Top Five - Most Overrated Games of All Time

SFL Chronicle: This new article is going to cause a lot of dissent, because nobody really likes hearing that their favorite games in the world are “overrated” or flawed. So take this article for what it is: what I personally feel are the five most overrated games of all time. The games do not necessarily have to be bad, just overrated. What counts as overrated? Either games that sold more than I think they should have, or games that got obscenely high reviews I felt they didn’t deserve, or a combination of both. Keep in mind that these are all opinion based, so you’re welcome to strongly agree or disagree, or even agree to disagree altogether.

[Pikajew]

Did I read the title correctly?

[GSpartan777]

Standard way to get hits for you site. Write a top list of overrated games and include some of the most successful games in gaming history in it.

[DragonKnight]

You can tell that this is for hits more because of the picture along with the title. It's pure flamebait because everyone says FFVII is overrated in articles like this.

[TekoIie]

I completely agree with the atricle, Half-life 2: OVERRATED GTA4: OVERRATED.

[The_Devil_Hunter]

@Pekolie
I dont know about Half Life 2 but GTA4 FOR SURE was the most overrated game i have ever played.

[Kanji08]

I believe Jim Sterling accurately summed up everyone who calls a game "overrated":

To say something is overrated is to say that it does not deserve its critical success and that those who remember it fondly are injecting their memories with a little too much fondness. Oftentimes, I find the term "overrated" an arrogant one, as you're implying somebody else should tone down their appreciation of something because you don't care for it. Much of the time, I think the term betrays intellectual cowardice, as some people just want to say that they dislike a game but use "overrated" to dress it up and artificially make their personal opinion look like part of an objective, factual statement.

[TruthbeTold]

That's all fine and good Kanji, plenty of truth there, but that's not all there is to it. Sometimes people don't see past the hype until the hype is over. When something is new, it deserves the acclaim in those people's minds, but then later after emotion dies down, time passes, and perspective is gained, a game is seen more for what it actually is. And yet, the initial review scores, and acclaim and 'Ratings' remain.

[MaxXAttaxX]

Just.... overrated.

And where's Halo 3?
2 and Reach were better.

[KING_KAI]

halo 3 comes with 4 player co-op, map editor, theater, matchmaking, balanced multiplayer, actually takes skill to be good at. the biggest FPs's of this year doesnt come with the features H3 has.

[stu888]

Calling some of these games overrated is a sin. HL2 and GTA3 were a revolution in gaming. HL2 brought physics to another level and is one of the best games ive ever played. GTA3 brought sandbox games to a new level and brought much gaming to the masses.

To say bioshock 1 and 2 are better than HL2 is a joke. To compare elder scrolls with GTA3 shows the guy doesn't know what he's talking about.

GTA4 in my opinion is brilliant, there are some haters but the gritty realism of it was awesome. Its the little details in this game that make it what it is in my opinion.

He then says Red Dead Redemption is an overrated game? what is this guy on?

[paintsville]

Crysis 2, Heavy Rain, Uncharted 1, ODST (Aweful),GT5, Darksiders. Just to name a few.

[JohnnyMann420]

Wow... this many people care about the opinion of what amounts to a blog post?

Id say the Author did her job then.

I 100% disagree with the choices though.

GTA 3 was not overrated when it came out (if anyone remembers) The series really started to take off in VC and SA. GTA 3 didn't beat sales numbers initially.

Also putting GTA 3 and IV in the same top five list is just sh*tty writing and laziness.

[bozebo]

Here's my opinion:
Metroid Prime: never played it
Sonic Adventure: never played it but it is probably turd compared to the 2D ones
HL2: A brilliant game, I don't understand why the author thinks it has no enemies; perhaps he's too bad at games to get far enough through to where the big action happens...
GTA3: Amazing game, author is a dumb idiot
GTA4: Slightly overrated... only slightly. It was a fantastic game but nowhere near as good as San Andreas or Vice City (almost nothing is). It had some huge design flaws which don't normally come from Rockstar's offices... regardless, it is one of the best games of this gen.

Here are some overrated games:
Bioshock, it is fantastic, but loads of people have no idea what system shock was - bioshock is basically a remake with a different theme but the gameplay and depth is like a paddling pool when compared to system shock's oceanic rift.

BC2, seriously; are people blind to the bugs? Other than that: the map design is totally horrid and the game is designed purely for grenade, rocket, c4 & noob tube spam... I just stand at the back and snipe with the UMP or PPSH (to avoid the random explosive spam) because for some reason they are 100% accurate at crazy ranges. And half the guns in that game feel soggy and rubbish.

CoD MW2 and BO: the usual, they are just CoD but with more bugs, less balance and worse maps. CoD 1, 2 and 4 were the best and W@W was good.

TF2: I don't understand tf2 at all... whatever it is, it isnt a first person shooter. I am good at it (because my aim is generally good) but it annoys me when people take several headshots to die - because you are forced to take damage yourself that you earned the right to avoid by headshotting the enemy instantly.

L4D 1 and 2: The guns feel horrible, I would like guns in a game to actually feel like they are shooting when you pull the trigger. Try playing killing floor if you think L4D is good and you will be blown away.

The Witcher 2: SO MANY BUGS. And the voice acting is still terrible for 90% of the characters. Also it was a lot smaller than I was expecting :( probably because they had to make it fit on the 3shitsty's tiny little DVD. Combat, story etc. - all great though.

Portal 2: Tried playing portal 1? It's a million times better.

There you have it... genuine opinions. It annoys me when a game is amazing but there are small things (bugs, grenade spam, bad maps, lack of content) that make it half as good as what it could be. I didn't have to make a stupid hit farming article to point out my opinions.

[SonyPS360]

@Best

How can you say any of those are over-rated or better than the other when none of them are even out yet?

You don't do the stereotype for COD fans any favours, you idiot.

[Pixel_Pusher]

Mass Effect 2 was alright but in MHO overrated.

[MaxXAttaxX]

You make it sound as if those features were new...
I still stand by my opinion. I'll also add ODST as well.

[KFox109]

@GenoZStriker: Or maybe they just actually find the games to be overrated?

[sprayNpray]

or maybe you posted this article (and many others from this site) because you wrote it and don't like getting called out for the hit troll you are.

Who approves this b.s. anyway?

[jp0249107]

Sooooo you're saying you're the equivalent of those hipster idiots that only listen to bands that no one else has heard of? And that you only like games that everyone else hates and you don't like ones that are actually classics?

Your parents didn't love you enough did they? Don't worry man! The WORLD LOVES YOU!

[seinfan]

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[consolez_FTW]

@ SprayNpray
Great way to call that hit troll out man.
I love when trolls get in the spot light.

[Kurt Russell]

I'm amazed by the amount of people who actually give a shit. If you don't like top 5/worst 5 articles... It is fairly easy for you to avoid them.

As it happens for the most part I found the aforementioned games to be a little over rated too.

[SonyPS360]

Only 1 or 2 of them were worthy of being called "over rated" for any reason.

The rest were genre defining, unique or deserved all the praise they got.

This is hit-bating and the N4G community fell for it, as usual.

[Gray-Fox-Type0]

says who?

slfchronicle.com/unknown-gtfo

[seinfan]

You're one of the people that approved it. Don't act surprised.

