Me too Halo 3 was not boring at all but Halo Reach got boring for me quick as hell. Maybe because Halo Reach didn't have the skulls from Halo 3 wich had replayability & halo Reach didn't make you work for the armor & stuff because of how easy it was to get Credits

A number of games forced me to join GameFly:

Dragon Age II, Bulletstorm, Shift: Unleashed

Not saying all of them are completely terrible, I just can't afford to buy games that bring me no joy. So far, GameFly is the perfect solution, for me.

And with the money I'm saving I plan on buying a new 360s. 

This year?  So far I actually don't know a whole lot of overrated games, to be honest.  I thought Bulletstorm was just as praised as it deserved to be, a good title but nothing special.  Dragon Age wasn't even rated all that well in the first place so it's hard to be overrated unless you thought it was absolutely terrible, LittleBigPlanet 2 was even better than the original, Killzone 3 may have been a touch underrated since a lot of people I know said it was better than #2.  Aside from that, there's just been a lot of mediocre titles that seem to get the reviews they deserve.  

This is an old thread and I'm rarely ever keen on posting in old threads, but your overrating the overrated. I just finished Mass Effect 2 a few weeks ago for the first time and I can honestly say that the game is good, but its isn't the innovative, the greatest game ever made or the pinnacle of the generation.

Mass Effect 2 suffers from plenty of issues:

- Combat is just about below average, It's 2010 and when games like Dark Sector from 2008 play much better than a big budgeted new game, then that's a problem.

- The game isn't an RPG. It's just an open Third Person Shooter with a dialogue system. 

- Planet mining is probably the most boring thing I've done in a game since talking to NPC's in Oblivion.

- Load times are long and frequent, once again, it's 2010 and we've seen open world games that are far more open, but have barely any load times. Hell, Nier loads far less than Mass Effect 2, one comes from a major developer with nearly unlimited funding, the other comes from Cavia and a budget of $5 million.

- The whole thing felt formulaic, find squad mate, do squad mate mission, end of interaction with said squad mate until they unexpectedly die towards the end. Most of the choices also fell into the 'good guy' or 'bad guy' category and it was kind of annoying that a game about choices was so limited, especially when Alpha Protocol and Dragon Age had just released and done it better.

- Game was buggy for me (installed on 360), voices would unsync which would break the moment, characters would just pop in while in a conversation, frame rate would take a hit sometimes, my character would get stuck while trying to go into cover and so on.

Overall, I'd give the game an 8.5. I enjoyed the experience and the dialogue, the characters, the visuals and the atmosphere make up for it's many issues, but it does still have issues and they still have to be accounted for. If someone says that Mass Effect 2 is overrated, then I could easily agree with them, because a game with so many issues should never be given a 96 on metacritic. I hold the same stance on Grand Theft Auto 4 and Red Dead Redemption.

Halo Reach.  Its story is awful and it feels outdated

that's because Halo hasn't done anything new since the original...or ever for that matter!  

yet it still gets good reviews. Hype drives this game and that is all.  

Definately Final Fantasy XIII. I have about 40 hours invested into the game and I'm about 80% through it, and I can't make myself play it anymore. Aside from the visuals, the game sucks! I'm selling it.

Hype drives a lot of games...and movies....and any other form of entertainment. That's why phenomenal movies like The Shawshank Redemption are box office flops in spite of being one of the best movies of all time (depending on who you talk to) and games like ICO and Shadow of the Colossus sell very little compared to every cookie cutter FPS out there. 

A lot of games get good reviews because they're pretty, even games that are hardly functional will sell a million copies becuase the graphics are wonderful.  It's all about marketing.  I've long since come to terms with this.  

I was thinking about getting it as well, it will be in the bargain bin soon enough!

to be fair to it, you probabily need to play the first one beforehand.