Topic: Games You Feel are Overrated

I was having decent fun in Super Paper Mario, a few things annoyed me here and there but it was mostly fun.

Then chapter 6 happened. I knew they wouldn't force me to fight all 100 guards, but 20 boring fights one after the other was already way too much.

I forced myself to play to the last chapter, but that battle vs Mimi as Peach near the end just bored me and I haven't played since.

Personally, I think Super Paper Mario and Kirby's Epic Yarn are some of the best games on Wii.

I also forgot to mention before that I'm not a big fan of Shovel Knight. I wouldn't call it a "bad" game, but it felt too retro for my tastes.

I got bored of The Legend Of Zelda A Link To The Past and wasn't able to finish it. In fact, I probably just reached about half of the game. I did finish Ocarina Of Time and Twilight Princess and while I enjoyed them I don't consider them anywhere close the best games ever. I enjoyed Zelda until Wind Waker which is one of my favourite games, and for some reason I also have a good time playing Link's Awakening.

Also, I know these were mobile games at first... but considering that they are still games and that they arrived on consoles, I never understood the fascination with those games. I'm talking about Angry Birds and Plants vs Zombies.

World of Warcraft, any Call of Duty, Skyrim, Fallout series, Mario 64, Banjo-Kazooie and many other games that are considered great but that I just couldn't enjoy as much as most people or in some cases... at all.

I disagree, for 2 major reasons.
1. Ocarina of Time was an early 3D game and thus Twilight Princess was a far smoother improvement to OOT, while Paper Mario was mostly an RPG with some 3d exploration and light, light platforming and a few other things. There was not as much improvements needed to Paper Mario at a basic level in the same way OOT was (and tbh, the overworld gameplay was not the most improved part of TTYD, regardless)
2. Twilight Princess isn't filled with consistently obnoxious, required backtracking (the closest would be Faron Woods early on, which is still far quicker without having to avoid random battles in chapter 4 for the 5th time because only now did you realize you had to disappear in the room with a parrot)

I am currently playing mario64 for the first time. 6 hours in, and i still can't control him properly. Mario is such a slippery dude and on top of this, i constantly need to adjust the camera angles. I have played so many mario titles, and historical impact aside, mario64 is my least favourite.

@JamestheLol please don't ask the same question in multiple threads, that is spamming.

I think I've moved on from this whole conversation - spending time away from the video game community really helps to put into perspective how little other people's opinions matter at the end of the day. I did spend some time this week thinking about why I was so hard against cinematic-heavy action-adventure games like Uncharted, despite greatly enjoying Uncharted 1 & 2 (Haven't played 3 yet), and...I guess it's because I was so shocked at the public's reaction to these games. Uncharted is a series that really captures the feeling of watching a blockbuster movie like Indiana Jones without sacraficing too much in the gameplay department. There's still well-placed collectables and a servicable combat system that was heavily inspired by its contemporaries of the time. Now that I'm playing through the PS4 collection, knowing that it's one of the few of its kind in my collection, it's easier for me to appreciate what it did right.

I still don't feel like it and Gears of War needed to be copied so heavily. Granted, I think Modern Warfare was the one copied more often, but they still ran the good ideas into the ground, often without adding much of their own. Still, there were other good interpretations from back then, too, so I guess just anything that's done too often can become bland and uninteresting. Right now, my beef is with the latest run of Walking Simulators and Telltale-esque interactive stories, but I'm realizing now that it's just trying to be different in an industry that's done so many of the same things, to the point that they've been run into the ground. So I guess I shouldn't be mad at them...or, seeing as people are now backing off from Uncharted's formula, what I should be hoping for is walking sims to be ran into the ground hard, all the way to the center of the earth, locked away for all eternity, but only because I'd rather that indie devs moved on to a different set of ideas, instead of copying Stanley Parable. And poorly at that.

So to summize: Everything that's done too much is overrated, because there are still so many possibilities left in the world, so long as people are willing to apply some imagination and ingenuity.

...Wait, are we specifically talking about Nintendo Switch games? If so...oops...

@CanisWolfred I feel the same way about you when it comes to Uncharted. I have no idea why people act as if they were was just games full of cutscenes with little to no gameplay when I feel quite the contrary about them, since I perceive them as games full of action that make you feel you are playing a movie. You really have to play the third one... I don't want to spoil anything but... Drake is a one man army dude... I mean, you must know that by now but I believe you'll realize what I meant when you play it lol. I ended up replaying Uncharted 3 about 5 times, something I rarely do not only with action games, but games in general because it was that fun to me. Also, it's a gorgeous game that puts to shame even some games of this generation. I normally don't care much about the graphics but when a game does right the aesthetics along with great graphics you really have memorable places and events that in my cae I'll remember for years to come.

