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GodOfWar_3ever said:

For a second I thought you were gonna say God of War III, based on the games you've mentioned...I was gonna murder your ass if you did  

Na...j/k

I agree about Uncharted though....its a load of smoke and mirrors....while its pretty exciting to play...the gameplay is an 8 to me...not 10. Hopefully they make it much better with the 3rd one...More variety in enemies would help a lot.

while it might not look like it, i actually liked God Of War III more than the other God Of War games, though my only con for it is the hilarious anticlamatic moments when kratos kills everyone he meets, its very hilarious in a way the reasons he does it, and it felt very ....anticlamatic.



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Legend11 said:

I'm surprised that Halo didn't make your list, it must be really getting cliche to call it overrated.

Other than total fanboys saying it is, there are many people I know personally who've tried the series and think its over-rated.

Such as myself...Played Halo 1 but I didn't enjoy it much. I couldn't even bring myself to finish it cause it got very repetitive.

But that may be because of my general "meh" attitude towards FPS and playing the game around 8 years after its launch

I will check out Reach when I eventually get a Microsoft console though...may it be a 360 or the Next xbox (assuming theres BC). I haven't given up on the franchise just yet.



Put out from the list...

- Uncharted 1/2

- Gears Of War 1 (I didn't play Gears 2)

- Super Mario Galaxy

- Call of Duty (All)

- Red Dead Redemption

Games that deserves all love.

 



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Severance said:

thats what they are... Overrated , i've tried giving too much chance to the high rated games, but i always end up disappointed in some way or the other, and before anyone tells me my expectations are too high , then no you are wrong, other than FFXIII and GTA IV no game on this list i had high expectations for , and thats because i avoid the reviews of the games and only notice them after i get the game so lets start making fanboys cry.

(and i will only talk about this gen not anything else)

Also i like to point out that even though i said the following , i still had fun with these games believe it or not, but even though i had fun, they're largely overrated , and overrated doesn't mean they're NOT FUN

Uncharted 1/2

why is this game the highest rated game of all time? , its true that the graphics are all nice and colorful and the animations are good, but other than that, the whole game is just like blockbuster movie, the first time you play it its nice, but then you realize that its just not "interesting" enough, nathan drake's oneliners are your typical american one liners, the storyline is your typical Indiana Jones , "treasure gives magic then magic goes wrong on bad guy" storyline, and the "Platforming" sections are really REALLY linear that you feel the game is playing itself for you just to reach the other shooting section.

Gears Of War 1/2

Seriously why is everyone so wetting their pants about this game? , the game is very generic, the characters control like tanks, the storyline is forgetable and lame, the characters are stereotypical and stupid, and did i mention the online never works?

Super Mario Galaxy

how is this game better than NSMBW is beyond me, the camera controls are annoying , the motion controls are annoying, the crystals shards (forgot what their name are) mechanics are the worst idea since the water gun in Sunshine, the game would be a lot more fun without the motion controls, and the stupid camera that focuses on the places that you actually DONT want to go to, btw i haven't played SMG2 , but i am not sure i want to really

Resistance 1/2

Generic Storyline, generic setting, EXTREMELY generic character , generic bosses , generic level design, the game should be called "Resistance to being interesting"

Call of Duty MW / MW2 / WaW / BO

ahh Call of Duty, the reason why every game these days become barely interesting, everything in this game is borrowed from Saving Private Ryan and those other movies where killing non american people is glorified while killing american is a tragedy that can't be forgotten, anyways , the game is insanely generic , the storyline doesn't make any sense, there is no characters, the shooting mechanics are very noob friendly it hurts, the "high budget action" thing is a tired formula.

Fallout 3 / New Vegas

boring setting, Glitchy ....everything , storyline that is as interesting as toilet papers, but most of all, how stupid the AI is and how everything feels lifeless and uninteresting  ,and how people feel like robots that only there for you to shoot them , did i mention the game becomes super easy in a blink of an eye?

GTA IV

Stupid , Crap, Boring, Meaninless, a huge step down from the other games, a huge disappointment, and a massively overrated piece of shit of a game.

