Games that were so overrated that they made you buy them.

[hiccupleftovers]

For me i would have to say it is Halo. When Halo was released, everyone hailed it as the greatest shooter. Heraing this, i immediately felt the need to buy it. Once i had played through the game i found that although the A.I. is quite good, the game was too linear; running through a level shooting everything in sight without much strategy, and the occasional vehicle added to its overratedness (don't know if that's a word but oh well).

[FunkMachineX]

The game I think is just good for multiplayer. Levels are pretty garbage, and I think the weapon selection is terrible. Most light gamers don't notice that, so it became really popular....it is a still pretty good game. The best shooter? no way in hell.

[Rhife]

Top 5 Most Over-rated video games of all time

5. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 (XBX, CUB, PS2)
4. Ninja Gaiden (XBX)
3. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (PS2)
2. Halo (XBX)
1. Final Fantasy VII (PSX)

Okay, I'm not saying these games are BAD in anyway. I'm just saying that they're not nearly as great as they're made out to be. Let's start with THPS4. I mean, each game is just an update, without anything really great to warrent another 50 greenbacks a year. Neversoft sure knows how to milk a franchise. Next is Namco's recent Xbox hit "Ninja Gaiden." Yes, the game is difficult, but difficult games are supposed to also be fun. Not this one, thanks to an incredibly wonky camera system and cheap enemy A.I., this game not only crosses the line from fun to frustrating, it desecrates it. For people who argue, "you're not good/hardcore enough for this game," I just simply reply, "NES." Back in the day, developers knew how to balance hard and fun. Heck, take the original Ninja Gaiden games. Didn't they learn? I was hoping the extra delays would be used to work out a camera system, apparently not. Overhyped to death, the worst 50 bucks spent on this current crop of next-gen console games. Next, I have to slam Vice City, because this is a game that sells on content, not substance. Oh boy, I can shoot a hooker and jack cars! Every 10-year old boy's dream. This game is so unpolished and clunky that I honestly didn't see how people could play through it. Even worse is various gaming mags who thought it deserved perfect scores despite a boatload of problems that a normal game would've been lucky to scoot by with. Next is the cream of the Xbox fanboy's crop, Halo. I get into regular arguments about Halo, and while I agree that it is a very polished game, it is also a rather generic game. Multiplayer is good, but still doesn't compare to GoldenEye, given the fact they're two different games. Halo just bored me. I enjoyed lesser-hyped shooters like XIII and Breakdown a lot more, given their respective flaws. Perhaps Xbox Live will make Halo 2 a worthy purchase. Finally, the game that really gets my skin crawling is Final Fantasy VII, Square's first foray into the Sony market. Time and time again, I see this game win various polls on best game ever, and it sickens me. What makes this game good? That it was Final Fantasy in a 3-D universe? That it had a "good story?" How did it revolutionize gaming? How is it better then games like Sonic, Mario, Zelda, Starcraft, Tetris, Metal Gear Solid, etc.? It didn't. Even worse is people who consider Cloud and Sephiroth the 2 most popular characters in video gaming. I think that title belongs to Mario, who many consider the Mickey Mouse of gaming.

[hiccupleftovers]

I highly agree with you funkmachinex. Levels are basically straight run thrus. I don't even think muliplayer is really that good.

[yeahokthenfu]

Yeah its an alright game, all the hype killed it though, and the fact everyone I was working with at the time I got the Xbox played it non-stop made me like it even less, but its a good thing it got me addicted to Onimusha, see I dont like being like everyone else most the time I promise. I am getting Halo 2 and thats about it, i dont normally buy a game when it first comes out because of the price but hey I figured this would be worth it. But if they delay it anymore Im done with it and transfering the money I have on it to Ninja Gaiden

[hiccupleftovers]

Just for knowledge Rhife but Ninja gaiden was done by team NInja and published by tecmo.