I've only played the first Uncharted, and here's what I'll say. The combat and platforming were well designed and the story was good.

But it wasn't a mind-blowing experience in any category. The collectables didn't do anything. I hate quicktime events, as to me they feel like they replace what looks like a genuinely fun experience. And I never really felt like I was on an adventure, but instead on scripted rails.

Most others games I play nowadays have something of a "wow" period, but Uncharted didn't have that at all.

@iKhan That's understandable, however, the first Uncharted gameplay and visuals aren't comparable to the sequels. The game is somewhat linear so it''s expected that it feels kinda "scripted", however, at least in my experience, I felt that the sequels played so well (and much better) that the amount of fun I had with them triumphed over that.

I felt that the adventure was in doing incredible things and going to beautiful places that while more realistic that most games, they do give the "wow" factor since you know that similar, spetacular places are somewhere out there. If you have the chance to play 2 or 3, specially 3, please give it a chance. I can't talk about 4 because I haven't played it but I heard really good things about it. Maybe you won't end up loving it as I do, but I guarantee that you'll feel it' s a step ahead from the first one in every aspect you can think of (or at least most).

@iKhan The first one is really bad compared to the other 3. I wouldn't use that game to judge the series at all.

Yeah I'll add LttP and Minish Cap to the list as well. But while I can understand why LttP would have been praised when it came out, Minish Cap was a real step down from the Oracle games, not an enjoyable game.

@CanisWolfred There aren't enough Switch games to say are overrated, besides that one big example...

@Yellowtails Story doesn't have to 'make up for' gameplay in an RPG. If you want the best gameplay, why are you playing an RPG? Their combat systems are notorious for lower budgets and jank. Speaking of which, 64 provides horrible feedback for the ATB elements — an issue fixed by all later games.

Moreover, Super Paper Mario easily has better puzzles than 64, not to mention the story which is thoroughly enjoyable if you play through a few segments that run long. Personally I thought the Bitlands segment was one of the weakest. I liked the environments, but meta commentary is not something I look for in a narrative. I really enjoyed chapter 6 and 7 for some courageous twists that are only rivaled by chapter 4 of The Thousand Year Door.

I played Uncharted 1 back then and it left a weird feeling... I didn't expect to enjoy it despite the fact that I like action/adventure games, but it really surprised me. Everything in the game was really good, it was really well made and it was very pleasant to play, but once it ended it left absolutely nothing. Probably this is the only game that completely disappeared from my mind as soon as I finished it. Good games give pleasant, fun and exciting memories, bad games leave a feeling of disappointment, and sometimes a funny feeling when you get to the point that you make fun out of them but Uncharted it's like it never existed
I don't know what to think about it, I don't even know if I think is overrated or not.

Talking about action games, people who like God of war games usually like all ofd them without much distinction. I can see why God of war 1 was so important back then but still I think that God of war 2 is so hugely better than the others that I think other GOW games are overrated. Or that God of war 2 is underrated. God of war 3 is by far the worst one imo

you're trying to anger me, specifically, right? :V

@LuckyLand The Last of Us is one of my favorite games ever, and I feel the same about Uncharted. If you're not looking to write a think piece, it's just so... inoffensive. I think the coolest moment was when the quips stop (relatively speaking) and you have to understand that character who doesn't speak English at all.

@roy130390 The games get progressively better IMO. I'd rate 2, 3 and 4 about equally, but each is an improvement over the previous entry. Uncharted 4 takes some cues from TLOU. The narrative is more present, but at the same time, the levels are more open, and you have more choice when it comes to combat, stealth and whatnot.

I feel the same way. Not so much with games because for some reason because for some reason I've never really cared whether or not a game was "cool". But for music I've definitely done that. At one point or another I've been very vocally against pretty much every genre that wasn't alternative rock. Long forum rants and blog posts arguing the point. The longest with someone who was trying to argue that "band music" was dead.

But then you get over it and don't care anymore. Eventually you realise that just because you don't enjoy something doesn't make it garbage. And more often than not if you're dismissing something outright that's critically acclaimed without giving it a chance? There's a greater chance that you've misjudged than the critics.

No, but if you give me a list of games you like I can give it a go

We could just do a list of underrated games. That way if you tear the games to shreds it's simply further reinforcing the underrated status. For example I really liked Kid Icarus Uprising and Zelda Phantom Hourglass. Now you can say you disagree but I think just about everyone does