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VanceIX on 26 July 2014
Mr_No said:
Final Fantasy XIII
 Skyrim
Mass Effect 3

I don't think anyone rates XIII higher than it should be. It's almost unanimously agreed that the game is mostly garbage.



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Munkeh111 on 26 July 2014

While I'm happy that nobody is getting at Persona 4 Golden, I am shocked by this hatred for Final Fantasy X

It's simply the best game ever made! Moving story, fantastic battle system, fantastic post-game (especially now), fantastic levelling system and most of all, the incredible soundtrack!

I've just finished my 105 hour platinum, having already spent ~200 hours on the game on PS2, then PS3 via emulator.


While I can understand the Kingdom Hearts criticism, I love it, but I can definitely accept that it may not be to many peoples' tastes


The one that I find massively over-rated is Skyrim.
It looks good (slightly better on PC with mods, but not mindblowing or anything), but all that is broken if you ever see anything move. But that's not my main issue, it's just no fun. The combat is just terrible and the exploration isn't all that either. Woo, I've found slightly better equipment, but I know I'm going to replace it in about 10 minutes.
I did slightly break it by getting really good at crafting and alchemy to make the best set of armour in the game fairly early on. But I know I wouldn't have had fun anyway

Maybe I just don't really get the loot driven genre. Borderlands was quite fun as a shooter, but I got tired of spending all my time looking for chests with slightly incremental upgrades on what I had



Michael-5 on 26 July 2014
Pristine20 said:

7. Xenoblade. I've watched videos, I still don't get the hype.

You can't just watch the videos, XenoBlade is amazing because of the great plot it has.

Play the game for about 4 hours, if you don't like it after you leave the 1st town in the game (Colony 9) then you've made a fair judgement of the game.



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phaedruss on 26 July 2014
AZWification said:
Pristine20 said:
Why all the hate for Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn? I do agree that it does have some huge flaws that the difficulty is only at the first chapter of the game and the game has a very bad habit of providing overpowered characters instead of letting players train their own units like something that is called an "RPG" should. Nevertheless, I had good fun with it and still replay it to this day. I may be biased though due to a love for grid SRPGs. The game was also poorly received by critics so I'm not sure the term "overrated" really applies.

OT, I cosign the following

1. Anything pokemon
2. Skyrim (leveling system looks good on paper but is bad in practice)
3. Borderlands 2 (1 is better, killing bosses over and over is terrible as the only way to acquire legendaries, BL1 was great because you could literally find them just about anywhere)
4. FFVII (no, a remake won't save S-E)
5. KH games
6. Ni no kuni (would've been a great game but the battle system is horrid and I just couldn't take it anymore after getting 3 characters)
7. Xenoblade. I've watched videos, I still don't get the hype.

You need to play the game in order to understand why it's so loved! Watching some Youtube videos is not enough, you know..


Playing it is even worse. Watch the story cutscenes on Youtube and that's all you need.



phaedruss on 26 July 2014
Munkeh111 said:
While I'm happy that nobody is getting at Persona 4 Golden, I am shocked by this hatred for Final Fantasy X

It's simply the best game ever made! Moving story, fantastic battle system, fantastic post-game (especially now), fantastic levelling system and most of all, the incredible soundtrack!


FFX is one of the worst mainline Final Fantasies, probably in between XIII and XII.



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Xxain on 26 July 2014

Legend of Dragoon. I like the game but has issues



Saeko on 26 July 2014

All pokemon, even a 10 years old child would write better story.



cheshirescat on 26 July 2014
Saeko said:
All pokemon, even a 10 years old child would write better story.


Well, it is a story about ten year old children. . .



Blood_Tears on 26 July 2014

Xenoblade Chronicles..



Wright on 26 July 2014

I don't like the name "overrated", but if I had to pick some that didn't live up to the hype I had, it is probably Kingdom Hearts.