The Most Disappointing and Overrated Games of 2011

Gameshark writes: "Every year, the staff sits back and reflects on the year that was and every year we come up with our best of lists as well as our list of the games we felt dropped the virtual ball. This list is the latter. Here are the games we thought were both overrated as well as disappointing. It's an important distinction: a game may very well have been a good game yet still a tick overrated. Disappointing games are usually the titles we had high hopes for but simply didn't live up to expectation.

Please remember that these picks are personal selections chosen by the individual writer and do not reflect the opinion of, well, most likely anyone else. So sit back and revel in our loathing. We'll get the good vibes going again in a few days with our "Best of" and Most Wanted features. "

[RedDead]

"being able to pick up every cheese wheel and tin plate in the game doesn’t make it more immersive or deep"

Lots of content....lots and lots of **** content

[jthamind]

if by lots of content, you mean 9001 quests to either kill a target, escort an NPC or fetch an item, then i agree.

[DeathAvengers]

And the massive amount of dungeons to explore, books to read, spells to learn, items to collect, and people to meet.

[D3mons0ul]

You either haven't played the game or you're just downplaying the fact that each quest has a story behind it and generalizing them all to seem duller than they really are and in that case bad troll, bad!

And you don't escort shit, you have people follow you or you actually have to run behind and follow them, which is not at a snail's pace.

You don't even have to follow most of them or have them nearby. You get companions, not weak NPCs to protect.

[baboom223]

Why do you hate on basically every article that involves skyrim? At first I didn't think you were a troll but its obvious now. The quests aren't at all like that...

[TBM]

even though im enjoying the game i do feel sometimes that the dungeons go on just a bit to long. sometimes i just want a short dungeon to explore. other than that i really do enjoy fighting the dragons.

[AngryTypingGuy]

Skyrim is the greatest game ever. Period.

[jthamind]

http://i42.tinypic.com/kbuo...

to all you acting like Oblivion v1.25 is the best thing ever, read that. and if you still think Skyrim is some masterpiece of a game, then i feel bad for you. it's a solid game. not a great game. and it's definitely overrated and overhyped.

[da_2pacalypse]

lol skyrim haters are idiots...

[YodaCracker]

@jthamind: "read that. and if you still think Skyrim is some masterpiece of a game, then i feel bad for you. "

You feel bad for people if they have a different opinion than you?

[YodaCracker]

Fus ro dah!

[iChii]

@jthamind

Don't hate on the game, its a pretty fun game. Is it overrated? In my opinion, yes. But its still fun. (If you don't have the lag issue on PS3)

[thats_just_prime]

The graphics in skyrim are great and there is a ton of content. However they went for quantity over quality. Having a ton of people to meet that say a single line that is just there’re for filler “ took an arrow in the knee” and then having them in every town that saying the same thing is not quality content. Having thousands of bowls, cheese and embalming tools is not quality content..

The combat is boring and shallow. Mindlessly hitting the RT button (and maybe the LT button) over and over to kill every single monster you come across is shallow and boring. Holding the A button to run and having to stop to refill your stamina not only is this boring but it makes traveling insanely slow.

The story and quest are boring and uninteresting. You don’t even care about the story or what you are doing You find yourself skipping the text most of the time

I got this game thinking it be goty but instead it one or the worse game I got this gen

[DaveMan]

Why is it cool all of sudden to hate skyrim? Yes there are tons of bugs, and bethesda should be 100% to blame for the atrocious ps3 version. I agree 100% with that.

But the game? As an entire package is pretty awesome. The beautiful enviorments, the wonderful music by Jermey Soule...there is alot of good to skyrim. To say it's disappointing is sounding really alot like a rebel without a cause.

[xPhearR3dx]

Because it's stealing the spotlight of every other game released this year, and fanboys (chances are they like the game anyway) feel the need to hate on it to be "cool" or w/e it is kids do these days. Kinda like it's "cool" to hate COD, but at least there's a legitimate reason. It's been the same game for the past 5 years. The Elder Scrolls hasn't.

[floetry101]

Some people can't see the big picture in certain games. On close inspection, Skyrim has problems. As a whole, it's an ambitious, addictive, singular experience that few games can even hope to match.

Of course it's going to be called overrated. Most great games are.

[SnotyTheRocket]

what is wrong with the PS3 version? im a good way through the game and the only thing that has happened to me was that it froze at the beginning, thats it. And frost Dragons are a bitch to kill.

[DragonKnight]

Skyrim is the kind of game that we needed when the PSN was shut down due to hackers. Absolutely no one but people who don't like RPG's and fanboys who think online is necessary to enjoy a game would have complained. That said, it isn't a perfect game. Some of the dungeons are too long to the point where you're like "oh geez, another cavernous area inside a cavernous area inside a cavernous area to explore? when does it end?" The combat could use A LOT of work (I've been spoiled by Dark Souls) and some of the quests are monotonous. Other than that, as a whole, it's awesome and I haven't played another game since I bought it.

@Snoty: For many there are frequent framerate issues, I myself have experienced freezing on 4 occasions so far, quest bugs where you can't complete the quest for X reason and have to reload a save. There's the auto-save glitch where you can't create a new character unless you have a few manual saves or else the very first, unavoidable auto-save erases your first character. Things like that.