[doraemonkerpal]

I highly agree with you funkmachinex. Levels are basically straight run thrus. I don't even think muliplayer is really that good.

i also agree. i just passed it last night and if i hadn't been playing multiplayer with my brother, then i would've been bored to death! i'm used to first person shooters on the pc and imho, halo doesn't compare.

during the last levels, i found everything to be sooooooo monotonous and boring, and the maps were always the same. also, the low variety of enemies and weapon choices made the game so bland.

ah well, it was still worth the $20 i paid. multiplayer is pretty fun. :lol:

[janglypangly]

I would have to say Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.......I was so hyped for the movie I thought it'd be great.....it ended up being a subpar Golden Axe clone.

[hiccupleftovers]

the reason that i say that the multiplayer is not that good is because there are no bots. You have to bring your friends over or go to them. Games like Red Faction and XIII are excellent in the multiplayer department becuase they allow you to play the multiplayer by yourself once you get bored with story mode. And Although these to games that i have just stated are not as polished in visual department as Halo, i enjoyed them more for there gameplay.

[abrannan]

I hate stealth action, and yet I was compelled by the hype to buy Metal Gear Solid 2. I also felt the need to buy Grand Theft Auto 3 based solely on hype. I had no desire to run around committing crimes, but the hype around the game convinced me to give it a try.

For the record, I still hate stealth action, and I still don't feel the need to run around committing crimes on my PS2.

[sj41]

I think Splinter Cell PT is overrated. Or maybe it's not my kind of game. I heard that it was the best XBL game to play but IMO, it doesn't compare to Rainbow Six 3.

I love Halo and can't wait for Halo 2. It doesn't seem overrated to me. The single player campaign is fun and I love the story. I don't know why people complain about the lack of different enemies. How many do they need to have? However with the weapons, I agree that there should be more. Hopefully, a wider selection of guns will be available in Halo 2.

[Mr Unoriginal]

I think Splinter Cell PT is overrated. Or maybe it's not my kind of game. I heard that it was the best XBL game to play but IMO, it doesn't compare to Rainbow Six 3.

I love Halo and can't wait for Halo 2. It doesn't seem overrated to me. The single player campaign is fun and I love the story. I don't know why people complain about the lack of different enemies. How many do they need to have? However with the weapons, I agree that there should be more. Hopefully, a wider selection of guns will be available in Halo 2.

How many enemies are there? I can't really think of more than 5. That's not a great showing for a FPS.

[Squirms]

I didn't like Metal Gear Solid 2. 5 minute of action, then 15 of video. I paid for a game, not a movie dammit.

[doraemonkerpal]

I think Splinter Cell PT is overrated. Or maybe it's not my kind of game. I heard that it was the best XBL game to play but IMO, it doesn't compare to Rainbow Six 3.

I love Halo and can't wait for Halo 2. It doesn't seem overrated to me. The single player campaign is fun and I love the story. I don't know why people complain about the lack of different enemies. How many do they need to have? However with the weapons, I agree that there should be more. Hopefully, a wider selection of guns will be available in Halo 2.

How many enemies are there? I can't really think of more than 5. That's not a great showing for a FPS.

exactly.

i'm shooting at the enemies from level 1 all the way to the last level and imo, it gets quite repetitive.

[pukemon]

the best thing going for halo, imo, are the top notch controls. everything from layout to responisiveness. everything else is ho hum. i think multiplayer sucks on halo. i haven't done link up but i don't think it'd be any better than timesplitters2.

[scdoanintendo]

I agree with ninja gaiden being over hyped. The camera angles really like to piss people off, but the nostalga is priceless. I rented full spectrum warrior and while it was a good game the missions and landscape seemed to repetitive .

[Hunter55]

I don't think halo is overrated. It may be now, but when it came out it was definitely not overrated. I think KOTOR was overrated. Maybe this was because it felt too easy for me when i rented it.

[sj41]

I think Splinter Cell PT is overrated. Or maybe it's not my kind of game. I heard that it was the best XBL game to play but IMO, it doesn't compare to Rainbow Six 3.

