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Posted: May 13 2008 11:33 am

We all have a game in our lives that we feel gets more praise than it should like no other. Likewise, on the other side of the spectrum, we all have a game that we feel didn't get nearly the praise it should have like no other. Here are mine:

The most overrated game I've played:

Title: The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time
System: N64
Released in: 1998
Developer: Nintendo
Publisher: Nintendo

My main gripe with this game is that while the story points to doing the Shadow Temple before the Spirit Temple, both the quest status screen and the Chamber Of The Sages put the Spirit Medallion clockwise immediately after the Water Medallion. Consequently, I find myself avoiding Kakariko Village in the future like the plague between the times I get them, despite the fact that both that temple and the events prior to it are the most elaborate in the game, especially when compared to the Shadow Temple. Also, there are tantalizing areas that turn out not to have anything particularly special. And the whole horse riding thing, despite being a necessity later on and being brought back later in the series, just seemed more gimmicky to me than anything.

The most underrated game I've played:

Title: Legend Of Kay
System: PS2
Released in: 2005
Developer: NEON Studios
Under License From: JoWood Productions
Publisher: Capcom

It's a Capcom action platformer set in a world of antropomorphic animals with top-notch action, groundbreaking mechanics, solid voice acting and cutscenes in the form of comic pages that wasn't nearly as successful as it should have been. At the end of the crdits are the words: We'll be back! I'm holding Capcom to that to this day.

You guys?

Posted: May 13 2008 01:34 pm

Most overrated Sega Genesis game ever is Sonic 2. The game looks like shit compared to Sonic 1 and Sonic 3, the music is almost all annoying and bad, tails is a fucking loser, there are only a few good boss fights, the bonus round is lame because TAILS FUCKING GETS HIT BY BOMBS AND LOSES RINGS FOR YOU.

They shoulda just gone with the whole "3 levels per area" thing they did in Sonic 1. By trying to cram more worlds into the game, they ended up just having to limit the palette to a bunch of ugly ass colors. Fewer worlds with more varied and vibrant tilesets like in Sonic 1 would have been fine.

Posted: May 13 2008 01:51 pm

Operation Winback on the N64 was pretty underrated.

WW2 sims are highly overrated.

Posted: May 13 2008 02:49 pm

i always felt landstalker for the genesis was underrated.

overrated? cant think of any off the top of my head.

Posted: May 13 2008 03:19 pm

Shattered Union for underrated, any racing game ever for overrated.

Posted: May 13 2008 03:52 pm

overrated:

-every halo game ever made
-every bioware rpg not in the KOTOR series
-the majority of final fantasy games after 6
-gran turismo
-world of warcraft
-the sims

Posted: May 13 2008 04:09 pm

I'll go with Zelda here:

Underrated- Wind Waker

Everyone was ripping on this game because of it's cartoonish style though the game itself was great.

I read somewhere one person wrote:

"Why the hell does Link have a sister?!"

Now here is what I was thinking:

"Is this guy serious? If he spent less time bitching about the game and instead learn something about it he would realize that it isn't the same Link in every Zelda game."

Overrated-Twilight Princess

Some people might disagree on this but I think the waiting time for this game was too damn long. Waiting for this game made it overrated for me, because I assumed it was going to be a hard and long game like OoT but not quite.

The bosses are too easy in this game and you can find heart pieces by talking to someone in Hyrule Castle Town. Well I'm not gonna say this game sucks in fact; it is awesome but easy bosses piss me off.

Posted: May 13 2008 04:19 pm

Easy bosses have plagued the Mario franchise since Super Mario World. It is definitely annoying.

It's funny that you bitched about the delay on Twilight Princess. Ocarina of Time was one the most famously and repeatedly delayed games of all-time. It was supposed to be a launch title.

Posted: May 13 2008 04:38 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

It's funny that you bitched about the delay on Twilight Princess. Ocarina of Time was one the most famously and repeatedly delayed games of all-time. It was supposed to be a launch title.

I was playing LttP (which was my cousins) because he got an N64 before I did so I guess I didn't notice.

A least OoT has bosses that take more then 2 minutes to beat Very Happy

By the way isn't Brawl overrated?

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Laminated Sky wrote:

By the way isn't Brawl overrated?

I haven't heard any Brawl hype since March. Then again this is the only place I hear video game hype from Very Happy

. And in terms of what real people in my neighborhood thought, all I heard was, "the New Smash Bros. is ok, but something seems to be missing."

Brawl is definitely not overrated, it just took too damn long to come out.

Posted: May 13 2008 06:50 pm

Overrated:

Halo Series - Play 1 & 2 on the PC, and you'll realize how bland they really are.
World Of Warcraft - Grind Levels, Bitch That Someone is better than you, repeat.
Every Final Fantasy after IX - They kinda ceased being Final Fantasy in all but name.
Guitar Hero - GuitarFreaks did it first, and did it much better.
DDR - Wow, they brought back the Powerpad. Rolling Eyes

The Wii - Why does every game maker think that they have to use the motion sensing controls, even if the game would be better played with a standard gamepad?

