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  • They are good games, but are overrated. If you played PC games like Quake or Doom before Halo, you could see how generic Halo is. Final Fantasy VI is WAY better than VII. While i love these game alot, they arent the best. I also would include Gears of War and Fable in that list as well.

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    Shut yo black ass up!

  • Halos beast she's a bitch

  • For Halo you're forgetting how amazingly integrated and seamless vehicular combat was, how huge the environments were, how it was one of the first FPSs with an actual decent storyline, how it popularized only being able to hold two weapons at a time and most importantly, how it felt as an evolution of FPSs as a whole.

    If you play Unreal Tournament which had only been released two years prior and on the dominant FPS system at the time (PC) and then play Halo, you'll see what I'm talking about.

  • I agree with FF7, but Halo: CE influenced a hell of a lot more than Zelda: OFT. Halo: CE might not be as good as now compared to other games like Half-Life 2, but it was THE fps game of the decade, and it was the second (right behind the first Half-Life) to tell and actually compelling story and it does have a huge amount of backstory.

    I think the most overrated games of all time today are Mario, Zelda, FF, COD and Gears of War.

  • I personally have not played FF7 and I hope that it does get a PS3 remake because it doesn't look appealing to play as of now. And I've grown up with the Ocarina of Time and as nostalgic as this game is, it fucking sucks....I don't know what people are thinking about when they say it's great. I was also, so very pissed that they didn't add anything for the 3DS version, maybe a survival mode or something!? not the boring boss battles! and maybe some 4 on 4 minigames? Or PVP adventure or co-op.

  • Another severely overrated game is World of Warcraft

  • Battlefield 3 so so so shitty no-splitscreen experience....

  • @chreace i like the game, you know, the campaign and the multiplayer, but yes that pissed me off, because what if you dont have xbox live, then your by yourself

  • Call of Duty series, Final Fantasy series, every GTA except San Andreas, and DC Universe Online.

  • @RnBrealist every gta? dude its not over rated, its very highly rated because its one of the best games, but yes final fantasy is overrated and gears of war is very overrated. call of duty and gta is the tits

  • @2010METALFAN I honestly don't see how you can call Gears of War overrated, and then praise Call of Duty.

  • @RnBrealist im not praising call of duty, i just think its way better than gears, and call of duty deserves its rating, the engine on gears of war is all fucked up, the graphics arent that great and you have to hold A to run, its the most inconvienent controls ever. and no one wants to play as some redneck who thinks hes bad ass because he kills locusts

  • @2010METALFAN It's not that FF is overrated, it's just that square doesn't know what fuck else to make.

  • also halo1 was the game that shaped the gaming FPS industry from its relase till presant day. ask anyone that knows what there talking about. its the game that made FPS on a console possably becase then nail the controlls and had the funnest multiplay eva!!. sry but i cant stand people that diss halo when then dont know anything about it, i gets on my nerves.

  • most overrated games:

    Half life (all titles)

    Super Mario Kart 64

    Zombies ate my neighbors

    GTA 3 (compared to San Andreas it's plain and simple shit)

    WoW

    and all those modern games (all after generation 5) I refuse to play because modern video games suck donkey balls

  • the CoD series. at first it was good, and still is a good FPS, but its the hype that always gets to me, about any game. its not that "not liking it" makes it overrated, its when fans over-hype and when game makers over produce the same material. videogames of course being a high profit product these days it makes sense of why it works that way. yes a fan of a game series is always looking for the the next big part of their favorite game, but often they get too excited about something repetitive.

  • @ShiningWolf1992 Halo 2 wasn't overrated. In fact, Halo 3 fans think Halo 1 is only good because it started it all, and Halo 2 sucked. Odd, I think Halo 2 is the best.

  • There is no such thing as 'overrated'. Its just a term used by people who don't understand the basic truth that sometimes people like stuff they don't.

    So. in that spirit, these are some games I personally dont like.