[antz1104]

Lol, so true! I understand each one was personal choice, but it felt like a lot of choices for a flamebait article. Once they mentioned Portal 2 as well as Skyrim I zoned out.

[Tru_Ray]

Why is it cool to hate? Because the game is incredible and extremely popular, which means that it is only a matter of time before people start hating on it.

I'll be the first to admit that it has it's share of technical problems including frame-rate drops, clunky combat, mediocre voice acting, etc. But in the end, the amount of content in the game dwarfs all of its competitors.

Quite frankly, there isn't another game like it on the market. For that reason alone, it is pretty frivolous to say that the game is "overrated".

This is just another frivolous opinion piece by some marginal gaming website with grand delusions about the merits of their uninformed opinions.

Time to log and go play some more Skyrim.

Tru

[Tony P]

People put too much on it.

"Best RPG ever"? "Perfect adventure"? "Incredible writing"?

Not by a long shot. And TES is my favorite RPG franchise.

Skyrim is an artistically rejuvenated Oblivion with a few new bells and whistles. It's a refinement of preexisting elements, a very successful refinement. But if you listen to a lot of the people praising it, you'd think this was their first TES:

"The game is just so massive!"
"The sheer amount of time you can sink into it is awesome!"

...That's every TES. For god's sake, that's what gave the game its identity with the very first game.

Skyrim improves on a lot of things from its previous installment. But it certainly isn't the god of RPGs smart marketing and a legion of hangers-on make it out to be. And no amount of commercials, billboards, youtube raps, Dovahkiin babies, parodies, fanfics, arrow to the knee jokes, fus ro dahs, will make it so.

Overrated? Completely.
Great game? Undoubtedly.

[Sprudling]

I disliked Skyrim before it was "cool". I bought it on Steam day one, played it 20 or so hours, then went back to the far superior Dark Souls. Bugs had nothing to do with me not liking Skyrim.

[Pushagree]

Skyrim is easily one of the greatest games of all time. Yes its buggy, but a game of this size will always have bugs. That has not stopped me from enjoying the game at all. Im at 150 hours, which is 10 times more than i put into other games, and im still not bored.

Its hard for me to choose goty. This has been one of the greatest years gaming has ever seen, but skyrim is goty material. Dismissing it because of bugs is just wrong.

[christheredhead]

As for as your last sentence goes I would have to disagree. This is only from the stand point of the ps3 version though. 50 hours in and I can no longer play the game. I'm not entirely referring to the lag either. There are some broken quests, broken NPCs and an entire town that I can no longer visit. Those details, plus the lag, makes for one of the most forgetful experiences I've come across.

It could be a great game, but the bugs and technical issues have shown otherwise. For me, I could not give it game of the year. Literally speaking, I can't even classify it as a game. As it stands its merely a disc inside a case.

I can definitely see the potential for those who have had a smooth experience. I have no idea what that would be like from my perspective. Game of the year? No way, not even close.

[kaveti6616]

"This is only from the stand point of the ps3 version though."

End your comment right there.

We place a lot of responsibility on the producer of the game and very little in ourselves.

We have the internet at our disposal. Yes, sometimes we're forced to choose between the lesser of two evils such as when we choose a service carrier for our mobile phones, but this is different.

If you're going to buy a game, do your research.

I remember a user by the name of Blumatt a while back, who entered a thread that was about an article which pointed out all the problems with the PS3 version, basically labeling it as unplayable. Despite this, Blumatt still posted a comment saying he was going to buy the PS3 version.

Why?

The PS3 version sucks. We get it. At some level, it's Bethesda's fault, but the consumer needs to be responsible with his/her money as well.

The worst thing is that Skyrim on PC is an amazing experience and is made even more amazing by the various mods, yet whenever Skyrim is brought up on this site, a ton of PS3 only owners are here to bash it.

[DragonKnight]

@kaveti: You shouldn't have even bothered to comment at all. You don't take responsibility away from the developer by saying "there's better versions for you to buy."

Not everyone has a gaming PC. Not everyone wants to incur the steep financial costs of having a gaming PC that can do justice to today's games. Not everyone even WANTS to have a gaming PC due to the various tweaking and such. It's too much of a hassle for them.

Also, it's the responsibility of the developer to ensure that the game isn't so poorly coded. If you can't make sure that the majority of the users playing the game on a specific platform have a smooth, relatively (because every game has some bugs and issues) problem free time with the game, then don't put the game on that platform. Simple as that.

Sorry, but Bethesda DOESN'T get a pass simply because "the PC version works fine." It doesn't work that way. There are many out there, for whatever reason, only have one platform to play games on. They shouldn't have to sit back and take a poorly coded version of a game. Period.

Research or not, there are some games that people really want to play. And if they only have one way of playing it, then why should they be punished with an inferior version? Yeah, a person is ultimately responsible for knowing what they are paying for, but a developer is ultimately responsible for releasing a complete, smooth product across ALL platforms they've decided to release the game for. Not just one, or two, ALL of them.

