What's the most overrated game ever in your opinion?

[Nymeria]

CladInShadows said:

Nymeria said:
I never got Myst growing up, but it sold so many copies (6 million making it the best selling PC game of all time back then) in the 1990s. People acted like it was the future of gaming when I saw a pretty average puzzle adventure game held up by new technology of CD visuals.

A more recent title that I thought was far better, but didn't come close to Myst sales was The Witness. Some games feel very time and place and don't age well, and think Myst was one of those technological curiosities that is lost when going back with twenty years of advancement.

Myst had two things going for it.  The great graphics (at the time) and the puzzle difficulty.  The puzzle difficulty has definitely held up, even if the graphics haven't.  Especially in the second game, Riven.  If you can beat Riven without a walkthrough, it's a massive accomplishment, and very satisfying.

I thought The Witness gave me just enough information to solve the various puzzles to give me that "ah-ha!" moment.  Myst never gave me that feeling in the same way.  Many games people are mentioning here I adore so obviously tastes differ.  I think Myst sold majority of its copies as a tech marvel and there is that niche core audience that could appreciate its greater complexity.  It never had that Super Mario or Doom or Street Fighter effect of changing the landscape with all sorts of copy cats that persist to this day. For a game that sold so much I don't think it has the legacy other massive sellers of the time have had.  Would you put it on your top 100 all time game list? I'm not sure many people would.