Most Overrated Games

[Swein Forkbeard]

1. um, have you played super mario 64? After that, yes, Super mario sunshine IS a total letdown and is overrated.

2. No, Wind waker has a cartoony style that is pretty lame unless you're like 6.

3. Yeah probably, that was an awesome game.

4. NO, all the super smash games are GREAT and deserve the scores they got......




QFT........and if I said that sorry, I don't remember it anyway......

1. Super Mario Sunshine throws about half the things that make other Mario games good...and then it throws in a bunch of other things (well, I do enjoy those Hong Kong style-battle with a giant squid on top of a suspended saucer or a chase on a suspended construction site). But I have yet to play Super Mario 64, which is quite odd since it was the first video game I ever saw.

2. Come on, is cartoonish style supposed to BAD?! Man, these people are getting too hardcore with their Gears of War, Resident Evil 4, Halo 3, BioShock, Half-Life 2, and all that stuff.

3. Unfortunately, I read the whole story at Wikipedia. That was idiotic, but I still want it (along with Super Mario Bros., Super Metroid, Super Mario 64, etc.; I was going to get Paper Mario but after hearing about it coming to the DS...).

4. Joe: Hey, what's your favorite Wii game?
Bob: Super Smash Bros. Brawl, of course.
Joe: And why?
Bob: Because Melee was my favorite GameCube game.
Joe: Yeah well...I prefer Wii games that actually USE the Wii, not just serve basically as an expansion pack to a GameCube game, especially a 2001 one.

Okay, seriously, with Brawl, granted, I didn't really want a huge upgrade, and I bought a Wii specifically for it...but...when you consider they actually gave a good update to the original Super Smash Bros. in 2001 (in just two years!) and then provide an EXPANSION PACK in 2008; meh. Brawl should've launched with the Wii, or, at the very least, come out in early 2007. Let's look at some other Wii games and see how they fit in.

Zelda: Twilight Princess - Okay, this game, just like Brawl, looks like it should be a GameCube game. However, TP actually launched with the Wii, and the good motion controls more than make up for it. The music is just begging to be orchestrated. The opening could definetely use work; Ocarina of Time started with a dream, and Wind Waker starts with a briefing of what has happened since Link defeated Ganon and went back to his own time in Ocarina of Time. Twilight Princess's beginning is totally unecessary to me (can somebody tell me what it's about, anyway?). Same with the ending; it's too childish; with Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker that would be okay, but Twilight Princess is rated T for heaven's sake! The Wii remote is used rather nicely, though, so that redeems it.

Super Mario Galaxy - It's not perfect, but it is the best Wii game, without dispute. About the only problem is that getting 1-ups is too easy, but that is about halfway made up for with the fact that you start back with 4 lives at the beginning of each save, so you can't horde lives like you can in Sonic Adventure DX.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl - It's nothing but an expansion pack to Melee, and we've waited far too long for it. It could've even been released in 2005. At least the Mario Karts have always had SOME important innovation.

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

He finds it strange that people like Bioshock so much considering how rubbish the game is compared to Halo 3, especially it's multiplayer mode.

Ah, well there you go. Bioshock might not have much in terms of multiplayer (does it have any?), but I'd wager its singleplayer story is more engaging.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

They said the single player of Halo is more interesting and original.

 

[warpstorm]

They said the single player of Halo is more interesting and original.

I love people going on about a game they only know from hearsay. I've played both and I find Halo 3 quite boring (especially the single player) whereas the setting, pacing, and story of BioShock was refreshing.

FWIW, Team Fortress 2 is better than both of them.

Like I said earlier in this thread ratings are subjective. They are just a few guys' opinions. And you know what they say about opinions...

 

[Swein Forkbeard]

I don't have any friends and I like the Smash Brothers games.

One game that I been told is severely overrated is Bioshock, especially when compared to Halo 3.

1. Same here.

2. Obviously however, if you like multiplayer more, than obviously Halo 3 will appeal more. BioShock has no multiplayer; as a matter of fact, the Guiness World Records Gamer's Edition 2008 considers BioShock to be an action-adventure rather than an FPS (OMG; a Metroid Prime clone at last!).

Well, I guess an FPS isn't an FPS without multiplayer.

 

[Civfan333]

ahahhaha, I actually thought you were serious there for a second swein but for the record, Bioshock ISN'T a Metroid clone, it has a good story at least......

 

[Swein Forkbeard]

Uhm; does a game REALLY need a good story to succeed? I guess in the hardcore gamer's eye it does, but that means you are missing out on all the Marios, Zeldas, Metroids, and Dooms of the bunch.

 

[Civfan333]

ummmm, except for the super mario galaxy game......nearly every game in all those series are hardcore games.....

