Most overrated games.

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I fully deserve my puzzle pieces here, but for some reason I've rapidly gone off of Dark Souls as a franchise in favour of stuff my brain KNOWS is low tier shit such as Decay of Logos, and Immortal: Unchained.

I have absolutely no idea why this is. I liked DS, but now it just feels weirdly bland next to this flood of indie stuff that's aping it. There's a cluster of mental illnesses in me that enjoys low rent clones with weird mechanics, more than the polished AAA original.
 
Diablo 3 is painfully boring and the opposite of fun.

I played through it years ago and was a bit meh on it at the time. Was visiting a buddy recently and we decided to get Diablo 3 on PS4 for some co-op action and it was just boring shit. I can't speak for the higher difficulties (locked until you beat the game, which is stupid) or any of this season play stuff but we played on hard and it was just piss easy and un-fun. Got to the point where we were not even equiping new gear, not really paying attention to the skills and still wrecking through everyting, never really going below half health. At one point I chnaged characters so started as a level 1 mid-game and we were still steam rolling through the game.

I don't remember it being this easy when I played it years ago, did they dumb it down even more for the more recent releases?
 
big ups liquid richard said:
Borderlands 1 was shit. I have a feeling those who liked it, had co-op partners the entire time.
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I liked the desolate atmosphere, how every NPC was retarded and/or a jerkwad, and I enjoyed the gameplay.
I also had co-op partners. The pacing could have been better, and the DLCs felt somewhat rushed, even unfinished at places.

Borderlands 2 I didn't like as much: the plot was weaker, the memes were shitty, and the constant self-referencing "humor" was even shittier than the memes. The variety in locations also made the whole setting feel weaker, I would have preferred Pandora as a huge fucking desert. The abandoned Dahl mining site, however, felt fantastic.

At least it isn't the Pre-Sequel which was complete shit and not even a having a great team could make it bearable for more than an hour.
 
Catgirl IRL said:
There's a cluster of mental illnesses in me that enjoys low rent clones with weird mechanics, more than the polished AAA original.
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Same, I like bad games or b-games as they could be called. It's fun to see what works and what doesn't while trying to figure out what they intended it to be and what it could have been if they had more money/time/skilled individuals. A lot of the big releases and highly rated AAA games are what they are and can't be anything else, you don't play God of War and think that it could have been a pretty decent kart game. In b-games there might be a small part that somehow is better than the main game or could be the seed for a good game, except the devs probably doesn't know that. Sometimes devs doesn't even understand their own creation which shows if they make a sequel.
 
Yes, that's exactly it!

Immortal Unchained is unbalanced, doesn't explain itself and has all sorts of minor graphical issues, but as I zip around at a million miles an hour hosing down Terminator clones with a leveled up machine gun, there's a clear sense of identity, and a strong feeling that this is something they wanted to make without quite having the budget or talent for it.

Like a really enthusiastic kid creating Judge Dredd fan art. He's so fucking excited about it, so who am I to sneer.
 
One of the most embarrassing series I've ever seen called Disaster Report came to Switch with their newest game recently, and when I tried that demo, I was aghast to find out they were charging 60 dollars for what is essentially the most linear visual novel I've ever seen in my life.

I was even more surprised to find out this was *fourth* in an apparent long-running series, for a couple reasons:
-It was horribly unpolished, poorly designed and technically closer to a game circa 2001, released in 2019
-Game series tend to get better and more innovative with each entry, and if this was the result of that at game 4, I struggle to imagine how it ever got popular enough to be a series to begin with.

The worst part was it pretended to be something it simply wasn't. It describes itself on the Eshop as some grand choose-your-own-fate and decide the fates of every character in the game, and it's nothing like that at all. There are no choices; just the illusions of them.
I haven't seen a case of false advertising this bad since No Man's Sky.
 
I guess that fall guys game or whatever is overrated. Don't know much about it (except that it's another battle royale I think) but it's everywhere and I don't get the hype.
 
Catgirl IRL said:
I have absolutely no idea why this is. I liked DS, but now it just feels weirdly bland next to this flood of indie stuff that's aping it. There's a cluster of mental illnesses in me that enjoys low rent clones with weird mechanics, more than the polished AAA original.
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Yeah, me too. Hell, I just don’t like Dark Souls because I don’t like high fantasy, and the game is otherwise very bland.

I liked Let it Die and The Surge much better for just having a more interesting, colorful artstyle. Dark Souls is bland as fuck and I had absolutely zero urge to keep going through what appeared to be a bunch of copy/pasted environments from Oblivion.

The giant equipped item menu thing or whatever was the D-pad thing with the Estus Flasks that was always on-screen was also really ugly. It looked like I was playing a mobile game on my computer.
 
Pissmaster said:
Yeah, me too. Hell, I just don’t like Dark Souls because I don’t like high fantasy, and the game is otherwise very bland.

