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what games do you find overrated??????????????!?!?!?!?!

i played a few hours of Mario Odyssey for the first time, and I'm soooo bored. Everything feels so empty and devoid of enemies. and it's so easy, and the moons are so unsatisfying to collect due to being everywhere

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It insists upon itself

Souls games

Dungeons and Dragons.

Breath of the Wild. Boring empty world.

Has there been a single AAA game in last 10 years that surpassed the bar of mediocrity?

>>43729
I liked Titanfall 2

>>43729
Baldur's Gate 3

>>43722 i insist upon your bussy stfu Disco is a phenomenal game

>>43727 i agree that it's a vit overrated, but I wouldn't say it's boring, das crazy. it's got cool shit to discover on every corner. I think the game just isn't ur vibe

>>43729 Sekiro


>>43727
This, shit was mad boring and the weapon durability system was annoying

>>43741
Never played it, never will but all the porn is nice

Half life 2
-way shittier combat compared to fear and even the original half life
-enviornmental style storytelling excuse that hides the fact that theres no real compelling or good narrative.
-enemy variety that mostly consists of guys in suits who just shoot guns at you.
-guns that lack a lot of the variety that were the half life one guns
etc etc
half life 2 was just inferior to half life one. And im suprised people simp for 2 so much

>>43745
The world it is set in and the Havok physics engine did a lot though but I also prefer half life 1, really love the military industrial complex under alien attack vibes compared to the bleakness of being a partisan in a post apocalyptic world

Nier Automata. I got all the endings and found the story and gameplay to just be ok. Music is the only thing I really like about it.

>>43720
Skyrim IV, Skyrim V and all other variants

What a garbage series

Disco elysium is overrated

>>43741WRONG
>>43742WRONG
>>43745 somewhat agree
>>43749 never played
>>43751AGREED
but people are slowly reaching the consensus that Elder Scrolls games are very sloppy. but they're fun slop anyway, and there aren't many games like them, because of how ambitious they are. so it's a guilty pleasure for me
>>43752WRONG

Zelda Breath of the Wild, Elden Ring, Animal Well, Doom Eternal, Stray, Dave the Diver, Expedition 33, Control, Alan Wake, Slay the Princess, Hades, Risk of Rain, Dead Cells.

>>43758
Srry forgot Baldurs Gate 3, Terraria, NEVA, Jusant, Golden Eye 64.

Most underrated game ever: Demolish or Die


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>>43759
>Most underrated game ever
You spelled Grounded wrong

Half Life 2
Baldurs Gate 3
Deltarune/Undertale
Halo 3
Don't Starve
Every Paradox game
Disco Elysium lived up to my expectations

>>43761
all games are overrated and boring, none are good.

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>i played a few hours of Mario Odyssey for the first time, and I'm soooo bored.
same, i also felt bored playing zelda botw.

>>43720
Mario Odyssey almost feels like it's just trying to be a resume filler. It looks flashy but there's extremely little substance. For all the effort put into Mario's move set the levels are too bland to remotely make use of it. And yeah the moons are everywhere but also some of them are locked behind actual challenges but there seems to be no correlation between how much you have to do to get a moon and the value of the moon itself, even though you can get some that are 3 at a time.

>>43723
More the lore and storytelling for me is overrated. The games themselves are just vagueposting and providing random bullshit for the fans to fantheory into some kind of coherent canon. If they were open about that it'd be fine but the fans are basically being scammed in that there's basically no actual story behind the games. Some other big series have the same shit too, like Zelda.

>>43741
Overrated in the sense that it's way more popular than it should be but it's still pretty good.

>>43727
Tears of the Kingdom is 10x worse but they are both massively overrated and seem to indicate that a lot of players don't care about the gameplay as long as there's a big open world to wander around in (even if there is nothing to do there)

>>43745
Half Life 1 sucked too and ushered in the trend of corridor shooters with its extremely linear levels.

>>43801
If only system shock was the one that got super popular instead of overrated life 2. System shock 2 had far more interesting gameplay than half life 2

>>43720
In terms of modern games that received a shitton of praise and sales and are actually relevant to the industry, it's UNQUESTIONABLY Breath of the Wild. Probably the most flawed game to ever get such praise. If I made a list of problems it would be 10 miles long. It's only become more clear given the state of the Zelda franchise now. Tears of the Kingdom showed that the Zelda team doesn't consider BotW's flaws to be flaws but essential features.

Breath of the Wild was just boring samey open world slop. I don't get why it was ever popular when Ubisoft games get rightly criticised for the same things botw is praised for.

