has to be alien isolation. ai is ass, acts totally randomly, every room is the same, the environment doesnt make sense. i felt real pain playing it.
also control. whoever made those maplayouts and radar, they both should be shot on site right at the office.
AI was great until the gaming community does what it does best, dissect the everliving shit out of it. Once the game became known then all the charm was gone because the AI followed strict, easy to bypass rules.
I never understood why Breath of the Wild was so beloved. I played through it and Tears of the Kingdom, but I really wonder if they would have been as well received if they didn’t benefit from the Zelda franchise.
I found myself getting annoyed with the game more often than excited. I very quickly became annoyed encountering koroks, or shrines, or the stupid sign guy. I think the bevy of side quests and collectibles diluted too much of the narrative and enjoyment of the world.I’m also a botw hater. No Zelda dungeons, forces you to explore with shitty weapon health mechanic. I disabled that in the emulator and realized how pointless exploration was when you didn’t need to replace your weapons. I’ll give it the glider but every open world game has a glider now so there’s better choices.
Breath of the Wild seems like it would make more sense if you’re a kid.
I know I would’ve spent countless hours just wondering the world, considering the real one kinda sucks.
Botw is the worst thing to happen to games in years. I enjoyed it when it came out, thought it was a good game but bad Zelda game with it’s lack of progression having a single toolset you get immediately.
But then everyone started copying it, Becoming open world games for no good reason, just to pad game length with travel and crafting whether or not it actually supports the central gameplay loop
My problem with BOTW after enjoying many other Zelda games was that my weapons broke and for some reason I was never able to get past that which made me not enjoy the game and quit.
Skyrim. It’s a broken mess of a game that’s barely held together by duct tape and hope, and it would be treated as such if it wasn’t for the modding community. Most of the game is fetch quests, and the magic system is just bad. Melee combat sucks, too. All one handed weapons feel the same, all the two handed weapons feel the same. The only actually interesting path of progression is the stealth archer, and I’m pretty sure that’s an accident.
Probably the best sandbox ever made though, just a shit game.
I think Skyrim is the perfect answer to this question. It’s a good game. Everyone has played a billion files because while it’s good it’s entirely unfocused and mediocre so people don’t feel motivated to take their character to the end of the game
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checks I have more than 500 hours in the game and the furthest I ever got in the main quest is the Thalmor embassy mission.
The one time I tried I got a progression blocker bug
The fetch quests were particularly disappointing for me, given the history of Elder Scrolls games (cough cough Morrowind cough). I didn’t mind the combat system (being able to equip anything in either hand was an improvement over previous games), but much of it did feel the same.
Fallout New Vegas. People act like it’s the best open world game of all time. I just found it boring running around the desert. There are both much prettier open world games, and much more immersive open world games.
It’s an RPG with an open world, not a looter shooter with RPG elements.
And so many people say its so much like 1 & 2.
I love Fallout 1 & 2. I cannot get behind New Vegas. I’ve played through the whole thing, and I’ve tried revisiting it a few times and I just don’t get the praise its given.
Fallout 3 and New Vegas both aren’t 1 & 2, but I prefer 3 over New Vegas.
The Last of Us part II demolished the prestige of The Last of Us. Its storytelling devastated the technical prowess of the company’s workers. To date, Naughty Dog hasn’t been able to produce any relevant game after circa The Last of Us. They produced part II which sold fine thanks to its predecessor, and they have made remasters and derivatives of the first game which is their milking cow.
Yet, part II has a following cult like flatearthers.
According to this thread overrated means either “games I didn’t like” or “games that didn’t work for me”.
Yes? I don’t understand this comment I don’t think. Isn’t that exactly what it means, the majority of people like this thing, and I don’t? Making it over rated? It’s not like there’s the “game rater” on earth like you might find a “name rater” in pokemon. Not like you can say “oh this guy objectively got this one wrong”.
No clue what name rater in pokemon is, but you do have OpenCritic, MetaCritic and the various awards some games get. I don’t think liking a game and thinking it’s overrated are mutually exclusive.
Okay. So what’s overrated to you then? You seem to have a different view than I do.
Is it AAA games that don’t deserve all the reviews and attention, so by definition, they’re overrated?
I’m genuinely curious too, maybe I should think of “over” or “under” rated, as more than just another way of saying “hot take” and expressing a generally contrarian opinion.
