Underrated/Overlooked games that became overrated

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bigtakilla said:

Richard_Feynman said:

Scoobes said:
Final Fantasy IX is a good shout. It sold the least out of the PS1 FF games but fans seem to praise as if its the second coming. Actually, a lot of Final Fantasy games (VI, IX, X and XII) could probably fit in this as each new iteration leads to mass criticism from old school fans, but five years later you get a whole host of people loving the game and complaining about the following iteration.

Rest assured, this will NOT happen with FF XIII.

Yeah, it's been 4 years and I think we can all still pretty much agree that series was shit, which is why only about a million people out of the initial 7 million stuck around for the end lol. 

Might be the reason. Might not. Sequels of games like FF or Pokemon (Black and White 2) never sell that well regardless of the quality of the games. Grand Theft Auto 4 was the best reviewed game, sold extremely well and yet the expansions didn't sell as well as Rockstar expected, despite being good. I think it'd be unrealistc to expect a Mario Galaxy 1-2 (instead of Mario Galaxy 2) to sell as well as the first one (though Mario Galaxy 2 also sold considerably less than 1, despite the larger install base and reviewers saying that it was better than the first and what sequels should be). The title alone makes people not want to give it a chance. 

Of course that was probably not the case with FF13-2 and 3, but I'm sure it played a role.