    Skyrim(ok...its not a bad game, but I was very disappointed in it after expecting so much)

    Gta 4. Hated everything about it.

    Any WW2 fps(boring), except MOH allied assault.

  • My list of overrated games

    Halo(the whole series,play some quake or doom or blood or DN3D THOSE are shooters)

    Every COD after 4

    All FF since 7 (besides 9 arguably)

    MGS1 2 and 4(3 is good)

    Zelda games that came out on the wii (okami was a better zelda)

    I guess people just like the have their nostalgia goggles on for these particular franchises

    Long live casuality /sarcasm

  • years later and this is still relevant

  • Tomb raider (all),Zelda (all),GTA4,Modern Warfare 2,Halo Reach <-------- overrated

  • the most overated game of all time is halo. This is not opinion, this is fact. Compare halo to any other game in the market, and you'll see my point.

  • Halo yes, 7 no

  • Yeah...Final Fantasy...No Comment.

    Halo Is A Very Beautiful game, but its MP is the best thing.

  • Most freakin' over-****ing-rated game of all time = Final Fantasy VII !!!!

    Okay I may have only played IX myself, but I hear so much about VII and I'm thinking like "give it a rest man", I have read about the story and I find it nowhere as interesting as IX. Actually I am not gonna play VII EVER for the fact alone that I think it's overrated as f*ck!

    IX is superior to VII and I'm gonna bet my LIFE on that!

  • @Mudstoise If you haven't played it and are unprepared to give it a go with an open mind you can't really make the claim that IX is superior to VII and bet your life on it, IX's great, but its more kiddy than VII, VII offers a more adult story, it has more depth and Sephiroth kind of warps Kuja in everyway possible (he wears a thong?) IX is great, one of my favourites but I just finished replaying both and its not as good, reading the story isn't enough, VII gradually paces releasing info

  • HALO, yep... When it came out i was just switching from console to PC gaming. I played counter strike and battlefield 1942 and just saw nothing appealing about it... It was slow, had no real design, and was nothing new for that day and age. FF7 I agree I think there is some correlation between anime lovers and FF7 you hears so much "OMG BEST EVER"

    but then you sit and play it, and it's really not what they make it.

    Overrated right now, call of duty series... Fisher price FPS...

  • @FoxsitoTaquito completely agree, COD is by the far most overrated series

  • The most overrated game I've ever played is L.A. Noire.

  • No doubt ff7 was an excellent game, but falls short for me if you compare it to predecessors ff4, 6, and even its contemporary ff tactics. The cast, character development and story of 4,6 and tactics was far supreme than 7. Kefka? Ramza and Delita? FF7's cast generally annoyed me, Sephy's had some real mommy problems, but thats the story. 7 is generally labeled overrated because it was probably the first FF title most people in America played. Ocarina of Time put me to sleep. Halo is okay.

  • I like that this vid wasn't just another mind-knumbing "this game fuqqing sux!!!1!1!!1!," and that opinions were stated as opinions. I agree that Halo is overrated. Haven't gotten around to playing OoT yet, though that'll change in the near future. Regarding FF7: I played FF4 (2) before I played 7, and loved 4. I didn't play 7 until 2004, long after many better looking games had come out, and I was 16 by then, so it isn't the nostalgia talking when I say it's among the best games ever made.

  • I loved FF7 but I agree it is really overrated; great game but not as good as people make it out to be.

  • FF7 is magnificent ! FF6 is overrated. FF4 is underrated. I just finished Ocarina of time. Talk about overrated ! Link to the past, Super Metroid and Sotn = Woooooow

  • Have you tried this PC game call Unreal? Its a game made by the same makers of Gears of War back in the 1990's introducing the Unreal Engine graphics and has a small sequel, as well as the tournament series. It has a AWSOME atmosphere to it once when you first play it.

  • Halo was in 2001. This game was and still is REVOLUTIONARY. It created the FPS (on console) genre. I respect you, however wrong you may be.