[metsgaming]

Completely agree with gta4 but completely disagree with gta3. Replace gta3 and put cod at the very least. The others i dont care to comment on but there are other games to change those out with

[Maester07]

I stopped reading after I saw Metroid Prime.

Also this article has jumped to the top of the hitlist....

[Gen0ne]

I know right? Metroid Prime?!? Are you f'n kiddin' me?

[Obelisk92]

Metroid Prime 1 is tedious as hell.

I played it last year in the MP Trilogy, it was so slow it was painful to play.

You know, it could have been better by just introducing teleports between save points (for example) to make it faster, but naah. Let's just have the pumped graphics.

I managed to beat it in... 3 months I think. I couldn't play more than 15 minutes in one sitting.

ALL MY OPINION THOUGH.

[Kleptic]

I thought MP was great at the time, as Super Metroid is easily one of my all time favorite games...

MP stuck to the formula pretty well...as half of the game is simply back tracking and figuring out what to do with your upgrades...and there were still memorable boss battles...

but even in 2003 or whenever it released...that type of gameplay was already heavily dated...

I think most people simply thought MP would be a first person shooter set in the metroid theme...and it was VERY far from that...I liked it as a fan at the time, but fully understood why many simply gave up on it...

[lelo]

All games are overrated. No game is perfect. No game deserves a perfect 10.

[showtimefolks]

GTA is over rated well the 4th one is i give you that but the past 3 on ps2 all did something special for its time.

Metroid i never played so not sure but i heard the last one wasn't that good

sonic has lost its touch

half-life 2 is a great game

so 3 games on your list are over rated i guess other 2 are not and that's just my opinion

[OhMyGandhi]

GTA IV was overrated.
the article's issues with Sonic Adventure DO make sense, (camera was annoying, as well as the platforming, though the game as a whole was damned fun).

Half Life 2 and Metroid Prime should not be on this list. period.

[bayport]

When i saw the article picture with sephiroth in it i was thinking.. "OH NO HE DIDN'T!"

[QuodEratDemonstrandm]

He didn't. The games listed are Metroid Prime, Sonic Adventure, Half-Life 2, GTA 3 and GTA 4. Final Fantasy 7 is nowhere on the list.

The picture of Sephiroth next to a title including to word Overrated is a guaranteed attention grabber.

[PR0X1]

Half life 2 is 7 years old you dumb children!!!

It brought the FPS to the next level. All the coming FPS and even other games are in many ways based on the brilliant HL2 and counterstrike.

GTA4 was not overrated it was just released on shitty consoles. If it was unlimited specs like PC only that it would have been a way better game. I enjoyed GTA4 and it's in my top3 in the best games ever made.

[ryhanon]

Ok, I'm seriously not trying to start a fight here, but can you please explain what exactly HL 2 did that "brought the FPS to the next level"? Because I seriously can't think of anything at all. Also, when thinking of things, remember that Counterstrike was a mod to Half Life 1, *not* Half Life 2. Not that mods should have anything to do with the game in question, but since you mentioned it I thought I'd point that fact out.

[Motion]

@ ryhanon

These aren't my words, but I feel this guy summed it up pretty well:

"Source Engine was by far the prettiest engine available in 2004, despite lower hardware requirements than competing engines. Heck, in my opinion, Orange Box Source is still the best engine on low-to-midrange hardware.

Facial Animation is taken for granted today, but it was revolutionary when it came out. Before HL2, HL1-style flapping jaws was the norm.

Physics is also taken for granted today, but HL2 had one of the most interactive environments in a title to date, and pioneered the Gravity Gun concept.

Deep storytelling isn't new to games, but despite the successes of games like Half-Life 1 and Deus Ex, it was still fairly rare for developers to treat a video game as a story-telling medium. The success of HL2 made everybody get on board with it.

Shaders were still in their infancy at the time... The refractive effects (force fields, water) blew my mind when I first saw them. IMO what really sets Valve apart right now and keeps Source Engine fresh is their shader artists. Their shaders (especially skin) look so much better than anything anyone else is doing, and they keep coming up with ways of producing very cool effects while maintaining scalability to lower-end hardware.

Vehicles were pretty rare before as well. The airboat and jeep were a couple of the first really successful vehicle sections."

[ryhanon]

@ Motion

Those are all valid points... *IF* we were talking about the Source Engine. We're not though, we're talking about Half Life 2. Was the Source Engine impressive at the time? Yes, absolutely. I won't dispute that.

The only items on that list that have anything to do with the game are 1) the story and 2) the vehicles.

Let's start with the story. Even the quote you pasted says it, deep storytelling was nothing new to games at the time. In fact, it had been done much better prior to HL2 with games like Deus Ex, System Shock, Marathon, even HL1.

As for the vehicles, yes, they were fairly rare at that time, but there were still plenty of games using them to better effect than HL2. Halo 1 and 2 being the most popular examples, and before that the Tribes games. The vehicles in HL2 were a nice addition, but did nothing interesting. They were little more than a way to ferry the player across a vast uninteresting landscape to the next point of interest. There was almost nothing to do with them. They might as well have been taxis.

It's not all about the hate though, one good thing HL2 did that definitely hadn't been done very well before (and is only recently being done well since), is introduce a companion AI character that was interesting, not annoying, and actually useful. I will give the game significant credit for that. However, it's not enough to redeem it of its other shortcomings in my opinion.

[DarkFox]

@ Motion

Actually, vehicles were NOT "rare" before HL 2. Halo did them and did them really well in two different games before HL 2 even hit the scene. As far as facial expressions are concerned: they existed long before. Right off of the top of my head I can clearly remember FF X having facial animations and it being a "major selling point" for the game three to four years before HL 2.

As for story telling: Bioware had been doing it for years. This isn't exactly a gift from VALVe.

[snipes101]

Not trying to start a flame war (though I think it might but I have to say this), but I think pc gamers can sometimes get the words "game" confused with "specs." Do all the awesome specs in the world necessarily make a game good?

@prox, what would the pc have allowed GTA4 to do besides look pretty and perhaps allow more space to run around in? Maybe add some more physics into the equation? What about the story that people said made it so great? What could the pc have possibly done to make the story better?

@motion, like ryhanon said, only 2 of the roughly 6 things you listed actually had anything to do with the gameplay and (also like ryhanon said) had been done before.

It seems a large argument for pc gaming seems to be a (mostly, not totally) technological one.

[vyke3]

you know what? you PC fanboys dont deserve GTA. since it started on consoles, why should it run better on PC? Dont you always say that BF3 is better on PC 'cause it started there? by that logic you should be given a dumbed down version of GTA on your PC. Problem? :P

[Motion]

Whoa whoa whoa :) Like I said, those were not my opinions, I was just trying to find an example to give ryhanon, if he was in fact asking a serious question.

On a side note, it has been years since I've played HL-2, so I probably remember it with rose-tinted glasses, but I still remember it as one of the best FPS shooters I've ever played.

Didn't mean to get everyone so riled up :)

Oh, and not to stir the pot, but vyke3, gta actually started out on DOS, ported to windows, then playstation and has multiplat releases ever since

[Saladfax]

I still play HL2 every now and then. I've always enjoyed it very much, and I think it's held up quite well and compares very favorably with FPS games old and new.