Any purchase is essentially an agreement between the buyer and the seller. The seller agrees that the product they are selling is worth the money they are asking for, it is a good product and in good working condition. The buyer agrees to pay the price of the product, as is, and does so in good faith that the seller's product is in good order and can actually be used. Some of the issues for the PS3 version of Skyrim make it become unplayable. Bethesda released a product whose working condition cannot be guaranteed, and I'd even go so far as to say that it's beyond acceptable standards for defects. They have the same damn save file size problem that they've always had. Explain to me how it's possible that they haven't fixed that yet?

[Objective]

@Dragonknight

And maybe you are just being too forgiving towards the screwed up architecture of a certain platform. Historically and empirically, the evidence is that the platform made things difficult. Too bad so many of you have your heads so deep up Sony's.

[kaveti6616]

Dragonknight, I don't disagree with what you're saying. As I said in my post, Bethesda is responsible to an extent, possibly to a great extent. But, the consumer needs to be responsible with their money as well.

If you want to get Skyrim, but you don't want to buy a gaming PC and you don't have a 360 (but you do have a PS3), the answer is simple: do not buy Skyrim for your PC. Just don't do it.

The choice is an illusion. Yes, you have the option to buy Skyrim for your console, but knowing that the game is basically a complete mess should be enough to deter some people from purchasing the game.

In my opinion, from this point on, the PS3 version of Skyrim should not sell very well at all. It shouldn't sell well because I expect consumers to have some level of responsibility. They should do their research, and if they do, they'll see that purchasing the game for PS3 would be a big mistake. And that will teach Bethesda that they need to "code" their games better. I have another opinion, which is that the major issue with Skyrim on PS3 is a RAM issue and that Bethesda should never have made the game for consoles. But that's a played out topic of discussion.

Point is, not all of the blame should be placed on Bethesda anymore. I don't want to hear any newcomers complaining about Skyrim on PS3 because they should know better by now.

[kaveti6616]

correction: I meant to say, "do not buy Skyrim for your PS3."

[JohnnyMann420]

Yeah.. or the 100s of hours that it's given me for 60 bucks. What other games do that, no-nothing idiot..

[kneon]

GT5, I've easily put a couple hundred hours into it and I'm not yet done.

[Deputydon]

Demons and Dark Souls come to mind... dark souls especially. I easily have over 300 hours on that game. The interesting part about that, they didnt fill the game with hours of pointless walking, it isn't littered with bugs, game breaking quests, and sub par combat. Skyrim has the best combat system Bethesda has ever had in either fallout or their elder scroll games, and yet its still pretty bland.

Hell I'm only level 32 I have the entire dragon scale armor set, I have an enhanced upgraded daedric sword, 100 speech, 100 enhance. And the game still feels the exact same since I started. Hard things are just as hard, easy things are as easy as its ever been. There really is zero point to leveling up. If I get 25% more combat power, so do the enemies.

As for the quests, same problem I had with fallout, the main story line is ridiculously short. I have a miscellaneous quest list with over 30 different quests that even Bethesda thought weren't important enough to even give them their own quest spot. They are just deliver or kill this. Most of them can be completed in mere minutes by just fast traveling.

Dark Souls might not have endless quests, the game world might not be 4500 miles with another giant robot world underneath, but when you level up it feels like it. When you get an awesome weapon or armor, the game feels different, you don't just look different.

I still enjoy skyrim. I really do. Just Bethesda needs to stop worrying about the largest game world until they can focus on real deep combat, and a mostly bug free game. As of right now none of the resistant based armor or potions even works in the game. It does absolutely nothing. How broken can a develop make their own game?

[Armyless]

Every RPG fan needs to play both Skyrim and Dark Souls. Period.

[Twisted_H3art]

Get real 100+hrs I put in 1000+hrs on a ps3 game called warhawk(online only)for 25$ and had fun for like 900hrs+(i did like the other 100hrs but I had to get good at the hawks)so stop that skyrim 100+ stuff does that make warhawk the better game hell no hrs don't make a game the fun make it. I know skyrim offline warhawk online two different games.

P.S I do have skyrim and have put in like 80hrs it's a good game.(my opinion On the game)

[A-Glorious-Dawn]

Man I miss dark souls

[_Aarix_]

Well I put 700 hours on gears of war 2 and thats just the multiplayer. Not including the campaign and horde. Ive had about 120 hours of mass effect as well.

[popup]

It is both the best and worst for me.

I have completed 180 hours of mainly fun on my PS3 version (!) but it is so broken at this point too as all the main quest branches have hit bugs that stop them from being able to be completed so I will never finish it for starters.

Then, more than often, the game runs at as low as 1 frame every three seconds or so(no exaggeration). I even purchased a Corsair Version 3 SSD GT drive for my PS3 which turbocharged it to 1 fps (sounds slow but the drive makes a huge difference!)

Trouble is that because the game is so ambitious and intricate, it feels like the slightest tremor can make everything shift around and make things worse.

I would be happy to have a tool made for the savegame that ticked off completed quests, noted the ones I am doing along with my stats and then just reset the whole world around it to default. At least my save would be less than it is now.

and right now, it is 31MB!

No wonder the love/hate relationships with this game.