I love Halo and can't wait for Halo 2. It doesn't seem overrated to me. The single player campaign is fun and I love the story. I don't know why people complain about the lack of different enemies. How many do they need to have? However with the weapons, I agree that there should be more. Hopefully, a wider selection of guns will be available in Halo 2.

How many enemies are there? I can't really think of more than 5. That's not a great showing for a FPS.I think they had 4 covenant and 4 flood. It's not that many but it didn't bother me at all.

[sj41]

I think Splinter Cell PT is overrated. Or maybe it's not my kind of game. I heard that it was the best XBL game to play but IMO, it doesn't compare to Rainbow Six 3.

I love Halo and can't wait for Halo 2. It doesn't seem overrated to me. The single player campaign is fun and I love the story. I don't know why people complain about the lack of different enemies. How many do they need to have? However with the weapons, I agree that there should be more. Hopefully, a wider selection of guns will be available in Halo 2.

How many enemies are there? I can't really think of more than 5. That's not a great showing for a FPS.

exactly.

i'm shooting at the enemies from level 1 all the way to the last level and imo, it gets quite repetitive.The Hunters and the Flood are not on level 1. That's what I like about it. The flood show up later in the game instead of you having to fight the exact some guys the whole way through. It just changes it up to where you have to fight against different enemies at the same time.

[digioverload]

After hearing all that hype about GTA, I really wanted to play it. So after GTA 3 got down to $20 I bought it and hated it.

[CaseyRyback]

The KOF series as a whole. Not to say there are not some good games in it, but in no way shape or form does it compare to anything CAPCOM has done or even some of the other SNK series.

I also think Soul Calibur as a series is overrated. Play Virtua Fighter 4:EVO and then SCII and its not hard to see which is better

Street Fighter II still owns everything on the market.

also halo is overhyped, but it gets bashed as a bad game when it is not. I have played through the SP several times and find it to be a decent FPS with good controls and one of the best soundtracks ever(the music is what makes me continue to play the game.) Also people mention enemies, but how many FPS have the same type of enemies? When people play MOH no one complains about only shooting NAzi's

and I do not feel MGS2 is overhyped. That game is the total package. I have played through it so many times and will defend its greatness to the death(yes it is superior to the first game)

GTA3 blows donkey balls. That is one of the worst games of this generation. I mean its a remake of the first game and does nothing new but bring crime into the third dimension. GTA was played out in 1998. I did like Vice City, but more because of the music and motorcycles than anything else.

[EggViper]

im not saying it was overrated (or bad in anyway) but i bought halo just b/c of the hype. the day i bought my xbox i only had enuf money to buy 1 game. i was personally going to buy project gotham racing but i kept remembering halo cause everyone had been talking about it. looking at the box art, i saw (for the first time) a green guy with some crap going on in the background and wondered "what the hell?". i caved into the hype and went with halo anyway though. got home, played that game for weeks, and loved it.

[hiccupleftovers]

There may be spoilers about Halo in this postage, so if you haven't played the game then maybe you should not read this.



IMO the story of Halo is subpar. For instance (and I hope I'm not giving anything away) when you are towards the end of the game and you learn what the Halo is truly designed for: to destroy the food supply of the Flood. Now i might be overanalyzing things a bit, but to me that sounded redundant because the ring could have just destroyed the Flood instead of their food. Wouldn't that have done the same. It is plot holes like these that the story of Halo irritate me.

[Graystone]

ninja gaiden
prince of persia
all final fansty's

[hiccupleftovers]

Yes CaseyRyback I'll admit that the music and effects of Halo were exceptional. Those two things plus the graphics were the only things that i remember to be any good in that game. And though the music is some of the best i have heard, it is not what i'm playing. I'm playing the gameplay and the story. And those two things are what i believe they let down on. This game got so much hype because of Microsoft's warchest. They had enough money to promote the heck out of it and that's so many people no about it. There promoting is what i believe influenced people onthe game. That's not to say that promoting a game is bad, but i do not believe in there tactics let's say.

