Most overrated game ever.

[Chojin]

Bioshock. By LEAPS AND BOUNDS.

[WhiteRat]

Originally Posted by Chojin

Bioshock. By LEAPS AND BOUNDS.

Gotta agree with you on this one. After an hour of so of playing it I got pretty bored and quit.

[Dr. Boogie]

Doom 3

I thought it was a decent game, but people were talking like it was one of the greatest, and reviewers were giving it ratings in the 90s. The game wasn't that scary, people. There were some good audio logs, but how many times can you have an imp jump at you through the door you just opened before it stops being scary? At one point, I just firing my shotgun as soon as the doors opened, and most of the time, I actually would hit and kill one of them.

The graphics were good, but there's more to a good game than just graphics.

I remember PC Gamer but a short article about it in their editorials because they kept getting flak for giving the game a 90-something rating. They said there were two camps on the issue: those who liked the game, and those who didn't "get it". I "got" that they had some big ads in your magazine, PC Gamer, but I still didn't like the game that much.

[Guitar Woman]

So after thinking about this for a while I've decided that Silent Hill 2 is the Jim Morrison of videogames


by which I mean it sucks



Another game that got a lot of undeserved praise was Viewtiful Joe.

Fuck that game.

[Fat_Hippo]

Hey, what do you have against Jim Morrison? Sure, he was a freak, but his singing kicked ass. Maybe you just don't like The Doors, but even my great-grandmother, who hated rock music, thought Jim Morrison could sing well.

And I agree with you about doom 3. The fights really were boring and it wasn't scary. The only thing I liked was the ridiculously overdone violence, which I thought was just plain funny.

But what I really hated in Doom 3 was what they did to the shotgun: Once the standard bread-and-butter gun of doom, it wasn't turned into a piece of crap. The game plays several decades (or even further) in the future and people haven't designed a better shotgun than that? We have better shotguns NOW for fuck's sake! Once a weapon of pride and dignity, it was degraded into a suckfest! It makes me sick! And the sound of it got on my nerves after a while too.

[Zomboid]

Originally Posted by Guitar Woman

So after thinking about this for a while I've decided that Silent Hill 2 is the Jim Morrison of videogames


by which I mean it sucks

Ugh.

Originally Posted by Mockery

I'm sure that I'm in the minority here, but I just don't find Super Mario Galaxy all too interesting, and certainly not deserving of the "#1 Game Of All Time" position that it quickly jumped to on many gaming site/publication lists. Hell, I've found Super Paper Mario to be far more interesting and creative of a game, and that's even after sitting through the absurdly long intro story text that you just...can't...skip.

I agree. I started it and got about 24 stars over the course of about 3-4 times sitting down and playing for a bit and it's just not as good as all the hype would have you believe. It really is similar to super mario 64, but that was a far superior game.

[Cedar]

Originally Posted by Guitar Woman

So after thinking about this for a while I've decided that Silent Hill 2 is the Jim Morrison of videogames


by which I mean it sucks



Another game that got a lot of undeserved praise was Viewtiful Joe.

Fuck that game.

silent hill was good and doesn't deserve being compared with jim morrisoon he was fat, ugly, stupid and most of his songs were horrible.

[Guitar Woman]

Killer 7 is fantastic, you shut your whore mouth

[Cedar]

Originally Posted by Guitar Woman

Killer 7 is fantastic, you shut your whore mouth

^^^ ^

[Chojin]

Doom 3 I thought was really scary, but it wasn't a great game. And I actually got in the practice of turning around to shoot behind me every time I opened a door, and would usually hit something.

[Alive]

Probably the hardest sell that id faced with doom3 was to the die hard doom fans of the originals. sure the game faced competition but it wasnt like carmack could turn the clock back to '93 and re-create the explosion. 3d graphics and fps style game play had allready been brought to the table long ago, and though the originals were nothing more than fuzzy pixels there wasnt any place left they could have gone with it.

[MartinSargent]

Halo games. I really dislike them. They're pretentious. They take themselves waaay too seriously. There's a God forsaken auto aim you CAN'T turn off. I hate that damn auto/sticky aim. Now all the friggin FPS games have it. Why must games be dumbed down?

Timesplitters series is so much better than Halo series.

Hopefully Timesplitters 4 on The Wii and The Conduit will be fun, cuz I can't stand these recent FPS games. They're so boring. I couldn't care less about their "mad grafix" either.

I was so sad at the Haze reviews. I thought Free Radical could do no wrong.

[Guitar Woman]

What I mean is that SH2 and the Doors are both incredibly stupid and boring and yield nothing but mastrubatory bullshit

[Mockery]

I'm sure that I'm in the minority here, but I just don't find Super Mario Galaxy all too interesting, and certainly not deserving of the "#1 Game Of All Time" position that it quickly jumped to on many gaming site/publication lists. Hell, I've found Super Paper Mario to be far more interesting and creative of a game, and that's even after sitting through the absurdly long intro story text that you just...can't...skip.

Oh and I second the "Guitar Hero" mention... definitely.

[Fathom Zero]

I agree with your #1, Codiekitty.

[Esuohlim]

I don't understand Animal Crossing's appeal. I rented it once and after playing for about 15 minutes I ran out of stuff to do. Then I went onto GameFAQs and was told to "go collect seashells and bugs".

[Fat_Hippo]

Originally Posted by Esuohlim

I don't understand Animal Crossing's appeal. I rented it once and after playing for about 15 minutes I ran out of stuff to do. Then I went onto GameFAQs and was told to "go collect seashells and bugs".

Collect seashells and bugs? Man, I was way to busy trying to be a mass murderer(though I don't think you can actually kill anyone)! Granted, once you get tired of that, I don't know what you would do. But just look at them run, heheh.

[Guitar Woman]

Also, I might just be playing a really bad port, and it might be one of those WELL IT WAS AWESOME IF YOU WERE A KID AT THE TIME games like Conker's Bad Fur Day, but I'd like to nominate Splatterhouse.

[Emu]

You know what game gets more praise than it has ever deserved, ever

Kingdom Hearts

People go on about how fun the combat is, but all it is is mashing the square button and occasionally rolling. I thought it would get more fun when I got some more abilities but no, I ended up flying around space in my Tonka Tough spaceship.

[Guitar Woman]

Oh, fuck, Tekken.

Every single one of them.

[Fat_Hippo]

Originally Posted by Guitar Woman

Oh, fuck, Tekken.

Every single one of them.

I could never get into any fighting games aside from Super Smash Bros. anyway, and Tekken was no exception. I just got my ass handed to me every single time.

Oh, the Tomb Raider games. How much fun are the same old box shoving and cliff jumping quests anyway? The fights suck too.

[executioneer]

i dig tekken but that's because it's good for people who can't memorize eighteen different keypresses to do a combo

[WhiteRat]

Boo on anyone who rags on Tekken 3. Back in the dog says of high school summers past, my friends and I used to get and I would see how many matches in a row I could win with Eddie Gordo. My record was 18. I had bought the strategy guide and memorized all of his cheap combos.

It's my favorite PSone game.

[Girl Drink Drunk]

The first two were way overrated (in fact, the first was godawful in my book), but Tekken 3 and Tag Tournament were fucking sweet.

[Zbu Manowar]

I dug Tekken 3 and Tag Tournament. Nothing was better than unlocking the hidden characters and then going off to play that volleyball game. Good times.