Overhyped and overrated games + Bashing Ico

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headphonics

#121 May 15, 2008, 02:54:32 pm

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Yea, and now we have a bazillion shitty RPGMaker, Game Maker, etc. etc. games.

yeah except commercial games coming out from any smalltime developer for the nes and... amateur rpg maker games coming out on the internet aren't even remotely comparable!

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darkjak951

#122 May 16, 2008, 03:02:44 am

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ugh......
sonic the hedgehog (360/PS3). Soooo over hyped, turned out to be dissapointing. Now I didnt HATE it, but compared to previous titles as well as secret rings, it was ass.

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#123 May 16, 2008, 06:52:24 am

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Quote from: maladroithim on May 13, 2008, 04:50:15 pm

Call of Duty 4

I tried to get into this because everyone likes it so much but holy crap I hated it. The single-player campaign was some sort of weird mix between Doom and Counter-Strike and it really just didn't do it for me. The multiplayer felt basically the same but with a levelling system that slowly doles out features and abilities that maybe it would have been nice to have access to in the first place (but yeah making numbers go up is fun). I guess I can see how some (most) people think its really great but when I was playing it I couldn't help but think about how I could have been playing more creative shooters with more interesting weapons and enemies. Maybe this is the Michael Bay blockbuster of shooters or something and since I don't really LOVE shooters then it's a pretty bad fit!

man find a friend who's beaten the game and play the epilogue at least. that is seriously one of the most ridiculous levels in any video game ever.

also i want to say that Final Fantasy XII is overrated but I've never actually played it because I could never get past the intro. I was honestly embarrassed to be playing the game even though I was in the room by myself.

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#124 May 16, 2008, 07:22:40 am

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GTA4, it was so generic. The only thing it did great was with character ineraction in the city. The controls and all the systems sucked.

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#125 May 16, 2008, 07:27:42 am

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#126 May 16, 2008, 12:10:44 pm

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#127 May 16, 2008, 09:31:49 pm

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Halo 3, it's story sucked ass and the multiplayer was kind a dissapointment to me,
Plus anything over the first final fantasy is crap to me just because it's fan base bait.

I was told alot of good tihngs about crystal chronicles, my friend said it was really cool and the weapons were awesome and gameplay was original, so I tried it, and I beat it in somewhere around two hours excluding a bathroom break. I was so very pissed at how short it was, The only hard part of the game was the labrynth thing and that wasn't even very hard.

most of the sonic games get alot of hype and I think there crappy as hell. That's an opinion though on a non opinionated stand point most of them are good except for secre tof the rings or w/e.

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Tau

#128 May 17, 2008, 12:25:57 am

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Another series I think is overrated(In my opinion) is the Zelda series, I just never saw why those games were so highly regarded, I just couldn't get into any of them.

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#129 May 17, 2008, 01:29:57 am

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Quote from: headphonics on May 13, 2008, 02:39:17 am

alright, now i know what you're talking about. i'd forgotten how much the models varied between battles and the overworld and the cutscenes. buuuut do you really still play ff9 and listen to vivi wax philosophically about what it is/....to be a human... and then go get in some random battles and fight a boss maybe and have kuja fly over on a dragon going MUAHAHHA..my plans... and think "man this is a really enjoyable experience for me"? like it seemed so poorly done that i'm actually kind of surprised that there's anyone who legitimately still thinks it's a good game! i'd never played it at all before like a month or so ago but the consensus always seemed to be that it was kind of a fuck up.

Yes, the games pretty solid. I enjoy it from time to time.

Overrated game for me?

Maybe Halo. Never got into it. But I don't know if it's overrated per se.

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darkjak951

#130 May 17, 2008, 02:11:05 am

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Quote from: Erave on May 17, 2008, 01:29:57 am

Yes, the games pretty solid. I enjoy it from time to time.

Overrated game for me?

Maybe Halo. Never got into it. But I don't know if it's overrated per se.

Agreed. I will admit though, Halo 3 was awesome for a while and seemed to live up to it's hype for that time. It took me 2 weeks to realize that it is just like any other Halo game, its been done before but better. With that said, I still do play it occasionally due to the fact that there are lots of people still online and its pretty fun at most times(the new map pack sure as hell beat the previous one)

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#131 May 17, 2008, 07:56:38 am

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Quote from: Tau on May 17, 2008, 12:25:57 am

Another series I think is overrated(In my opinion) is the Zelda series, I just never saw why those games were so highly regarded, I just couldn't get into any of them.

Well, I think that the Zelda games are really good. I've not played them all, but the ones I have played were pretty good. I can see why you'd say they're overrated, though.

This may be a far stretch (or it may be something that everybody else in the world has figured out by now) but I think one reason is the fact that people are always touting "their" console as the best. The Zelda series has become virtually synonymous with Nintendo and has always been qualitatively high and accessible to a large audience, so it's not surprising people would exaggerate a little when praising it.