[yellowaznboy]

I also think Soul Calibur as a series is overrated. Play Virtua Fighter 4:EVO and then SCII and its not hard to see which is better

Street Fighter II still owns everything on the market.

GTA3 blows donkey balls. That is one of the worst games of this generation. I mean its a remake of the first game and does nothing new but bring crime into the third dimension. GTA was played out in 1998. I did like Vice City, but more because of the music and motorcycles than anything else.

Casey speaks the truth.

SCII is an awful fighter. There are much better fighting games out there.

The Grand Theft Auto series took a dive when it went 3D, although it wasn't that great to begin with...

[MasterLin1]

metal gear solid 2 - bought into hype though I didn't like the genre of game
metroid prime - sorry but I consider this a FPS for people who don't play FPS IMHO, the whole auto-locking thing?
the FF series - never liked them, always too boring for me
mario sunshine - you clean stuff?
soul caliber, tekken, virtua fighter, DOA - button smashing fest, I'm sure theres some technique to all of these games, but none of them grabbed my attention long enough for me to give a damn. Probably because I'm biased toward old-school 2D fighters, I basically only like fighting games done by SNK or Capcom that are 2D, or in Capcom's case the 3D SF EX 1 and 2, not 3.

[FunkMachineX]

ninja gaiden
prince of persia
all final fansty's

I agress on Prince of Persia....haven't played ninja gaiden tho, in the process of getting it tho. Don't think final fantasy's are over hyped if you hate rpgs..

Halo has worst weapons I think, and yeah like I said single player LEVELS are terrible, they are all in the somewhat same area's, not complex at all. Vehicles are what make the juice JUICY.

The laser like guns in that game piss me off, The only weapons that are good are the bullet kinds, shotgun, rocket launcher, etc. Should've had more of those, less laser. STICKY GRENADES are what keep me in multiplayer.

"BIATCH EAT MY WARTHOG GOIN 60mph, OH GODDAMNIT NOT THE STICKY"

[guardian_owl]

The Single player in Halo is decent, but the level design is pretty uninspired. Though the multiplayer is pretty darn fun if you can russle up several x-boxes and TV's and playing teams of 4 against each other.

[hiccupleftovers]

soul caliber, tekken, and virtua fighter series are some of the best fighters ever made. Though they are mostly button smashing, you need to overlook that to get to their core where there is a lot of strategy involved to play them. For instance in SCII the guard is quite difficult to get used to. But truly speaking they are button smashers that after you get a way from those games that make you think, such as RPGs, these games are great to just sit and pick up and play.

When it concerns DOA Masterlin1 is correct in saying it is a button smasher. This game truly has no depth. Other than getting each characters ending there is nothing there. To unlock one secret character, this game is not worth it and in my opinion one of the worst fighters, if not the worst, ever made

[Theenternal]

metal gear solid 2 - bought into hype though I didn't like the genre of game
metroid prime - sorry but I consider this a FPS for people who don't play FPS IMHO, the whole auto-locking thing?
the FF series - never liked them, always too boring for me
mario sunshine - you clean stuff?
soul caliber, tekken, virtua fighter, DOA - button smashing fest, I'm sure theres some technique to all of these games, but none of them grabbed my attention long enough for me to give a damn. Probably because I'm biased toward old-school 2D fighters, I basically only like fighting games done by SNK or Capcom that are 2D, or in Capcom's case the 3D SF EX 1 and 2, not 3.

IMO I don't believe Ninja Gaiden to be overhyped...Its considered a good exclusive xbox title, but I don't hear about it all over the place like FF7. I didn't find the camera angles to be a problem.. and difficulty was challanging, but i found it easy to give beat downs once i learned the controls.

Tekken, virtual fighter can be button mashers...however a button masher can't compete with someone who knows how to play the game.