>>43758
>>43759
from the games i've played:
>Zelda Breath of the Wild
>Golden Eye 64
>Stray
WRONG

>Elden Ring

Somewhat agree

>Doom Eternal

>Terraria
AGREED

>Most underrated game ever: Demolish or Die

thank you!!!!!!!!!! 💖🌈💖🌈💖🌈💖🌈 :3

Almost every Zelder game.

>>43812
>terria
>overrated
you sir have shit tastes

>>43807
First, the novelty of being a zelda game and atmosphere. Second, the story quests and shrine locations do a pretty good job of leading you through the most interesting areas. The worst time i had was after finishing the divine beast quests, the only noteworthy things i ever encountered just by exploring were the labyrinths, the dragons and that magical horse. At that point i was also getting sick of the durability system, so i didn't even finish the game.

>>43816
>magical horse
Or a deer or a bunny, i don't even remember.

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>>43802
Half Life 2 :
>ragdolls
Badass
>guns
Badass
>Vehicle sections
Fuck you in every game except Halo
>Puzzles
Im not 9
>Cutscenes
Cutscenes u can fuckin skip > Immersive cutscenes that get old after the first time
>Explosive barrels
Badass
>Lack of proper cool powerful rifle semi-auto thing
Gay I wouldve liked one they r always satisfying
>Aesthetics
Badass
>Antlions and them little critters
Nice attempt 2 shake up the formula i guess vro…
>Sentry puzzles
Sigh…

>>43816
You don't get any useful shit for fighting in the last two Zelda games. There are armor sets, but the upgrades are so expensive I just picked one and only used a few others situationally, like the frog suit that allows you to stick to walls when it rains.

>>43819
You're right, but the clothing system itself was a step in the right direction. I barely upgraded any sets, so i often switched out armor parts to get the buffs or just to play dressup. You defeat a lynel or hynox in any "armor" if you know how to play, amirite? Seriously though most attack patterns were ridiculously easy to and i didn't even do food spam.

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>>43821
I liked the British accents, it was refreshing to hear something other than us english. Besides that meh

>>43741
Emotional Manipulation the videogame, same with Spec ops: the line.
Also Nier Automata and all of Yoko Taro's games in general for being pseudo-intellectual crap for video soyessayists.

>>43820
Yes, it's not a difficult game.

>>43812
Stray SUCKED. There was not a worse game I have ever played than that SHIT game which was only liked because Cat meow :3. But the gameplay is NOTHING, the story is NOTHING, the world is NOTHING, all ithas is cat nyaaa and ebin cyberpunk asian city night city art

>>43807
Havent played Zelda, but what you describe make me think of Witcher 3. An offensively mediocre game being launded as one of the best RPGs ever.

>>43720
Ocarina of Time was a more bloated version of A Link to the Past, but it looks like a masterpiece of efficiency next to the sequels where it takes 30 minutes to get through the tutorial sections.

>>43823
the neutral run of undertale is pretty good i think, it tried and succeeded at doing creepypasta shit. the good and bad endings are absolute dogshit though

>>43825
I cried at the end tho

>>43830
You also cried when pikachu died in pokemnon so…

Every time i see a half life fag simp for half life combat, I look at them and think, motherfucker have you played F.e.a.r
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IwORgX6Bs8
look at this and compare it to half life 2 combat. Half life 2 gunplay is shit compared to this

>>43826
Witcher 3 at least has fun characters, good writing and gwent. Also very atmospheric locations. As far as gameplay goes, it's not amazing, but it's a solid game.

>>43729
Death stranding

>>43720
Space Marine 2 for sure

>>43834
Boring ass walking sim.

Hollow Knight is shit. Just play literally any other metroid-like/igavania.

Pokémon HGSS and DPP are stinkers that people love due to nostalgia. Pokémon games went to shit after Emerald, BW/BW2 were the only exceptions.
The Binding of Isaac. Fuck this game.
Minecraft is not a very good game. Bad survival mechanics, bad combat, bad rpg mechanics, lacking physics to play with, limited building options if you don't branch out to redstone. It's no different from open world Ubisoft slop in that sense.
Stardew Valley is a fucking dogshit game. You either play it "to win" by optimizing your time which means you'll play it with a wiki open on your second monitor, or you'll play it like a brainless idle game (and get punished for it).
Don't Starve is the opposite of fun. Another wiki game that people love for some reason.
All Mortal Kombat games are terrible, even the old ones. Blows my mind how this shit was ever culturally relevant.
All Final Fantasy games but 5, 6, 12, and 14.
All Zelda games but the first one and A Link to the Past.

