littlebigplanet. i had some fun with it, but it didn’t take too long for it to feel pretty boring to me.

Absolutely!

Do you happen to own a 3DS? There's a remake.

Sunset Overdrive. Got some very decent reviews but god do I hate that game. The gameplay doesn't work for me at all. I just don't enjoy it at all. Some games I play and think I'll come back to that another time (but never do) but Sunset Overdrive I made the decision immediately I never want to play this game again. If I was reviewing that game in a commercial publication I probably would have got sacked because I'd have given it about 3% which is totally out of sync with most other reviews.

Also Ocarina of Time didn't pull me in like others. I had both Mario 64 and Zelda OOT on my N64 at one time before I added more titles and Mario got 98% of my game playing time. I'm not the biggest Zelda fan though, I think I enjoyed Windwaker the most of all Zelda's.

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?

To me I say:
Pokemon is overrated, boring and just sooo damn slow, not challenging either.
Uncharted and Last of Us, really mediocre gameplay and offer not much beyond a great presentation.
Arkham series, nothing great, nothing noteworthy to me.
Halo 1, really long and challenging and not a great story.
LA Noire, meh all over, too easy.
Wolfenstein 2, hated the level designs, enemies could instakill you and had to use cover all the time, not fun.
Final Fantasy XV, one of the weaker stories and that last part killed it.
Monster Hunter World, hate that you clip into monsters and fights are drawn out and sloppily presented.
Battlefield 1, Battlefield 4 is vastly better.
Assassin's Creed, all of them.
Diable 3, too easy, weak story.

this.

LOL so you would also compare the gameplay of Super Mario Bros to that of Super Mario Sushine and then say Sunshine should be rated better because the controls are more precise? This does not make sense at all.

Of course you have to rate a game at the time it is released, that is why everyone does this.

And of course you have to take graphics into account when rating a game. Some games, like Crysis for example get most of their appeal by good graphics.

Going by Metacritic's rankings GTA4 which was One of the worst games i have ever played. Generally i think Last of Us, while a great game, is overrated

Don’t throw stones...