No, I don’t think it’s just AAA games that don’t deserve all the hype, I think indie games can be overrated too. To give an example of both categories:
For AAA, it has to be The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for me. And, I suppose, by extension Tears of the Kingdom. Good games, great characters and I really like the guardian enemy designs. Additionally, the game is a great showcase of what the hardware in the Nintendo Switch is capable of. The game is also highly rated on review sites and has received so many awards, wikipedia actually has to list them in a spreadsheet.
However, I genuinely think previous Zelda games are more fun. I think the vast, open world actually hurts the game, as it gradually becomes less about exploring and more about checking off tasks like finishing shrines and finding korok seeds. Previous Zelda games had smaller, more focused worlds and I think they were better for it. And even one would choose to ignore that, there’s the fact that weapons break every two seconds and you constantly have to replace them, which I feel most reviewers just glossed over. Combat is pretty frequent, after all, so it does get grating. In previous Zelda games you get the weapon and you keep it.
For indie, I have to point at Don’t Starve. And I want to focus on the original, not Don’t Starve Together, which has a slightly different approach. Very pretty, with great animations, involved game mechanics and great replayability. It is also well reviewed and was nominated for several awards (I think it only won one, but being nominated is impressive enough, I think).
I liked it well enough, but ultimately bounced off it. Reason being, I found the game kind of stingy with telling you how some of its mechanics work, so I played it with a wiki open in my browser. I also couldn’t bring myself to make additional playthroughs because of its glacial progression.
Sorry for the wall of text, but I hope this explains my position a little bit.
Thanks for the reply! So, you’re basically saying, in both examples, trying not to be reductionist here, but, “these are great games, and you don’t like them as much as everyone else seems to”. Very few people are going to have no complaints at all. I don’t see how my original point is invalid or how this is a different definition of overrated. Or how you stating your opinion is any different or more nuanced than anything else in this thread. Like, I could also just say your take on Zelda is just “a mechanic I don’t like”. So…
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Pattern here: both of them had sick music.
Diablo 2
Boo this man
I had an extremely many hundreds of hours good time with this game during its era
Blasphemy.
Half Life 3
Absolutely unplayable.
Fallout 3 is the only game I’ve ever purchased new then sold after a few weeks of boredom.
Candy Crush and the million remakes from the same publisher. Stole the core mechanic from Bejeweled but designed to be addictive instead of fun.
Also how are you so shameless that you’ll publish remakes of a game you stole in the first place?
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A pretty hefty amount of popular mobile games were actually rips of flash games with microtransaction added lol.
Everything Nintendo maybe except Pokemon
how do you say except pokemon, it’s like the worst franchise they own
I enjoyed at least one pokemon game long ago, which i can’t say about no other nintendo game. So while Pokemon is overrated too, it is slightly less overrated than everything else.
I hate the company for the way they enforce their copyrights and how they price games that have been out for a decade or more as if they released last week, but I really like the games, other consoles only have 2 or 3 exclusive games that are worth playing, but Nintendo has so many bangers. Maybe it’s also the fact that I grew up playing mostly Nintendo games that clouds my judgement, but their games just give me such a good vibe.
Fair enough, i mean the question of “overratedness” is subjective in the first place, i ranked Nintendo first because no nintendo game make me want to play it.
Nintendo being one of if not THE shittiest game company out there is separate issue
Pokemon is the most overrated series? Everyone game is the same except for 100 new monsters and 1 new battle gimmick and yet it makes more money than Mickey fuggin Mouse
Minecraft
EA sports/fifa.
I’ll play flappy bird over that any day.
They’re video games for people who don’t like videogames.
For me it’s Mario 64.
I’m old enough to have tried it when it was new and my opinion back then was that the controls made it nearly unplayable. I tried it again a couple years ago and I still agree with my kid self.
You just suck at video games it sounds like.
I haven’t kept up since the Galaxies but to me SMB3 is the epitome
It’s such a hard choice for me between SMB3 and Super Mario World. Both awesome games.
I just want, like, a bunch of new adventures using g the assets and rough blueprint of SMB3, Super Mario World, Super Matroid, and Link to the Past. I know there’s things out there people have done to the ROMs that are essentially this and I keep needing to go look for them and… not.
I’ll throw hands with anyone who doesn’t like SMB3
