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Most overated game series.

Halo 286 50.00%
 
Final fantasy 78 13.64%
 
Zelda 45 7.87%
 
Metal Gear 54 9.44%
 
Grand theft auto 109 19.06%
 
Total:572
Kriminology on 25 January 2010

You should put your dichotomy aside.



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killeryoshis on 25 January 2010

I read all the posts on this thread. I'm very dissappointed that somone said the wii series. Those games were never rated high.



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r505Matt on 25 January 2010
dsister44 said:
r505Matt said:
dsister44 said:

I did that just a couple of weeks ago. Me and sixteen friends in a giant room, with four 32in tvs, sodas, and pizza. So much fun ^^

Halo FTW!

Seriously though, 16 player Lan Halo 1 is the easily the most fun I've ever had with games in my life. I'm really jealous that you've done that recently -.-

I voted for FF, because while I do like some of them, most of them are just trashy, and yet when a new one comes out, people talk about it like it's going to be the best game of all time.

It was Halo 3. Not Combat evolved 

Oh, I figured that's what you meant. The experience would be similar between the different games I imagine?



Chris Hu on 25 January 2010

Should have included other on the survey because my vote has to go to Mario. Mega Man is another franchise I think is very overrated.



DeduS on 25 January 2010

lestatdark said:
DeduS said:

Halo ... I just can't see the appeal ... it's a generic FPS with a lame story ... it's perfected blandness. I can only guess that the mp is the main appeal and since I don't like competitive mp too much I may just not get it. I just don't see what's so special about it - there are so many fricking FPS out there - why is this one the be-all and end-all of this huge group of games.

And some of that goes for my #2 (Final Fantasy) as well. Now don't get me wrong, I'm a big FF fan, but I just don't get the hype. There were some great FF games in the 20+ year long history of the franchise, but there were some mediocre ones too. Yet every new entry to the series is celebrated as the reinvention of gaming, when most of the time there is barely anything innovative at all in those games.

Final Fantasy changes it's main gameplay structure with each game of the main installment. They may not be all good, and it isn't the best JRPG series, by far, but tell me, what other JRPG series changes it's main structure throught the main installments?

To be honest, I don't know that many JRPG series - I have played a lot of JRPGs, but Final Fantasy is probably the only one, where I played every installment ... so I can't really judge.

Personally I don't even care about gameplay changes - what I want out of a JRPG is a solid fighting- & leveling-system, interesting characters and a gripping story. (and some fun minigames would be nice ^^) I get that with most FFs - that's why I'm a fan, but there are so many other good or sometimes even better JRPGs out there, which don't get the attention they deserve, while FF is hyped to no end.

FF is nothing special - it's just another game. That doesn't mean that FFs don't deserve any hyping - some of them are amongst the best RPGs I've ever played, but I just feel that the amount of hype relative to the quality of the games is pretty unequally shared. That's why I think FF is overrated. (It's the same for Halo - just way worse.)

 

 



 

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rapsuperstar31 on 25 January 2010

Kingdom Hearts is the most over-rated! I can't pick anything from your list though as Halo would be the only thing I could consider but I just haven't played enough of it to fairly call it over-rated!!



aleusianacht88 on 25 January 2010
DeduS said:

lestatdark said:
DeduS said:

Halo ... I just can't see the appeal ... it's a generic FPS with a lame story ... it's perfected blandness. I can only guess that the mp is the main appeal and since I don't like competitive mp too much I may just not get it. I just don't see what's so special about it - there are so many fricking FPS out there - why is this one the be-all and end-all of this huge group of games.

And some of that goes for my #2 (Final Fantasy) as well. Now don't get me wrong, I'm a big FF fan, but I just don't get the hype. There were some great FF games in the 20+ year long history of the franchise, but there were some mediocre ones too. Yet every new entry to the series is celebrated as the reinvention of gaming, when most of the time there is barely anything innovative at all in those games.

Final Fantasy changes it's main gameplay structure with each game of the main installment. They may not be all good, and it isn't the best JRPG series, by far, but tell me, what other JRPG series changes it's main structure throught the main installments?

To be honest, I don't know that many JRPG series - I have played a lot of JRPGs, but Final Fantasy is probably the only one, where I played every installment ... so I can't really judge.

Personally I don't even care about gameplay changes - what I want out of a JRPG is a solid fighting- & leveling-system, interesting characters and a gripping story. (and some fun minigames would be nice ^^) I get that with most FFs - that's why I'm a fan, but there are so many other good or sometimes even better JRPGs out there, which don't get the attention they deserve, while FF is hyped to no end.

FF is nothing special - it's just another game. That doesn't mean that FFs don't deserve any hyping - some of them are amongst the best RPGs I've ever played, but I just feel that the amount of hype relative to the quality of the games is pretty unequally shared. That's why I think FF is overrated. (It's the same for Halo - just way worse.)