Other really solid ones, like Deus Ex, while still being amazing in most areas, are pretty fugly, still have those oddities of voice acting, and have AIs who couldn't get out of a paper bad unless it was by sidestepping three feet and crouching to shoot repeatedly.

The thing about Half-Life 2 is that nothing about it can really be considered "bad." Okay, so maybe the vehicle sections suffer a bit on replay, but by and large they still come as a nice way to break up the running/shooting portions. They're not so overbearing as to really become anything annoying, and they actually serve a very important point: they provide a snapshot, a scope to the world they live in. Be it trolling through radioactive slums where helpless, hopeless resistance members pretty much wait to die, letting antlions crunch beneath your tires, or exploring an abandoned house only to start screaming at the top of your lungs when black headcrabs start to boil out of the woodwork, even the vehicle sections add significant life and flair.

It's not just that it was amazing for its time; it's that it's a memorable experience that, even remade today, could hardly be vastly improved. Yeah, GTA4 could do with a bit of tweaking in the "social" aspect and making the missions less ungodly linear. FFVII could benefit from script revision and a character consistency outline, not that it was mentioned in any way other than the trolling article picture.

When you have a game that really doesn't have almost any bad aspects to it, that's something truly special. Not being able to get into it, even just simply not liking it doesn't make it bad or even overrated.

[GiTS]

@vyke3
"you know what? you PC fanboys dont deserve GTA. since it started on consoles, why should it run better on PC? Dont you always say that BF3 is better on PC 'cause it started there? by that logic you should be given a dumbed down version of GTA on your PC. Problem? :P"

I don't know any PC fanboys that say that? And even if that logic applied, then GTA would be better on PC because it did start there X.x. GTA 1 was released on the PC before consoles. Sigh, but luckily that's not how the world works.

[RufustheKing]

you have read it correctly but i think the guy who wrote it didn't understand what the hell he was talking about.

GTA4 is overated, GTA3 is not(GTA:SA is a great but not as good as GTA:VC). MW2 is overated. Cod4 is not. RDR is overated, Gun is not. Halo is overated.so is alan wake. UC2 is overated(still a great game)compared to UC1(better story). Rome total war is underated compared to Empire total war. GOW3(god of war) is overated GoW2 is underated. killzone is overated along with MaG. GOW(gears) is very overated) Oblivion is overated, morrowind is not. Fallout 3 is very underated. Fifa 11 is over rated compared to Fifa 10. Kinect is well overated. ps move does not have any games to realy judge :(

hey if idiots like this guy who wrote this crap gets paid then someone like me with no job should have his. a blind squirrel with rabies can foam crap better than this guy. N4G mods plz stop crap like this from appearing on your site. it makes you guys look like this guy.

[Amaterasu5]

Halo,Uncharted 2,COD,Mario,GT5 i just got aloooooooooooot of fanboys pissed off :D

[joab777]

I have to say that the last line made me laugh out loud.

[jxzcvk]

COD4
COD5
COD6
COD7
COD8

[hassi94]

I disagree with every one of those that I've played (all but Metroid Prime).

GTAIII has superiors of Shenmue and Morrowind? Morrowind isn't even slightly similar, and Shenmue isn't a real seamless open world game. Don't get me wrong I love Shenmue but it's a completely different thing altogether.

And Bioshock 2 better than Half Life 2? Please don't kid! Bioshock was great but the sequel was a dud!

Sonic Adventure was brilliant for me as a young kid - loved every minute of it.

GTAIV seems unappreciated by so many but it's such a brilliant game!

[mastiffchild]

Do we want to be REALLY honest about overrated games? DO we? Seriously, I can't think of MANY good games that aren't also a BIT overrated and can't think of many even considered average that aren't overrated too!

GTA4 tends to get stick but loads of games added a lot kless to their series and genre than IT did. It was the first GTA with a coherent, imho, and adult storyline and carried the single most important series update since going 3D-the gameplay update which actually made shooting fun in the series for the very first time. Isn't shooting a big part of the series? I know a lot of folk who liked SA think that GTA4 took away too many activities and vehicle options but they just had a mkorre grown up game this time and bikes and planes didn't fit-and SR2 went more the gonzo way of SA which R* left to them and rightly so. However, GTA4 WAS overrated even though, imho, it's still one of the best games this generation. It's not worthy of all the tens it got and no game ever is and because good games get perfect scores average games get good scores too and the result is EVERY game is seemingly overrated these days.

Think of the number of games that get 7 out of tenh that we play. How many of these games deserve BETTER and how many are just average which should mean scores of around 5 and not 7? TONS of them are average and rarely is a game better than it's meta these days.

So, imho, the taking to heart of review scores has led to us overrating nearly EVERY game in existence. I don';t blame Metacritic and don';t blame the critics themselves, not even gamers get the blame but something needs doing because there's very little accuracy and honesty in the way we rate games today. Doing away, totally, with a score or grade at the end of reviews full stop would be my perfect world scenario! Then we might look at the words which outline the faults and good points in all these games that get ignored by us all looking solely at the score at the end currently. No game is perfect and few games even warrant an 8/10 but it's become the watermark for a lot of people between games worth playing and those not worth renting. It's got daft and nearly everything is overrated imo.

[rabidpancakeburglar]

I agree completely with GTA IV, can't comment on III because I never played it. Bioshock is in no way overrated and I think that Bioshock 2 is underrated.

[MoreRPG]

i agree with Bioshock is an awesome game and the second while not as great as the first one it still a great game

[gamingdroid]

Bioshock 2 to me was predictable and average, but had great game play. The reviewers seem to agree.

[gnb2003]

Where in the article did the author say Bioshock was overrated?

Edit: In fact, the author actaully praises Bioshock highly in the article.

[rabidpancakeburglar]

The alternatives to Half Life 2

[gnb2003]

Ah, I see. I think that you misinterptated the author. The author was pointing out alternate games to play instead of the overrated one, not that they were runners up to be overrated.

[rabidpancakeburglar]

Oh, I only noticed that when I saw your comment

[chidori666]

1- MW2: look,another shit CoD game on the list!yes,the call of duty games are a goldmine of overrated FPS.

2-Mario galaxy:so overrated game!

3-Chono trigger:overrated a lot.

4-Soul Calibur IV:good game for a bit but it doesn’t deserve to rank nearly as high as it does.

5-Final Fantasy X (will never understand why this was the first in the series to get a 'sequel, it was just awful)

[jp0249107]

where in the world did this come from? Just because games have been popular because they are quality produced titles doesn't mean you have to hate on them.

Go drink your Pabst Blue Ribbon you hipster idiot. Fail troll is fail

[TekoIie]

I like how your say MW2 is "another shit COD game". So i assume that COD4 and WaW are shit? Cuz if i recall COD4 is considered as one of the best games this generation and WaW didnt quite live up to the reputation but it still delivered very well.

Also Black ops is VERY good, Only 1 overpowered weapon which isnt ridiculously OP. Then ghost is considered OP but on a fair side if you played COD4-MW2 then i think you can see that no one saw that coming.

