Self explanatory.

Anyhow, here's my list:

1. Most of the Call of Duty games.
2. Halo (Mostly Halo Reach)
3. Minecraft
4. Final Fantasy VII
5. Mario (Not all of them, mostly the newer ones)

1. Call Of Duty
2. Minecraft
3. Assassins Creed 3(only this Assassins Creed)
4. Halo 4(only this Halo)
5. Newer Mario games

Remember this is MY top 5 overrated games

1 Final Fantasy VI/VII

2 Call of Duty MW2/3/BO/BO2

3 ASSassin's Creed

4 Skyrim (trololol)

5 Eve Online

1. Call of Duty

2. Angry Birds

3. Temple Run

4 . Halo

5. Minecraft

1- Call of Duty MW3 (the BO saga is preety good)

2- Assassin's Creed 3

3- GTA IV

4- Minecraft

5- 'New' Super Mario games (the 2 first were good, but the others, meh. Nintendo should start thinking of taking away the 'New' in the titles).

i love how everybody has COD in their it's AWESOME

1.COD (more towards the newer cod's MW3/BO2)
2.Minecraft
3.Angry birds
4.Gears of war
5.Newer mario games

This obviously doesn't reflect the quality of the game and is an entirely personal opinion.

(03-29-2013, 10:23 AM)SERIOUSLY THOUGH Wrote: This obviously doesn't reflect the quality of the game and is an entirely personal opinion.

Spoiler

1 - Borderlands (I still don't get why everyone harps on so much about this game. After 20 hours of fetch-quests, shooting the same generic bad-guy for every single bloody one, I couldn't handle life any more.)

2 - Evony (I've never played it, but I had to add it for all the poor souls who were expecting bosoms aplenty.)

3 - Minecraft (I guess it's fun for those who are really into it, but I don't think building a big-ass fort warrants 100 hours of my life.)

4 - Final Fantasy (Not my cup of tea. Tried a few of them as they came out due to the orgasm-level hype and was just underwhelmed. That being said, I never quite got into the lore so it's probably much more exciting for someone who knows all about FF. The tactics game are brilliant, though.)

5 - Skyrim (I have to add this even if I loved it, because of all those *go into dungeon lol duararugh everywhar* missions that seemed to make up most of the game. I wouldn't have been mad if this wasn't the game for which I was waiting.)

yea for skyrim all i did was roam around. I hardly did side quests actually when you hear this it's kinda sad i am level 62 and still have not finished the main quests most quests are the same. Ya know get this, get that, protect this, protect that you always had to be in a dungeon

1)Halo 4
2)Final Fantasy
3)Kingdom Hearts
4)Assassin's Creed 3
5)Dragon age 2

1.Popular video game
2.Popular video game
3.Popular video game
4.Popular video game
5.Popular video game

Is pretty much everyone else's list.

(03-29-2013, 10:49 AM)Lightmatt Wrote: 1.Popular video game
2.Popular video game
3.Popular video game
4.Popular video game
5.Popular video game

Is pretty much everyone else's list.

The fact that popular games make up the most part of people's lists doesn't surprise me - popularity often goes hand in hand with overratedness.
Even a super-popular series won't please everyone, which leads to people believing that a game is overrated.


Friends - "Borderlands is so good !"
SERIOUSLY - "Hmmm, I'll probably enjoy this seeing as everyone seems to like it."
*SERIOUSLY plays Borderlands, but finds it boring after a while*
SERIOUSLY - "Grrrr this game isn't as good as everyone makes it out to be - it's overrated. I'm off to vent my spleen on VGF-Forums".

(03-29-2013, 10:49 AM)Lightmatt Wrote: 1.Popular video game
2.Popular video game
3.Popular video game
4.Popular video game
5.Popular video game

Is pretty much everyone else's list.

Of course. Otherwise it wouldn't be overrated games.

But just to mix things up, I'll post 5 games I LOVE, but post their shortcomings I often ignore.

1. Legend of Mana: the story is confusing at times, many of the characters are very underdeveloped, battles are fixed and cannot be skipped no matter how many times you fight them, and the way you walk in battle is remarkably slow (UNLESS you know how to work the awkward shimmying into twice as fast as walking).

2. Dynasty Warriors series: Obvious repetitive play style, stage layouts are usually pretty boring, and the voice acting is usually pretty bad.

3. VICE: Project Doom: an obvious Ninja Gaiden wannabe with cheesy dialogue.

4. Dark Souls: Online play makes the game obnoxiously hard at times when the differences in game experience greatly differs.

5. Kid Icarud Uprising: this might actually be popular, I don't actually know. The control scheme is fairly difficult when compared to a standard dual joystick style of controlling your aim.