 

 

I do agree with this but alot of the people complaining about FF have never played it, typically dislike jrpgs anyway, or are the type of people to just hate on something because it is popular, your reasoning is sound however.



lestatdark on 25 January 2010
DeduS said:

lestatdark said:
DeduS said:

Halo ... I just can't see the appeal ... it's a generic FPS with a lame story ... it's perfected blandness. I can only guess that the mp is the main appeal and since I don't like competitive mp too much I may just not get it. I just don't see what's so special about it - there are so many fricking FPS out there - why is this one the be-all and end-all of this huge group of games.

And some of that goes for my #2 (Final Fantasy) as well. Now don't get me wrong, I'm a big FF fan, but I just don't get the hype. There were some great FF games in the 20+ year long history of the franchise, but there were some mediocre ones too. Yet every new entry to the series is celebrated as the reinvention of gaming, when most of the time there is barely anything innovative at all in those games.

Final Fantasy changes it's main gameplay structure with each game of the main installment. They may not be all good, and it isn't the best JRPG series, by far, but tell me, what other JRPG series changes it's main structure throught the main installments?

To be honest, I don't know that many JRPG series - I have played a lot of JRPGs, but Final Fantasy is probably the only one, where I played every installment ... so I can't really judge.

Personally I don't even care about gameplay changes - what I want out of a JRPG is a solid fighting- & leveling-system, interesting characters and a gripping story. (and some fun minigames would be nice ^^) I get that with most FFs - that's why I'm a fan, but there are so many other good or sometimes even better JRPGs out there, which don't get the attention they deserve, while FF is hyped to no end.

FF is nothing special - it's just another game. That doesn't mean that FFs don't deserve any hyping - some of them are amongst the best RPGs I've ever played, but I just feel that the amount of hype relative to the quality of the games is pretty unequally shared. That's why I think FF is overrated. (It's the same for Halo - just way worse.)

 

 

You have a very good logic, and I agree to your points to. There are many better JRPG's out there, but the problem is that those doesn't fit into the western idealization of JRPG's. That's why FF's tend to be so high rated on the west, because they tend to be JRPG lite.

Even my favourite FF, FF6 is very lite, when compared to most rpg's. It has an amazing story and pretty good characters, but in terms of game mechanics and development per se, it's very basic.

I don't think the series per se is overrated, at least not the games in the series that I think that stand out from the others (FF6, FFXII, FFVII and FFIV), but I do agree that some of them aren't that good.

That being said, i'd take a SMT game over a FF game anytime of the day, especially the Persona series xD 



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KungKras on 25 January 2010

Final Fantasy.

I'm all for Square changing the gameplay every now and then, but that still doesn't excuse the fact that every gameplay system they have made that strays from the original JRPG formula has been pretty retarded. (especially the junction system and draw system and sphere grid)



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aleusianacht88 on 25 January 2010
lestatdark said:
DeduS said:

lestatdark said:
DeduS said:

Halo ... I just can't see the appeal ... it's a generic FPS with a lame story ... it's perfected blandness. I can only guess that the mp is the main appeal and since I don't like competitive mp too much I may just not get it. I just don't see what's so special about it - there are so many fricking FPS out there - why is this one the be-all and end-all of this huge group of games.

And some of that goes for my #2 (Final Fantasy) as well. Now don't get me wrong, I'm a big FF fan, but I just don't get the hype. There were some great FF games in the 20+ year long history of the franchise, but there were some mediocre ones too. Yet every new entry to the series is celebrated as the reinvention of gaming, when most of the time there is barely anything innovative at all in those games.

Final Fantasy changes it's main gameplay structure with each game of the main installment. They may not be all good, and it isn't the best JRPG series, by far, but tell me, what other JRPG series changes it's main structure throught the main installments?

To be honest, I don't know that many JRPG series - I have played a lot of JRPGs, but Final Fantasy is probably the only one, where I played every installment ... so I can't really judge.

Personally I don't even care about gameplay changes - what I want out of a JRPG is a solid fighting- & leveling-system, interesting characters and a gripping story. (and some fun minigames would be nice ^^) I get that with most FFs - that's why I'm a fan, but there are so many other good or sometimes even better JRPGs out there, which don't get the attention they deserve, while FF is hyped to no end.

FF is nothing special - it's just another game. That doesn't mean that FFs don't deserve any hyping - some of them are amongst the best RPGs I've ever played, but I just feel that the amount of hype relative to the quality of the games is pretty unequally shared. That's why I think FF is overrated. (It's the same for Halo - just way worse.)

 

 

You have a very good logic, and I agree to your points to. There are many better JRPG's out there, but the problem is that those doesn't fit into the western idealization of JRPG's. That's why FF's tend to be so high rated on the west, because they tend to be JRPG lite.

Even my favourite FF, FF6 is very lite, when compared to most rpg's. It has an amazing story and pretty good characters, but in terms of game mechanics and development per se, it's very basic.

I don't think the series per se is overrated, at least not the games in the series that I think that stand out from the others (FF6, FFXII, FFVII and FFIV), but I do agree that some of them aren't that good.

That being said, i'd take a SMT game over a FF game anytime of the day, especially the Persona series xD 

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