[iWishTifaWasReal]

@Pekolie
uhmm
u didnt notice that every year you are still buying the SAME DAMN GAME.

what did they improve huh?

new weapons and maps?

just look at the graphics

CAMPERS for god sake

and Stories in every cod (excluding COD4)
are CLICHE -,- and boring at the end

COD SUCKS

[Obelisk92]

I liked ALL of the game you listed (except Soul Calibur IV, didn't play that).

So I think it's just you.

[Raven_Nomad]

I actually agree with Half Life, never saw the appeal there. Valve to me has done 2 games right, Left 4 Dead 1 & 2.
I'd throw MGS4 on that list as well.

[omi25p]

Ive never played MGS4 but going by the huge fanbase shows that it isnt overrated.

@Kfox19
A game is rated by how good it is. If millions of people say the game is amazing and they all agree with the ratings then surely the ratings are right??

[ryhanon]

Uhm... "going by the huge fan base shows that it isn't overrated"

...

You realize that for something to be "overrated" it has to be held in higher regard than is deserved, right? This means it has to have a large fan base.

Nobody is going to say "Duke Nukem Forever is sooo overrated!!" because almost nobody *likes* Duke Nukem Forever therefore it *cannot by definition* be overrated.

[Amaterasu5]

if millions of people say it's amazing and it's not really amazing then it's overrated, to each his own i know...but there are things that no one can deny or prove wrong...like how typical a story is yet everyone says it's amazing and how lame and repetitive gameplay is, but still called revolutionary

and of course how the lack of gameplay whatsoever makes the game one of the best games ever(heavy rain) that's how things are overrated

[KFox109]

Have you tried Portal and Team Fortress 2? They're both amazing.

@omi: you can't really say something is not overrated just because it has a large fanbase.

[ClimateKaren]

Actually, he can. If you can say:

"What counts as overrated? Either games that sold more than I think they should have, or games that got obscenely high reviews I felt they didn’t deserve, or a combination of both."

then he can say that if the gaming public loves a game that gets high review scores and sells well, it isn't overrated, despite the fact that you don't love it.

Being a subjective opinion, there is no definitive answer as long as there is enough opposition to your point of view, but don't try to sit there and make up the rules to a make-believe science as you go along just to make yourself look correct. If the name of the game is subjectivity then this guy's opinion holds as much weight as yours. If the game is logic, then his opinion totally wins in this case.

Ugh, I feel trolled for responding to that.

[Ares90]

"I'd throw MGS4 on that list as well."
LOL

[Hufandpuf]

I agree with half-life, i couldn't get into it, and when i finally sat down to play it, an invisible wall blocked me from progressing further. I'm not saying HL is a bad game, it's rather good in fact; but for me the game was generic kill bad guys flip levers and drive around for a long time. SORRY IF I HAVE OFFENDED ANYONE.

[ryhanon]

I enjoyed the MGS games, but I agree with you. The entire series is way overrated. They're the only games I ever played where I felt the gameplay segments actually got in the way. Given that I'd play for 5-10 minutes only to be interrupted by a 40+ minute cutscene, I think even Kojima felt the gameplay was an annoying distraction from his hopelessly convoluted, nonsensical opus.

[BeastlyRig]

If you would have played half life before all the latest shooters you would realize how much HL2 was ahead of it's time! It was an awsome 2004 game!

Was Mario over rated? It was amazing fior it's time!

You probably played half life on a console years after it was released on pc.. no awsome memories for you then.

If anything is over rated it's call of duty.. the new mw3 trailer looks like mw2 dlc shame..

[omi25p]

WTF Half life 2? Grand Theft Auto IV Grand Theft Auto III overrated??? We would have half the games we have today if it wasnt for GTA III. Half life 2 is amazing and so is GTA IV

[firemassacre]

halo series

[TheMutator]

just look at your pic fanboy

[iWishTifaWasReal]

im pretty sure HALO 3 sucked

and HALO ODST is fcking HALO 3.5

MICROSOFT IS RIPPING YOU OFF

especially that Halo 4 is coming out which is unnecessary cuz for me Halo Reach was the last Halo.

[allyc4t]

I can't take this list seriously. Half-Life 2? Really?

Standard hit grabbing garbage.

[TekoIie]

Worked didnt it though?

[ryhanon]

Yes. HL2 is crap. Accept it.

[jp0249107]

yeah it's the reason games journalism is going down the crapper

[RedHotChiliPepaSpray]

"I don’t mind if a shooter takes things slowly, but it’s only worth it if I get a great world to explore, like Rapture in Bioshock (factually the greatest single-player FPS ever made)"

kinda makes your opinion worthless
edit: because your not even stating it as an opinion. your stating it as fact

[solar]

i found that to be pretty funny as well.

[mastiffchild]

In fairness I think it was MEANT to be amusing. Interestingly, I came to thinking that Bioshock isn't REALLY a game to pigeonhole as a FPS and is more of a first person adventure game/RPG lite as the shooting itself is easily(the silly hacking game aside. Pipemania? Yay?)the weakest attribute in the whole thing while levelling up plasmids is central to story and gameplay. Yet , though I LOVE the game I'd also always say IT was overrated too-no game deserves the praise some of the better games get as it devolves into hyperbole way too fast.

[EcoSos3]

Most overrated games are Crapcom fighting games

[Cpt_kitten]

id have to agree except take Half Life 2 off and Place FF7 on there seeing as they took the time to put a picture as the main article picture

and call of duty should be on there

[zerocrossing]

I get where your coming from, but it would be a mistake to take this article seriously, What's good and what's not is largely opinion based, but to call Metroid Prime:, Sonic Adventure:, Half-Life 2:, Grand Theft Auto III: and Grand Theft Auto IV: overrated is laughable! They are all well regarded and well deserving of their being remembered as truly great games imo.

[Cpt_kitten]

yeah, considering everyone calls things over rated when they don't see much value in it, like me and call of duty.....i hate it and the game offers nothing to me its overrated or like twilight, there is no arguing its good its bad on every single level

but people call star wars over rated when its rich in lore, but because they dont see value in it...or Halo thats also rich in lore

[zerocrossing]

@ Cpt_kitten

Couldn't agree more, I don't see much value in call of duty or twilight either but they have a ridiculously huge fanbase for some odd reason.

Well at least I can see why Star wars and Halo are popular franchises.

[TekoIie]

@ Cpt_kitten

Thing is Halo's Lore seems to revovle around almost the same thing (Spartans) and it feels as though there's nothing else that interesting about it. Halo legends gave a VERY bland image for the forerunners and also gave Earth a very predictable and cheesy backstory (Humans and covenant teaming up, Pfftt).

At the end of the day only Warhammer 40k can entertain me with its LITTERALLY unending backstory about the Horus Heresy which is effectively near 20 books long so far.

[A7XEric]

Metroid Prime and Half-Life 2? Really? I can see the others even if I don't agree, but I don't see how you had those other two games on there.

[sprayNpray]

This is the most ignorant article I almost read. I say almost read because all i had to do was look at which games were mentioned and I realized I didn't have to waste my time.

Half-life 2, gta3 and gta4 are some of THE BEST games ever made.

Talk about saying whatever will get you hits.

