| enditall727 said: How can you claim that a game is overrated if you HAVE NOT PLAYED IT? You admit that you have not purchased The Last Of Us but you still claim that the game is overrated? This is the shit that i'm talking about. People, you have to PLAY A GAME before you rate/review it. He also admits that he hasn't even really played the Metal Gear Solid games but still caims that they are overrated. You cannot play a game for 5 minutes and determine if it's overrated or not. You have to play it fully or atleast play it for 10 hours to get a good grasp of how the game is. |
There can be games you might not have played that are overrated in your opinion and that statement would hold true. If you've only played one God of War or one Call of Duty, your opinion would be partially correct because the other games in the series are mostly the exact same. Same gameplay, games play through the same way, etc. If you've played Demon's Souls and disliked the game. While Dark Souls is a connected world, that's the main difference, so you could call that game overrated because it very similar, almost exactlty like its predecessor.
So there are games you don't necessarily have to play before you can accurately come up with the opinion that they're overrated to you.
If it's a new IP, a game you've never played, etc, then no, you really can't say it's overrated without playing it enough to know if that's what you think, but not 10 hours. You don't need to put 10 hours into a game to know whether the game is for you. Some games you might. Some games like Dragon Warrior 7, Star Ocean the Second Story, etc, actually take two hours before you get into the gameplay, and you need to put in atleast a little time into the gameplay itself. Most games however, you could put in four hours or less and have a good idea on what the rest of the game is going to play like.
I think that the games should be played atleast long enough for the player to gain access to every gameplay feature available. Tales of Graces F you have to play the game for a period of time before you even get access to the B Artes. You're missing out on half of the gameplay with the limited amount of A Artes and lack of B Artes if you don't play to where your characters become an adult.
So the time thing is really on a game by game basis, but four hours is more than enough for you to gather a good opinion on most games.