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#132 May 23, 2008, 02:51:56 am

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Hey guys, heres another one to add to the ever growing list:

Haze
oh dear lord was that one hyped. I don't own a ps3, but my friend bought the game and i was there with him and a couple of my other buddies. So we played it and what happened? IT SUCKED! How did Ubisoft and Free Radical screw this one up?! The only good things i can say about the game are the visuals(Chritics are wrong when they say the graphics in this game are bad), guns, nectar-powers, and the mid-story side switch. Everything else is broken from the AI to your comrades who try to see who can be a better cave man. Honestly, this game makes me want to shoot Free Radical and Ubisoft. Unfortunantly Ubisoft made a crapload of good games and Free Radical created Golden Eye 64(i think) so one mistake(a very big and overhyped one at that) should not make them be hated. Its just one game......ONE ABYSMAL PIECE OF SHIT GAME! *cools down*

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#133 June 02, 2008, 08:56:42 am

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Been playing me some Okami on the Wii recently. It's not floating my boat and I keep playing it, expecting it to blow me away at any second... but it doesn't. At least it LOOKS pretty... well almost, the graphics are nice, but there this stupid motion blur filter running the whole time, it just makes the game look like a giant PSP game!

Oh, while I'm here I might as well just say that Ico and Shadow of the Colossus are shit.

Aye, Darkjak, Haze is a lump of the smelliest shit! I don't have a PS3, so you'd think it wouldn't bother me, but it does! See, if Free Radical weren't busy wasting their time on this shit festival, we'd have TimeSplitters 4 by now! Fucking assholes!

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#134 June 02, 2008, 12:20:16 pm

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Quote from: Tau on May 17, 2008, 12:25:57 am

Another series I think is overrated(In my opinion) is the Zelda series, I just never saw why those games were so highly regarded, I just couldn't get into any of them.

I'd say it's just not your thing. For some people they're the perfect combo of action, story and puzzle solving while others just don't get into it.

I love Zelda but I don't like any of the Metroid games, for example. I wouldn't call them overrated though, just not my style.

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#135 June 02, 2008, 02:39:28 pm

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Breath of Fire V
I had such high hopes for this game, to have them shot down to earth. Blood dragon counter and sucky characters. ;.;

Suikoden IV
The worst of the series with 1-dimensional characters and terrible graphics at some points. And a story that sucked haaaard. And the Main Character looked like a chicken/duck when he ran.

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headphonics

#136 June 02, 2008, 04:12:00 pm

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Quote from: PTizzle on June 02, 2008, 12:20:16 pm

I'd say it's just not your thing. For some people they're the perfect combo of action, story and puzzle solving while others just don't get into it.

I love Zelda but I don't like any of the Metroid games, for example. I wouldn't call them overrated though, just not my style.

nah i think it's pretty overrated and i like those kinds of things. i haven't played twilight princess, but for everything else the action is repetitive and button-mashy, the story is either dumb or just hardly there, and the puzzles fluctuate between stupidly easy and frustratingly difficult, meaning that you rarely go through a dungeon (which tend to be too long imo) and just have it be a nice, balanced, challenging experience so much as it is really easy for a while before you hit some silly cockblock you spend thirty minutes trying to figure out. they're alright at designing dungeons, but the puzzles they throw into them really kind of drag them down a lot of the time i think! and also the boss fights are kind of fun but are all ultimately really simple too.

people pretty regularly refer to them as some of the BEST GAMES EVER and they're clearly not so i'd say that's enough to qualify them as overrated!

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#137 June 02, 2008, 07:57:46 pm

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Halo 1 was a great game. The multiplayer, while limited, was extremely well-balanced. It was a bit slower, allowing reflexes and skill to come into play.

Halo 2 and 3 were like the toddler-friendly versions of Halo. What a horrible travesty they were. Everything is faster, weapons are way off balance, and you can jump 50 feet in the air and basically float. All the "best" players jumped, all the time.

It just makes me wonder, why IS is so difficult to break into the game industry when so many developers are morons? That's a rhetorical question, btw.

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#138 June 02, 2008, 08:49:20 pm

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Quote from: Liberty on June 02, 2008, 02:39:28 pm

Breath of Fire V
I had such high hopes for this game, to have them shot down to earth. Blood dragon counter and sucky characters. ;.;

Man, how is it overhyped or overrated? BoF5 wasn't hyped at all, and it hasn't gotten such great reviews either. If anything, it's a really underrated game and one of the best PS2 RPG's but Capcom's only mistake was to name it Breath of Fire because all the fans expecting another traditional/generic JRPG were disappointed.

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Suikoden IV
The worst of the series with 1-dimensional characters and terrible graphics at some points. And a story that sucked haaaard. And the Main Character looked like a chicken/duck when he ran.

Agreed, easily the worst Suikoden game and a really average RPG but again, it wasn't praised and it didn't really get good reviews (I think) so I don't really see how it's overhyped or overrated. Some diehard Suikoden fans might love it (I remember when RPG told me it's better than S3 but I think he changed his opinion since then) but I have mostly seen people whining about it.

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headphonics

#139 June 03, 2008, 12:22:47 am

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Yeah man Suikoden 4 got pretty bad reviews. It's still overrated though, because they all gave it 5 or 6/10 and imo it should've been more like a THREE because it's by a wide margin the single worst RPG I played that generation, so yeah.

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#140 June 03, 2008, 04:59:03 am

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Hey, where I was hanging out at the time of release it was overhyped. Everyone was looking forward to it and saying it was gonna be the best thing since sliced cheese when WHAMMO! Sucksville.

As for BOFQ, I read a few articles that hyped it up as an innovative, new and improved, better than ever before Breath of Fire! And again, sucksville.

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