[TekoIie]

OH come on you cannot say the ending for GTA4 was unexpected and Half-life i share the same opinion as the writer. But on another note i LOVE TF2 so i do have the orange box :)

[sprayNpray]

GTA4 is a great game because of the endless hours you can spend in it doing nothing productive. Its replayability is unrivaled.

[HelghastKid]

sprayNpray Its re playability is unrivaled IF you dont include the elder scrolls, Fallout 3/ NV series.

[zerocrossing]

LOL! Sorry but ohhh if this isn't a blatant move to get hits I don't know what is, each one of those games where incredible and I can say that because Ive had a lengthy experience playing each one of them.

(Edit)

Metroid: Other M is better than Metroid Prime? lol I dont think so, Sonic Colors better than Sonic Adventure? wrong again, Bioshock and Bioshock 2 are great but better than Half-Life 2!?, Shenmue and The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind arent even in the same genre as Grand Theft Auto III WTF!?, Red Dead Redemption and L.A. Noire. Seing as all the hate I keep hearing from gamers about those games I highly doubt it, Grand Theft Auto IV is better imo.

I'll be looking forward to your article titled "Top Five - Most Underrated Games of All Time"

[bangoskank]

Right? He even uses a picture of Sephiroth to draw attention and doesn't even mention FF VII in the article. Also agree that Metroid Prime was amazing when it first came out. Definitely a title that deserves s remake with updated graphics.

[zerocrossing]

Yeah I forgot to mention that lol, Its just a really poor article.

I can't get enough of Metroid Prime I played through it 3 times already, I hope for a remake, 4th instalment or even a new trilogy using the prime trilogy game mechanics that worked so well.

[mastiffchild]

Prime actually got BETTER because of motion controls making it a lot better to play. I was always a massive series fan going back to Metroidvania days and loved Prime AND Echoes on GC but the definitive versions of them both, for me, came with the triple pack and Wii/Corruption controls. I didn't agree with much of what the author said but as far as the Prime trilogy went I concur that on Wii they got EVEN better.

Sadly, few devs, even Ninty themselves, bothered to think around for ways motion could ADD to games rather than just forcing vague waggle into them on the Wii as Move, Kinect(even more so as they have no way to navigate worlds)and Motionplus have all also failed to ghet game makers designing games that BENEFIT from motion controls and stuck with what's safe.

[gillri]

Metroid Prime and Half-Life 2, indeed two of the greatest games ever made

but he does mention Shenmue so kudos to him as that game is my favourtie game of all time

was SOnic Adventure rated highly!? I got it on release but always thought it was about average

[MoreRPG]

overrated every CoD tittle after MW

[Dreassic]

LOl they hate on prime but they cite fucking Halo as how controls were done better.. lol
If there is one overhyped series that should be on this list, it be Halo.

[dinkeldinkse]

Mediocre game with fantastic review scores. The rest I am not sure about because I haven't played them or played their sequel beforehand.

To be perfectly honest, most games I have played are severly overrated or an aspect in the game is severly overrated. The Boss Battles in Resistance 2 and the difficulty in Demon's Souls are couple of things that I find overrated about those games.

[Dynasty2021]

Halflife 2? Get the hell out of here. HL2 is a benchmark of FPS games as to how they should be polished and developed.

GTA 4? Hmm, yes and no for me. It was certainly great, but I can why people think it's overrated.

Most overrated for me is definitely ANYTHING to do with Halo. And then CoD.

[solar]

i love how he thinks the gravity gun was just some stupid weapon. play the game in 2004 when physics didnt exist in video games. IT BLEW YOUR MIND.

[Xristo]

That is what the problem is when a lot of people say "I don't get it" about HL2. They fail to understand that the game is now 7 years old and the technology that it introduced in 2004 did exactly like you said, "BLEW YOUR MIND". People played it many years down the road as they were introduced to it through The Orange Box (3 years later). In 2007 (when The Orange Box was released) graphics had finally reached Valve's level and physics were almost a requirement in all games.

Another thing he says that kills me is, "I never played the original"....OF COURSE YOU WON'T GET IT THEN!....I can imagine what he was thinking when the G Man was talking to him..."Who the hell is this guy?" ... "Black Mesa, what the f*ck is that?" lol.

I am embarrassed to admit that I gave his website a hit....my fail for the day :(

[solar]

i agree mate. totally a fail to have HL2 on the list, and us giving him hits. bubble for you for your well said comment mate :)

[ClimateKaren]

@Xristo
"I am embarrassed to admit that I gave his website a hit....my fail for the day :("

I managed to avoid the site, but I did reply to him twice ><

I guess I've been Half-Trolled

[Sizzon]

Bioshock and Half-Life 2??? fps'es with a phenomenal gameplay and story.

Really? are you kiddin' me? wow just wow to put them there...

[KFox109]

Just so we are clear: I did actually write this article. And no, I don't mind differing opinions, even entirely contrasting ones. That's kind of the point of the list and why I clearly state at the beginning: "Keep in mind that these are all opinion based, so you’re welcome to strongly agree or disagree, or even agree to disagree altogether." I was sort of hoping that instead of a lot of nerdraging it could get some interesting discussion going. I was also hoping that instead of briefly glancing over the list and getting angry, some would actually read it and either verify or go against my complaints. But I suppose I was wrong.

It's not really for hit trolling, to be honest. But if it violates any site rules I'll be more than okay to take it down.

Edit: Just for the record, Bioshock and Bioshock 2 are NOT being named as "overrated." They're under the "Superior Alternative(s)" bit at the end of each piece. That's a praise for the games.

[TruthSeeker]

I strongly disagree with your choices, but i do respect that its your opinion. But if you were expecting to see a civilized discussion here on N4G about your article, you've came to the wrong place and made a bad impression.

[Maester07]

Why do you have Sephiroth in your main picture then? If that isn't to attract FFVII fanboys to come read your article what is? It's not even included in your list!

I agree that it is your personal opinion and respect that but I have to disagree with almost all your opinions. So we'll agree to completely disagree.

[ClimateKaren]

"I was sort of hoping that instead of a lot of nerdraging it could get some interesting discussion going. I was also hoping that instead of briefly glancing over the list and getting angry, some would actually read it and either verify or go against my complaints. But I suppose I was wrong."

Pardon my language and bluntness, but you're full of shit. Unless you just started reading about games on the internet last week, you knew exactly what kind of response it would provoke. "Interesting discussion"?This is pretty much the epitome of the nonsense flamebait story that floods the front page here, and the reason it gets there is because it's provocative in an antagonistic way. Notice how many of these complaints aren't about your choices or writing, but about the topic itself? It's another slapped together top10/5 list (because they're so easy to put together for the writer, as well as easy to consume for the impatient reader) that people are sick of seeing. Don't get all sanctimonious on people for being sick of being trolled for page hits, the response you're getting is appropriate.

[DaReapa]

Bubble up, sir.

[bobrea]

Well hey, if sflchronicle.com says it, it must be true!

[ChiVoLok0]

My list:

5. Mario games (remakes, not Super Mario Galaxy ones)
After all the remakes I've started to grow bored of the games with Mario Galaxy being the exception.

