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God of war was very overhyped, it was easy even on spartan dificulty.

it wasn't very innovative either...and it had a few plot holes that didn't make sense to me...

Yeah, God of War was hyped big time, but I actually loved the game. Not much new there, and there were some holes, but it was fun to play and absolutely great to look at.

Since this thread is going strong and since I've already made my feelings known about Halo, I suppose I'll nominate some more.

Madden NFL: All of them.

Call of Duty 2: multiplayer is good, but the single player is basically a shorter version of CoD with grunts, gasps and a stupid grenade indicator.

Doom 3: Never much liked the Doom series, but people told me I had to try this one. Still didn't like it.

what? All of them? You mean there was more than one?

I thought they just changed the number and box art every year...

Odd - I loved Railroad Tycoon 3. And one of my friends also liked it so much after playing it once on my PC, he went out and bought his own copy.

Guess we all have different tastes!

lol we played duringing lunch hour (or 3) one lad used to get sea sick!
Hexen used to confuse me.

Loved Wolfenstein, thats a classic.

Black and White - too much time spent trying to figure out what the hell you were supposed to do and why you're creature kept throwing up.

Personally, I thought Halo for the PC was a pretty cool game. It opened me up to the FPS arena (I was always an RTS guy), and even though I've now played several FPS games, Halo still stands out as one that was tons of fun. Although, I agree the ships got a bit boring and the Library level was like "Ok, maybe this is the end... no? Ok, then maybe this is the end... no? Ok then..."

Best games I ever played (in no particular order):
AoE2
AoE3
AoM
Freespace 2 - Best storyline EVER!
Halo
SW: Kotor2
SW: Republic Commando

HL2 remains my all time favorite FPS, and even having played the beta I was absolutely amazed, I wish I could recapture that feeling.

Farcry was also amazingly awesome, even with the trigens. Shit, there is no other game out there that actually makes you feel like you've DONE something, unlike these other sissy games where "hard" is there to make the casual gamer feel good about himself. If you take the time, farcry can really make you THINK.

Personally I think a game is what you make it. If you go into a game and say to the developers "ok, show me" you're failing, because games are built around the player (or at least good ones).

In this respect DooM3 failed for me. Granted I really was hoping that it would be like they described, where you could hide from enemies in the dark etc. but no we got the teleport in behind you stuff. Basically it was a game where you had to have the way to play it in your system, it was almost purely twitch based.

Quake4 on the other hand I found to be much better than I expected, long, involved, and HARD.


I like my games hard, and I play them on hard the first time, every time. If you dont want your games to push you to think, then, well, I dont know what to tell you.

One counter example that I encountered is BiA. I love realism games, and I guess its not fair to call BiA realism, but the way it was marketed sure led to some misconceptions. It was also a console port so I guess that sort of makes it differnt. Needless to say I didnt really enjoy the gameplay because it was so gimicky. They claimed you could play the game w/o crosshairs, and maybe you could, but it sure didnt help that they broke the ironsights and gave guns a 2 foot cone fire. Sure, its to make you use your squad, but the implementation was absolute trash on the computer.


Anyway, if you dont feel like reading that, DooM3 (though it was rated pretty low anyway) and BiA. HL2 and FC rock


OH!!!!!!!!!!

WHERE IS WOW?!?!?!? Most over rated game ever? WORLD OF WARCRAFT. HELLO!!!!

AMEN to that one. DS was absolutely horrible. The landscape was so bright I felt like I was on LSD, and the game is 90% inventory management with teensy-weensy item icons. Almost every item you find or buy is a slight improvement over the former - like on the order of .10 percent. So you're constantly swapping things in and out of what was probably the #1 most awful inventory system ever designed (likely inspired by Ultima) . . . UGH!

Oh, yeah, and I nominate any version of Ultima Online.

Not sure about overhyped, but the #1 worst time I was suckered was Sierra's Lords of Magic. I still boycott them to this day (and probably have missed out on one or two decent games . . . ) . . .boy, it was a STINKER.

Halo 2, FEAR, Prey (though it was very solid in rather unique ways, but underwhelming regardless) on the higher side of its reviews though many got it right.

Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy if you played the US version) somehow outscored Dreamfall in reviews...?_?... It baffles me.