  • @UlyssesWeber ummm, medal of honor for ps1, goldeneye for n64, wolfenstein 3d, doom, duke nukem 3d, quake series? any of them sound familiar?

  • @UlyssesWeber Halo didn't create FPS on consoles. That would be N64 games, like Goldeneye 64, or Doom 64.

  • Final fantasy 6 was so much betetr than ff 7 in almoist every aspects.

  • The first Halo was great, second was good too, third was ok, wars was boring and hard, ODST was boring, reach's campaign was dissapointing, and now for halo 4.

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  • Games that people think are overrated AREN'T overrated. You are just one of the few people that didn't like the game for some bullshit reason. Or maybe it gets you hard just to be a hater. Games like FFVII that have so much praise are renowned for a reason. Just because someone has a shitty opinion of that game doesn't mean it is overrated. Your opinion is just an outlier in the statistics that show that so and so game is a great game. I'm talking about all and any "overrated" games.

  • Every single first person shooter is overrated. But the most overrated game I think would be...ocarina of time even though it's one of my favorite games ever. Although that game is the most important game in the series, it wouldn't exist without a link to the past. Let's give more credit to alttp

  • call of duty, halo, grand theft auto.... all fuckin overated

  • OMG! a very pretty girl who likes videogames!!!!! I love you!

  • oot helped me get through hard times

  • Oot is not overrated, what is overrated is cod and gta4

  • I dont want to be very sexist but its kinda suprising that a girl that isnt a view whore

    has youtube videos about games

  • I prefer FF8, but I thought 7 had a decent story behind it. It was kind of hard to feel anything about the characters though. Halo is said to have "revolutionized" FPS games on the console.. but outside of that it's not great. I've played much better FPS games on the PC. Quake 2 multiplayer was addictive. So was Half-Life Team Fortress.

  • graphics aren't everything lady, ffvii is amazing

  • COD 4< COD 5< hang myself< Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2< Call of Duty: Black Ops.

  • @DisturbedChild33 Call of duty 4 was the best of them.

  • Most overrated games out there is COD (every one of those shitty games), Pokemon (the games aren't bad, but they don't deserve the ratings they get and the popularity it gets since the fanbase is filled with annoying 10 year old faggots), and pretty much most Nintendo games. Halo is not really that overrated since it revolutionized FPS on consoles and introduced one of the most kick ass multiplayers out there.

  • @gamefreak1000000 i agree except cod aint that bad. yea its getting less popular

  • @drifter402 That's not true! Modern Warfare 3 is already on the top of the charts!

  • whats this dude talking about....

  • Oblivion.

  • EVER COD AFTER COD 4

  • @manbearpigthing1234 Nope. Every COD game period. Every one of those games suck.

  • ROFL

  • I think the most overrated game ever is CoD MW 2/3 they just a copy paste game seriusly good games are the ones that elevate the standard of video gaming but CoD for god sake. Is a good game but trully is the most overrated game in history.

  • the first metal gear solid was great didn't really care for 2 or 3 never played 4

  • ff7 and oot were awesome for their time they just don't make video games like they used to everything nowadays is ovverrated.

  • final fantasy 7 is not overated it has great music cool charachters an engaging story. ff10 is ovverated the only thing good about are the graphics.

  • @alicefan65 ya horrible story writing 2d personalities and the game was not by any means groundbreaking all that had been done in the previous ffs along with Chrono Trigger witch is a far better game

  • @greyshell77

    If you think Goldeneye is overrated, then you probably played it yesterday. But then again that is your opinion and whether or not it matters, is another matter altogether.

  • Mario 64, Mario Bros. 3, GTA Vice City (only by a little bit), Golden Eye (by a lot!), Assassins Creed, The later Metal Gear games - especially MGS2, Mortal Kombat 1, Call of Duty MW games - namely 2, Peter Moleneux games (sorry guys)..., Resistance games! Why did 2 get such a good score. No way. Sloppy garbage.