I liked Let it Die and The Surge much better for just having a more interesting, colorful artstyle. Dark Souls is bland as fuck and I had absolutely zero urge to keep going through what appeared to be a bunch of copy/pasted environments from Oblivion.

The giant equipped item menu thing or whatever was the D-pad thing with the Estus Flasks that was always on-screen was also really ugly. It looked like I was playing a mobile game on my computer.
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Yeah, 00's Ninja Gaiden and Devil May Cry and the like are still better than Souls. If Ryu Hayabusa or Dante were put into a Dark Souls game, it would be easier than most Mario games.

Honestly, if Dark Souls existed in the PS1 era, the AVGN would've covered it and lambasted the controls for all the right reasons. Only reason it's considered "fair" and not Bubsy 3D-tier awful is because the enemies and everything else are gimped to compensate for the sluggish controls.
 
Darkest Dungeon is like sitting in your home and playing a good game. While you're enjoying this fun game, a very stinky, gross man comes into your house and sits really close to you. He then starts cracking you in the funny bone with a hammer every 20 minutes or so.

I like difficult games with a challenge, but I don't understand how people enjoy Darkest Dungeon. It's built from the ground up to be frustrating and unfair. It's really a shame because from pretty much everything but the gameplay standpoint it's incredibly well-designed.
 
NoYinT76 said:
When that whole thing happened it was incredibly immersion breaking. I honestly couldn’t believe I was being lectured on the benefits of being a tranny when the world was literally fucking ending.
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Reminds me of that 4chan posting where the DM wants to run a game where the characters have to defeat a world ending lich, but some dangerhair takes the game over and makes it all about making gay marriage legal in the fantasy world the game is set in. Gay marriage is made legal, then the DM ends the game by having the lich pop up and destroy the world. Virtue signallers literally don't care if millions die in an apocalypse, but they'll screech and attack anyone who uses the wrong pronouns around them.

As for overrated games, I'd have to say any Final Fantasy game after 6 blows goatcheese. 6 might have been a grindfest at times, but at least it had a varied cast of characters of various ages and classes and a memorable villain who was able to pull off the "world-ending madman" schtick without sounding like an emo faggot. (And he managed to do this while dressed as a clown, no less. )
 
{o}P II said:
All Kirby games without Superstar style combos are are shit
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Eh, Kirby 64 still holds a special place in my heart.

Unpopular opinion, but part of me does wish they would go back to the more simple gameplay and child-like aesthetic of the Dreamland style games. Minus the annoying minigames in Dreamland 3.

Pokemonquistador2 said:
As for overrated games, I'd have to say any Final Fantasy game after 6 blows goatcheese. 6 might have been a grindfest at times, but at least it had a varied cast of characters of various ages and classes and a memorable villain who was able to pull off the "world-ending madman" schtick without sounding like an emo faggot. (And he managed to do this while dressed as a clown, no less. )
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Personally prefer IX in better in terms of story and characters. (Although I love the final boss theme in VI.)
 
big ups liquid richard said:
Borderlands 1 was shit. I have a feeling those who liked it, had co-op partners the entire time.
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Couldn't get into Borderlands 1. Couldn't get into Borderlands 2. The people I know who rave about it are either super casual gamers who are ok with just hammering away at bullet sponges and looking up where to get the good stuff orrrrrrrrr they're numbercrunchy types who are totally fine with the bullshit jrpg "big numbers" gameplay.
I found it all really boring and the story overrated. I'll give the writers credit for unique and interesting characters, but that didn't keep me around and I don't know what's supposed to be so fun about those games.

I think Skyrim is one of the most overrated games of all time and it's a sin that it's done so well and will encourage further garbage from Bethesda.
Doom 2016, while great, is way overrated. I think it's a ton of fun but holy shit people shut the fuck up. I've been dubious about Doom Eternal being as good as people say because of how hyped people get for Doom 2016.
The Batman Arkham games or whatever. I only played one and watched a friend play others sporadically. Those games are "your brain no work, just push button and collect glowy things" games.
GTA V. Nothing else to say. GTA Online has killed GTA for me.
Metro Last Light isn't even fun.
The entire Assassin's Creed series is shit.

As for games people said are overrated. Thief is fine and while the game wasn't originally supposed to be a stealth game, it sure as shit is not a fighting game and that's very clear. It's still one of the best stealth games ever made which is both amazing and depressing.
Half Life 2 is fine and holds up very well imo. Just don't go expecting iron sights and super smooth gunplay same as jumping back to HL1.
 
Aidan said:
As for games people said are overrated. Thief is fine and while the game wasn't originally supposed to be a stealth game, it sure as shit is not a fighting game and that's very clear. It's still one of the best stealth games ever made which is both amazing and depressing.
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I played Thief 1 and 2 again after I made that post and yeah, they're fantastic stealth games. It just says so much about the raw talent and ingenuity of the people behind it despite how much time and resources they had at the time.
 
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