Topic: Most Overated game(s) In Your Opinion

[KaZudra]

Have you Played a game(s) that everyone says it's the best thing in the world and it turns out to be pretty crappy?
Here's your chance to Speak it!

RULE: No Castlevania Games Allowed to avoid another Flame War.

I'll Contribute the one that bothers me the most,

Batman: Arkham City
I can make a paragraph rant about this turd, although I LOVE AA, AC just makes everything unenjoyable, The Story was pretty awesome due to SOME parts, but they could have done more in some departments and cut back on alot of the unnecessary shit like Worthless Trails and, Once Enjoyable in AA, Riddler Trophies.

[BullockDS]

-Super Smash Bros. Brawl: OK, well, this one was pretty fun, not gonna lie; I just think that the gameplay, despite introducing many aspects, felt a bit dummied down from Melee's fast-paced, skill-driven combat (it's a shame, as I think that Brawl had a great lineup of characters). Beyond that, it seemed like Sakurai's team put WAY too much emphasis on extras and bullshit (music, trophies, and all that jazz). Not a bad entry, but I'd much prefer Melee.
-Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening: Again, not a bad game, but for me, LA lacked any real replayability for me; nothing had me coming back to it. I just don't see why so many fans consider this to be the best portable Zelda title; I think the Oracles really perfected the portable Zelda formula, as those were an absolute BLAST to play. Overall, I am glad that I played LA, but it could've been a helluva lot deeper.
-Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks: This one, on the other hand, really bothered me. The idea of Nintendo using an old Zelda as the basis for a sequel is nothing new, but my God, did ST feel like Phantom Hourglass 2.0, but with less originality. What bothers me is that the railroad travel, being set on tracks n' all, is actually MORE limited than the boating of Phantom Hourglass, which really got annoying (can't even warp whenever you please, you gotta travel to those damn warp gate dealies). Also, even though it was nice of Nintendo to make the Tower of Spirits less annoying than the Temple of the Ocean King, I think the game would've worked out better if they scrapped the whole idea of another central dungeon entirely, and try something original (they also take so many other elements from PH, and not just gameplay/items). Finally, this is a personal deal, but I preferred the rolling in Phantom Hourglass over Spirit Tracks; PH's might have needed some getting used to, but at least doing so didn't require you to lift the stylus from the screen; ST's double-tapping, however, breaks the flow of running by making you lift the stylus from the screen. I suppose it's still a decent DS title, but for me, it was probably the most underwhelming Zelda to come out in my time. I'd take Phantom Hourglass anyday over Spirit Tracks.

[X]

Zelda: Majora's Mask. I've read the official manga so I can understand that Link is in an alternate reality that has all the same characters, but their lives are different then their Hyrule counterparts. But personally it could've been better with a whole new slew of characters. That God. Damned. Three-day. Clock. killed the game for me. Completely. If they ever do a 3DS remake with two modes of play (one of the modes having no three-day clock limit) Then I'll consider playing it once more. This game was just an utter disappointment for me.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Final Fantasy VII takes the giant cake that is this thread.

I wish, I wish, I wish I could like that game.  I even bought a copy and every year I try to play it, hoping that maybe I've matured so that can enjoy it on maybe another level... but no, I can't stand that game.  I even have a problem with the way the sound effects in the menu screen sound, that's how much I dislike the game.  Although I kinda dig the materia system, the entire plot, villains, and characters pisses me off.

Also, running in the overworld is the same speed as walking, only with more enemy encounters.

On the flip side, I love FFVI. Teehee.

[Abnormal Freak]

All the big GTA games. Never saw the appeal. I even tried playing a couple of them real seriously for a while, and while I had some fun, there just wasn't anything there that made me wanna keep going. By the time my friends wanted their copies back, I had no longing to play further when I returned them. :o

[Kale]

Zelda: Majora's Mask.

I actually thought that as one of it's qualities.

Final Fantasy VII takes the giant cake that is this thread.

I can agree to this... FFVII was a big piece of crap imo, for the most part. I did really like the materia system, but aside from that and maybe some others, it's just crap. It does not deserve the "god" status everyone seems to put on it.