  • Oh god you posted this in 2009! So you probably didn't know they were re-making Halo1!!! Horrible! An official remake of Halo and no remake of like Quake 1 or Half-Life... I like halo and play them. 3 was eh.. Reach was cool. But I do recognize that they are overated and I think the re-make is a total waste of time and energy.

  • I wonder if your going to say how i feel about how exactly Halo is overated..... BINGO!! You hit it perfectly. I always say "Babies first FPS" Basically Golden Eye and Halo are overrated because giant scores of people had their "Doom" experience on those games. They never played PC games. Cool you made this video and explained exactly why its overrated. Halo is very grey... In the same thinking I am going to say. Golden Eye and Mario 64

  • Good video, I agree with most of it (except Halo, but htats more because the only reason its called "genric" is because it spawned so many carbon copy FPSes after it came out) and you express said opinions articulately.

    Personally I find GTA4 immensely overrated. The missions were imo repetitive as hell and mucking around in the city is fun for say 10 hours, but then the game turns dull. It did not extraordinary at all and most likely got hig hreviews due to the "GTA" name.

  • Call of Duty :P

  • Why so many people still think it's "cool and edgy" to call these three games overrated? Though MGS is my favorite game and series of all time, it still annoys me every time I hear someone calling these games "overrated" because they didn't like it. The word "overrated" is overrated. Damn hipsters.

  • @fordmustangjaime MGS is UNDER rated.

  • FF7 isn't that good. ppl who think it's the best are OLD losers who can't forget about the past!!

  • when they both came out they where inventive and new.. after that everybody copied and made better games.. so ofcourse they will be overrated later on when there is better games on the market.. i played final fantasy 7 when i was 10 years old.. and i still remember it today.. when im 25yrs old. halo was fucking awesome when the first xbox launched. i had a ton of fun playing multiplayer split screen with friends. it was the first good fps on the last console generation.. you are lost girl!

  • as she said

    Halo was the first good FPS i played

    so i love it because... well... i love it, and always have so i support it fully

    and GEARS OF WAR is just as over rated as halo but atleast there is some story in halo (lets just pretend that its not 90% ripped off of starship troopers) but at least its there when in gears of war every game is the same and the only difference is NEW GUNS, no new story or anything usefull just new guns and new things to shoot with those guns

  • Couldn't agree more with this girl.

  • Whoa! I take back what I said, I can't personally assure you that Ocarina of Time sucked me in, it was probably the most "magical" game I've ever played, don't know if you are judge it by modern standards, but at the time the thing was all of what everyone says. The game was too big and full of secrets to be near overrated

  • FF6 is waaaaayyyy better than FF7. I've played both btw

  • The most overrated game for me is-

    *checks flame wall, just to be sure*

    Ocarina of Time.

    *runs*

  • @HaggKid i agree, and i think majoras mask is better .

  • I agree with you on Halo 100%. Disagree with you on FF7, and deffinitly disagree with you on FF10. It wasn't a bad game, it's pacing was way off though. Way too many videos interrupting the gameplay.

  • nice middle sex game in the game

  • Assassins Creed 2 is the most overrated game for me. Btw my favourite game is FF7 :)

  • i believe FF7 is easily the most over hyped game,and its no were near the best rpg or game evermade it was "ok" but i myself grew up playing the snes rpgs and they were all MUCH better then FF7 IMO, best rpg's on the psx were valkyrie profile, xenogears ,suikoden 1and2,and a tie between chrono cross and FF9

  • Hmm well remember when ff were first designed they were almost revolutionery  for that it is not over-rated of course now yes it would be almost pointless to remake it

    annoying zelda and mario and the like are all over rated full stop...zzzzzzzzzz

  • @888biteraman I feel ya, man. I played it once growing up, I didn't really care for it then.

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  • You're awesome. I agree with you in FFVII being overrated. I used to like the game,but then the whole remake thing came up and "fans" got EXTREMELY ANNOYING and, well. That "fanbase" is definetely the worst one because you say a bad aspect about FFVII and you instantly get hate mail or stuff. In MY opinion, as a Final Fantasy fan, XIII is the best one. FFVII "fans" praise FFVII because of its storyline, but the actual gameplay is boring and...well, the graphics suck, even for its time.