[msdmoney]

metroid prime - sorry but I consider this a FPS for people who don't play FPS IMHO, the whole auto-locking thing?


If you played it as a FPS you missed the point of the game, that is all I will say. This topic has been beaten to death.

Top 5 Most Over-rated video games of all time
Finally, the game that really gets my skin crawling is Final Fantasy VII, Square's first foray into the Sony market. Time and time again, I see this game win various polls on best game ever, and it sickens me. What makes this game good? That it was Final Fantasy in a 3-D universe? That it had a "good story?" How did it revolutionize gaming? How is it better then games like Sonic, Mario, Zelda, Starcraft, Tetris, Metal Gear Solid, etc.? It didn't. Even worse is people who consider Cloud and Sephiroth the 2 most popular characters in video gaming. I think that title belongs to Mario, who many consider the Mickey Mouse of gaming.

You read my thoughts on FF7, I just don't get how it was voted best game ever on gamefaq's. Standard RPG gameplay, maybe a good story for an RPG, with great cutscenes. I think it is was initially overated due to squares amazing cgi, unfortunately that makes it more of a movie than a game. Thats my 2 cents before this thread turns into a flame fest.

[Hardware]

I paid $50 for State Of Emergency for PS2 the day it came out. Biggest mistake in my history of gaming.

[msdmoney]

I paid $50 for State Of Emergency for PS2 the day it came out. Biggest mistake in my history of gaming.

I told my friend to get State of Emergency when he bought his PS2, because Rockstar had huge hype after GTA.....ooops.

[sj41]

im not saying it was overrated (or bad in anyway) but i bought halo just b/c of the hype. the day i bought my xbox i only had enuf money to buy 1 game. i was personally going to buy project gotham racing but i kept remembering halo cause everyone had been talking about it. looking at the box art, i saw (for the first time) a green guy with some crap going on in the background and wondered "what the hell?". i caved into the hype and went with halo anyway though. got home, played that game for weeks, and loved it. My mom bought my Xbox and I only had enough money for 1 $50 game. I went for Halo since I had played it at a friend's house and it was one of the best games I've ever played.

[opportunity777]

All GameCube games I own that received rave reviews were all overrated.

Wind Waker, Star Fox Adventures, etc.

[Mustang O-Line 75]

When it concerns DOA Masterlin1 is correct in saying it is a button smasher. This game truly has no depth. Other than getting each characters ending there is nothing there. To unlock one secret character, this game is not worth it and in my opinion one of the worst fighters, if not the worst, ever made

I'm going to disagree.

I think that the reversals in DOA make it a lot deeper than people realize. I agree that the other games are good. but DOA 3 isn't bad at all. It can get heated between two people.

[hiccupleftovers]

msdmoney Hardware wrote:
I paid $50 for State Of Emergency for PS2 the day it came out. Biggest mistake in my history of gaming.


I told my friend to get State of Emergency when he bought his PS2, because Rockstar had huge hype after GTA.....ooops.


State of Emergency is one of themost monotonous and repetitive games ever made.

[pianoman3284]

I also have to say the GTA series is overrated. They're not horrible, but I bought GTA III because of hype and got bored during the middle of the game. I bought GTA:VC because it got high ratings and was supposedly better than GTA 3. It was better, but man, I came across some big glitches and bugs that screwed me over more than once. A perfect 10? I think not.

[chizwaz]

Ghost Recon for Xbox. Lag prone, terrible graphics, not many players in a game, lame strategy.

[SpookyD]

Animal Crossing, It wasn't bad game but I looked at It and though, I need this! I saved enough money for not only AC but for a cube too because I didn't have one, now whenever I see the case I just look at it and thing I should play some, oh wait my town is probaly full of weeds and everyone is bound to hate me. Having a cube got me into smash bros though and thats a game i'll never regret buying.

[opportunity777]

I didn't like Smash Bros. Melee as much as the 64 version, and I played the 64 version a lot and still do.

