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

[pikashoe]

Ka-pi96 said:

BeardedDragon said:

Those shoddy design decisions you call them might be shoddy compared to later games. But at it's time it was the best you could do. And this is the whole point I came up with in the beginning which you clearly don't seem to understand. You have to rate a game at the time it comes out. Can you name me a game that had for example better graphics than OoT when it came out?

Why? People don't claim games are "the best as of that time" they claim them to be "the best of all time". If people are claiming something to be the best "of all time" then it really should be able to hold up favourably compared to more recent games as well. I've never got why people insist on giving credit for doing something first. IMO doing something better is much more important than doing it first.

That said, I personally wouldn't really rate a game down for it's graphics unless they really are atrocious anyway, so on the graphical side at least I don't think it should matter anyway whether it's outdated or not.

Just to get back to arin. He considers the Zelda sequilitis to be a failure. He thinks that at the time he was too spiteful and didn't get his points across particularly well. He doesn't think that ocarina is a bad game, he thinks it's flawed, but he doesn't hate it.