What this man said...whatever his name is

I've never been a fan of GTA, but I have a massive hard-on for Gun. And that was an open world western game just like RDR... It was the perfect match for my hype meter. The gaming journalist were doing their hype bullshit saying it had a deep ecosystem mechanic with the animals and the open world was huge with a fuckload of exploration. Western guns, a bunch of unique towns, Clint Eastwood movie in game form... Not only that but the reviews were raving. I read from the New York Times or some other big publication that ''Red Dead Redemption is a Tour-de-force of the human condition'' Holy shit indeed.

Instead, I got one of the weakest open worlds with practically zero exploration. Literally, if you look at the landscape it's just a flat slab. You can't climb, there are no tunnels  to explore (exept for one which rips off a shootout scene from Gun), no caves to explore, the nooks and crannys a la canyons and plateaus are weak and act more as routs of easy transportation rather than actual landscape to explore and enjoy. Plus, the graphics killed my boner. It was seriously hyped how good this game looked... yeah, no it doesn't. Pop in central, low resolution, just looked really rough around the edges. Then again I played the ps3 version and the 360 one is regarded as being vastly superior. So take that for what it's worth...

Towns... oh god. After all the FF13 bitching and moaning, I completely said "fuck that". I don't want towns in FF13 if they turn out like RDR and nor should anyone else. Each one is nothing more than a copy pasta of "gamblin' house, gun shop, merchant, and cloths store and..." oh wait, that's it. Seriously, I really wanted it to feel like a lively 1800s setting but all it has is 4 locations of interest and mindless npcs roaming around. Rockstar didn't even have to release a Halloween edition considering the towns were already filled with zombies. (BTW, Gun had the same setup... just saying)

Early on, the player receives the Evans Repeater. It's a 22 shot gun and is honestly the most useful item in the game. Why? Because each gun is practically identical except for the clip size. Other issues I had was that the story was good and I enjoyed it, except the storytelling is atrocious. Treking 10 minutes through the desert as important information is being dumped on me every half hour or so is bad, It's just horrendous storytelling and very lazy. Plus all the challenges are ripped straight from that one western game I continually keep mentioning. And in some cases, they didn't even rip off correctly. The hunting in Gun is awesome where you have to hunt actually interesting animals and they could seriously fuck you up. Like hunting the great white buffalo for example. That was actually a fun challenge.

I was not happy with this Gun 1.5

Honestly, I have no idea what other people see in this game to say it was GOTY. If anything, I was pissed off and wanted to punch someone when I finished the main story and it was time to ride home. Some music started playing as I drove home on my mechanical horse and that anger turned into sever facepalm. Just a horribly overrated game from an even more overrated company.

Kinect

*runs away*

I'll add two more on here.

Super Mario Galaxy 2. More like an expansion than anything, more of the same and less of the new.

God of War 3. Now I don't think what-so-ever that GoW3 is bad. It is a fantastic game. However I feel that some take it to a new level in terms of awesomeness when it really isn't. I LOVED God of War 2 so I had high expectations so it was possibly my fault. I really hate the way Kratos was controlled with the new camera and the intentional frame drops drove me up and over the wall. Like I said, awesome game though. Hope they make a 4th.

Your entitled to your opinion, so please stay. I agree with you as well. Soooo.........

mass effect 2 and civ v, in the case of mass effect 2 the first one was glitchy but really fun the second was great technically but fucking boring, and for civ v they remove half the things from civ 4 beyond the sword and sell the game as a sequel

I totally agree as well. If I had to pick a game this year, it was would be fable III. It was just meh, I think fable is becoming my least favorite WRPG franchise now. (It is sad, because it was also my start into western RPG games)

Red Dead Redemption 

I'm glad someone else is noticing this as well, Dragon Age 2 will be Mass Effect 2 all over again, a watered down sequel that has only fragments of a skeleton of an RPG left with focus on Hollywoodesque action with button spamming, to appeal to a broader audience (like I've explained in other threads eariler though, RPG's are the last genre you want to water down, you're going to end up with games that no one wants, too complex for the more casual gamer and too shallow for RPG fans).

This. I didn't think anyone could make a game worse than FF8. Until this came out. But the words "Final Fantasy" meant that people gobbled it up and praised it like the second coming.

Actually, it's odd but I loved Red Dead Redemption and it's one of my GOTY but I still think it might be overrated.

Perhaps it is because of the lackluster online mode.

It's certainly not the most overrated game of the year though.