4. Call of Duty: Black Ops
Still fun but has worse graphics then Modern Warfare 2 and is less fun (imo)

3. Monster Hunter games
I have seen on many sites that this game is one of the PSP's best and I can't agree (just boring imo)

2. Patapon games
Again "one of the PSP's best" but it just isn't fun.

1. Zelda games
I have tried playing Ocarina of Time but I couldn't stand it. The music is horrible and the game isn't
fun at all for me (literally makes my stomach hurt and want to barf. Also gives me a terrible
headache)

I know most people won't agree with me but hey it's just my opinion. Let me know what games you hate I'm actually interested in knowing and also if you disagree with a game on my list let me know why and what you would replace it with.

[mantis117]

Half life 2 is a fantastic game and always will be. But C'mon best FPS of all time? I don't think so - Goldeneye 64 gets that crown.

[climaxz]

Phew I though he was going to mention FF7 due to Sephiroth being on the cover lol.

[DragonKnight]

Should be on the list, game is vastly overrated. And no, I'm not saying that because it's popular. Played it at launch, countless games of the time surpass it in one way or another, even older FF games are better than it. Kefka pwns Sephiroth.

[gnb2003]

The author is being a bit picky on a couple of things:

1) Metroid Prime: the author bashes the tank-like controls and the constant back-tracking. The controls were influenced by the gamecube controller, which only had one decent analog stick. You can't really blame a game for the shortcomings of the system. And back-tracking - you mean one of the major elements in which the Metroid games are known for? The one thing I will agree with is the speed. Samus moved a little too slow in the first prime game, a shortcoming that was remedied in the sequals.

2) Half-Life 2: Perhaps the problem here is the author is forgetting context. Half-Life 2 came out in 2004. Other FPS's that came out in 2004 include Battlefield Vietnam, Unreal Tourny 2004, Far Cry, Halo 2, Metroid Prime 2. These are all great games, but looking back at them sitting here now in 2011, it is easy to find fault as the genre had not evolved to the point we are at now. Some people forget how old HL2 is now, and continue to compare it to recent FPS. The author complains about the barren landscapes and the overrated setting, but doesn't consider the fact that you really couldn't achieve much more in 2004.

[spacedelete]

this is one of the biggest troll articles i've read ever.

this is what you should have for 5 overrated games

5. bioshock 2
4. final fantasy series
3. gears of war series
2. call of duty series
1. halo series

[Sidewinder-]

writer deserves a lot of dissent here.

Shafting the Gamecube.

[SquareEnixFan]

Sonic Adventure is underrated not overrated. The only game I somewhat agree with on this list is GTA 3. Every GTA after 3 was pretty good but I thought 3 was terrible.

[spektical]

gta4 is def the most overrated game of all time.. i agree with that.. not with everything else though.

[GoldPS3]

Hold up! COD should be #1 on that list.

[Lord_Sloth]

Some1 get this man some fuckin bubbles!

[Deadman_Senji]

Another my personal opinion = god given fact article I see.

Does anybody in the video game community know what the word...subjective means?

*puts on a pair of reading glasses*
existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought ( opposed to objective).

So there you have it. Whoever wrote the article you can fuck off. This isn't news. What made the admins of this site include opinion pieces? They are shit 90% of the time because....this community is SHIT, bingo!

[Pozzle]

Um...it says right in the description above that this is the author's personal opinion and not "god given fact".

In fact it even says right up there: "Keep in mind that these are all opinion based, so you’re welcome to strongly agree or disagree, or even agree to disagree altogether."

Just sayin'

[Deadman_Senji]

Are you seriously defending this non-news article? It's a piece of shit that doesn't belong here. It's only up to get hits. It's a bullshit flamebait article and you know it.

[Tikicobra]

I agree with everything on this list except number 5.

[schlanz]

Metroid prime and half life 2? GTA 3?

[J86blum]

But I love all those games. minus sonic but the new sonic will more then probbly fix that.

-rolls up news paper and bats NG4 on the nose- Bad ng4 thats a bad ng4.

[gillri]

@gnb2003

great opinion man

Part of the whole msytique about Metroid Prime is the backtracking!!

I mean its part of the game!!! what does every want, linear corridor cover shooters?

sometimes backtracking gives the impression of freedom. Look at Dead Space 1 and Bioshock 1 and then the developers removed that in the sequels, and while both greast sequels. without the bactracking it killed the illusion of ebing part of an immersive world

[RyuCloudStrife]

should be there

[maxmill]

COD
Crysis
Street Fighter
GTA4

[BonhamZ0S0]

the zeek who wrote this article needs to get smacked up.

[badvlad]

what is she doin outside the kitchen? Retarded bitch lol GTA3 stupid bitch hahaha go play with barbies

[lordolunch]

As a blogger myself I realize that articles like this really do garner a lot of hits and a good thing to write every once in a while. The only problem I have is the games you recommend. L.A.. Noire came out 3 years after GTA 4. The fact that you had to pick games from years later for most of your list just further proves how good those games are.

[InTheLab]

GTA 4 has a 90 effin 8 on Metacritic, despite the fact that it stripped away all that was good in GTA SA. Namely, the fun. The game engine was still crap and the shooting was worse.

You know something is wrong when the game's DLC is better than the actual game.

[ger101]

Shenmue and Morrowind are 'superior alternatives' to GTA3? Is this for real?

Now don't get me wrong, I love all three games to death, but you cannot compare them. Yes, all three have open worlds, but you can't compare them based on just that one little thing. The meat of Morrowind and Shenmue's gameplay is an RPG and an adventure game whereas GTA3 is purely a TPS with an open world. There's three different genres there.

Christ, it's like comparing a Final Fantasy game to Fallout 3 just because they both have RPG elements!

Edit: How about explaining why you disagree instead of disagreeing for the sake of it, eh?

Edit 2: Actually let me rephrase that FF/F3 bit: It's like comparing an FF game to GTA: SA just because they both have RPG elements.

[msbabie20034]

hold up! killzone franchise should be first on this list!

[Rashonality]

*sigh*
1 word......sad.

[Rashonality]

don't agree with this article, the games he talked about aren't overrated but their fans are so obnoxious they make you hate them.

[ForROME]

Agreed

Metroid = Gay and overrated
Sonic = part 2 was the last REAL sonic game
half life 2 = was great dont agree
grand theft auto III = game changer and great, dont agree
grand theft auto IV = agreed, was just more of the same

[wenaldy]

Only agree with GTA IV, the writer should be spanked hard..

[iNMyFiN4LH0uR]

considering recent events, BF3 needs to be up on this list. pre and post launch

[JAMurida]

Well I guess they accomplished the point of making this article, which was to get hits...

Pathetic...

[DarkFox]

OH NOES SOMEONE DISAGREES WITH YOU AND THEREFORE MUST AUTOMATICALLY ONLY BE A HIT TROLL!

[newn4gguy]

It's all for hits. Let's face it.

[Kee]

I was all riled up for nothing there. They put that picture of sephiroth and I thought they were going to suggest that FFVII was overrated. I was ready to fight for it to the death.

And why there are 2 gta games on that list, I'll never know...

[tiffac]

I'm not sure if this is serious...?

