The Most Overrated Games (Ars Technica)

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Which of the listed games do you think are most overrated?
Dragon's Lair	17	4.84%
Gears of War	44	12.54%
Halo	111	31.62%
LoZ: Twilight Princess	27	7.69%
Skylanders	11	3.13%
Super Meat Boy	11	3.13%
Super Paper Mario	8	2.28%
Wii Sports	20	5.70%
None of them are overrated	61	17.38%
See results	41	11.68%
Total:	351

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sethnintendo on 10 December 2012

I voted for Halo because I played a better space FPS shooter on the PC years before Halo was ever released. It was called Starsiege: Tribes.

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Vankwisha on 10 December 2012

Gotta be halo! :P

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bananaking21 on 10 December 2012

batman and infamous are the two most over rated games this gen

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theRepublic on 10 December 2012

For me, every single game in the racing sim genre is completely overrated.

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kain_kusanagi on 10 December 2012

The poll question should be "What game are you most butt-hurt over it's success?", because that's what people voting for Halo are really anwsering.

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SnakeDrake on 10 December 2012

I haven't played any of those games

But for me I would of add Resident Evil revelations on that list. Its enjoyable to some degree but I didn't found it great. Some people here thinks it desevers to be a GOTY nominee lol

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Proclus on 10 December 2012

Hmm, I'd put Uncharted and Killzone on that list within a heartbeat.

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HELL NO @ Twilight Princess.

It was the finest game last generation, an absolute masterpiece from start to finish. Skyward Sword, on the other hand...

imo, Twilight Princess is the best modern Zelda I've played. Then Skyward Sword. Wind Waker was way too easy for my tastes. Great art direction though and I loved what they did with Toon Link.

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TheKoreanGuy on 10 December 2012

Proclus said:
Hmm, I'd put Uncharted and Killzone on that list within a heartbeat.

Killzone is highly underrated, yet it's a pretty solid shooter if you ask me. Ask a typical shooter fan and they won't know what Killzone is. Uncharted, on the other hand, I can agree with if people think it's overrated.