[StraightPath]

Skyrim well deserved game of the years. Close competition from Batman AC and Zelda SS and Portal 2 other GOTYS.

[chriski333]

modern warfare 3 #1 disappointing game of this year

[RedHotChiliPepaSpray]

really? what did you expect?

[ZippyZapper]

Broken record Mr "BATTLEFIELD 3 IS ALL I NEED"

[Snookies12]

But Battlefield 3 IS all you need. Lol, for me anyway. :p

[GraveLord]

Actually MW3 wasn't overrated or disapointing. People knew exactly what they were getting. Can't say the same about Battelfield 3 though. But in my opinion Skyrim is THE MOST overrated game of the year.

[SilentNegotiator]

I think "our savior from the evil COD", Battlefield 3, turned out a heck of a lot more disappointing. The SP was absolutely awful for one thing, and wasn't really even the 'training mode' it was said to be (you didn't even get to try out all of the vehicles! You're left to your own devices to learn to use them). Sure, the multiplayer was good, but it was a handful of maps, a smaller handful of choices of game type, and it really didn't eliminate all of the typical problems (balance - with the better players having 100x better guns and such, spawning - with deathmatch, etc). $60 for an awful SP campaign and a multiplayer without a really spectacular amount of content?

And the hyped up special effects are just ugly distractions. In SP they constantly have the stupid dirt/dust on their helmets (wipe it off, stupid) and in multiplayer, you're constantly blinded by the sun or flashlights (glad to see the helmet visors don't serve any functional purpose....no need for sun shading or anything).

It was hyped to death and still spoke of as having "perfected multiplayer". which while I enjoy, I totally disagree with.

[B1663r]

Additionally bf3 on the xbox does the thing where the dlc maps are in rotation on all the servers, so if a map comes up that you don't have you get booted from the server...

Also in a little more than a week and a half of trying, I am unable to find a team on BF3... The noobs are literally destroying this game... With no communication channels to tell the noobs, "quit being noobs" or otherwise humiliate them.

Just this morning, I was on a rush server... A noob was taking the tanks, driving them to the line of scrimmage, then getting out and leaving it there for the other team to steal... over and over again.

If we are not going to have any means of communicating, at least give us the option to vote kick griefers... But this guy wasn't a griefer, he was just a noob.

[rabidpancakeburglar]

I don't think that LA Noire is overrated, it has no replay value but story wise it is very good. What is with the guy at the end saying both Skyrim and Portal 2 are overrated? Those are the 2 top games of the year (for me a least)

[Baka-akaB]

I dont think LA noire is overrated , but i just dont see much use , when push come to shove , for the mostly averagely done , open world aspect of it . The open nature of its story and choices are great , but the city' exploration is pointless for what could have followed instead a more classic approach as seen in other adventures games (such as more recently alan wake or Heavy rain) instead of failing at bringing an open world truly alive .

[Pikajew]

People found it over rated because it's not their kind of game. I really like mystery games so I want to play it. It's one of those game you love or hate

[DanSolo]

Not actually true mate....
It's not just a Love it or Hate it game, a lot of people did enjoy it, but just felt it should have been a lot more!

I really liked the game, and I REALLLY like the premise of the game.... but the truth is although the story is great the gameplay is only average and the large pretty open world is not used to great effect!

I had a lot of enjoyment playing the game, although I did not end up finishing it.... due to becoming a bit bored with some aspects of it,
I do however see a lot of potential for that type of game going forward.

I think perhaps much like the way the first Assassin's Creed felt like it should be soo much more, and then Assassin's Creed 2 did it right and was a vast improvement over the first; perhaps an LA Noire 2 (or whatever it's called) will get all the ingredients right instead of just some of them!

[Il_Exile_lI]

Yeah, both those guys that named L.A. Noire their most overrated stated that it wasn't good as an open world game. Well, guess what? IT'S NOT AN OPEN WOLRD GAME. It is an adventure game in the vain of Monkey Island or Sam and Max that happens to take place in 1940s L.A. All these people that complain that it isn't GTA: 1940s were just expecting something that it isn't. People's lack of understanding for the fundamental of what the game is doesn't make it overrated.

[Blastoise]

Someone finally had the balls to admit they thought skyrim was overrated. Well done mike...well done.

[WayneKerr]

Most overated

Uncharted 3

Most dissapointing

Killzone 3 & GT5

IMO

[grashopper]

GT5 was 2010 ;)

[ElliePage]

I think he meant to say Forza 4.

[ZippyZapper]

Why would he say Forza 4? You know the game that blows GT5 out of the water?

[Baka-akaB]

you'd need to even care to be dissapointed , it's obvious you just dont :p.

[TBM]

two can play this game

Most Overrated

Gears 3 (and i've played it)

Most Disappointing

Forza 4 (played this too found it lacking) and all things Kinect

IMO

see how that works Wayne? stop being a bloody troll/fanboy i seriously doubt you've played any of those games.

don't really expect anything constructive from someone with 1 bubble.

[Baka-akaB]

Bulletstorm overrated or dissapointing ?
Few people bought it , it's not even a game that often gets mentioned , and even the press around it didnt give it much praise .

If someone got suckered into the "hype" because it was a cliffy endorsed game , despite being alwys told it's not his game , well it's on them .

