Overrated games
May 16, 2014 at 10:12 pm
(This post was last modified: May 16, 2014 at 10:14 pm by Napoléon.)
I just feel like bitching about certain games I think are overrated. Feel free to share your own thoughts and rant about games you also think are over-hyped.
Sooo...
Dishonored - I've never understood the hype with this game. The main story is incredibly short, the characters are boring as fuck and I couldn't care less about the story because of the poor characters. The setting is ok, people go on like it's some steampunk wonderland. It's really not, they could of done a lot more to get you involved in the world. The gameplay is the only redeeming feature, but it's so fucking pointless. Sure it's fun, but the upgrades and character progression don't mean shit when the game is piss easy to complete even on the hardest setting. Yeah you get to 'choose how you play'. Guns blazing or sneaking. Wow that's a new and original concept. How about we give you some ridiculously overpowered special abilities like freezing time or seeing enemies through walls to really make the enemies you encounter as pointless as a broken pencil.
There's no real want for me to pick up this game after the first few plays. The story just isn't gripping enough. You're thrown into this completely bland environment and introduced to a kid you see for about 40 seconds and expected to care about rescuing this kid with some cliche over-arching government conspiracy on top of it all. Boring.
To be fair, it's not a bad game despite all my negativity, but considering the fact it's supposedly GOTY material, it's the most over-hyped game I can think of.
Uncharted - Another one with a fairly bland storyline and characters. To be fair, the characters in this game are a lot better than Dishonored, but they're still pretty one dimensional. The story (at least in the first two, which are all I've played) is pretty basic. The twist in the first game was admittedly pretty cool, and it did get me going for about 20-30 minutes while I played through it, but shortly after you're back to the fairly standard combat and bland enemies. Don't get me wrong, the gameplay in Uncharted is smooth and fun, but it's pretty darn safe. It doesn't push any boundaries or get you overly excited. Visually they're nice enough games, and that is one of the better aspects. But people go on like Uncharted is the best series on playstation. I don't really understand it myself.
The formula is your bog standard treasure hunter adventure game. It does pretty well at giving you that, but when I see it scored consistently with 10/10 from critics, I have to wonder what the fuck I missed. 8/10 is about as much as I think any of the uncharted games deserve. Not because they suck too much to be 10's, but because they just don't do enough to be 10's.
I guess Uncharted is like the Indiana Jones of video gaming. Good games/films, but they're not exactly the 'definitive' experience.
I could probably rant about a few more but I'll just list them for now (doubt many people will read this all anyway).
Call of Duty, Bioshock, Skyrim, LittleBigPlanet, Batman: Arkham series, MGS4
None of these games are bad, I feel I should point that out. Just not as good as the kinds of scores they seem to get by 'critics'.
Sooo...
Dishonored - I've never understood the hype with this game. The main story is incredibly short, the characters are boring as fuck and I couldn't care less about the story because of the poor characters. The setting is ok, people go on like it's some steampunk wonderland. It's really not, they could of done a lot more to get you involved in the world. The gameplay is the only redeeming feature, but it's so fucking pointless. Sure it's fun, but the upgrades and character progression don't mean shit when the game is piss easy to complete even on the hardest setting. Yeah you get to 'choose how you play'. Guns blazing or sneaking. Wow that's a new and original concept. How about we give you some ridiculously overpowered special abilities like freezing time or seeing enemies through walls to really make the enemies you encounter as pointless as a broken pencil.
There's no real want for me to pick up this game after the first few plays. The story just isn't gripping enough. You're thrown into this completely bland environment and introduced to a kid you see for about 40 seconds and expected to care about rescuing this kid with some cliche over-arching government conspiracy on top of it all. Boring.
To be fair, it's not a bad game despite all my negativity, but considering the fact it's supposedly GOTY material, it's the most over-hyped game I can think of.
Uncharted - Another one with a fairly bland storyline and characters. To be fair, the characters in this game are a lot better than Dishonored, but they're still pretty one dimensional. The story (at least in the first two, which are all I've played) is pretty basic. The twist in the first game was admittedly pretty cool, and it did get me going for about 20-30 minutes while I played through it, but shortly after you're back to the fairly standard combat and bland enemies. Don't get me wrong, the gameplay in Uncharted is smooth and fun, but it's pretty darn safe. It doesn't push any boundaries or get you overly excited. Visually they're nice enough games, and that is one of the better aspects. But people go on like Uncharted is the best series on playstation. I don't really understand it myself.
The formula is your bog standard treasure hunter adventure game. It does pretty well at giving you that, but when I see it scored consistently with 10/10 from critics, I have to wonder what the fuck I missed. 8/10 is about as much as I think any of the uncharted games deserve. Not because they suck too much to be 10's, but because they just don't do enough to be 10's.
I guess Uncharted is like the Indiana Jones of video gaming. Good games/films, but they're not exactly the 'definitive' experience.
I could probably rant about a few more but I'll just list them for now (doubt many people will read this all anyway).
Call of Duty, Bioshock, Skyrim, LittleBigPlanet, Batman: Arkham series, MGS4
None of these games are bad, I feel I should point that out. Just not as good as the kinds of scores they seem to get by 'critics'.
