[Senax]

This is similar to TheCacti's Thread in the "Movies and Tv" section,which you can find here.

Mine are:-
Overerrated
Call of Duty Series: I don't think these games live up to the hype and excitement it causes.

I don't really have any underrated games but i do think people should respect the Fable series a bit more.

So what are your Underrated or Overrated games?
NOTE: These are my opinions.

This post has been edited by Senax on Thursday, Jul 12 2012, 11:39

[Narcis_speed6]

Call of duty underrated? I find it totally opposite.

[Senax]

there fixed it was a mistake, sorry about that.

[Mati]

QUOTE (Senax @ Tuesday, Nov 29 2011, 21:37)

Call of Duty Series: I don't think these games live up to the hype and excitement it cause. NOTE:These are opinions.

...This can't possibly be a serious opinion. MW3 sold 6.5 Million units on the first day after release just in the UK and US.
It's currently the most played shooter till date (or one of the most played shooters)
I think you meant overrated. (I was right, it was your mistake)

Most overrated: Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I bought it, played through it and put it away. It was a nice game, but nothing more. Making us choose our ending by pressing buttons was just silly.

Most underrated: Tony Hawks Project 8, Mortyr, Urban Chaos.

[Narcis_speed6]

Most underrated, 007 Blood Stone.

[tuareg]

Too many examples to list, but i'll go with the Halo series for overrated and i'm not sure about underrated games. The Dirt series perhaps?

[Sakuya]

Please. I loathe the term.

"Overrated" is the most useless term ever coined. Like, holy sh*t. Anyone who uses the term and thinks it means something is probably smoking crack and/or mentally challenged. I'm exaggerating, of course, but still: stop that.

It's not even an insult to the game itself. Actually, it's hardly even an insult. It's just a derogatory statement hurled at someone's concept of popularity. It's like saying "I wish this game had less fans." Why would you wish something like that on anyone? Because you have an unwarranted sense of importance, that's why. Trying to dictate what everyone does and doesn't deserve. It's just foolish to think you know better than everyone who plays a certain game. "Stop liking what I don't like." "Stop enjoying things! Do you realize how ridiculous you look to me?" It's all the same. It's all just some try-hard trying to look cool by bringing everyone else down.

Let me ask, how do you propose a game gets, uh...regular-rated? Have a portion of it's fanbase stop playing it What exactly would that accomplish? The popularity of a game should matter to no one other than the developers and the staff/publishers/etc. They'd still make the same game, and you wouldn't like them any more or less than you already did.

So let's recap:
Calling something overrated is saying it's too popular.
Popularity doesn't mean anything at all to you.
You're complaining about something that means nothing to you.

You might as well say "that shelf would look better a little to the left" and it would hold about as much importance. Yes, if you were having a conversation about games, and someone suggested moving a shelf, that would have more relevance to the conversation than whether or not a certain game is overrated. At least you can put games or something on a shelf; "overrated" just hangs in the air making you look like a tool.


Oh? You don't like hearing about a certain game as often as society feels you should based on it's popularity? Deal with it. Everyone is subjected to things they don't like on a daily basis. Many things that are much worse than hearing some people talk about a game you don't like on your lunch break.

Underrated, on the other hand, is okay. If you like a band and think more people should check it out, that's cool. That's constructive. Calling something overrated isn't constructive at all.

This post has been edited by Sakuya on Tuesday, Nov 29 2011, 22:10

[Street Mix]

Underrated: Driver 3, Parallel Lines and SF.

QUOTE

Most underrated, 007 Blood Stone.

Yeah, this one too.

This post has been edited by Street Mix on Tuesday, Nov 29 2011, 22:59

[tuareg]

Good god who gives a f*ck wether it's constructive to call something overrated or not? Serious f*cking business.

[danjodan]

QUOTE (Street Mix @ Tuesday, Nov 29 2011, 22:23)

Underrated: Driver 3, Parallel Lines and SF.

Parallel Lines was really good actually, People are to quick to label it as a GTA clone when infact its the opisite

[Guns N R0se]

I really liked Driver:SF, I agree it was underrated, but Yahtzee (Zero Punctuation guy) gave it a good review which is rare.


Underrated: Crash Team Racing. Best game ever.

[Butters 2011]

QUOTE (Street Mix @ Tuesday, Nov 29 2011, 22:23)

Underrated: Driver 3, Parallel Lines and SF.

Wow, Driv3r under-rated? Giving that game a 1/10 was generous. Horrible controls, horrible animation, horrible everything.

Isn't there a similar topic to this only a few days old?

[Tommy.]

QUOTE (Narcis_speed6 @ Tuesday, Nov 29 2011, 21:50)

Most underrated, 007 Blood Stone.

I agree. I loved Blood Stone and it had a really fun campaign. Too bad it couldn't of been longer.

[Floro Solo]

QUOTE (Tommy. @ Tuesday, Nov 29 2011, 23:29)

QUOTE (Narcis_speed6 @ Tuesday, Nov 29 2011, 21:50) Most underrated, 007 Blood Stone. I agree. I loved Blood Stone and it had a really fun campaign. Too bad it couldn't of been longer.

Even though the shooting and vehicle sequences were cool, it wasn't that good of a game. It got kind of boring after a while and was painfully short.

[EverLost123]

Big Rigs - Super Underated

[Marlowe.]

Gun, Black and Shellshock 'Nam '67 are some 'underrated' PS2 games I can remember loving.

[Guns N R0se]

QUOTE (Marlowe. @ Wednesday, Nov 30 2011, 00:25)

Gun, Black and Shellshock 'Nam '67 are some 'underrated' PS2 games I can remember loving.

Gun was awesome!

[OverTheBelow]

QUOTE (Tommy. @ Tuesday, Nov 29 2011, 23:29)

QUOTE (Narcis_speed6 @ Tuesday, Nov 29 2011, 21:50) Most underrated, 007 Blood Stone. I agree. I loved Blood Stone and it had a really fun campaign. Too bad it couldn't of been longer.

Blood Stone was terrible. The only interesting parts of the game were the driving sequences, and they weren't that interesting.

[Supreme.]

^Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, uh, your opinion, man.

Haven't played Blood Stone, just wanted to type that.

[Miamivicecity]

Underrated: Mafia II. I love this game even if most don't.