Skyrim ?

"This is a game that I’ve put no less than sixty hours into"

"But it is fundamentally the same Elder Scrolls game that we’ve been playing at least since Daggerfall along with all of the negative elements lingering, ranging from horrid combat mechanics to recycled dialogue (and voice actors) to an overall lack of focus, direction, or urgency. The writing is atrocious, and the much-vaunted quest system is little more than a grocery list of fetching and killing to-do items. "

Sure but if it's still hooking you that long , despite apparently being that aware and tired of the same old flaws from the serie , then it's doing various things right overall , thus hardly overrated .

Homefront ?

That one is 100% on medias and the press . Any decent journalist looking at the gameplay would have instantly spotted how average it looked , and how it felt . Instead they went on and on about Kaos studios' intent to deliver some so called emotionally charged invasion and occupation story .

How the hell would none of them picture instantly a cod clone normal campaign , and a run of the mill but still good mp ?

[ReservoirDog316]

Apparently the multiplayer of homefront was really good. I wouldn't know cause I only ever found like 3 people playing. I know it must've been a glitch but I never got to ever try a proper multiplayer match.

Oh well.

It didn't suck nearly as bad as Crysis 2 though. That was just horrible. It tried being like 2 kinds of games (action and stealth) and ended up sucking at both. Horrible.

Good thing I gameflied Crysis 2. That would've sucked so bad at $60.

[mynameisEvil]

You know, I've played every Elder Scrolls game to date (with the exception of Redguard, because that prick is a bitch to get working) and I don't see much that's exclusive from Daggerfall and Skyrim that isn't in other fantasy RPG's.

If I were to ask you of open-world fantasy RPG games that had a decent-sized lore behind it, guilds, magic, recycled voice acting, not-always-good writing, and repeated questlines... I'm almost sure you would be listing a whole hell of a lot.

As for Homefront, that's the case of a message I've preached time and time and time again. Just like Haze, the press and the people hyped it up to be hella more than it was going to be just for the sake of hyping it up. Kaos Studious had made one good game before Homefront and that was Frontlines: Fuel of War. So, with only one game that was good, but not great, you expected something huge out of this? I've had more emotions from Call of Duty, to be honest. The MP was barely looked at by the press and that was the best part of the game. Again, it wasn't GREAT, but it was okay.

This is what hype does. Look, if you want to hype up a game, make sure that it's a developer that is... near infalliable. Naughty Dog, Sucker Punch, and Croteam are my three developers where I get super hyped for their games because I know I'm gonna get quality games.

[FATAL1TY]

* Most overrated games: zelda skyward sword, Skyrim, BF3
* Most dissapointing: bulletstorm, rage, brink, bf3, homefront

[Hellsvacancy]

BF3 wtf?

Theres no MW3 on your list, your goty i expect

BF3? your nuts man!

[HeavenlySnipes]

I also think BF3 is overrated. I held off anything this fall apart from Resistance 3 in order to get BF3. According to all the hype surrounding it, it would be an orgasmic experience but it really didn't live up to expectations.

Voice chat is f'd up
Lots'o'popin
Input lag
Terrible Campaign with terrible AI
People's body parts going through walls, exposing them to melee's
Squading up still doesn't work 60% of the time

Not all that it was hyped to be tbh. Still best MP of the year (well I personally enjoyed UC3's more) but its a 85 at most for me (PS3)

[cjflora]

In all fairness Hellsvacancy, does he really need to SAY MW3? I mean, at this point isn't it just implied?

[ReservoirDog316]

Brink. You hit the nail on the head. I had such high hopes for brink and they give me that mess. It wasn't horrible* but I expected so much more.

[antz1104]

That was the only game I truly agreed with in the article: Brink was the only game I felt like I was robbed out of my money this year when I was promised one thing and got a completely different one.

[_Aarix_]

Bf3 not being compared to mw3, bf3 wasnt very good for the hype. but i know bf3 addicts so people do love it.

[Jio]

Mike sounds like a really annoying person judging by his choices and opinions.

[Noticeably_FAT]

My most overrated game was Battlefield 3, after all that trash talking they had the glitch fest at launch and didn't put a dent in the Call Of Duty juggernaut.

My most disappointing game would be Uncharted 3, I kind of figured when your at the top you can only go down. It was still a great game, and one of the few I play on my PS3, but it wasn't as thrilling as part 2 and seemed to suffer a bit like it was perhaps rushed.

[Colonel_Dante]

Battlefield 3 overrated? I think you need to do a test for diabetes, your eyes are failing you, Noticeably Fat

[Hicken]

How the hell were you disappointed in UC3? All you did was trash talk it from before it even came out. You obviously had no expectations for the game, and it's pretty much impossible NOT to exceed NO expectations.

[CrustifiedDibbs]

Imagine that... chicken is defending uc3. Do you have a life other than this? Personally, I agree with fat. Uc3 was not even close to as good as the fanboys want you to believe.

Kz2 and uc2 are my favorite ps3 games,so Uc3 and kz3 were my most anticipated, and neither lived up to the hype IMO. Of course no ps3 game could possibly reach the level that fantards on this site hype them to be. Both uc3 and Killzone are pretty,but after that, the games are extremely average to below average.

