Lol @ Wii Sports. This just shows how little the "gaming media" is in touch with the mass market and the "normal" people out there. And how can a game like Wii Sports be easy? You play against your friends... the better your opponent the harder the game. Yeah, whatever... why did I even bother writing that reply...?

UncleScrooge said:
Lol @ Wii Sports. This just shows how little the "gaming media" is in touch with the mass market and the "normal" people out there. And how can a game like Wii Sports be easy? You play against your friends... the better your opponent the harder the game. Yeah, whatever... why did I even bother writing that reply...?

stop trying to make sense

Ghost Recon, AvP2, and Wolfenstein better than Halo lol. Compare those franchises to Halo now, and you have your answer.

Missing Uncharted 2, LittleBigPlanet, Mass Effect 2, GTA IV, and Half-Life 2. None of these games were bad, except littlebigplanet, but clearly overrated.

On the list I agree with Gears of War and Twilight Princess. Never played skylanders or Dragon's Lair though.

Twilight Princess, because it's Ocarina plus unnecessary cutscenes, plot and limited-control modes.

The lack of games similar to Zelda in the intervening time made people rate it highly. If it came out at the same time as OoT it would have been seen as a bad clone attempt.

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For my own choice, probably Metroid Prime 3. People are now hyping Retro's effort and Retro in general as compared to Other M, but Prime 3 was just not the same game. It was never about shooting or space marines or different planets before. Retro's talent left mostly after Prime 1 but definitely after Prime 2.

Heavy Rain and L.A Noire should be up there instead of Twillight Princess

oohhh and Mass effect tooo....those games are so simple and limited even for a shooter

AC isn't THAT overrated.  I hear people critisize it a lot more than COD yet they seem to improve with each game (Revalations being the exception) and try new things (all of Revalations' new ideas flopped which is why it regressed).  COD on the other hand is hailed as the greatest series ever by casuals and seemingly non-critizable (may not be a word).

For me it's the original Mario games. My friends used to race over how fast they could beat the first one. I, however, did not care. At all. I owned three Mario games on the NES and SNES and didn't get over halfway in any of them. I didn't like the character, I didn't like the (lack of a) story, I didn't like hitting blocks over and over, the coins, any of it. There were so many better games on the NES. Give me Mega Man any day of the week. I will always believe that the Mario phenomenon is entirely due to the game being included with the system. I have nothing against Nintendo, but I look forward to the day when Mario is in decline so people can discover something different.

I agree with an aspect of this. After playing Mario, one's reaction should be: that's a start, give me something better. Just as fun, just as polished, but more reason to play and less doing something again and again because the game tells you to.

Instead Mario was all we ever got of that kind of game. We see advancement in other genres and categories but Mario is left to stand as the best game of its type. Especially with NSMB, where the games are identical except for the flavour of the week.