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Which of the listed games do you think are most overrated?

Dragon's Lair 17 4.84%
 
Gears of War 44 12.54%
 
Halo 111 31.62%
 
LoZ: Twilight Princess 27 7.69%
 
Skylanders 11 3.13%
 
Super Meat Boy 11 3.13%
 
Super Paper Mario 8 2.28%
 
Wii Sports 20 5.70%
 
None of them are overrated 61 17.38%
 
See results 41 11.68%
 
Total:351
Alcanite said:
Where's Journey?

you think pezus would post a list of a site which has some ps3 games in it? sry pezus

and this list on vgchartz, i believe i know which games will "win"



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You could put into that list a large share of >90rated games on metacritic in the last 5 years.
Anyway, historically Halo is the winner.



pokoko said:
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.

Fair enough, but I'm still Mario enjoying Mario and this hasn't prevented me to discover any sort of different games ;)



Uncharted is THE most overrated, run of the mill linear, 3rd person jamboree with standard platforming and gunplay, the stories were average at best and all this was propped up by decent voice acting and good graphics.

To me that's not a great game.



freebs2 said:
pokoko said:
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.

Fair enough, but I'm still Mario enjoying Mario and this hasn't prevented me to discover any sort of different games ;)

I really should have said "some people".  That's what I was thinking, anyway.



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i'm sorry but only halo belongs on the list and where are the games like GTA,Super Mario,The Elder Scrolls and Call of Duty???



Some of these games don't seem overrated to me at all...
I wasn't under the impression anyone liked Super Paper Mario...
It's been cool to hate Twilight Princess for at least two years now...
No "core gamer" takes Wii Sports or Skylanders seriously...
And I don't really see anyone gushing over Super Meat Boy anymore...
You can't like Gear of War or Halo without being branded and Xbox fanboy...
This is the most bizarre list of overrated games I've ever seen...



Have a nice day...

I didn't realize that Dragon's Lair was acclaimed enough to count as overrated...

Anyhow, from that list I would pick Gears of War; not a bad game, just overrated, IMO. I haven't played Skylanders, though.

Other games/series that I personally find overrated this gen are Assassin's Creed, Mass Effect, The Elder Scrolls games and Fallout 3/New Vegas. Just not worthy of the hype to me personally, but I don't particularly dislike them (except for Fallout; really didn't care for that at all).



"For a second, let’s compare SMB to Fez, an indie game that actually lived up to its hype"




why that gif? fez is awesome but i hate that guy who made it haha