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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
happydolphin on 10 December 2012

No Sony games in OP? Give me a damn break. And TP overrated? Everyone keeps saying crap about Zelda games, so hellz no.

And Super Paper Mario had 0 buzz. So whatevs to this author, a true douche.



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zumnupy10 on 10 December 2012

Half-Life and Grand Theft auto are the most overrated games ever for me.



happydolphin on 10 December 2012
maverick40 said:
runqvist said:

This list is missing mario galaxy.

You are just looking for attention at this stage, try harder.

God of War.



runqvist on 10 December 2012
maverick40 said:
runqvist said:

This list is missing mario galaxy.

You are just looking for attention at this stage, try harder.

Are you aware that your post is some kind of proof how overrated that game is?



maverick40 on 10 December 2012
happydolphin said:
maverick40 said:
runqvist said:

This list is missing mario galaxy.

You are just looking for attention at this stage, try harder.

God of War.

Ha, I don't agree with you there. God of war is the best in the genre when it comes to Hack and slash.



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maverick40 on 10 December 2012
runqvist said:
maverick40 said:
runqvist said:

This list is missing mario galaxy.

You are just looking for attention at this stage, try harder.

Are you aware that your post is some kind of proof how overrated that game is?

Super Mario galaxy is one of the greatest games of all time. If you said Skyward sword, then I would agree with you. 



runqvist on 10 December 2012
maverick40 said:
runqvist said:

Are you aware that your post is some kind of proof how overrated that game is?

Super Mario galaxy is one of the greatest games of all time. If you said Skyward sword, then I would agree with you. 

And here we go again... it is just your opinion. I can't give my opinion, because some moderator who loves nintendo would ban me instantly.



fmjasinski on 10 December 2012

I would not expect anything different from a sony fanboy, copy and paste an article that all the overrated games are Nintendo or Microsoft exclusives or at least not a Sony exclusive, and ask what the other users think.

Personally, all the games in the list are great games for me, neither of them are overrated and personally I think Wii Sports are underrated to say the least (80/100 in metascore for a really revolutionary game).

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TruckOSaurus on 10 December 2012
pokoko said:
For me it's the original Mario games. My friends used to race over how fast they could beat the first one. I, however, did not care. At all. I owned three Mario games on the NES and SNES and didn't get over halfway in any of them. I didn't like the character, I didn't like the (lack of a) story, I didn't like hitting blocks over and over, the coins, any of it. There were so many better games on the NES. Give me Mega Man any day of the week. I will always believe that the Mario phenomenon is entirely due to the game being included with the system. I have nothing against Nintendo, but I look forward to the day when Mario is in decline so people can discover something different.

How do NES Mega Man games offer a better story than Super Mario? Dr. Willy make 8 robots, kill them all then kick Willy's ass, that's just as bare bones as "Rescue the princess".



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pokoko on 10 December 2012
TruckOSaurus said:
pokoko said:
For me it's the original Mario games. My friends used to race over how fast they could beat the first one. I, however, did not care. At all. I owned three Mario games on the NES and SNES and didn't get over halfway in any of them. I didn't like the character, I didn't like the (lack of a) story, I didn't like hitting blocks over and over, the coins, any of it. There were so many better games on the NES. Give me Mega Man any day of the week. I will always believe that the Mario phenomenon is entirely due to the game being included with the system. I have nothing against Nintendo, but I look forward to the day when Mario is in decline so people can discover something different.

How do NES Mega Man games offer a better story than Super Mario? Dr. Willy make 8 robots, kill them all then kick Willy's ass, that's just as bare bones as "Rescue the princess".

That's not exactly true, as Mega Man did have a better story than Mario, as far as I know.  Still, I said that I think Mega Man is a better game, not that it has a better story, and that's mostly because, in my opinion, the game-play goes beyond just jumping on things.  You had to use a bit of intelligence and the way the worlds were structured gave you options.  Personally, I enjoyed Mega Man a LOT more than Mario.