 

[Swein Forkbeard]

Eh heh.

Well, it IS too easy to earn 1-ups in Mario Galaxy, but I already covered that. Aside from that, it certainly deserves the 9.7/10 IGN gave it. That IS a point lower than Super Mario 64, and I wish I had played that game.

It certainly doesn't deserve PALGN's or Eurogamer's perfect score, though. As far as I know, however, the only games that have gotten a perfect score from Eurogamer are Gran Turismo 3, Zelda: Wind Waker, Half-Life 2, Final Fantasy XII, BioShock, Halo 3, and Super Mario Galaxy; but now I am going to get big time crucified for saying that. Oops.

And Famitsu gave Mario Galaxy a 38/40. Uh yeah, now THAT makes sense. But now I'm going to get crucified even MORE. Argh.

 

[Bigfoot3814]

I don't think any of those credientials make it a hardcore game.

 

[Civfan333]

yeah, Super Mario Galaxy is too easy, and it's just......casual, not hardcore........

 

[Swein Forkbeard]

The main is quest is on the easy side, but I had huge problems with some of the later bosses.

What was silly though was that there was this one top boss who I beat in one try, then I saw there was a daredevil mission and I though "HOW THE HELL AM I GOING TO DO THAT?!?!"

Actually, I think PALGN phased it correctly in their review; "If you're a casual gamer, then you will just pick up 60 stars and leave, but if you are hardcore, than you will try to get all 120."

And then the gameplay is just fluid, fluid, fluid. Presentation is perfect.

Oh, and for those of you who think it is too easy, it's only too easy because of the fact that you need fifty star bits for a 1-up (change it back to 100, PLEASE!). However, there are tons of things to cover up the difficulty. Like:

Bowser's back, and meaner than ever. I was disappointed by the final showdown with him, but I died a hellish number of times up to that point.

The comet stars really put some difficulty into the game. I mean, those daredevil comets really do a nice job of harkening back to the original Mario games. If only they had Bowser daredevil comets...anyways, the Cosmic Mario races were also pretty darn difficult (except for that one in the ice galaxy or whatever it's called, but that was because I used shortcuts, and the other races were difficult even after I learned how to boost).

Those pull star paths, bubble levels, and the ball levels (especially THOSE) were quite difficult.

So if you comment on the game's difficulty, well, maybe Nintendo made it thinking that you wouldn't just finish the main quest and go. Maybe Nintendo was thinking that you'd have such a grand time playing through the main quest and you'd be left wanting more; therefore you're going to go for all 120 stars.

Now, according to IGN, the main quest may take 8-12 hours. Now, let's go through all times which you might be doing that and that becomes...32-48 hours (120 stars with Mario and

Spoiler :

120 stars as Luigi

)

Okay, I must admit though, that I stink at platformers.

But yeah, reading PALGN's review made think that Mario Galaxy does indeed deserve a perfect score. Actually, it's also one of the only games that Edge has awarded a 10/10, joining the ranks of:

Super Mario 64
Gran Turismo
Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Halo
Half-Life 2
Halo 3
The Orange Box
Grand Theft Auto IV
Elite
Exile
Super Mario Bros.

 

[Bigfoot3814]

Actually, I think PALGN phased it correctly in their review; "If you're a casual gamer, then you will just pick up 60 stars and leave, but if you are hardcore, than you will try to get all 120."

Nah see, a hardcore gamer would not have bothered with the game in the first place.

 

[Swein Forkbeard]

Well, obviously if you have a 360 and you aren't interested in platformers (Gamespy noted that the only con of Super Mario Galaxy is a preference against action platformers), than you wouldn't bother.

But a hardcore Wii gamer; now THAT'S different. Unless they basically want to play Resident Evil 4 or Metroid Prime with Wii controls.

 

[alcal]

I dislike every mario series games

 

[azzaman333]

Why do I keep clicking on view post...

 

[GoodGame]

I never found the cutesy italian sterotype very amusing myself, and it just got more and more tired. Still they were great gameplay if you bought them when they were still new.

I dislike every mario series games

Put the beer down, wait one hour, then try again.

Why do I keep clicking on view post...

 

[Aramazd]

Why do I keep clicking on view post...

I do to; I just can't stop reading his posts

 

[Bigfoot3814]

But a hardcore Wii gamer; now THAT'S different. Unless they basically want to play Resident Evil 4 or Metroid Prime with Wii controls.

OK, I'm not dissin' the Wii, but it's not a hardcore system. It can be tons-o-fun, but I don't think there's really such a thing as a hardcore Wii gamer.

Imagine a hardcore ballerina...

 

[Civfan333]

yeah, that's pretty much what I imagine......