(03-29-2013, 11:27 AM)SERIOUSLY THOUGH Wrote:

(03-29-2013, 10:49 AM)Lightmatt Wrote: 1.Popular video game
2.Popular video game
3.Popular video game
4.Popular video game
5.Popular video game

Is pretty much everyone else's list.

The fact that popular games make up the most part of people's lists doesn't surprise me - popularity often goes hand in hand with overratedness.
Even a super-popular series won't please everyone, which leads to people believing that a game is overrated.

Exhibit A - SERIOUSLY tries Borederlands (pun inteded)

Friends - "Borderlands is so good !"
SERIOUSLY - "Hmmm, I'll probably enjoy this seeing as everyone seems to like it."
*SERIOUSLY plays Borderlands, but finds it boring after a while*
SERIOUSLY - "Grrrr this game isn't as good as everyone makes it out to be - it's overrated. I'm off to vent my spleen on VGF-Forums".

The point I'm making is that you're going to see the same titles lined up from post to post. Heck, first couple of replies has COD somewhere in their posts. I just think this topic has been done to death to the point it becomes a chant.

1) Modern Warfare 3 - Story was good.... and that's about it. Multiplayer falls flat and isn't enjoyable in the slightest. In fact, it's like that with every Infinity Ward game.

2) Halo: Reach - I'm a big Halo fan. And I enjoy all the games... besides Halo: Reach. I went to the midnight release, was so hyped to play it, played it for a month and then just lost interest altogether. Gameplay was worse. The story wasn't even a story, because everyone should know that Reach falls (I mean, the book is even called "The Fall of Reach" for crying out loud).

3) Hitman: Blood Money - I enjoyed #2 and #3 a lot. Fun games. I was always told that Blood Money is the best game in the series, by far. So of course, when I actually tried to play it... it fell flat. Very very flat. Gameplay just wasn't on par. And that's a deal-breaker. A game can have a fantastic story, but the gameplay has to be good to be enjoyable. It's why I gave up playing Assault on Dark Athena. Oh, what a coincidence...

4) Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena - One of my best friends says that this game was the best stealth game he's ever played. And I take that on a high note because he hates stealth games (Doesn't hate stealth, just hates the games that are really focused on it). So... I get to play it and the gameplay was so bad.

5) Minecraft - I love this game. It's probably in my top 5 games of all time. But yet I can see exactly why it's overrated. If you're just playing it vanilla, it can become pretty boring pretty quick. Having to go mining for all the stuff you need. Being an adventurer. Dealing with creepers. But to me, that's what makes the game so fun. The exploring. Some people think that it's a game to see who can build the biggest stuff, or the best stuff. When it's clearly not like that. The game features a lot of... well, farming. And I don't mean that in the literal term (though you can actually be a farmer if you wanted to). And a lot of the time, that's extremely tedious and very boring. And I can see that as a turn-off for the game.

But playing on the PC mostly, I now play with mods. And mods make the game way more interesting. the 2 big ones I use are Tale of Kingdoms and DivineRPG. Tale of Kingdoms, is kind of a short mod which could be beaten in a quite a few hours. But the whole point of that is that you're king over your own kingdom and in order to be that king, you have to be worthy and to be worthy you have to kill enemies, save the lost villagers or kill people at this camp (I don't know the exact term for it). But I find it very useful mixed in with DivineRPG, which adds like 8 new dimensions, 150 new mobs, like 10 bosses, A LOT of new items. If you guys want to see what these mods are like. Go and watch CaptainSparklez' Modded Survival series on YouTube. He's got 51 episodes so far and he's nowhere near done yet.

If something's not rated extremely high, or rated by people at all, and talked about on a constant basis with an enduring legacy then there is nothing to contend with when deciding whether it's rated accurately or not.

I'll refrain from picking games where I would try to systematically break down the game design in a critical sense vs the critical reception, and focus more on games that have an overbearing cult following and what I feel is a false sense of entitlement (if a digital construct inside an inanimate object could have one lol)

Final Fantasy VII
Half Life 2
Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Limbo
Journey

I try rarely to "hate" on anything, and I genuinely love or greatly enjoy these games, but the worship of them and media obsession is Stan-like and begins to grate on my broader sensibilities after awhile. I will try and compile my thoughts as to why from old blogs and posts where I've explained before, and edit them back in, when I can.

If I really hated a highly rated and critically acclaimed game, then I might have just stopped playing it (ie: Batman Arkham City). I won't get into big franchise stuff, that I think is poisoning the industry with overblown toxic, assembly line style HD production, because I just don't play many of them, and can't give a thorough and informed critique like I can with games I like.