[acemonkey]

Halo's and Gears of War...most overrated overhyped games every made...So is the Assassins creed games also...Killzone 2 was overhyped...MW2 sucked....Heavy Rain also....but thats just a small list of my overhyped overrated games...remember its just opinion

[iliimaster]

how about halo 1-5!?

[thedudewar]

Whoever disses Half-Life 2 loses all credibility.

[newn4gguy]

I'll accept all of those but Half-life 2.

I can't, in good conscience, believe that the writer has played the game.

[Snowii]

the first assasins creed

and halo

[iWishTifaWasReal]

FCK THIS ARTICLE

its a FlAMEBAIT

used FInal Fantasy VII pic to get people

i hate ARTICLE like this

[morbid237]

yeah, all those games are overrated except half-life2 which should be replaced by god of war 3

[SnukaTheMan]

Played it for one hour and gave up....I am playing infamous right now and I am digging it...imo i think its even better then crackdown 2 by far.

[CrzyFooL]

HOW DARE YOU. Take that picture of Sephiroth down before he smites you!!

[Human Analog]

The list lost all credit once Half Life 2 was mentioned.

[laxbeav]

I think the term overrated is used way too much. Ratings are opinions. Just because you don't share that opinion doesn't mean that the game is overrated, it just means you don't like it. Why try to ruin everyone's fun by trying to convince them that what they like sucks? Everyone has different opinions. You don't need to feel threatened if they like a game you don't It's not a big deal.

[ghaleon1980]

GUIDE TO BUBBLE RATING SYSTEM AT N4G.COM:

- To achieve maximum "increase" in positive bubble votes you can do the following:

1.)Claim that "Insert PS3 game name here" is better than anything offered by competitors.
2.)Claim that the PS3 is the best system ever made and somehow it still has untapped power that will put current and future generations of PC graphics to shame.
3.)Announce your resounding hatred for Halo and/or Microsoft and how they are "overrated" and "milking the cow."

[Brownghost]

more like to decrease

[ThatOneGuyThere]

1) its kinda true.
2) its the best playstation ever made.
3) Halo is a terd. Anyone who likes it is terds. I would say milking the goat. Halo is not good enough for cow status.
4) ?
5. Profit Bubbles.

[MrBlais]

I dub thee "Overrated article about an overrated list of games that are commonly overrated because of their overrated popularity."

Really.. We need a new vocabulary and something else to talk about as a gaming community.

[Relientk77]

Wait so they say these are the most overrated games of all time and they show a picture of FFVII and it's not on the list. Why the FFVII picture?

[Main_Street_Saint]

Like the game still but the way some people regard that title, one would think the following facts:

1. It was made by God's own hands and was sent to Square soft.
2. It is printed on a gold disc.

[Chocoboh]

I'm not even gonna lie FF7 was the best RPG out there for it's time and is still good for one of those RPGs you could return to and play besides that game I luv Xenogears as well

[Kos-Mos]

Someone stop me because I`m about to kill this trash-face for bringing up a historical art like Metroid Prime in a negative setting.

[ThatOneGuyThere]

eh, metroid kinda sucks though. You only enjoyed it if you made the mistake of getting a Nintendo.

[Achtung]

@ThatOneGuyThere

Why do you have 5 bubbles?

oh yeah... you're a ps3 fanboy

[Kos-Mos]

Yeah it kinda sucks....??? Do you know the word art? You don`t have to have "get some, get some" and high-fives (killzone) in a game. It actually makes the game worse young one.

[ghaleon1980]

@Achtung: You couldn't be more correct sir.

[earbus]

Def the uncharted series heard all these great things,was like a tweenage tv show.

[Otheros00]

5 Overrated games that have been released and rated(not in any order)
COD:BO
COD:MW2
COD:WaW
FFXIII
GTAIV

[S1nk3d]

I will never understand why would some one write something like that

[ThatOneGuyThere]

5. Call of Duty (series from 3 on)
4. Bioshock.
3. Gears of War(complete series)
2. Portal.
1. Halo(complete series)

Seriously. The only reason you can like these games is if you haven't played much of anything else, or you do drugs.

[Main_Street_Saint]

I have to disagree with you on Portal; the first game was a blast to play. Also I do play a fairly diverse list of games myself.

[ShabbaRanks]

I agree with GTAIV being overrated 100% even though I did spend (at lest) a good 100 hours in it :S … I’m a big GTA fan and the best one in my heart will always be San Andreas. Why? CUZ IT WAS SHIT LOADS OF FUN! … That’s what GTAIV missed out on, ya okay the story was good, but it’s still a game right. So why not add some nice and fun game play to go along with it Huh? RockStar … I do love R* games but boy did they fuck up GTAIV… Ya the graphics were good and the gameplay was good (especially driving IMO)… BUT THERE WAS NOTHING TO FUCKING DO!

Drive there kill him, go there kill him… Okay the cell phone feature was a nice touch, but it was a reminder of how bad it is to use while driving XD … And the MP … Really like what the fuck. Okay it was fun for some time, but the customisation was a total joke, and getting to lvl 10 takes years… Why not make more lvls instead. Red Dead did that right… Thank God Gay Tony came after… Then again they really waited for that before adding the parachute, lol what a fucking rip off… Just like La Noire DLC … What’s going on with u R*

Now for Half life 2, personally I never really liked Half Life, but as a gamer I can see why it got so much attention. I don’t think it’s as great as the critics said, but it’s not bad. The thing I really don’t understand is why Valve (not Half Life), but Valve it self is so overrated. Okay Half Life 1 was a breakthrough in gaming back in the day, that’s for sure. But now any thing they do is considered like some thing from god. Portal 1 was good and TF was good… But each half life 2 episode feels the same and Portal 2 was missing most of the stuff they showed back at E3… Plus Portal 2 had half Life written all over it. The same textures, the same game play. It’s all recycled material and why are they still using source. Even the puzzles weren’t as good as in the first. Now ya the source engine was good when Half Life 2 came out, but maybe its times to change don’t you think?

Now as a gamer I just don’t get the big fuss with Valve. Ya Valve is good, but IMO they are not the Ultimate. Now I know people will disagree, but were all entitled to our own opinion and that’s mine. And not saying they are the worst, just overrated as a company in general.

There are a lot of companies that don’t get the attention they deserve and some that get too much even Bungie and as a big fan of Halo I say this

[Picture_Dancer]

Gears of War was my first next-gen game. I didn't wonna play it on my old SDTV, I had a game but I was waiting for HDTV. I was so thrilled to play this badass game. Finally, everything was perfect, I started to play the GREAT GoW. My reaction was: meh, thats it? For me 7/10 game with lame multi where everybody was using only shotgun or sniper.

Gears of War is one of the most overrated game.

[godsinhisheaven]

I agree with this article.

[skyblue14213]

Most overated game of all time
#6- catherine

I have read some info and looked at a few video reviews on the game and I still don't see how cheating should ever be entertaining or fun, much less the subject matter being made into a game. Sad just sad.

[Main_Street_Saint]

I agreed with GTA4 and partially on Sonic adventure (it wasn't as overrated as the author would have you believe). I want to go over some of the choices that they plopped on this little list:

-Metroid Prime: How is this overrated? Oh the controls are the reason? What! Actually I think that they did a wonderful job with what they had when it came to the gamecube controller. "The game rips the controller scheme almost verbatim from Goldeneye 007 and Perfect Dark," says the author; and this is a bad thing, why? Again, it knew what to do with the controller and that is never a bad thing.