Add Smash Bros. Melee to my overrated list.

[YoshiFan1]

Halo, I bought it because I had to see what the big deal was. I haven't played it on over a year.

Gran Turismo 3, I didn't like the first 2 games on PSX but I figured I would give the series another chance. It's too realistic for me to the point where it's not fun to play.

And to a lesser extent, Zelda: Ocarina of Time, at first I liked it but I got bored after the same repetitive gameplay. Run to a Temple, solve puzzles, defeat boss, run to next Temple and repeat. Had it not been talked about so much, I may not have gotten it in the first place.

I am not going to make the same mistake again and I don't plan to get Halo 2, Gran Turismo 4 or the new Zelda game for Gamecube (I haven't even played Wind Waker yet nor do I want to).

[6669]

That Dead or Alive Volleyball game. One of my friends has that, and I see nothing valuable about it. It is pretty convenient that it only takes one hand to zoom in on the girls' "assets" leaving your other hand free....... :roll:

[swetooth9]

gta 3 was the first hyped game that i bought...but that's a good thing b/c i loved it :D...but that's b/c i rented it before buying it...

a game i bought JUST b/c it was hailed as the best game ever was ff vii...i havenet even played a fourth of it yet...it's pretty normal so far, but i guess i'll have to play all of it to see the "true beauty," so to speak...

[swetooth9]

That Dead or Alive Volleyball game. One of my friends has that, and I see nothing valuable about it. It is pretty convenient that it only takes one hand to zoom in on the girls' "assets" leaving your other hand free....... :roll:

:puke:

just make sure not to use that controller again if u ever go to his house to play games :lol:

[lee337]

REZ. A very unique game, but way too short for its own good. I LOVE shooters, and this one got old way too quick. The "discontinued" rumors didn't help things either.

[jimbodan]

I paid $50 for State Of Emergency for PS2 the day it came out. Biggest mistake in my history of gaming.

AGREE'D

[BlueStorm781]

Driver. I heard so many great things about it that I had to buy a copy. What a waste of money that was.

I also broke down and bought Halo and Super Smash Bros. Melee (though not at the same time) because of all the positive press. Luckily, those two are prety good.

[sj41]

I didn't like Smash Bros. Melee as much as the 64 version, and I played the 64 version a lot and still do.

Add Smash Bros. Melee to my overrated list.I was the best at that game. I just bought a Game Cube and I want to get that melee soon.

[bfg9k]

Should I be embarressed to admit that sometimes I like games that are linear? I also don't mind so much when a game was lots of cinematics, too :)

[rywateska]

-Gran Turismo 3---Too complex to be fun
-Simpsons Hit & Run---Repetivie way too fast
-Burnout 2---Beat it in a few days, sucked ever since
-Splinter Cell---Fun until you run out of your five bullets

[DisturbedZen]

Animal Crossing was not hyped at all.. If anything its a sleeper..

I do not agree with Halo being over hyped.. I personally think it IS the best multiplayer fps ever. The single player is horrible.. If you have ever played xbox connect then you will love halo.. If you like fps and you are somewhat decent and have friends to play with.

[SpookyD]

Console fps games are always put to shame by computer fps games, you cant beat a mouse and keyboard.

[989boi]

Metroid Prime: The game was decent. Lots of exploring and backtracking. It got very boring very quickly. All you do is shoot and scan everyroom but Retro studios did a very good job translatin this game from 2d to 3d. I'm glad I only paid $20 for this game. I don't even think I'm goin to buy the sequel.

Need for Speed Underground: Same street tracks over and over and over again. Gets boring real quick and the A.I. cheats a lot. Drifting is dumb and boring. Although the sequel sounds like its gonna be much better than this, plus they got Brooke Burke in it!

True Crime Streets of LA: Everybody so far keeps sayin GTA but this game has got to be worser than GTA. Now this was a waste of money. C'mon $50 for an unfinished game?? There were so many glitches and the damn game crashed a lot.