  • I think the grand theft auto games are super overrated.

  • Thank you.

    I think I am now in love with you.

    But I honestly believe Final Fantasy VII is the single most overrated game of all time. I get soooo much disrespect, scoffing, and people calling me a "fake" gamer, simply by stating this. And I did find Final Fantasy X to be really good. I never quite understood the appeal of Halo either.

    You rock! :D

  • You know you're pretty cute ;)

  • Yeah, the most overrated game to me is halo >.> there is nothing outstanding, or innovative about it. just your run of the mill sci fi shooter. final fantasy 7 is also extremely overrated, not even close to the best game ever. and Zelda oot is overrated, but at least it has a right to be, since its an amazing game. but i think majora's mask is just as good, and twilight princess is better.

  • Most overrated games? Anything made by valve or blizzard.

  • @dorminyorda Amen. Don't forget Treyarch and InfiinityWard. War shooters suck terribly. Modern gameplay sucks.

  • @dorminyorda yeah portal for one is overrated too :P your right on the valve games lol

  • I agree that Ocarina of Time is overrated. It's gameplay is just really average and as an action adventure game, sure it's fun i guess, but there are so many better games with more involving/original content/ideas like Banjo Kazooie and Conker, which also had FAR better graphics (another thing, Ocarina's graphics were HORRIBLE compared to other n64 games). Don't even get me started on it's arbitrary storyline that's completely nonsensical.

  • This video is complete bullshit, there were NO interesting parts in Final Fantasy 7 :/

  • @bud389 If you dont think Halo is one of the most overrated game of all time you need to suicide right now.

  • @ShawShank503 Telling other people to kill themselves for disagreeing with you, wow your a dipshit fucktard. And where did i say anything about Halo? Grow up you little wank.

  • @ShawShank503 Telling other people to kill themselves for disagreeing with you, wow your a dipshit fucktard. And where did i say anything about Halo? Grow up you little wank.

  • @bud389 How stupid are you?I never stated for you to kill yourself.I said if you think Halo isnt the most overrated game then kill your self.You never said anything about Halo.So you fail to read my post properly.

    Fucking moron.

  • @ShawShank503 "I said if you think Halo isnt the most overrated game then kill your self." Exactly, and i just said, if your telling other people to kill themselves for not agreeing with you, since thats your opinion, then your a fucking dipshit fucktard. But, since your a dipshit fucktard, i can understand how you fail to comprehend logic.

  • @ShawShank503 "I said if you think Halo isnt the most overrated game then kill your self." Exactly, and i just said, if your telling other people to kill themselves for not agreeing with you, since thats your opinion, then your a fucking dipshit fucktard. But, since your a dipshit fucktard, i can understand how you fail to comprehend logic.

  • @bud389 Lol so how are you going to call me a dipshit fucktard when its MY OPINION.You fucking retard so what if I said that you actually act like people kill themselves for stuff they see on the internet.If they do they have low self-esteem.Stop becoming butthurt because my original comment got likes and yours didnt.

    Good Day Moron.

  • @ShawShank503 Wow, it's amazing how unintelligent you are and how you still completely fail at comprehending the english language or reason. YOU, that means YOU, TELLING PEOPLE TO KILL THEMSELVES BECAUSE OF YOUR OPINION, MAKES YOU, im talking about YOU again here, dont get too confused, A FUCKING DIPSHIT BECAUSE NOT EVERYONE CARES ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK OR SHARES YOR POINT OF VIEW, do you understand now, or am i going to have to somehow reach through the monitor and yell it into your fucked head?

  • @bud389 LOL I NEVER TOLD ANYONE TO KILL THEMSELF.I said if you dont hink Halo is not overrated then suicide.I NEVER SAID TO KILL YOURSELF LMAO.You dont know how to read?And if no one cares what I say why did you bother to reply to my comment in the first place?

