Anyone else think Bioshock is over-rated?

[Sqrl]

twesterm said:

Sqrl said:
It was a good game no doubt, but not nearly the golden ray of gaming goodness some might have you believe. Honestly in most years it would have deserved GoTY but last year it was easily outclassed in just the nominations phase.

A lot of folks have said that the story was great and the gameplay was mediocre and when I hear that I keep thinking how can a game with mediocre gameplay be considered for GoTY? Personally I think both CoD4 and The Orange Box (as unfair as it is to group it) were far better in the genre and if you can't win best in breed you don't get a shot at best in show.

Just my 0.02 VG$~

FFVI has terrible (broken/unbalanced) gameplay yet it is considered by most as the best FF game and is on a good number of peoples top 10 list.

 I'm not sure what your point is....if people find the broken/unbalanced gameplay to be fun who cares if it is broken/unbalanced its still good gameplay as long as most find it fun, right?

Similarly here I'm sure some folks find the gameplay to be lots of fun, but it seems like most people think it is "mediocre".  Take that for what you will, but the rest of what I said was my opinion.  And honestly, I wish I could have rented it, it just wasn't worth a purchase without more replayability =P

Also keep in mind the difference between making Joe Random's top 10 list and earning a nomination for GoTY is quite a big difference.  Just about every game that is an 8+ is going to make a ton of top 10 lists of consumers but its mostly likely not going to even be considered for GoTY until you get to the 9+ region.