Most overrated game?

[Alastair Snowpaw]

Even though it's hard to call any fighting game overrated i will say the Mortal Kombat series is overrated.
Mainly it is a very boring world and characters. The fatalities are repetitive and boring, after like the 2 or 3rd of seeing a fatality it stops being silly or interesting.
gameplay wise it's slow and not tense. A block button is also just bleh in a 2d fighting game.
The story is also not as good as poeple say it is and there are other fighting games with better stories for their story modes.

Killzone is an overrated series. I remeber the first being a medicore shooter that tried and failed to beat halo at the time. Why is this series still in any way relevant?

 

[pixelfetish8]

Call of Duty, undoubtedly

 

[PastryOfApathy]

Doom.

It's not bad by any stretch of the imagination but it really hasn't aged super well. At least to me anyways.

 

[SirRob]

Forza, iRacing, Gran Turismo, The F1 games, and many other dedicated racing sims would VERY much like to educate you on the error of that statement. Mario Kart has all the good control and gameplay of a bus in foot deep mud.

I'll rephrase that. The type of control in Mario Kart spoiled me from playing other racing games, because it's simpler than the realistic experience racing sims provide.

 

[Sarcastic Coffeecup]

Battlefield 3. Wasn't that much fun or good.

 

[lupinealchemist]

Doom.

It's not bad by any stretch of the imagination but it really hasn't aged super well. At least to me anyways.

Have you tried modding it?

 

[Schwimmwagen]

Doom.

It's not bad by any stretch of the imagination but it really hasn't aged super well. At least to me anyways.

I think you're right with this, I didn't like vanilla Doom that much when I played it after being spoiled by other fabulous shooters.

Doom with mods, however. Now that's some fun shit. Try Brutal Doom if you haven't already.

 

[Arshes Nei]

Capcom Fighting Games are overrated.

 

[PastryOfApathy]

I think you're right with this, I didn't like vanilla Doom that much when I played it after being spoiled by other fabulous shooters.

Doom with mods, however. Now that's some fun shit. Try Brutal Doom if you haven't already.

I only played it unmodded since I wanted the pure experience. I'll probably try Brutal Doom over break or something though.

Capcom Fighting Games are overrated.

Street Fighter is general is overrated, now Darkstalkers and Jojo are pretty legit. Totally unbalanced clusterfucks, but legit.

 

[lupinealchemist]

Street Fighter is general is overrated, now Darkstalkers and Jojo are pretty legit. Totally unbalanced clusterfucks, but legit.

Hsien-ko is a sadist.

 

[Digitalpotato]

*insert any popular game here*

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[Imperial Impact]

Street Fighter is general is overrated, now Darkstalkers and Jojo are pretty legit. Totally unbalanced clusterfucks, but legit.

But muh rival schools

 

[Lucient]

I agree with Assassins Creed... When I have friends go out to buy the game, I can't look them in the eye and tell them they've made a wise investment.

 

[veeno]

The original Final Fantasy for nes is overrated and has aged horribly.

The ps1 remake is fucking great though.

 

[Arshes Nei]

But muh rival schools

Is one of the few Capcom fighters that's actually underrated.

It's not that I don't like the characters from Darkstalkers, but Rival schools just has the better gameplay.

 

[PastryOfApathy]

But muh rival schools

Rival Schools can suck a dick. Also fuck Karin, stop asking for her to be added to in every game.

 

[Alastair Snowpaw]

Street Fighter is general is overrated, now Darkstalkers and Jojo are pretty legit. Totally unbalanced clusterfucks, but legit.

I find the new jojo's game (it has characters from all 8 parts) more fun and not as imbalanced (no one is as good as petshop was to the rest of the cast in the capcom game), though it plays very differently from the old jojo's game. there's also a ps2 one of part 5 that's not a fighting game but that's not really important to this X3.

 

[Hinalle K.]

league of legends is boring as fuck

elder scrolls games are getting increasingly casual and skyrim is proof of that
they're focusing on graphics over story and it shows
elder scrolls used to be about it's lore and story but now ask anyone what their favorite thing about the game is and it's "wow, did'ja see dem graphics?!"
At least Jeremy Soule is still great

 

[Dire Newt]

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elder scrolls used to be about it's lore and story but now ask anyone what their favorite thing about the game is and it's "wow, did'ja see dem graphics?!"

i liek when you kill a guy and then it shows a video of u killing the guy

 

[benignBiotic]

FFX isn't overrated.

Word. The best thing I usually get in response to it is "The story was kinda cool."

 

[CaptainCool]

FFX isn't overrated.

I don't think the game is overrated, I just think it sucks :c
Most Playstation 2 games aged kind of well. They don't look awful and many modern gameplay mechanics are already in place, be it in a simpler form.
But Final Fantasy X... It has a ridiculous plot, most characters are unlikable and behave in really weird ways and the sphere grid marked the day when character developement in the franchise was essentially abandoned.

 

[Runefox]

elder scrolls used to be about it's lore and story but now ask anyone what their favorite thing about the game is and it's "wow, did'ja see dem graphics?!"

Which is pretty hilarious considering Skyrim's graphics weren't anything to write home about when it was released.

Word. The best thing I usually get in response to it is "The story was kinda cool."

The ending was kinda cool. Except they destroyed it with X-2.

 

[Imperial Impact]

The original Final Fantasy for nes is overrated and has aged horribly.

What?

The ps1 remake is fucking great though.

Load times.

Word. The best thing I usually get in response to it is "The story was kinda cool."

I think X's story is really bad, But everything else is good.

I don't think the game is overrated, I just think it sucks :c
Most Playstation 2 games aged kind of well. They don't look awful and many modern gameplay mechanics are already in place, be it in a simpler form.
But Final Fantasy X... It has a ridiculous plot, most characters are unlikable and behave in really weird ways and the sphere grid marked the day when character developement in the franchise was essentially abandoned.

Square has a weird habit going from a super serious plot to a super silly plot.

 

[Fernin]

league of legends is boring as fuck

elder scrolls games are getting increasingly casual and skyrim is proof of that
they're focusing on graphics over story and it shows
elder scrolls used to be about it's lore and story but now ask anyone what their favorite thing about the game is and it's "wow, did'ja see dem graphics?!"

The funny thing about this is even the golden child of most ES fans, Morrowind, had an equally flat story, and a world that was even shallower than Skyrim when you realize that all that 'unique' text conversation with NPCs is the same couple dozen paragraphs over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over (sensing a pattern here?) again. Morrowind has fewer unique lines of dialog than Skyrim (but still more than Oblivion by about 20 or so) even though all of Skyrim's dialog comes out 2-3 lines at a time.

 

[Digitalpotato]

The funny thing about this is even the golden child of most ES fans, Morrowind, had an equally flat story, and a world that was even shallower than Skyrim when you realize that all that 'unique' text conversation with NPCs is the same couple dozen paragraphs over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over (sensing a pattern here?) again. Morrowind has fewer unique lines of dialog than Skyrim (but still more than Oblivion by about 20 or so) even though all of Skyrim's dialog comes out 2-3 lines at a time.

Even Daggerfall was kinda like that.

"Ah, a city populated by realistic amounts of NPCs who just walk around."
*talks to them... and they all say virtually the exact same thing*
*talks to a unique NPC and they say something different*
*Talks to someone in Hammerfell and they say the exact same thing as someone over in Daggerfall city*