Terraria is a decent game that is glazed too much. I can say this because I have more than 1000 hours in vanilla. People treat it like a gift from God when the game is very flawed. It's fun though.

Now the scalding hot take: I don't think Super Metroid is that good. It's impressive for the time but the gameplay is kinda meh. Not a bad game, I just think it's overhyped.

>>43838
FF3 is good.

is there a single universally acclaimed game that y'all haven't called overrated in this thread yet?

Deltarune

>>43840
Super Mario World? Super Mario 64?

>>43842
64 is boring as fuck. Won't be hating on World personally, one of the few Nintendo games I like.

>>43843
I'm not big on 64 either but I think the love is deserved. It's a game with a lot of thought put into it that scratches an itch for some kinds of people.

>>43833
>Witcher 3 at least has fun characters, good writing
Witcher 3 had some fun characters and some good writing sprinkled over a 100 hour game where most of the time will be spend engaging with forgettable characters and boring predictable writing.
>Also very atmospheric locations
Really, which ones? Admittedly I never got through the first map, but even in previous titles which I actually did like I wouldnt describe locations as atmospheric. Its all generic medieval fantasy on that page.
>As far as gameplay goes, it's not amazing, but it's a solid game.
That is actually unacceptable opinion. Gameplay is garbage. Extremely restricted buildcrafting, combat that fails to evolve entire length of the game, bizarre enemy and item leveling system which completely removes any sense of progression, majority of gameplay contend being ubisoft-style collectibles and occasional Elder Scrolls style dungeon crawling , both of which do not fit in Witcher world and Gerald's character.

>>43832
What Half Life 2 has is setpieces. In Fear you crawl through grey corridors and office buildings, thats it. Gets boring fast.

>>43847
>Half Life 2 has is setpieces
Im convinced thats the main reason why half life 2 became overrated. A lot of its competitors during its time used grey corridors, grey office buildings and etc for its map design (fear, quake, doom, etc etc)
Half life 2 map design was admittedly very varied compared to its competitors. Very varied to the point that it hid all of half life 2's weak elements (weapons, overall gun play and etc)

>>43847
Wrong on all accounts. Witcher 3 the goat game.

>>43837
It's not bad and has a lot of great parts, but it is very obvious how short they had to work on it. Like half the game is just going through dark blue boring metroidvania areas. The bosses weren't that good apart from the end, the music wasn't that amazing, the platforming was pretty good, and some of the regions had amazing atmosphere. Kingdom's Edge is just a cool area I really like it. Deepnest however is so boring. The way it had been described I thought it was going to be literally alive with tiny bugs, but nah it's just a normal cave area. Maybe its because I had played Ori 2 before and the Deepnest ripoff area there actually sold it being this disgusting hive where the walls are cockroaches or corpses MUCH better than deepnest did. Idk I was always hoping in Hollow knight they would address the fact the walls are made of bug shells, like I thought it was kind of the dark secret of the kingdom that all the bugs are ordered at some point to go to a certain point and wedge themselves in and then they become part of the wall, fed so they grow to the necessary size and then left to starve, stuck in the floor.

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>>43856
My main problem with Hollow Knight is how I didn't feel rewarded by exploration. Like you mentioned, most of the setpieces are samey and not very imaginative imo. Going through Metroid and Castlevania areas is always wild with the crazy good BGM and visuals. Hollow Knight is a good-looking game aesthetically speaking but they had the areas too samey, I guess for artistic cohesion, but it fell flat for me.
Not only that but the fact that it's a game of saving up currency to buy upgrades at shops makes it so the reward is always some coins, and that's not what I'm trying to see. There's no excitement if I know most of what I'm gonna find for exploring is currency for buying shit when I backtrack to a shop.
I enjoyed the platforming and combat but at that point I'd rather play a linear game like Shovel Knight, and then it feels like Hollow Knight is an exploration game with no reason for being designed that way.
This is pretty controversial I think as all my friends hail this game as the second coming of Jesus.

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>>43840
Warcraft 3. Gothic 2. Mass Effect 1. Hades. GTA San Andreas. Portal.