    Go away.Fucking idiot im done wasting my time.

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  • Im sure a lot of people are going to say call of duty on this comment section, but i dont think it's overrated. Sure basically everyone buys it, but really how many of those ppl have that game even on their top 10 list, not many. Where as for me, i think the most overrated games are God of War and Gears of War, its hard for me to pick which one is more overrated. Other honorable mentions, exclusive sony and 360 games and some 3rd party nitendo wii games like conduit and madworld.

  • Final fantasy not overrated, Halo is

  • Call of duty, halo, gears of war , forza, fifa that are the most overrated. And PAINFULLY almost every year there is new one.

  • @whackyronu Forza actually is doing something with the Kinect. THAT's AWESOME.

  • minecraft because it is just a waste of time because the people who make stuff like that could actualy just go to blender.org and make there own video games

    instead of supporting somthing like that

    plus making your own video game is the coolest feeling ever

  • @jjtheslayer69 minecraft had modes and modes is something you can make and share in the same time. and if you don't know what i mean modes is somthing that you can add to the game that makes the game completely differen't than the orginal. like the nazi zombies mode(which is a mode that represent call of duty zombies) plus its much easier to bluild stuffs in minecraft than blender does

  • @GabrielDLorenzo id rater just not play it

  • zelda is statisticly proven to be the best game of all time

    its not overated because i have not played a better game than it

    i replay ocarina of time 3 times a year every year since i was 5

    zelda cant be overated because it is infact the best game/series ever

    yes better than mario

    tell us your favorite game

    XD

  • I 100% agree with this video!

  • Chrono trigger is not overated

    Final Fantasy is not overrated

    Halo is DEFINATELY Overrated.

  • @ShawShank503 I think you have all that backwards.

  • the most overrated game that i have come across is chrono trigure.great game but it's so overrated.

  • Omg don't listen to those wussy fucks. You look fine those asshats are just attempting to play at typical girl insecurities.

    I agree that Halo is way overrated, the multiplayer was epic at the time but I always get bored playing Halo these days and always have gotten bored playing campaign. I disagree about FF7, that's my favorite game of all time.

    As for Zelda OOT, I think it's slightly overrated. Majora's Mask was a MUCH better game but OOT was and still is awesome.

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  • 0:38 so you did not like 7 because the graphics were ugly???

    thats like saying i liked sonic 06 better then sonic adventure 2 cause the graphics were better

  • @Neji2XL I'll agree, graphics mean nothing. It's all about story and gameplay.

  • & i think LoZ:OoT is more overrated than FF7 cuz i read internet polls about FF7 vs. OoT & a majority of them had OoT as the winner so therefore its more overrated.

  • FF7 is my favorite game but i admit it is overrated i dont have a problem with the graphics if you played that game in 1997 trust me the graphics wouldve amazed you im a devoted FF7 fan but i respect your opinions & i agree its overrated.

  • and yes i do agree final fantasy vii is over rated and final fantasy vi is under rated

    but i still like it :)

  • but the reason why i want ff7 to be remade on the ps3 is because square has remade alot of the final fantasy games and all they did for 7 is make a poorly made movie and spin offs

    i think ff7 would cool if they kept the same storyline and script and game play and just made it with better graphics and maybe a few more side quests for the fans

    you said yourself that they looked like lego ppl

    maybe that made it hard for you to conect with the characters?

  • There*

  • Its getting old people saying oot is overrated, its not for obvious reasons i wont explain, but the point is, is their a single game in this world that could be considered the greatest game in the world and not have a bunch of people hating on the answer is no, oot is the only game that deserves that title besides maybe super mario bros since it saved gaming, but thats it!

  • Personally, I feel that Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto are really overrated. Call of Duty is basically a knock-off of Medal of Honor, and GTA is fun to play but each game is the same old thing. As for FF7 I think you should've looked at the story a bit more because that's where the game's selling point is.