[StrongMan]

Just look at his comment history and that will answer your first question.

[codename13]

meh ... bunch of losers are on that site :thumb down:

[Colonel_Dante]

I believe one day in the world, we could achieve peace. One day we can end world hunger! I hope one day we can all admit Skyrim was terribly overrated.

[Braid]

No Sir, I'm afraid you simply cannot do that. Skyrim is "underrated" if not anything else. I daresay it is not only the best game of the year, but also one of the greatest games EVER created.

That you don't like fantasy based role-playing games does not necessarily mean that the game is bad, you can trust me when I say if there's any game out there that deserves a perfect 10/10, it's Skyrim.

And that's coming from a gamer whose origins go back to the ATARI era.

[krazykombatant]

"but also one of the greatest games EVER created." BAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! DUDE, I love the game, I think Skyrim is great and all but lets face it, its got HUGE faults not only with game breaking bugs and glitches, but its problem with immersing you into the game.

Lets skip the bugs and glitches cuz for the most part everyone knows what they are and that its practically expected in every Bethesda game. Immersion for me was a HUGE problem. The world in Skyrim doesn't give a sh*t on who you are. You finish the main storyline and there are still dragons. I made the mistake of joining the stormcloaks, only to see that Ulfric and his huge bigotry. I wish I could have been given a choice to change his ways or to help out the dunmer in whinterhold as well as the argonians. I saw a post on another site. On how Argonians are not allowed to live inside of Winterhold. But the NPCs had no problem with him (an argonian character) being in the city least of all buying a house. The game treats you like your a nord no matter which race you are. Riften is another problem I wish I could rid them with my current (nice guy) character and kill off the maven along with the thieves guild and make Riften a better place but alas i cannot. The game suffers from immersion BIG time, and its one of the reasons I haven't been playing as long sessions as I would like.

Like I said I love the game but being immersed into the game is a problem for me, once your past the honeymoon phase of the game. You realize that the game treats you like a nord nothing else. There should have been some sort of reputation bar. Sometimes, the place just feels empty that is other than the ton of people that just want to kill you. Dialogue is lacking in this game.

This game is by no means a 10/10. Your welcome to PM or reply here.

[Braid]

@krazykombatant

I have to say that most of your complaints are legit, though I still believe that bugs can be (and some of them already have been) repaired via patches. Only reason I believe the game deserves a 10/10 is the effort that is put into this game by Bethesda, even though I didn't like Oblivion as much, I'm a huge fan of Morrowind and Skyrim is a fine successor untill they make a better one. The world is massive, and if you use graphics modifications on PC, the visual quality of the game -for an open-world title- is extremely immersive.

Dialogue system could have been better, you don't really have the chance to change the flow of conversations, your replies are pre-determined and as you stated you don't really change the events like, let's say, Heavy Rain. But we have to consider the limited resources that the developers had to work with as well, such as the DVD format, and the hardware capabilities of the consoles. I say with what they had in their hands, they at least tried to do their best and created something "massive". I mean, I've never encountered a cave that resembles or looks the same as another cave I've been to before, the art design is impressive to say the least.

Sure there are some flaws, and by no means I meant it was perfect and could not be improved. Nothing is "perfect" and there's always room for improvement. But seeing that some games have 5-6 hours of gameplay in total makes me believe that this game surely deserves its price ticket. You can play the game for months and still there would be something you did not discover before.

And I have to insist, if GTA IV is a 10/10 game, Skyrim can be as well, though I don't mean it's perfect. Have your teachers ever graded your paper 100/100? That doesn't mean your paper contains the best possible answers, but it sure deserves to be praised.

[antihiroprotagonist]

Forza 4 is unquestionably better in most ways than GT5 and thus overall more superior, this isn't an opinion. It is literally better on many quantifiable levels. If you like GT5 more than Forza 4; fine, but GT is still inferior.

Now, shut up fanboys

[Majin-vegeta]

Lol telling fanboys to shut up when your comment reeks of nothing but fanboyism oh the irony *rolls eyes*.

[Colonel_Dante]

Forza 4 ? lol.. , I mean, yeah dude, I love the original trailer showed snow and night racing, but the game didnt have it. I also assumed Autovista would be for every car.
GT and Forza are games with different aims. But, being a car enthusiast and gamer, I admit, out the box ,what GT5 shipped with was bad.. play after Spec 2 and tell me its the same game that launched a year ago, I'd have to hands down disagree.

[Valenka]

Skyrim is disappointing and/or overrated? Right. Who can I slap for this article?

[baboom223]

Ikr... so tired of the stupid articles that cause flame wars

[Chuk5]

So it's cool to hate skyrim now? Man some gamers are so predictable. Kill the hero, when they get to popular. no one will say a damn thing about U3 even though many have admitted to the game being a little too incremental for its om good.

[Dogswithguns]

I just love seeing all people spent their $60 on the new games to find out this is the worse game ever.. lmao.

[baboom223]

worst game ever? Have you even played the game?

[Dogswithguns]

No dude, I have not played yet.. the tittle said one of the worse games. woot woot.