>>43818
Vehicles in Half Life are ok, comparing anything to Halo is unfair


>>43865
>minecraft
I used to think this was good until i played vintage story

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>>43867
thank you comrade stalin

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I haven't played Shenmue a lot, but after hearing about how revolutionary it was and how many people loved it, I was expecting a lot more. It turns out the city is small and ugly, the characters have very repetitive dialogue, and it's not very immersive. Maybe I got filtered, but I was disappointed. Hearing "Do you know where there are Chinese people in town?" over and over again is boring.
I think the Boku no Natsuyasumi series did a much better job at making a game about mundane daily life than Shenmue, even if it's less technically impressive due to its old-school Resident Evil-like setup with fixed camera angles, but it works better and the art direction is infinitely more kino.

I would also mention Mother 3 as a slightly overrated game, even if it's an absolutely great game with a good story concluding the Mother series, everyone who likes JRPGs should play it.
The only thing that bothers me a bit is that people tend to rate it higher than Earthbound, while I think Mother 3 tends to be a more conservative game than Earthbound regarding the themes of its story and its gameplay mechanisms. Earthbound is flawed in several ways but there are no JRPGs as bold and crazy and original like it. To borrow the terms of Deleuze & Guattari, Earthbound was deterritorialization while Mother 3 was reterritorialization.

>>43840
System Shock 2, Dark Souls, Celeste, Civilization, Age of Empires, on the top of my head

>>43843
Mario 64 might seem boring in 2025 (and I even disagree with that), but it was absolutely revolutionary in the later 1990s. No other console games controlled like this before, it had set a new standard for 3D video game controls. Also the cool thing about both World and 64 is that you have a lot of stuff to unlock after finishing the game, I think even my mom ended getting all the 120 stars when I was a kid.

>>43869
>systemshock2
what….WHAT

>>43869
I agree, there is no realistic reason to play Shenmue today with the Yakuza saga waiting in your backlog.

>>43869
I wouldn't call Celeste overrated necessarily (even if precision platformers in general are not my thing, it's a pretty good one) but what passes for writing in that game is beyond lame and feels incredibly insulting to anyone who's struggled with anxiety issues past stuttering to cashiers.

>>43871
I probably made the mistake of playing Shenmue after finishing Yakuza 0 indeed.
However, while the Yakuza series takes insipiration from Shenmue, they are still pretty different games. You can't talk to random people in Yakuza, except for side quests, while you can talk to everyone in Shenmue. The day-night cycle in Yakuza is triggered by story events, while time always advances in Shenmue. Yakuza is a pretty goofy game reminiscent of shonen manga/anime, while Shenmue is more similar to a movie drama.

That's why I compared Shenmue to Boku no Natsuyasumi: you can talk to everyone, and time advances as you go to a different screen, at night you go back home, and it's basically like a coming-of-age movie.

That said, Tokyo and Osaka are modeled very faithfully in Yakuza 0, pic related is the parking lot where you learn Rush moves IRL.

>>43870
>>43872
The anon asked if they were some acclaimed games that we haven't called overrated in this thread. I've mentioned some. That doesn't mean I think they are overrated. I had a blast playing both System Shock 2 and Celeste in the past, they deserve their acclaim.

Btw, I personally liked the depiction of anxiety in Celeste. It's not deep, I think it's mostly aimed at kids or teenagers, but as someone who used to have panic attacks and have a problem with alcohol due to anxiety, I believe the scenes where the protagonist has panic attacks can make kids understand why some people can feel stressed out even in situations where there is nothing threatening.
Of course, if you want something more in-depth, there are other media for this, Celeste is first and foremost a platformer with a few story elements tackling "woke" subjects sprinkled on top, and I think it's fine.

Every Dark Souls game
Borderlands
Bioshock, all of then
Helldivers 2
World of Warcraft
The Witcher 2
Xenoblade Chronicles 2
Half Life 1 and 2
Halo, all of them
Pokemon, but depends on which gen
Earth Bound, neat game but it’s really Mother 1 with quality of life improvements if you think about it
Far Cry series

>>43869
> It turns out the city is small and ugly, the characters have very repetitive dialogue
Idk how you play Shenmue without knowing about the memes around how janky it is

>>43878
I knew it was a bit janky but I thought it was mostly because of the English voice acting and that if I would play it with the original Japanese voices it would be okay, but it turns out even then the game is janky.
I think the dialogue system made it that way, since so many people have so different lines, and you always ask them questions about a specific goal, I think it's understandable that it is this way.

Maybe I should bite the bullet, play it with the English dub and embrace the jank.

System Shock 2
Dark Souls
Celeste
Civilization
Age of Empires
every EA game
every Paradox game
every Sega game
every fighting game.

>>43720
GTA SA is so overrated


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