Your top 5 Overrated games

[mekanor]

Little Big Planet - I love platformers so I had high hopes for this, but it's absolute trash. Slippery, imprecise and plain old not fun. I can only assume people like the aesthetic or the stickers or something.

[MrSands]

Never got on with Gears of War myself.

[CMcK]

Modern overrated top five:

Shenmue - I fell for the hype but didn't get far into it as it was so dull.

Gran Turismo - so overrated it's incredible. The banality of sitting through a series of driving test coupled with wobbly visuals and the crappy PS pad makes me wonder how it did so well.

Bioshock - you've seen all the enemies quite early in the game and it just gets tedious taking photos and grinding your way through it.

Half Life 2 - starts brilliantly but eventually drags. And the difficulty spikes later on which killed off my remaining interest.

Metal Gear Solid - utter drivel. Its like a whole pile of preachy cutscenes interrupted by a few moments of gaming.

Retro top five overrated games:

Xenon 2 - utter p*sh! Slow, dull, unresponsive and choice of 'banging, ie crap, soundtrack or sfx.

Moonstone - more utter p*sh. Looked awful, played poorly.

Donkey Kong Country - rubbish game, graphics are crap unless viewed via RF lead on a 14" portable.

Uridium - did anyone actually play test this game. I am shooter daft but this is terrible. And the Amiga sequel isn't much better.

Super Star Wars - super slowdown more like. And the complsory Mode 7 vehicle levels are a waste of cart space. The Master System Star Wars game is far better. And the music is really muffled (although that's a criticism that can be leveled at many SNES games).

[Brad]

Fascinating thread. The hate for mgs and demons souls is utterly baffling to me!

[ETC]

I just remembered the game that is the most overrated piece of junk I ever bought (twice)

Ico - what the hell is this all about, it's another "classic" not in my book it ain't. Dodgy control and dull as s*** platformer that somehow becomes regarded as a classic, the epitome of style over substance for me And don't get me started on the sequel - hours of riding a ******* horse to a big boring boss fight, big whoop

Its really interesting to see what people think and nice that this didn't just become an argument thread

So any more?

[prinnysquad]

Its really interesting to see what people think and nice that this didn't just become an argument thread

No, but this has become a thread for marking cards.

And I've marked yours, boy.

[nakamura]

Not for me. I like to look at things objectively and I really struggled with finding a top 5. I also couldn't put a whole franchise like Zelda in there because even the most avid hater with half a brain should be able to appreciate a well designed game even if it doesn't appeal.

[mekanor]

Thought of 2 more:

Crysis - Tried twice to get into it. Looks amazing, but I just kept loosing interest. I'm sure there's a very tactical game in there, but it just felt slow and lacked direction.

Call of Duty - Again, I tried twice to get into CoD 2, but I couldn't see what all the fuss was about and I had better things to play at the time. The funny thing is I quite liked the original and I took a punt on the DS version of MW and absolutely loved it. Very well done game for the DS. Any of the full versions from CoD 2 onwards though do nothing for me.

[ETC]

No, but this has become a thread for marking cards.

And I've marked yours, boy.

And why is that?
Upset your love of Modern Warfare

[Dogg Thang]

Hmmm... I'm only naming three because I just tend to avoid games I know I'm unlikely to enjoy even if they're pretty hyped and many highly rated games I really like so...

Half-Life 2 - With some distance, my memory of this is a little kinder and there's no doubt loads to love here. But I felt the storytelling was piss poor and that had a dramatic effect on my enjoyment because I never really felt a reason for going anywhere or doing anything. I also felt the game was seriously padded and got very repetitive. Aiming for length.

MGS4 - Barely a game. Sure, they've been games less and less since MGS1 but 4 took it to a whole other level. And the little bits of game were mostly archaic and rubbish (like the stealth townwalk).

Street Fighter IV - It's like SF2 with weird models, poor animation and less fun. Even if the models and animation were better, it would still be a step backwards. What happened to progress?

That's it.

[saturn-gamer]

SFIV was a step backwards because SF3 wasn't a success. Capcom went with familliarity, they basically just remade SF2 because its the SF game everyone still knows. In the end I felt the game was too slow and the hardcore mechanic, ie. Focus, didn't feel good to me. I don't like it.

Bioshock - Its pretentious trash. The opening was awesome, but the gunplay, enemies and linear and broken up level layout were utter ****. Not to mention the terrible hacking minigame and weird damage scaling. Those splicers didn't wear super armor afaik, yet they took about 3 mags later on. And those 'boss' splicers, with a gold line around them.. awesome! It all came down to 'run errand for that character, and that character becomes insane and you have to kill him'.

Little Big Planet - Gameplay is clunky, slow and the 2.5 D is confusing. Its a platform game that actually fails delivering a responsive platform gaming experience such as SMW, Sonic 2, Rayman origins etc.. fail.

[rmoxon]

I feel MGS 3 is really overrated, especially as many consider it the best in the series. I found it to play rubbish, boring stealth, broken shooting and the bandaging yourself up for ten minutes every time you got shot was ridiculous and pretentious. I enjoyed the rest of the games in the series despite their faults, but with MGS 3 those faults ruined the experience for me.

[ShadowDancer]

The original Tomb Raider. Man I hate that game...I still believed in the 16bit era when that broken piece of **** was being played by my friends.

[Kit]

The usual suspects for me:

Gears of War - absolutely no idea why this is so popular.

Halo - a poor mans Far Cry.

New Super Mario Bros - as I've said in other threads this is a soulless husk of a game. The bland graphics, the boring gameplay, just 'meh' all round.

Come up with some more once I've had a good think.

Donkey Kong Country - rubbish game, graphics are crap unless viewed via RF lead on a 14" portable.

I have mixed feelings about DKC. The visuals I'm not really a fan of but the first two were alright. Still not a patch on Yoshi's Island mind.

[importaku]

New Super Mario Bros - as I've said in other threads this is a soulless husk of a game. The bland graphics, the boring gameplay, just 'meh' all round.

Hehe isn't it just, i can't believe this one sold so well. Maybe theres a generation of gamers that this is their first experience of a mario game, if it is i truly feel sorry for them. The Wii ver is better than the DS one but only by a fraction.