FFXIII

oh how much i've waited for this game, i've waited so much that i've played all the other games in the series including the spin offs and watched every anime and read every book, and in the end, the storyline is as interesting as a fanfic from a group of cosplayers, and the gameplay is very linear that i just can't get myself to ever want to play it again, and ontop of that there is no towns! , no memorable moments, no nothing, it made me from a huge... HUGE final fantasy fan (seriously this series used to be a huge part of my life) , to a "meh" "whatever!" person <--- see i am still Squall-ish

Red Dead Redemption

Combine Fallout 3 with GTA IV and some lame Cooooowwwwwwwboyyy YEHAH! characters and you will get this game, its..... a huge game with little interesting missions and retardedly retarded effed up characters that is for some reason rockstar think its funny to have too much mentally retarded characters.

Assassins Creed 1/2

The first one is a disgrace to all games, its boring dumb and painfully repetitive, i didn't enjoy it one bit.

the second game however i did enjoy but its terribly easy , i mean REAL easy , you can finish the game with just your hidden blade, the storyline is a bit of a step up but the million of times the game shifts into a retarded "Hawt" scene or a retarded "Badazzzzzzzzzzz" scene makes the storyline pathetic.

 

 

by now i am sure i forgot about some games, because you can't blame me, they're very forgetable , but really Overrated games are overrated, and underrated games are always much more fun , but for some reason people do seem to like generic shit these days.

Where is Halo? And I don't agree concerning Uncharted and God Of War, these are some of the best franchises ever made. They deserve all the hype and praise they got. (GOW is the best selling hack and slash, the genre is not so popular, but for those who like it (like me) GOW is simply the best). Uncharted is good for other reasons though.

You know God of War isn't there, correct?

And I agree regarding Uncharted, definitely not overrated.

Oh god xD it's 5.30am here in France, I'm in a bad condition :p Lol just noticed that it was Gears Of War and not God of War.



ishiki said:

lols severance I usually agree with you. This time I only agree with some. But I'll state. These are only out of yours.

Critics and Gamers
SMG (And SMBW I'd add for me or any mario game since mario 64)
Resistance
Call of Duty Series
Uncharted... (for me there is nothing really wrong in this game, just nothing really spectacular well nevermind the train mission is pretty spectacular in UC2... but I'd still give it 8.5 below the average)

Critics As these are ones that aren't as adored by fans I think
Fallout 3 (not vegas I love vegas)
GTAIV (Not fans because fans pan the hell out of it when it is still a pretty good game

I love gears 1 and 2 pretty much my favorite 3rd person shooter... and would give them an 85-90 which I'm not sure there meta.

And FFXIII... was probably my 5th favorite FF... and it got a meta 83 by critics and users so I'd give it higher than that. for me.

Red Dead: I don't like westerns so why would I play this game.

And Assasins Creed. Ditto.

like i said, most of these games are enjoyable and fun, but they're very high rated and get too much praise for nothing.



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You should have added ICO, it's the most Over-rated Under-rated game made!



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SmoothCriminal said:

I agree on all but the Fallout games. I agree with your points, but the Bethesda style just has a hold over me. 


To me as well, but just not Fallout, i'd take Elder Scrolls over it, even though Oblivion is a glitchy and seriously had only 5 voice actors (I AM SERIOUS!) , it was very very enjoyable



I live for the burn...and the sting of pleasure...
I live for the sword, the steel, and the gun...

- Wasteland - The Mission.

A Bad Clown said:

You should have added ICO, it's the most Over-rated Under-rated game made!


nahh , i love it

but seeing your post is actually means that just not everyone agrees with everyone , my own opinion of the Over-rated Under-rated game is Psychonauts , i didn't know people liked it until i read it on the interenet , my experience with it was very "okay-ish"



I live for the burn...and the sting of pleasure...
I live for the sword, the steel, and the gun...

- Wasteland - The Mission.

what i find very interesting is that the OP thinks Mario Galaxy is overrated but not NSMBW.  IMHO Mario Galaxy is what 64 & Sunshine should have been. a true 3d Mario game, not some BS where your going to the same level 4 and 5 times to get a stupid star, now thats repetitive. NSMBW is one of the most overrated games out IMO, "oh wow a co-op mode" holy crap they've been doing that in platform games for years LBP did that already 4 player offline AND ONLINE, with 2 mil levels plus and custom characters. Hell you could play the entire game of Sonic 2 co-op back in the good old days. to each his own I get. Uncharted 2 gets the love it gets cause its pretty much a better tomb raider, anyone can think of a game in that category thats better with a decent online im open to suggestions



Gears online never works? I guess I must be hallucinating every night.



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