I do enjoy books, and I do enjoy movies, but I didn't enjoy the crossbreed quite as much. Okay- I must be a Halo fanboy. Although, that sounds kinda gay, so maybe a 'fanman'. Being the fanman that I am, of course I don't see how Halo can possibly be 'overrated'. Bordering on the only problem I ever had was when the thing finally ended. I never had that desire on a PC game- or at least not past the first mission or so, when. Re:Why Halo is Overrated. Score: 2. Well, I am half and half with your points.
I don't agree with your first point. I think that a lot of times 'interactive environments' are a pain in the butt. I don't like going around and smashing hundreds of crates looking for ammo most games and I thought the filing cabinets in No One Lives Forever 2 were ridiculous. My god, I spent a lot of time flipping through filing cabinets, what a way to bring down the action.
And that was one of the 'features' that reviewers thought was cool. Yeah, the firs. Final Fantasy 7 Score: 5 , Interesting. The game itself was okay, but that's all it is. FF7 didn't bring anything revolutionary to the RPG genre. The only things that FF7 did truly right were being one of the earlier RPGs released for the Playstation and being the recipient of millions of Square's advertising budget.
Okay game? Best ever? Not by a long shot. Re:Final Fantasy 7 Score: 3 , Interesting. I would have to disagree. In short, it brought the RPG genre popular acclaim and acceptance. That certainly makes a game influential. Re:Final Fantasy 7 Score: 2. The most popular game in the series is never the most apreciated by the hardcore In any case, I like FF7.
I don't see the problems that the other people have with it, save for the whole lack of difficulty, thing In any case, the graphics in FF7 alone forced everyone else to step up to be considered in the same league. If your RPG didn't look stunning now, nobody else wanted to play it. It was a move that would ultimately bring ab. Final Fantasy 8 Score: 2. Fanboys were created by brainwashing the mass-market.
It was the first Final Fantasy to have large amounts of advertising outside of Nintendo Power, and drew large amounts of non-gaming, Role-Playing-newbies to the genre. If you were to pump a few million in US advertising for any of the other Final Fantasty titles you would suddenly find them to be the most classic between gamers and non-gamers alike.
Re:Final Fantasy 7 Score: 4 , Interesting. FF7 was so highly rated at that time because of the following reasons: - Its graphics was way ahead of all other RPGs at that time. It took years for someone else to match that level. FF8 tried too hard by eliminating magic points, level ups, weapons, money etc, and it failed.
FF7 simply feels like a great classic with a new face. And I still love it. Re:Final Fantasy insert number here Score: 2. It seems to me that just about every FF game has been way overhyped, at least the ones I have seen here in the US. Though, I don't recall much hype at the time, I may have just missed it.
You are a fucking moron. Final Fantasy games aren't overrated, they're simply the best RPG's ever. FF7 had crappy 3D graphics?
Turn a little bit this way, I can almost feel the air comming off you fanboy. The stories are not at all inventive, the dialogue is terrible th. My top 5 Score: 2. My top 5, off the top of my head: 5. Halo - Fun, sure Quake III - Better graphics, uninspired gameplay 3. Black and White - I love Molynieux sp , and appreciated what he tried to do. But Black and White kinda sucked. Final Fantasy 7 - Same old, same old Myst - yeah.
Re:My top 5 Score: 3 , Interesting. I'll go with most of the ones of your list, save Halo and Myst. First of all, Halo wasn't really "rated" at all. As I recall, when I bought the Xbox along with Halo one of those infernal bundle deals the day the xbox hit shelves, the press hadn't been very kind to Halo.
In fact, the prior E3 press completely trashed it, citing poor framerate issues, weak gameplay, corny plot and dialogue. The list went on. What's mo. Re:My top 5 Score: 2. I understand the whole deal with the engine, and it being a multiplayer-only game. I was referring to how it was overrated as just that! I couldn't stand people who thought that Quake 3 was a better game than the original UT. Outpost on PC Score: 2 , Interesting.
I got burned by it. I hope it makes the top 5 and lives forever in infamy. Re:Outpost on PC Score: 2. That was a lot of hype. Fortunately enough, they had a demo running at Fry's so I could tell it sucked before buying it I had a lot less money back then, and that would have been a vicious hit to my income.
Underrated Score: 2. It's nice to see the most overrated games, but what about the most underrated games? I would be genuinely interested in good games that weren't marketed strongly enough.
I agree, they are interesting [the-underdogs. Don't worry Score: 2. Knowing Gamespy, we'll see the top 25 underrated games in a couple of weeks. Hype OK? Then Rise of the Robots, by an absolute mile. Robot one-on-one fighting game. Banging on about their clever new AI system that responded fantastically well to player input, absolutely gorgeous pre-rendered graphics.
Except that you could get several levels in by taping the koystick in the top right corner and the fire button down. Very, very, poor. Re:Hype OK? CU Amiga gave it high 70s percent but yes, the heading allowed for hype as well as excessive reviewing. Don't need to get negative mods, so AC it is. Score: 5 , Insightful. Hmm asking for suggestions for what slashdoters think are the most overrated games ever, how is this not going to turn into a mod-for-trolling-a-thon as opinions clash?
I mean, by definition an overated game would be one receiving undue acclaim right? Anyway, Let me say a few of mine: Halo: Now hold up before you set fire to me, I loved Halo, it was one of the only games I played on X-box for a very long time. But, the fact is that despite what a lof of people seem to beleive, it is not the best game ever. Half-life had a better single player, and better multiplayer. In short, great game, but not the "best game ever" Everquest: Popular?