Turned-Based RPGs: I'm more into real time action. No offense but I can't stand that menu/attack stuff.

My friend thinks that a lot of the EA games are overrated. I think their games is okay but I wouldn't say they're my favorites. They rehash too many games year after year.

[elprincipe]

Most overrated crap I've ever bought, huh...

#1 = Final Fantasy VII - complete garbage
StarFox Adventures
Zelda: Ocarina of Time - okay it's all right, but so overrated I had to put it.

[captainfrizo]

Add another tally to the Soul Calibur 2 count from me. I've always liked fighters, but for some reason that game was a huge let-down for me. It got some great reviews and that's what suckered me into buying it, but I still don't think it deserves the praise it recieved.

Oh, and almost every Star Wars game as well. Besides KOTOR, none of them are worth any of the hype they have recieved.

EDIT: 200th post. Took me long enough.

[punqsux]

im not saying it was overrated (or bad in anyway) but i bought halo just b/c of the hype. the day i bought my xbox i only had enuf money to buy 1 game. i was personally going to buy project gotham racing but i kept remembering halo cause everyone had been talking about it. looking at the box art, i saw (for the first time) a green guy with some crap going on in the background and wondered "what the hell?". i caved into the hype and went with halo anyway though. got home, played that game for weeks, and loved it. My mom bought my Xbox and I only had enough money for 1 $50 game. I went for Halo since I had played it at a friend's house and it was one of the best games I've ever played.

im not trying to be a jerk in any way, but you need to play more games. get a snes and learn what gameplay actully is. im not saying halo is bad, because ive never played it, but i cant imagine it being better than super punch out or secret of mana.

[elprincipe]

im not saying halo is bad, because ive never played it, but i cant imagine it being better than super punch out or secret of mana.

It's not. Especially Secret of Mana. Halo isn't bad, just very average. There are hundreds of PC FPS just as good if not better, not to mention with a better control scheme and most likely online play. In fact, Halo PC is one of these. Indeed, most PC FPS games now are able to be modded, so if it's any good at all fans will create plenty of interesting new levels and other mods. So yeah, basically I don't see why Halo is considered to be so good.

For your Xbox, I'd suggest JSRF.

[elprincipe]

I didn't like Smash Bros. Melee as much as the 64 version, and I played the 64 version a lot and still do.

That's interesting. What do you like more about the original than Melee? The only thing I can think of that I was disappointed in with Melee is the fact that they've made Kirby, one of my fav characters to play in the original, much too weak. However, this is made up for by

more characters
more stages
more moves
faster gameplay
better, more in depth gameplay
more items
more play modes
trophies!
light years better 1-player mode (even though it still gets old after a while)
etc etc etc

[Hereticked]

Dark Cloud...... ugh.

There was so much hype surrounding that game and it turned out to be the biggest, most annoying terd ever.

The town-building was fun, sure, but you had to do hours and hours of agonizing, uninteresting dungeon crawling in between each town advancement.

I actually played through half of the game and I wanted to eat a bullet at that point.

[CaseyRyback]

I add the second Max Payne to my list. That game was so much worse than the first Max PAyne it hurt

[dafoomie]

I'm sick and tired of people comparing console fps's and PC fps's. It's apples and oranges. They're different animals. You can't compare them. Of course a PC fps is going to be better. Theres no debate there.

That being said, Halo is the best CONSOLE fps since Goldeneye. Can you name some better ones on Xbox or PS2?

For most overhyped I would have to go with Daikatana. Honorable mention goes to Oddworld: Munch's Oddyssey (which MS focused their marketing on instead of Halo for a while), Timesplitters 2, Turok.

[fashoinfightpause]

goldeneye is overated. i bought it for my cousin for his birthday and went to his house i try it out. 2 days later his mom took us to funco land and we traded it for doom 64. i player goldeneye the other and i just kept wondering to myself what the big deal was.

every zelda game is also overated. all the ones for gameboy are absolutly horrible. all you do is run around, solve little puzzles, and get magic boots and stuff. u run over the same area like a million times. its unbelievably repetetive.

halo is only good for system link multiplayer.

last of all.... half life. absolutely horrible. whats the hype about counter strike. honestly. luckily i only spent 10 bucks on the platinum box.

