What do you think is the most overrated game/franchise?

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There is way too much negativity in the world. Why not just move on and play games you like? Talk about games you like?

These games arent going to suddenly go away just because you hate them. Complaining just to complain honestly doesn't do much, in my view.

Eh, I cant speak for the others, but in my case I'm just negative by nature; I often describe myself as having a dark personality. I call myself "Misery" for alot of reasons, and that's one of them. Me being positive is rare. I refuse to try to be something that I'm not.

Others will have their own reasons.

That being said, complaints arent always without effect or usefulness. If in an early-access or beta testing situation for instance, they're not only useful, they're necessary.

For me it's Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty (Minus the Black Ops series for some reason.)and Dead or Alive series(Which makes me wonder why KOEI we.nt with them. I am aware of the following in Europe with TECMOKOEI since I have someone on my Facebook friends who works with them in the European division as a Community Manager) Another one that is overrated is Sonic unless it's old school version.

Pretty difficult because a lot of series fall into this. Gears of War is an obvious one for me, they're considered innovative because of how it popularised the cover shooter genre but honestly, I'd rather if it hadn't. The games themselves are tedious on account of the inflated health of the enemies and the cover shooter combat being a test of patience more than a fun challenge.

Basically any MMO, but I'm singling out World of Warcraft for having a really ugly art style and juvenile setting/lore that makes the fact that people spend serious time with it quite disturbing to me.

Vagrant Story. I'm not sure why, but I think it's the heavily probability-based combat system and bland setting... I've just never been able to enjoy it.

Borderlands series. Bad FPS plus bad Diablo-like does not equal good game! Also the humour is embarrassing, and there's nothing more painful than bad humour.

I'll probably think of more when I finish posting this.

Vargrant Story, yeah the gameplay pissed me off royally. Borderlands is just one of those games that was flat out trying him too hard.

Call of Duty

You just don't take it far enough, Fnord...

Without doubt counter strike, it's so bad not to mention pay to play, call of duty was also bad enough and five nights at freddys.

Final Fantasy, just an on-rails emo RPG
Sonic , just an easy platformer where you cant even see whats coming

Mass Effect 2. It's by no means a bad game, but it seems everyone thinks it's the highlight of the series. I think it's the worst game of the series. Both ME1 and ME3 have their own highlights, but nothing in ME2 stands out.

Personally, I think that the CoD games and Mario are the most overrated. Every CoD game after MW2 is pretty much the same thing.

Halo, Halo, and Halo.

Almost everyone who has played this game acts as if the FPS genre never existed before this franchise came along.

Halo (along with its ancestor Marathon) paved the way for all future shooters. A separate button for throwing grenades, limiting you to two weapons, a re-chargeable health buffer, ingraining plot and gameplay, and allowing you to look up and down. To name a few of Halo's innovations.

I always see it the opposite way: corrupting the genre instead of innovating.

I remember run-n-gun FPS games like Doom: No stupid regenerating health (slowing down gameplay, causing the action to be constantly interrupted by the need to hide, and taking away TONS of what used to be actual challenge, paving the way for the current trend of hyper-easy games), no restriction of two weapons (...why is that even a thing? I know it doesnt make logical sense in those older games. But horrible injuries that heal magically in seconds simply because you sit behind a rock makes just as little sense, so it's not like it was a leap forward in realism... but these things do create obnoxious limitations and lower variety) and just... constant action, no boring lulls. You actually had to DODGE stuff, even. And no sniping. I so very much miss the days of FPS games where sniping wasnt a thing.

Allowing you to look up and down wasnt just Halo's thing; that was an inevitable change as technology progressed, as tech limitations were the only reasons it WASNT done before with the earliest games like Doom, and I dont think Halo was the first to do it. It depends on the definition of it: somewhat restricted "free look" came as early as the FPS called Heretic, wheras a much more full version came along with games such as Decent (where you have WAY more view angles than in Halo or normal FPS games, it being a 6DOF type FPS). Quake, in 1996, is one of the most well-known examples of games that fully used this.

The grenades I guess are kinda an interesting change... but frankly, I'd much rather have Doom's rocket launchers (and just it's many weapons), or the variety of more creative weapons that many other FPS games had back then. Some of them got pretty strange... but they were often satisfying as heck.


The story stuff I never care about. In pretty much any game.


As it is, Halo definitely goes on my list of overrated things. I've tried it, it bored me, and my previous interest in FPS games turned to utter and total hatred not long after. Only very, very recently have some games started to go against those trends I hate so much... but they're still very few and far between.

Ok, that's your opinion, and mine is that Halo (the Bungie ones) is my favorite Shooter series.

Agh, the damn Souls games. Ugh.

I'd totally forgotten that number 3 was coming out.

I hadnt been to friends' houses in the longest freaking time, because all they wanted to do ever was play Fallout 4, over and over, and talk about Fallout, and eat and breathe Fallout, and... yeah. I said "screw it" and stayed away.

Today I was contemplating finally going over there, and I look on Steam, aaaaaand...

Dark Souls 3. The cycle of "why bother?" starts again. Bah.

Maybe in a month or 8 that'll wear off and I'll go back over there.

Ah, I'm in one of those moods again, aint I...