[optimus]

for me battlefield 3 was the most overrated of this year. and before you begin with "you must be crazy" i base my opinion mainly on the single player portion (which was crap). i played the multiplayer for a bit and it was not fun for me at all. the environments were waay too big for my tastes. i think if a game is going to get 9's and 10's that it should be for the entire package and not the multiplayer aspect of it...needles to say i traded it in while it still had some value and i definitely won't be buying any other installments of it in the future.

[Fez]

Nice Partridge reference.

[optimus]

where?

[Fez]

Lol, jk. Everytime I see someone say "needles to say" or even needless to say for that matter I think of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[Der_Kommandant]

Looking to protect yourself or deal some damage?

[LettingGo]

Most Overrated: Skyward Sword

I just don't get it. I'm a fan of the older Zelda's, but ever since Ocarina of Time, this series has been HUGELY overrated. Okami did it better.

Most Disappointing: Gears of War 3

I was legitimately MAD that Gears 3 didn't have the same great pacing and writing of Gears 2. :/

[Blastoise]

Wind waker was well worth all the praise it got in my opinion, because of its awesome art style the graphics barely look dated today. Havnt played skyward sword yet so i cant comment

[LettingGo]

Oh, crap. I totally forgot about Wind Waker. I LOVED that one! Sorry.

[krazykombatant]

How was Zelda been hugely overrated since OoT? Windwaker did an amazing job, sure it would get annoying to sail in the see but still it was an amazing game. Twilight Princess went back to the Dark themes of Zelda, right now i'm playing skyward sword and I think its one of the best games that I have played this year. Its changed soo many things, which I won't spoil for people, but in my opinion zelda is not overrated by any means. To each his own i guess.

[cheeto101]

Title should actually read "hipster gamer's lame opinions"

[Venoxn4g]

Most overrated:

COD: modern warfare 3

Most disappointing:

Spiderman: edge of time

Most overlooked:

Shadows of the damned

[zero_cool]

Science is unique in that its methods demand not only that the ideas proposed be tested ... but everything science comes up with is also inherently falsifiable. In other words, unlike religion and politics, science has no ego, and everything it suggests accepts the possibility of being proven wrong eventually.

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Have An Happy New Year Gamers & Happy Gaming!

[Romano]

The most overrated game of the year is by far Skyrim. The ambition and scale are certainly to be commended, but in the final analysis the game is disappointing.

The combat mechanic is a joke, no innovation whatsoever since the last one, the quests are just boring after a while, glitches, etc...

In my view most of the game reviews are superficial and overlook key considerations like gameplay mechanics and innovation. Some of the highly rated games I have played this year are nothing more than rehashed jobs. They detracts from the real gems such as Dark Souls.

[Armyless]

I am head over heels addicted to Dark Souls. And I can't WAIT to play Skyrim next!

[Romano]

I have been playing Dark Souls since it came out. I am now on NG++, and have only stopped for a bit to complete Skyrim on PC.

I think Dark Souls is far superior in every respect. It is original, the combat mechanics is fantastic, the multiplayer implementation is simply beautiful, the sense of achievement, game design and balance, etc.. While I remember every single moment of DS, I almost forgot what Skyrim was about.

[D0UbleF_]

I hope the whole "GameShark" crew get's cancer as present for this Newyear.

[despair]

seriously WTF is wrong with you, just because they say bad things about games you like you want them to get Cancer? Go see someone about that....just Wow...

[TopDudeMan]

The picture for this article is absolutely suicide. You just don't get to say a bad word about skyrim on n4g.

[kasser]

Oh right "skyrim" did not improve on elder scrolls formula

I mean, aside from the new combat system, the new graphic engine, the shout system, improved unique side quests that may put you in a madman mind, get framed for prison for solving a conspiracy, unique variant dungeons designs from any other game in the market and enhancing skills like enchantment/smithing, the game is really a repetition of the series and is not worthy playing if you played oblivion. We all should play MW3, at least that is not overrated and fresh!

/end of sarcasm

[Baka-akaB]

Dont forget how it managed to convince people that usually dislike the Elder scrolls , but yeah it's all the same and you sink over 60 hours into it /s

[jp0249107]

Woohoo! Another troll article to attract controversy and comment wars between people who are pissed about one thing and the people who support another. Good job Gameshark! The epitome of journalism!

[mynameisEvil]

Okay, I have several problems with this article. Not about the Skyrim stuff or whatever, but you'll see.

Brandon said Uncharted 3 was disappointing, then bashed the game to hell. I'll agree that the weird crosshair sensitivty returned for no good reason (and I popped in Uncharted 2 after dying repeatedly in UC3 just to make sure that I hadn't just started to suck), but everything else was fine.

And maybe Brandon didn't get the idea that Sully was the main companion this time around? Chloe was there because it benefit the story. Who says Elena's got to be there every moment of Drake's life? Damn, how clingy a woman do you want her to be? The platforming and whatnot was just as good as it was in Uncharted 2, so what the hell is with bashing this game? The only noticable downgrade was the gunplay.

Brian said Bulletstorm was overrated. And to that, I must state: People have to buy the game for it to be overrated.