[VladCT]

A lot of people seem to think that FFVII is either the best thing ever or a big steaming pile of shit, but personally, I'm more of a middle-grounder myself.
Yeah, Cloud's not really as emo as people make him out to be, you can blame Advent Children for that. And I think a lot of the perceived crappiness came from the die-hard fanbase of the FFVII franchise being a colossal pain in the ass.
If there's anything inherently wrong with VII, it's the Compilation series...or should I say Complication?

[Mooning Freddy]

Resident Evil. (all of them) It's not scary, there isn't too much action, it's not very original, the plot is quite boring.

Seriously, I don't know why the series is considered that great.

[pattamus]

Final Fantasy VII takes the giant cake that is this thread.

I wish, I wish, I wish I could like that game.  I even bought a copy and every year I try to play it, hoping that maybe I've matured so that can enjoy it on maybe another level... but no, I can't stand that game.  I even have a problem with the way the sound effects in the menu screen sound, that's how much I dislike the game.  Although I kinda dig the materia system, the entire plot, villains, and characters pisses me off.

Also, running in the overworld is the same speed as walking, only with more enemy encounters.

On the flip side, I love FFVI. Teehee.

Have you tried the modded up to date versions, or the PC version? I assume a lot of people play the emulated PSX version, but PC is better. Some of the mods are great and really makes the game look and play better, good music, etc. Here's a link to some good ones, I hope links are allowed. If not, I apologize

http://fem1.uniag.sk/Miroslav.Jezik/ff7ncopam.html

[JR]

The first one that comes to mind is Rygar for the PS2 (the NES one will always be awesome). It was a great-looking game, but I thought it had an uninteresting plot and characters, tedious exploration, and unvaried and boring enemies. But I've never really heard people say much about this game that wasn't completely positive. It seems like it got a lot of praise.

I also didn't like Metroid Prime 2. I absolutely hated it, actually. This is the only Metroid game I can safely say I never want to play again. I loved the first prime, but this one seemed to be completely tedious. Backtracking was often a pain in the ass for me, and all the different scans (like with multiple forms of bosses) drove me nuts. I'm one of those people who likes to try to find everything in a game (for the most part), but I gave up on 100% scan completion after forgetting to scan a boss after fighting it for the dozenth time and finally killing it.

I also think Konami arcade beat-em-ups in general were pretty overrated. People look back pretty fondly on games like The Simpsons, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and X-Men. The presentation Konami would put in these games was usually excellent, but I find the gameplay to be annoying whenever I try to go back and play these. These games always seemed to be slugfests where you and the enemy would just punch each other back and forth in each encounter, instead of having smoother combat (like Final Fight or Streets of Rage...hell, even Double Dragon wasn't as much of a war of attrition as Konami's were). It just felt like you outlasted the enemy with your quarters instead of becoming more skillful. 

[Arma]

I was very dissapointed with Final Fantasy VII, everyone was saying great things about it and when I tried it it turned out to be an average, rather boring, game.

[Rugal]

World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, Madden, Gears of War, All Final Fantasy games, mynameiskupolol.

[TheouAegis]

FF7 didn't do much of anything that FF6 didn't already do. FF6 was awesome. Celes and Terra made me cry. I never felt anything for Aeris except, "You bitch, you made me waste my time leveling you up!" (Yes, I know about the cheat to get her back.) The issue with FF7 wasn't the graphics; it's a shit game on all platforms and incarnations. And Sephiroth was just a bitch, a whiny momma's boy. Compared to the SNES Final Fantasy games, I couldn't stand the Playstation ones. They just didn't stir up any emotion.

I wanna say Metal Gear is on my list, because it took all the attention off of Castlevania, I swear. But every now and then I load up MGS1 and I just recently bought MGS3, so doesn't make sense to badmouth it. :p

Mortal Kombat. That's my answer. They got things right in MK2 (maybe MK3 too). Friendship. Wide variety of move sets (BBF-P and BBBF-P fireballs? Saved my ass when my thumb cramped up!). I don't like the game, I don't play it much, but whenever I think of fighting games that did things right, I think of MK2. But MK1 didn't impress me at the time when it was big.

[Flame]

Mega Man 2.

Halo

[VladCT]

Mega Man 2.

Huh, never thought a Mega Man fan would put a Mega Man title in his list.