escape into the storyteller's imagination. Adding your own influence over it only detracts from that.



So as I said, it hurts storytelling far more than it helps it (and it can't be said to help it at all).



And that's not even touching upon the video game medium's limitations and how choice based storytelling wouldn't possibly be able to be optimised under the format, or Bioware's own inefficiencies with dealing with the style of storytelling.

[Beocat]

Underrated: Beyond Good and Evil, Mirror's Edge



Both really didn't get the sales they deserved.



Overrated: GTA series



That series is sold on hype alone. Even with glaring flaws, people will say those games are the best there ever were or will be.

[ApolloCloud]

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[The Elite Elite]

Most underrated game I've played? I'd have to say KOTOR2. I never got all the hate it seemed to get. Yes, it wasn't nearly as polished as KOTOR1 but it is still a solid game. And given all the content that was cut it had the potential to actually be even better than KOTOR1 if they had just been given enough time to actually finish the game, rather than forced to rush it out.

Most overrated game I've played? COD4. I actually did like it for quite a while when I first got it, but after eventually seeing just how changed it was from COD1 and COD2 I couldn't take it anymore. When I got WaW it was better but still has too much of what made me hate COD4. I haven't even bothered trying MW2. Looking at all the gameplay videos I can see it's even worse than COD4 was.

Modifié par The Elite Elite, 12 avril 2010 - 06:26 .