Mike, well Mike's just a dickbag. Portal 2 is apparently "just more Portal" because, you know, they did NOT expand the gameplay "in meaningful ways." This leads me to believe that Mike never played Portal 2 or else he'd see the many additions that's been added to it. He also said the Shadows of the Damned was disappointing. How so? The controls were fine, the game changed things up enough just to keep it from becoming repetitious. The humor WAS funny and many ADULTS can agree with that. The entire game was just a huge dick joke and everyone who bought the game should've come in knowing that they wanted to have a laugh at that. This IS Suda 51, after all.

I just noticed, all of my posts have to be longer than the friggin' Great Wall. Oh, fingers! Why must you type so damn much?!

[frankboy2012]

Skyrim overrated that cock juggling thundercunt says he put 60 hours of gaming into it and starts adding positives about the game and then says its overrated.Make up your damn mind "i used to be a lolly gagging meat gulper like you,until i took a vibrator to the ass"

[Braid]

Damn, it's saddening to see that the trolling articles still get hits on N4G. What kind of an opinion piece is that?

Skyrim, seriously?

<insert facepalm here>

[SephirothX21]

Skyrim is the best game this year by a mile. It sh*ts on everything else. Get over it and move on!

[Bigpappy]

THIS!^^^

If you disagree, then let me know of a game that comes close. ????????? exactly.

[mynameisEvil]

Okay, then.

How about Uncharted 3, Portal 2, or Deus Ex: Human Revolution? And, as my own personal opinion, Serious Sam 3?

Skyrim is a good game, but the fact that even it's UPDATES are unstable is pissing me off. Installed the newest update, game crashes upon going in locations like the Bannered Mare. Friggin' great.

[Koromaro]

Saw Gameshark.com I laughed

[nik666uk]

EVERY game i bought this year disappointed!(apart from Driver) from now on i'm renting!!

[Scuzzlebutt]

Picking UC3 out of all the 2011 to biggest disappointment is just fanboy fodder. It was a great game by ALL standards. If you loved UC2 you got a great sequel which was just as good. So how can it be disappointing, did they expect a RPG or flight sim?

Most over rated is Skyrim though, Oblivion 1.5.

[user858621]

Killzone 3, Socom, Infamous 2 ohh and Uncharted 3 (2.5)

[DW74]

Flamebait article is flamebait. And it's never amazing just how many gamers let articles like this one get their panties in a wad.

Don't agree with the article? Don't agree with a commenter? Grow up and decide to not give a shit and move on. Why waste your time trying to convince someone out on the internet that you don't give 2 shits about of your point of view, when you know damn well they won't give a shit about your thought?

[Lance254]

To all the people who said that Skyrim haters are idiots, you are the idiots here. No-one so far has actually said it sucks, and if they did they would be extremely stupid to do so.

It is a very good game, but there are so many blind fanboys saying its gaming perfection and the best game of all time, which is definitely not the case. Sure, its brilliant and definitely deserves the attention, but its not the game people make it out to be.

After playing things like monster hunter and dark souls, where a similar style combat is done so much better, I find it hard to accept the "best game of all time" has such a poor fighting system. Combat has been done so much better in other games, it is a shame Bethesda could not take a hint instead of sticking with the Oblivion combat.

Anyway, I would say it was far from disappointing, so should not be on that list.

[akumous]

I think Skyrim is a great game but at is out of the box, well it needs to go back in the box to get the bugs ironed out. Bethesda has been making the same game for decades and they all plagued with bugs but yet the game is still highly praised as if it has never been done before. I think Dark Souls is a better RPG this year but as far as GOTY goes Skyrim isn't it.

[Zephol]

Rage
Duke Nukem Forever
Brink
Bulletstorm

[NyGiants7]

Skyrim's fucking amazing. Who wouldn't want to play as a Khajiit who uses duel handed war hammer that can use magic and blow enemies across the map with dragon shouts?

[Dark_Legend]

Before skyrim was released everyone was looking forward to it, now suddenly the hate ? I dont get it

[BattleTorn]

um where did this Skyrim hate come from?

[SpinalRemains138]

Skyrim is a good game.

It's highly overrated though. Some say it's the best game. This I do not understand. It is enjoyable, but how many times can you go to point A, talk, fast travel to B, go through the exact same looking dungeon, and fast rtavel back to A to receive an award that you'll only put away in a chest?

Yeah there's a lot to do, but they're only different on the surface. The game is basically the same thing over and over and over. After 100 hours there is absolutely nothing to do that you haven't yet seen.

[SwampCroc]

I'm pretty sure the fact that you can manipulate corpses is more than enough reason to be the best game of the year...

I mean other than oblivion and maybe fallout 3 (I can't remember if the fallouts let you do it... I'm assuming so since they are Bethesda.) I can't think of another game where after I killed something I could drag there body to and do whatever I wanted with it (example - throw body off cliff, throw body in water watch it float away, shoot body with lightning and watch it fly......)

further example.... every skull you come across or gems pick them up... and when you have alot of them... drop them on the floor of your house for decorations....

yeah I can't think of many games that let you do that.... and that type of stuff is all apart of the experience...

decorating your home with the cool ass weapons you find.... the weapon racks and stuff... that shit is cool...