A good game? Splinter Cell: yeah, a cliche trial and error exercise in futility with a bad camera but very impressive lighting effects is the game of the year? That is all. Zelda 4 and up Score: 4 , Interesting. The two Zelda incarnations on the N64 were in my own opinion totally overrated game.
It offered somewhat new gameplay, but it just wasn't a Zelda game. It's like that old Coke commercial where you had two guys in front of abottle of a noname Coke-Clone and are comparing it to a real one : Moves lile coke Looks like coke Smells like coke Tastes like It's as if Nintendo just took the visuals from Zelda and basic story elements save the princess from Ganon, and you're Link , and used them for a totally unrelated game, like they did with Super Mario Bros 2, which is not a Mario game in Japan.
Nintendo swapped the sprites for the American release and named it Mario 2 to cash in the name of the first game. I remember the Zelda's prior 64 as an all out action game, while the two games on the N64 were about walking a minute in a direction on the world map, kill a monster, walk again, repeat until you reach the next dungeon.
I haven't played the latest game, but it looked like a rehash for the 64 version but with cell shading, so I wouldn't call it innovative either. Think about it: - Zelda 1 was awesome. After that, the only changes were 3D.
Nothing to brag about here. Mario 64 was out as the same time as the console and already did that. Others still think otherwise. Some grunge, some funk. They stuck to the same sound for years and it eventually got boring. To be fair, they were pretty great at the beginning. Still, they get way more fame and acclaim than they actually deserve.
Dave Matthews Band garnered a strong cult following from a specific type of person. You know, the guy who loves wearing plaid button-down shirts and boat shoes year-round.
Dave Matthews might be a gifted musician, but his music sounds highly unoriginal not to mention boring. They are easily one of my top-five favorite bands of all-time. It pains me to do this because I still love the band, but this needs to be said. Queen, from my opinion, is the most overrated band ever. Is Freddie Mercury the greatest frontman ever? Maybe — even probably. Is Bohemian Rhapsody one of the greatest songs ever made?
In my opinion though, Queen never released a full album that floored me compared to the likes of The Beatles or Pink Floyd.
Not even close. Their albums honestly can be pretty uneven. Talk about a commercialized band leaning on merchandise sales and the strength of roughly three songs. From a quality standpoint, these songs were not poignant nor clever. Man, I hate Coldplay. The more you listen to this one damn song, the more repulsive it gets. I get that. They connect with the songs in swirls of emotions tethered on by the seemingly omnipresent voice of Chris Martin.
The more the band tries to branch out, the more chaotic and tacky their music gets. However, the stuff they did when their music was stripped down was actually not half bad. Instead, they employ entire orchestras and horn sections for songs invoking the same old schtick over and over again. Frontman Kurt Cobain led the group until his sad death later that decade. Thor Jensen Updated: 2 Aug pm.
Excuse me for a minute while I slip into this asbestos suit and close the door on my insulated concrete bunker in an undisclosed location. The canon of computer gaming is massive, with new classics added every year. Feel free to leave your picks in the comments, as well as any thoughts you have on my mother and her sexual purity. A gorgeous fictional world with an incredible backstory is squandered on the dullest, mushiest cover shooting to be found anywhere, and Elizabeth, the companion character you were supposed to bond with and feel real emotion for, spends the majority of the game throwing money at you like you were a low-rent pole dancer.
Metacritic: 94 Mortal Kombat One big problem with the video games industry is that controversy and gimmicks sell games just as well as good gameplay does. And when it came out, critical reception was overwhelmingly positive.
But once you get your hands on Sackboy and his cohorts, you learn the awful secret of LBP: it handles like total crap, and nobody wants to play a platformer with bad controls. Metacritic: 95 8. Very basic and simple movie not a great one R min Comedy, Drama. A faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo.
Bill Murray is in top form and so is Scarlett Johansson. However, these 2 strong performances aren't spectacular enough to make the movie a great film let alone a good film. I did not find the plot well done at all R min Action, Sci-Fi. A human soldier is sent from to to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation.
Outdated and the worst of the Terminators. The sequel was amazing and the next two were good. I just didn't appreciate it that much. R min Action, Crime, Drama.
After awakening from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her. The worst Tarantino film I have seen to date. Overly violent and not a great film. R min Crime, Sci-Fi. In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.
Eccentric and disappointing compared to the novel. I thought that the best parts were left out from the book and changed the entirety of the movie. Less emphasis on choice of decisions than conformity compared to the novel. All in all, still a half decent interpretation but not the one I was hoping for. PG min Drama, Sci-Fi. A linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world.
Being a big Villeneuve fan, I can't help but say I was superbly disappointed in this one. Nominated for 8 Oscars? Film was boring, dry and not much substance. I love Amy Adams too but could not get into this film The Avengers and their allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe.
A disappointment. The movie tries to play up to its huge twist which essentially gets reverted in the next film. The worst of the Avengers movies and while it's a good popcorn flick it was superbly overhyped and my least favourite Russo brothers film bogged down by major CGI and lacks the practical stunts their other films had R min Crime, Drama.
A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action. A classic that is good but I don't understand all the praise? Sure DeNiro is in top performance mode as always but I really only think it is a good movie compared to other Scorsese films.
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