  • FF 7 sucks. Square Enix is probably gonna milk more money out of this by making a remake. Hopefully it fails.

  • The reason why these games are GREAT is because of the story you witness and play through the games.

  • atleast somebody isn't afraid to admit there are such things as overrated games, even if they r super popular...so i'm going to add in my opinion, the legend of zelda ocarina of time and twilight princess, and all of the call of duty, halo, and final fantasy games. i'm sorry, not saying they r bad, just a bit overrated.

  • @matthology not all final fantasy games are overrated. the first 6 are amazing.

  • ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww........

  • I can't really say which 3 games are the most overrated games because I don't play many video games

  • there is a diffrence between overrated and dated. you have to look at it from they day it came out.

  • VII is overrated but I would rather have it remade than have a new crappy FF made...

  • the most overrated games on earth to me are

    3) Final Fantasy VII + Final Fantasy VIII

    2) Call of Duty

    1) Kingdom Hearts

  • @McScreamo I can agree. But I would also add Legend of Zelda and Mario to the list. They get so much prasie, but don't do much in terms of changing the formula. At least on Mario's part. Zelda just doesn't interest me.

  • @vgman94 you know they really weren't meant to change up the formula. they are what they are and will always stay the same. although by graphics terms i can i guess see your point but other than that they are their own franchise. though both get too much fans for only a few near perfect games in the series. SMB3 + SMW + SMRPG + Zelda: Link to the past + Oracle of Seasons. those really are the only great games.

  • @McScreamo I have to disagree. I think most of their games, the ones you mention included, weren't thst good. I like Galaxy's levels and Twilight Princess, that's it. Formulas have to change sooner or later. Sonic the Hedgehog, Ratchet & Clank, Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon changed. Metal Gear stayed close to it's roots, but still changed very much. Many franchises have changed and innovated their gameplay. Shouldn't that be applauded? I mean, who wants to play repeats of the same game?

  • I actually agree with you. Halo WAS one hell of an overrated game. I personally didn't even enjoy it that much. As to Final Fantasy VII, as much as I adore the game, the game only really shone in its original context. I still enjoy playing it today, and it was a major landmark in the evolution of the RPG, but you are right about it being overrated. Considering the hype that game gets even today, I don't think any game could live up to that.

  • As for what I find overrated, pretty much every other game to come out this generation. But more specifically:

    Bioshock: System Shock 2 with a facelift. Unbalanced and shallow gameplay and a recycled story. Not a bad game, but calling it a "innovative" or a "masterpiece" is disingenuous when SS2 did everything it did but better.

    Fallout 3: A buggy, dull, unbalanced, padded, and poorly designed Skinner Box that wishes it was as good as Fallout 1. Or maybe in your case it's a ssskinner box? :P

  • NITPICK TIME! Eddie Riggs in Brutal Legend is part demon, so if you're looking for a plot justification for why his health regenerates, there it is.

    I think you're mixing up overrated with dated. For better or for worse, Halo defined console FPS's for the next decade. It had some of the best vehicular controls to be found in a shooter, huge environments and scale, and a story that was a cut above that of other shooters. I'm not a huge fan of Halo, but I don't think it's fair to deny its impact.

  • Final Fantasy 7 is overrated because of those overused cheesy love scenes and dramatical tragic scenes.

    Xenogears, Chrono Trigger, Vagrant Story, FF VI and FF Tactics are the best Squaresoft games

  • @getaliferetards xenogears and vagrant story are god. love those games. i liked ff4 too. also secret of mana. maybe evermore too. :D ff6 is better than ff7 too. chrono trigger kicked ass and ff tactics is underrated.

  • halo is definitely overrated. I would play it at my friends house and i always thought it was kinda boring. I'd still rather play goldeneye or perfect dark. Ocarina of time is weird because it was so amazing when it was released but for it to so consistently top best games lists was a little too much and hinted at it being overrated. I actually think in the long run A link to the past is a better game.