[elprincipe]

I'm sick and tired of people comparing console fps's and PC fps's. It's apples and oranges. They're different animals. You can't compare them. Of course a PC fps is going to be better. Theres no debate there.

If that's true, why play console FPS? I'm not even arguing that consolder FPS are necessarily worse, but with this point of view I'm interested in why you play them at all.

[dafoomie]

If that's true, why play console FPS? I'm not even arguing that consolder FPS are necessarily worse, but with this point of view I'm interested in why you play them at all.

Because I can hook up 4 controllers and do a 4 player split screen. Or system link. On a console, its easier for people who have never played to jump in and play. PC fps's are better but not better at everything. Also, good console fps's bring enough different things to the table to make them enjoyable. Though the only console fps's I consider to be very good are Goldeneye (and Perfect Dark by extension) and Halo.

They're also different in the way that console rpg's and PC rpg's are. Though neither is necessarily better.

[gamefreak117]

I bought Warcraft III twice, one at $60 new (preordered), Battle Chest for $40.
once while I played it on a computer with lower than minimum requirements, it was so unplayable, and super lagged, played on less than 5 fps, and another time again, then sold it to a classmate for $40 (pretty mint). Then a couple months ago. I actually got to play it, and it wasn't as fun as I thought StarCraft was, or Diablo series mixed together. I thought the idea of a unit having hero abilities were cool, but mostly jerks play it, people who kick you off games for downloading new maps, and the map selection is poor. I just never got the feel of it. I just maybe had a bad experience maybe.. The reviews I read for it were mostly positive ones, the negative ones were very negative, but were few. The demo did make the game seem interesting though, but multiplayer for me was subpar, Age of Mythology was better, IMO.

[Sheik Rattle Enroll]

I agree with just about every game mentioned here as being overhyped, especially FF7, Warcraft 3, and the GC games, but come on Burnout 2? That game is ridiculously fun. Crash mode is great and me and my friend can play pursuit for hours.

[Cracka]

i'd also have to say Halo. I started playing the single player, and got to the flood... i played the "The Flood" for days... it was basically me going to the first story of a building and killing everything... go to the elevator.. go to the next story of the building and kill everything... this went on for so many stories, that i just got bored with the game and quit playing it.

i dont know if i'm still in the flood, or something else.. i'm still in the main building that you're in during The Flood. That really killed the game for me, but yes the multiplayer is cool IMO.

I'm getting Halo2 when it comes out, mainly for Xbox Live.

[King Bahamut]

FF7...ugh, I can't believe I bought a game so weak compared to FF6.

[tyecko]

warcraft III multiplayer is some of the best multiplayer gaming out there.

[XboxMaster]

I still love to play Halo through every other month or so. I'm not a casual gamer, have experience with other FPS's, and don't like a bad Xbox game just 'cause it's on the system. So I'm puzzled as to why a lot of ppl on CAG think it's a bad game--when I think the opposite.

[King Bahamut]

warcraft III multiplayer is some of the best multiplayer gaming out there.

The online community sucks though :(. (I've had over 3k Warcraft III wins on Reign of Chaos before The Frozen Throne came out, as well as #1 in 3v3 on US East - my clan has had #1 in 5 of the 6 ladders on Azeroth at one point...too many elitists that ruin the fun of the game)

[ElfAngel7]

MGS 2. Based only on word from my friends, i bought the game. What they DIDN"T tell me was they hadn't gotten past the Tanker yet, so we were all surprised to find our selves in control of Meg Ryan in a stealth suite. Also, i felt like i was playing an interactive movie most of the time rather than a video game. I love intricate and ambitious story lines, but not when it brings the game down