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.
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.
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
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.
Removed by mod
The one time I tried I got a progression blocker bug
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?
A pretty hefty amount of popular mobile games were actually rips of flash games with microtransaction added lol.
Final Fantasy VII
It’s not even the best Final Fantasy
Agree. I never cared much for the original FF VII. To be fair I am old enough where I started with the first one on NES, so VII was not my introduction to the series like it was for so many others.
I do really like remake though. I thought they did an excellent job with it.
I always preferred 8 and 9 over 7. For some reason, the characters in 7 never held my interest as much as in other games, and the gameplay was pretty basic for an RPG of that age.
Unfortunately, when I played 7 for the first time, I played it right after 5 which still has the best class system and 6 which has the best story. So both story and gameplay felt like a disgrace for me.
8 and 9 were definitely improvements over 7
8 has always been my favourite. As long as I resist the urge to draw spam. It can get repetively easy if you just draw and cast magic from your enemy, never having to use your own resources.
And not even the final one
I’ll probably get hate for this but most Fromsoft games. I just have never been able to get into them at all. It has nothing to do with it being hard, I enjoy hard games and always play on the highest difficulty. I just can’t get into the combat, it’s not fun for me.
Sorry I hate you. Demon’s souls changed my life, and I’ve got 1000 hours into nightreign and probably 950 into Elden ring and I’ve played all the dark souls also. This formula is my Jam. I love them.
But at the end of the day… It’s not everyone’s cup of tea. I enjoy plenty of other games too. Hollow knight, balatro, etc.
I love Fromsoft games, but I’ve always thought that people kind of have horse blinders on when evaluating them as a whole.
What I think sets them apart:
- the art
- the setting and vibe
- melee combat controls
What I think they severely lack:
- sometimes it feels like I have to google nearly everything in these games because they never explain mechanics/items/quests properly. Most people would argue that’s part of the charm, but I don’t think it’s executed well at all.
- Basic combat is generally very fluid, but there are things that are just straight trash, such as ranged weapons. I just won’t use those weapons for anything other than pulling mobs away from others
- the story is just so abstract sometimes that I rarely know etc is going on
- co-op multiplayer sucks. It really says something when a player-created mod works better than a system that’s been in multiple games
According to this thread overrated means either “games I didn’t like” or “games that didn’t work for me”.
Dota and LoL. I shamelessly judge anyone who regularly plays either of those games by choice. Way too many people seem to like them.
It was a neat Warcraft 3 custom map.
Then it got weird.
Why though?
I tried both games years ago. I found them boring, basic, and seemed aimed at young kids.
I don’t usually judge adults for liking stuff meant for kids, there are lots of great games and shows like that. However Dota and LoL both felt very childish at the time. I’m sure it takes a lot of practice and skill to get good, but I’ve never had a desire to revisit either game.
Honestly, at this point, I find judging people who play those games is kinda fun.
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.
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.
Candy Crush
For most games, it depends on who you’re asking. I, for example, hate multiplayer looter-shooters, so the most overrated game to ME would be Fortnite. It literally hold no attraction for me and the thought of even playing it makes me shudder.
However, the universal answer is really any EA sports title.
It’s literally the same game every…damn…year…
Goldeneye 007, N64.
The hype! The praise! The lack of mouse control!!
8 million kids using a twiddly joystick, and thinking it was good.
It’s an awful FPS experience.
* The facade of cool was actually a frog-mouthed monster.
And if this was your childhood fave, I’m jk.
By FPS standards it’s not great, if you take it more as a “first person action game” ala Metroid Prime, its appeal makes sense. To me it’s mainly impressive that they recreated so many parts of the movie and retold the story so well. But yeah people love it for the multiplayer which only impressed kids who didn’t have PCs at the time.
And if this was your childhood fave, I’m jk.
Oh no, you are not getting off that easily!! I am still raging impotently at my phone with a frothing mouth!
Sounds like someone was butthurt because they didn’t get to play as Oddjob…
Fucking Oddjob.
I played this at a mates house for a total of 7 minutes. No OP Oddjob in sight.
The thing for me was this predated the PlayStation, so dual analog was not a thing yet. GoldenEye was, to my knowledge, the first to emulate this by using two controllers. We had a ton of fun with that. I still preferred LAN parties with mouse and keyboard. Lot of work, though.
Halo.
Look, I’m not saying it’s a bad game or you’re a bad person for liking it, but man, I have never been able to see the appeal. As someone who has played a lot of shooters (mostly PC) and read a lot of sci-fi, I find it exceptionally mid. And I’m not really fan of the militaristic reverence vibe it’s got going on like … bleh. Does it actually criticize this more as the series goes on or is it really just all oorah? I also kind of blame it for the trends of vehicle segments and only holding two weapons that leaked into other FPSes at the time (looking at you Bioshock Infinite - WTF), although I do admit that’s more of a petty, personal point. I respect that it pushed FPSes and online multiplayer forward on consoles, but when people tell me it’s their favorite game with one of the best storylines ever I’m like, “But have you played any other games?”
I used to work in a game store back when Halo 3 released and I was a much more fervent hater back then, I decided I was gonna play the original Marathon games so I could be a hipster snob and hate on them, too. Actually ended up really loving them, though they’re only loosely related, I think they had a lot more going on stylistically and story-wise even though the gameplay was more primitive.
I retry every few years, but never get very far. Maybe I should skip to 2 because one is so bland I get bored of it.
Halo CE is definitely a but dated now, but 2 is one of the best campaigns even still. I’m not sure it can be overrated though. 3\odst is some of the best multiplayer experience there was before the series was infected with CoD.
You need cursed halo. All of the silly without any of the serious is exactly how I like my vidya
Expedition 33.
It won practically every single award even tho didn’t really deserve it.
Not an indie game either.
Yeah I bought it on GOG based purely on the hype. Mistake. I played maybe 10h, got throught the introductory areas and started the main game. I just couldn’t. I am not sure why it gets so much praise.
Oh yeh that looked cool I was pretty pumped about that. Is it not so good after all?
It was very pretty, and the soundtrack deserved the praise it received. Nothing too innovative about the gameplay though, and the story was good but typical for this genre.
That being said, I did enjoy it a lot. But that gameplay style is one of my favorites, so the visuals and music were just perks.
Vampire survivors.
Ocarina of Time. I mean, its good. But so many people act like its the best video game of all time. Its like barely top 5 Zelda game imo let alone the best game full stop
I’m ready for the downvotes
This is a reasonable take, though I don’t feel the same way.
OoT felt like an open world game at a time when those largely didn’t exist (some did, but not really on console). The gameplay was still somewhat linear, but it felt like there was a lot of freedom compared to a lot of other games at the time. As a kid, I spent hours just exploring. I’m guessing this has something to do with its popularity at the time.
I prefer ALttP
You’re getting one upvote from me.
I also fully agree with everything said in brentalfloss’ song
and I played it when it came out.Worst thing about the game was the owl that kept the game from being an open world.
It was a step back from Mario64 and it came out something like 2 years later.
Majora’s mask was the expectation. Ocarina of Time was what I got.Agreed. I just don’t like that type of game myself.
If I remembered it, it wouldn’t be overrated.