Oh and she whined about backtracking (its Metroid silly).

BTW, here is where is loses any believability:
Superior Alternative(s): Metroid: Other M (Oh, yes! I just went there!)(my note on that: You went there, I sure won't).

-Half-Life 2: Wait... what?! That one is a true classic. HL2 was one of those games that action AND intelligence; and that makes it overrated? Oh and she just couldn't 'get into' the Half life craze because, she didn't play the first one. Well that doesn't explain why I love it. I didn't play the first one and for some reason I didn't have ANY problem playing (and loving) it.

-GTA 3: Please! This one put sandbox games on the map. I just do not get this person's thought process at all.

If I were to put together a small list of games that were truly overrated, this would be it:

-Too Human
-Shinobi (PS2)
-Halo 3 (Don't hate it (I own a copy) but my god did people treat this like it was the second coming).
-Final Fantasy 13
-Marvel Vs. Capcom 3.

[PandaJenkins]

Half life 2 overrated? what a joke.

GTA4 definitely was, but RDR a superior alternative? that's also a good joke. RDR was even more overrated imo. Half the issues GTA4 had apparently weren't issues when put into a western setting.

[joeyjoeyjoejoe]

I also thought that GTA IV was overrated...sluggish controls and extremely boring cut scenes that just feel like they go on forever and ever..

MGS4 had long cut scenes but at least they were made interesting with good direction

[Rrobba]

I must respectfully say, I disagree with every single game on that list.

[YodaCracker]

GTA IV is by far my favorite game of this console generation. The sheer amount of detail put into the game is astonishing. No game even comes close in that regard. It is one of the few games that is over 3 years old that I still go back and play very regularly. It is a technical marvel and a true masterpiece. 98 on Metacritic, dozens of GOTY awards, 20 million+ sales, and still the 5th most played game on Xbox LIVE... all well deserved.

[Dfooster]

Don't know what's on the list because the article won't load but for me these games should be on it.

Any halo game
Any mass effect game
La noire

[BlitzAK]

GTA 4 almost sucked balls. HL2 amazing, GTA 3 amazing, Sonic adventures, amazing. Neverp layed metro but i heard its good.

Bottom line. No game has been overrated in comparison to gaming giants like COD or FIFA etc.

[darren_poolies]

I'm probably going to get roasted for this but I completely agree with everything he said about Half-Life 2 and GTA IV.

[tigertron]

GTA III was so well received because it was FUN. No matter the large flaws, it was highly entertaining, especially back in 2001 when we never really had a sandbox game like that.

Also, I don't know why the author used a picture of Sephiroth and didn't mention FFVII? :S

[BABY-JEDI]

I enjoyed Metroid, Half-life series but never really got into GTA. As for overated, really a matter of personal values & preferences.

[Blues Cowboy]

A controversial, cynical article that nevertheless makes a few good points. Sonic Adventure definitely deserves a place on the list - not just because it hasn't aged well, but because it's full of flagrant game design sins that we simply should have noticed at the time.

HL2, though? Really?

It's important to remember that the term "overrated" is a completely pointless word. It's just an opinion, and essentially, the article could be titled "games that I can't understand why so many people like."

[fireplace]

You don't have to be a fanboy to disagree with this article, common sense is enough.

[leogets]

personally i didnt like n e of these titles. so thats that really.also i need to add black ops shoulda been number 1

[nikola987]

no.5: Metroid?

No need to read the rest, SKIP...

[KentBlake]

I agree with most of the list. That said, they are all very good games, but at least for my tastes, they're very far from the perfect 10 most people give them.

[lumley666]

damnwhen i saw the pic of ff7 in this article i was ready to hand out as ass woopin lol seriously whoever wrote this article is an absolute idiot lol tho i agree about gta4 that was pretty lame but the rest are pretty good classic games even sonic adventure which i really enjoyed. hoever wrote this.. get a life

[steve30x]

In the past few years all games publishers overhype their games to make a sale. Then when the game gets sold and it doesnt live up to the publishers promises there is a lot of complaints. I really think games publishers shouldnt announce a game unless its two months from release and they shouldnt hype it up so much.

[bozebo]

Article's author is a total idiot.

[Rob946]

Sonic Adventure really isn't that over rated is it?

[KaDa]

I must agree on GTA IV. It is overrated. When the game came out, everybody was in awe of the new graphics in a next-gen GTA. But when everybody actually start to play the game, it was repetitive as hell. Vice City did every aspect better (to compare for example).

But putting Half-life 2 in such a list is just nuts. One of the benchmarks in FPS history. The autor probably couldn't get past level 2 :P

[bebojet]

"It’s also mind-boggling that this game cost a whopping $100 million to create and yet the characters still animate like they’re all related to the f****n’ Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz. I swear that Rockstar blew at least half of that budget on hookers and coke, because there is no other explanation for this."

LMAO!

[BigWillys]

What a dumb article. GTA 3 was the s**t when it first came out in 2001. It started the sandbox game genre.

[BigWillys]

Who are the 2 idiots that disagreed?

[Braid]

10 year olds who were not yet born when the game was released.

And they think Crackdown started the 3D roaming genre so don't mind them.

[Achtung]

bioshock and uncharted I think are the most overrated games this generation. The guy who wrote that is an a-hole.

[user858621]

Swap Metroid Prime with FF7

[NeloAnjelo]

Pointless troll article for hits... However I did find this on there...
http://sflchronicle.com/chr...

Probably the only good thing on the site. Oh, and the Katy Perry pics.

[tarbis]

How come Mario and Pokemon aren't in the list?

[erivera1994]

Because Mario games are actually good. Its called most overrated games not the most Made games or Milked games lol. But yea pokemon is way to overrated too.

[Braid]

I knew it. When I first saw the article I thought "oh boy THERE WILL BE BLOOD" and here we are.

[erivera1994]

Metal Gear Solid 4 is by Far the MOST Overrated Game ever. I dont see how anyone likes that game. I mean OMG it sucks! I played it and never even beat it because i sold it. I mean the Stupid Humor was so dumb it made me embarrased to play it. It just isnt for me.

[fr00ty-wizenhymer]

I can agree with some things the article says, but there are way worse games that are way more overrated.

[capcock]

I don't agree with this "list".
GTA 4 is the only overrated game in the list but it isn't the MOST overrated game. Where is Halo for example?

[Enigma_2099]

You know what, to hell with the list...

You know what else... yeah. I DO think Final Fantasy VII is overrated. I played the d*** thing. I still don't get it!!!

[Venjense]

Portal 2

[TruthbeTold]

These days 'All-Time' apparently is restricted to 2000-current as well as whatever limited genre spectrum the writer is bound by. GTA IV when it's all said and done just may be worthy of being in such 'All-Time' company though.

[D4m13n5]

I think that at least half of comments here are overrated in one way or another -- it's no use to argue if some games get more attention or better reviews in media (whether deserved or not) but ppl still are in for that fight every day.

What use it is to accuse some games being overrated when you already know that "a lot of rabid fanboys are just itching to stab me in the eye after reading this list." ??