Undertale - It took a lot of pages off from Earthbound and just basically served as an example of what happens when you are nothing but fan-service.
Doom - There will be no arguments against the fact that Doom did set the FPS world on fire when it arrived. But, you can make an argument that overtime, there have been lots of very enjoyable FPS games that will give Doom a run for its money. I’m also a fan of Quake and I think Quake helped progress FPS in its own way. I really hate that Doom: The Dark Ages was pissed away when that could’ve been the Quake remake or continuation we’d all like to see. Instead, Quake died at Quake Champions, a very forgettable hero-shooter.
Diablo 2
Blasphemy.
Half Life 3
Minecraft
Dota and LoL. I shamelessly judge anyone who regularly plays either of those games by choice. Way too many people seem to like them.
It was a neat Warcraft 3 custom map.
Then it got weird.
Candy Crush and the million remakes from the same publisher. Stole the core mechanic from Bejeweled but designed to be addictive instead of fun.
Also how are you so shameless that you’ll publish remakes of a game you stole in the first place?
A pretty hefty amount of popular mobile games were actually rips of flash games with microtransaction added lol.
I never understood why Breath of the Wild was so beloved. I played through it and Tears of the Kingdom, but I really wonder if they would have been as well received if they didn’t benefit from the Zelda franchise.
I found myself getting annoyed with the game more often than excited. I very quickly became annoyed encountering koroks, or shrines, or the stupid sign guy. I think the bevy of side quests and collectibles diluted too much of the narrative and enjoyment of the world.I’m also a botw hater. No Zelda dungeons, forces you to explore with shitty weapon health mechanic. I disabled that in the emulator and realized how pointless exploration was when you didn’t need to replace your weapons. I’ll give it the glider but every open world game has a glider now so there’s better choices.
Breath of the Wild seems like it would make more sense if you’re a kid.
I know I would’ve spent countless hours just wondering the world, considering the real one kinda sucks.
Zelda Ocarina of Time is probably a solid contender.
Played it on our 3DS and it just felt like a worse Twilight Princess.
– Frost
That is a very hot take.
Glad to know there are people out there who actually prefer TP over OoT.
OoT benefits mostly from being first for a lot of people. Your opinion is fairly common for people who played more recent Zelda titles first then went backwards.
For most games, it depends on who you’re asking. I, for example, hate multiplayer looter-shooters, so the most overrated game to ME would be Fortnite. It literally hold no attraction for me and the thought of even playing it makes me shudder.
However, the universal answer is really any EA sports title.
It’s literally the same game every…damn…year…
EA sports/fifa.
I’ll play flappy bird over that any day.
Skyrim. It’s a broken mess of a game that’s barely held together by duct tape and hope, and it would be treated as such if it wasn’t for the modding community. Most of the game is fetch quests, and the magic system is just bad. Melee combat sucks, too. All one handed weapons feel the same, all the two handed weapons feel the same. The only actually interesting path of progression is the stealth archer, and I’m pretty sure that’s an accident.
Probably the best sandbox ever made though, just a shit game.
I think Skyrim is the perfect answer to this question. It’s a good game. Everyone has played a billion files because while it’s good it’s entirely unfocused and mediocre so people don’t feel motivated to take their character to the end of the game
checks I have more than 500 hours in the game and the furthest I ever got in the main quest is the Thalmor embassy mission.
Me too, I slayed one dragon I found randomly one time after riding a horse up a cliff.
The fetch quests were particularly disappointing for me, given the history of Elder Scrolls games (cough cough Morrowind cough). I didn’t mind the combat system (being able to equip anything in either hand was an improvement over previous games), but much of it did feel the same.
Skyrim. It was at best “fine” for me. I really dislike level scaling. The combat felt unsatisfying. I don’t remember the story. It’s not weird like Morrowind. The magic and enchanting was over-simplified.
But for many people it’s their grand joy. So I guess that’s good for them.
I never forgave them for removing medium armor and spears.
Halo.
Look, I’m not saying it’s a bad game or you’re a bad person for liking it, but man, I have never been able to see the appeal. As someone who has played a lot of shooters (mostly PC) and read a lot of sci-fi, I find it exceptionally mid. And I’m not really fan of the militaristic reverence vibe it’s got going on like … bleh. Does it actually criticize this more as the series goes on or is it really just all oorah? I also kind of blame it for the trends of vehicle segments and only holding two weapons that leaked into other FPSes at the time (looking at you Bioshock Infinite - WTF), although I do admit that’s more of a petty, personal point. I respect that it pushed FPSes and online multiplayer forward on consoles, but when people tell me it’s their favorite game with one of the best storylines ever I’m like, “But have you played any other games?”
I used to work in a game store back when Halo 3 released and I was a much more fervent hater back then, I decided I was gonna play the original Marathon games so I could be a hipster snob and hate on them, too. Actually ended up really loving them, though they’re only loosely related, I think they had a lot more going on stylistically and story-wise even though the gameplay was more primitive.
I retry every few years, but never get very far. Maybe I should skip to 2 because one is so bland I get bored of it.
Halo CE is definitely a but dated now, but 2 is one of the best campaigns even still. I’m not sure it can be overrated though. 3\odst is some of the best multiplayer experience there was before the series was infected with CoD.
You need cursed halo. All of the silly without any of the serious is exactly how I like my vidya
For me it’s Mario 64.
I’m old enough to have tried it when it was new and my opinion back then was that the controls made it nearly unplayable. I tried it again a couple years ago and I still agree with my kid self.
You just suck at video games it sounds like.
I haven’t kept up since the Galaxies but to me SMB3 is the epitome
It’s such a hard choice for me between SMB3 and Super Mario World. Both awesome games.
I’ve played through World fairly recently. To me, the SMB3 stages had far more variety and life to them.
I’ll throw hands with anyone who doesn’t like SMB3
I just want, like, a bunch of new adventures using g the assets and rough blueprint of SMB3, Super Mario World, Super Matroid, and Link to the Past. I know there’s things out there people have done to the ROMs that are essentially this and I keep needing to go look for them and… not.