  • @dman519 I think OoT holds up very well for a 13 year old game. It's certainly not my all time favorite, but it's still my favorite in the series (haven't played ALttP so you might be right there). I find the subsequent games have progressively suffered more and more from poor pacing that wasn't present in OoT, and a lot of the Zelda formula has gotten really stale like the story, the items, the locations etc. But when OoT was first released it was pretty damn epic.

  • @QueenOliver There's no doubt it was epic as hell when it came out and its still better than most of the crap they come out with nowadays. Its just that theres a lot of people who will say "oot is greatest game eva, FACT" haha thats what makes it overrated. I dont even know what my fav of the series is. I would just say OOt and MM are my fav 3D with a slight edge to MM, and ALttp and LA are my fav 2D. And yes the last good zelda game was MM. WW was just OK(crappy dungeons) and TP just sucked.

  • @dman519 Those people are annoying, but outlets that rate it so highly aren't judging it by modern standards, and probably shouldn't. OoT has aged better than most. I find it odd to rate a fantastic game that people love a little too much, to be more overrated than the many mediocre or shithouse games that get blown WAY out of proportion.

    I still love the dungeons in each Zelda game, including WW. It's just the busywork in between that kills it for me, and the formula has become predictable.

  • @QueenOliver Sounds like you're saying that its such a good game, even now, that it isn't fair to put it into the "overrated" category. I would agree with that. I think instead of saying its overrated, it would make more sense to say that its "one of the best games ever, not THE best game ever."

    The older games dungeons had a difficulty in combat and puzzles that WW and TP seriously lacked. The formula is stale, but if the busywork and dungeons have more depth I dont think it would matter.

  • To be truthful final fantasy is not really that over rated neither is halo i disagree halo 3 is so is call of duty but i love call of duty because i am good at it halo sucks cock the only good one is halo 2 and reach

  • To be honest, I don't agree with you on Final Fantasy 7, but I never liked the original Halo, but I respect your opinions, and yes, they both are very overrated. :D

  • @Youkickmydog1988 It's really excellent, if hard to begin with. You're out of luck if you live outside the US or Japan though ;)

  • @Youkickmydog1988 I agree that games need a coherent narrative otherwise there's no incentive to succeed; my problem is when games go too far either way. Earthbound and by extension Mother 3 are two of my favourite games in this regard, as are games like Heavy Rain and Dreamfall, because one feels like they actually have an effect on the story. I don't like when it feels like I'm just shoving a character between hour-long cutscenes and not affecting anything.

  • @Youkickmydog1988 Meh, I could never really get into any of it. I prefer to actually play a game rather than sit through hours and hours of narrative that I really should be discovering through play. Trailers are an odd one though- I don't think I've ever seen that used to defend a game before...

  • I really loved both games. At the time FFVII looked great, had a wonderful soundtrack, and a great story. I've tried playing it again and couldn't believe how dated it seemed. I would love a remake if for nothing else a modern nostalgia trip. As for Halo I think that it was so fun because the graphics were crisp and the controls were tight. More so than the campaign mode, it's multiplayer was truly addicting. I think Halo really got it's name from it's multiplayer experience.

  • I agree with halo being overrated and i much much preferred ff8 to ff7!

  • The Call of Duty series is probably the most over rated series in existence in my mind. They aren't 'bad' games.. but they are incredibly boring. I don't understand the fascination, and with every new incarnation I feel such an over powering sense of Deja-Vu.

  • As a follow-up post, my most overrated game (well, really, a series) is the Metal Gear Solid franchise. It seems as though it can't decide whether to be silly or serious and comes across as trying too hard. I've tried on multiple occasions to play various iterations of it and have never found myself making any progress due to the irritating and needlessly drawn-out cutscenes, poor writing and awkward controls.

  • I'll agree with you on both games. I've never truly enjoyed any Final Fantasy games apart from IX and XII; even then only because they shook up the formula. I found Halo to be dull and awkward to control with a contrived story.

  • My friend yelled at me for not liking FFVII D:<