Oblivion, for all its awesomeness, continued the extremely disturbing trend of dumbing down the Elder Scrolls series. It also had a deeply flawed leveling system by default. Even mods had difficulty repairing such a broken aspect of the game.

That Brothers in Arms WW2 series.

All the Source ports made by Valve. They're actually a very average developer when they rush their products...

You could pretty much list all the modern mainstream console games.

Speaking of consoles: SNES. I'll take NES over it any day if we're talking about the overall picture. SNES only had a few truly awesome games to rise above the NES, & none to rise above Baseball Stars & Super Mario Bros. 3.

I still say WoW, just because people enjoy it does not mean it isn't overrated.

HL2 has shown up on this list plenty of times, sold millions of copies and was a blast from start to finish imo. I enjoyed FEAR as well, and believe it or not beat Doom3.

What confuses me is this, nobody says Doom3 is was one of the greatest games ever, even folks who didn't mind the game don't glorify it. How can it be overrated if nobody says it's great?

Just saying, it is all subjective.

Now, my reasoning on WoW. I have played MMO since they came out and have beta'd or subscribed to at least 20 MMO's. WoW took everything I liked in previous games, dumbed it down and spoon fed it to me. The economy is straight up crap due to gold sellers making crafting a waste of time. The battlegrounds were pointless due to twinked players at level 12 running around with flaming swords that kill in 3 hits. Add the fact that you have 10yo kids with level 60+ terrorizing the 15+ contested quest zone and it just makes things unfun.

Don't get me wrong, Blizz always creates a solid, playable game. But this game caters to people with lots of time and is not fun for the casual player imo.

Off the wall here, but i played fear 2 because it was so hyped aftera decent game (the first one i mean) and i stopped playing it because it was exactly like the first... exactly... the first level... seriously, just like every other encounter in the first.
Doom... even thought the levels were bland and all similar the gameplay mechanic was entertaining, and it scared the *** out of me (5.1 in the dark kind of gamer)
oh and to the red faction gamer... RF2.. well there is a mod for ut2004 that is basically a total conversion with updated gfx and gameplay.. that sould have been the sequel because it rocks. its called mars wars 3 (version 3 just came out earlier this month)

black and white

obviously. The game just sucked ass. With bugs.

HL2 was great even for its 16 hr (or so) gameplay. Yes, it was updated HL1 gameplay. But HL1 gameplay ROCKED. HL2 just had it all, story, gameplay, graphics.

God of war shouldnt be on this list either. The game is great fun to play, also great story/lore and graphics. To me, both god of war and HL2 are games of high quality, and really shouldnt be on such a list.

Most overrated of all time? That's easy - anything with Half-life or counterstrike in the title gets the gold medal.

Runners-up - COD4 and COD5. I really tried to like both of these games because I was such a huge fan of 1 and 2, but in the end they both have issues that just make them way to frustrating for me to play.

I just never got it with these games. They are just OK to me. Counterstrike is still one of the most played FPS online isn't it? I'm just one of those people that doesn't understand why, lol. So to me = overrated.

So many games, so little space...

HL2 got boring halfway through for me
Fear was super repetitive and looked like a tech demo
Far Cry 2 is yet another super boring tech demo
Left 4 Dead I played the first campaign, then I played one multiplayer game and that was it. No fun whatsoever for me in that one. I still don't get it.

Baldur's Gate

Halo for sure...Played it a few times, even with the direct connect from xbox to xbox , two TV's, type multi player. I really don't see what made this game stick out, there really wasn't anything special compared to others.

Not really overrated(seeing as it got bad ratings to begin with) more or less over hyped, Hellgate: London. "From the makers of the Diablo series!". Sadly true, this game was definitely no " Diablo 3 " that it was hyped up to be. Ya, they created an impressive random 3d map generator. To bad the game looks the exact same, excluding hellgates, from beginning to end. I couldn't even tell when I went from one act to the next. The NPC's were a failed vain attempt at trying to be funny. You could solo the entire game very very easily, that is, until you entered the next difficulty. Which wasn't hard, just stupidly annoying and slow. It was essentially normal mode, but now all the mobs have 5x the health and 2x the damage, and what felt like 1/4 of the experience gain.