Underated:
SNES - Uncharted Waters 2: New Horizons - The best pirate game since Pirates!
SNES - Tecmo Secret Of The Stars - An awesome RPG hiding in Final Fantasy's and Dragon Warrior's shadows.
PS1 - Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure - It looks likes a RPG for 12 year old girls, but has a great combat system, and was alot of fun to play.

Posted: May 13 2008 07:56 pm

Underrated:

Gotcha Force
No More Heroes
Moblie Suit Gundam: Gundam VS Zeta Gundam

Overrated:

Advance Wars: Days of Ruin
Halo 3
StarCraft

I'll think of more later, but this is off the top of my head.

Posted: May 13 2008 08:08 pm

Tecmo was awesome. Building two parties was pretty fun.

the most overated thing for me is probably gonna be the wii. Ill probably get blasted for this but some people act like its gods greatest gift to mankind. i admit its fun as hell but i hate when people go too far about it.

Posted: May 13 2008 09:31 pm

That goes for any console. I have friends who won't shut the fuck up about the 360 or the PS3.

Posted: May 13 2008 10:09 pm

earthbound- it does its job as an rpg but i dont remember it being gods gift to gaming as i often read.

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*Obligatory Pyschonauts mention*

Posted: May 14 2008 12:53 am

Psychonauts was a good game.

Another underrated game was the Indiana Jones emperor's tomb game.

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crookshow wrote:

overrated:

-every halo game ever made
-every bioware rpg not in the KOTOR series
-the majority of final fantasy games after 6
-gran turismo
-world of warcraft
-the sims

Posted: May 14 2008 04:51 am

Over rated:
Okami- Got boring really fast and the humor was lame
Kingdom Hearts- The first one was just ok, the second one really blew
New Super Mario Bros- Wow did this game suck, shitty levels, easy as fuck, and BORING. Bowser Jr. sucks too.
Twilight Princess- I agree with what was said before, I loved this game (as with any Zelda game) but it didn't quite deliver for that long wait. I was really expecting it to be the best 3D Zelda.

Under rated:
F-Zero GX- Best racing game I've ever played and I hate racing games. Amazing tracks.
Rule of Rose- The combat in this game is broken as fuck but you can actually get used to it. It was just such an interesting game, don't really know what made me finsih it but I was glad that I did.
Final Fantasy IX- I hate how many people put this game down. Well I guess that means it won't be whored around and ruined like VII is these days at least.
Mystical Ninja (N64)- I love the hell out of this game, I can see why it's not for everyone though.

That's about all I've got for now.

Posted: May 14 2008 05:55 am

Underrated - Geist, XIII, James Bond: Everything or Nothing

Posted: May 14 2008 08:48 am

JEW wrote:

crookshow wrote:

overrated:

-every halo game ever made
-every bioware rpg not in the KOTOR series
-the majority of final fantasy games after 6
-gran turismo
-world of warcraft
-the sims

halo is good.

gran turismo is good.

thats about it.

Posted: May 14 2008 10:32 am

Syd Lexia wrote:

Underrated - Geist, XIII, James Bond: Everything or Nothing

i picked up XIII for .99 cents at gamestop. i havnt played the main adventure yet but me and my friends have a blast on multi player. i have the ps2 version.

Posted: May 14 2008 11:33 am

The thing I can't stand about gran turismo is, if it's so realistic, why can't any of the cars take damage? Well, I know the reason why, but it makes the gameplay fuckin dumb and unrealistic when you can constantly get away with bumping and sliding into other cars. I don't mind a driving sim, but if you're going to make it super realistic, then go all the way. None of this no damage bullshit.

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Underrated - The Tenchu Series (the early games, that is)

Most people credit MGS1 has being the game that popularlized "steath action," but Tenchu 1 came out at about the same time, and did it much better. While MGS had those stupid "vision cones" that determined the enemy's awareness, the enemies in Tenchu could see you just as easily as you could see them. Therefore, you really had to utilize steath to come up right behind them and kill them. The thing that was amazing about T1 was that it was loaded with bugs, and the AI could be ridiculously stupid at times. Nevertheless, the game was still fun as hell. Tench 2: Birth of the Stealth Assassins was a good game as well, having fixed a lot of the bugs and improved in a lot of areas. But personally, I didn't really like the "brighter" atmosphere in this game. The darker mood of T1 was the best, IMO. The later Tenchu games got progressively worse, if only because there was virtually no forward progress other than the graphics.

Posted: May 14 2008 02:40 pm

Halo is overrated. Its not that its bad, its that its got a sizable population of Frat Boys who jack off to how awesome Mister Chef is. Its like 300. No wait, its not like 300, because 300 sucked.