I never managed to really enjoy Tropical Freeze much. The motion felt kind of heavy and sluggish, and I was never all that wowed by the level design. Admittedly, I didn't get that far into it (largely due to those initial impressions), but yeah... I just found it kind of slow and uninspiring.
Perhaps controversially, I had much more fun with Jungle Beat on the GC, with the bongo controls. Everything just felt bigger and more explosive and dynamic and acrobatic and stupidly epically awesome. I loved hurling DK around those massive levels and racking up crazy combos with perfectly times claps, and the feeling of pummelling an opponent with a ballistic barrage of bongo beats is something I've yet to feel in a video game since.
So yeah, I had much more fun with an eccentric, gimmick-based accessory-selling bongo platformer than a Retro-developed revival of a revered SNES series.
The most overrated game is people who are so embarrassingly insecure that they have to give a **** that people tend to like a video game more than they did.
Come on man what you love every game in the world am sure there are games in your favourite series that you cannot stand so share your opinions be the negative Nancy or not it'd all on you.
@skywake Or it could just be that they aren't a fan of the game in question and just want to share their opinions without being berated for it.
I'm just making the point that you see this sort of thread/comment all over the internet. It's always on critically acclaimed content and it's always people who want to make themselves look cool by going against the trend. Go to a page on a music site about Dark Side of the Moon, Revolver, OK Computer or Loveless. There always has to be someone who gives it a one star review and post a review about how much better they are for not following the masses. I don't think that sort of behaviour is worth defending. It's borderline trolling
Some games are still called timeless even today, despite how clunky they actually are, like Ocarina of Time. Can you imagine the backlash if Nintendo used the same art style and everything for BoTW, but used Ocarina of Time animations and mechanics? There's nothing wrong with liking games like OoT, but like I said, some people put on their nostalgia goggles and pretend it hasn't aged fairly poorly, which is inaccurate. In that regard, it's overrated.
As someone who skipped the N64 I only played the games that people brought out at parties on that platform. So basically Mario Kart and Goldeneye. Most of the single player games I played through years later either via emulation or on the Wii VC.
I agree that in general the N64 hasn't aged well visually, same deal with any of the early 3D consoles. But I can honestly say that I still thought OoT was great despite playing it a decade later with zero nostalgia goggles. I feel the same way about Paper Mario which I got after Super Paper Mario and enjoyed more than the newer Wii entry. I don't feel the same about Super Mario 64 but I wouldn't call it "overrated" because, frankly, it's still the best 3D platformer of its time.
Overrated is really one of those words that tend to be overused and carry a negative connotation to them on the interwebs. People have a habit of getting irked when you tell them you don't like something they do or not to the same extent. It's understandable, but usually unnecessary.
There's more nuance to how it works obviously, though.
@Snaplocket
Say, everyone loves GTA5 and I say nope that's an overrated game.
I'd be completely in the wrong if It is a great game that is highly rated by everyone except me.
What's the point in me saying it's overrated? It can't be overrated if everyone else loves it and they're right to.
@-Green- Ehhhh.. I guess you have a point, but still some people go way overboard. Trust me, what you see here is pretty tame compared to other parts of the internet.
That applies to basically everything, tbh. It's the internet,
@skywake No one here is saying they're "better" just for not liking a game as much as other people. No one is attacking anyone else just for having a difference in opinion. At most, someone will say that people a game to be amazing while they think it's mediocre at best. From our perspective, you're the attacker here claiming all of us here are just doing it to seem cool.
I never said anyone was attacking anyone or not being civil. I said that the act of saying something is overrated by its very nature isn't particularly helpful. By definition you're picking something that a lot of people love and telling them why the thing they love sucks. I don't see any reason why anyone would want to do that other than to get a bit of a rise.
Some playlists: Top All Time Songs, Top Last Year
"Don't stir the pot" is a nice way of saying "they're too dumb to reason with"
@Snaplocket
I gotta disagree. I do hate peanut butter and jelly. Do I think it's overrated? No.
It's popular and people love it so me saying it's overrated would be wrong.
Fandabidozi If it really bugs you that much just say that you don't like the game. Seriously though saying you think a game is overrated is no different then saying you hate peanut butter and jelly when most people do.
Actually, by saying something is "overrated" you are implying that it gets praise that it doesn't deserve.
You liking it or not is irrelevant to it.
Of course, you disliking something means you're less likely to find value in it, which leads us to the "I dislike it so it's overrated" fallacy.
Ok. Is it possible at all to say a game is overrated? If it's popular and it's obviously popular because people like it therefore it can not be overrated.
Say if all gamers but me loved ET on the Atari. And coincidentally aliens arrived from space and, naturally, ranked all games from worst (ET) to best (Head Over Heels). Then I could say yes, ET is in fact overrated.
But then it'd only be the aliens opinion so...
Stop derailing this thread? If you have a problem with it, report the OP and leave it up to the mods. Right now you're just attacking everyone (users) for having opinions different from yours, not the games themselves.
Nah, quite frankly, way too much discussion of games being overrated is just pointless whining that people liked a video game you didn't, which I find to be just one of the most obnoxious things you can do.
"HOW DARE YOU ENJOY ENTERTAINMENT I DIDN'T"
It's kind of a shame since it is potentially fun to see opinions against the norm, but that's very rarely what these discussions end up being. It is just being mad that the cool new game people are praising is more popular than the game you spent money on. It is the type of thing i said about Halo 1 and 2 because I was a butthurt 12 year old about GCN not winning the console wars, fully aware that Halo 1 and 2 were awesome video games.
And even if I wanted to, I could think of very few games that are genuinely overrated. I mean, at best, some games were stupidly overhyped and people bought into the hype for 3 months, and so review scores say a game people frequently agree now isn't the best is great. And even half the games that fit that are loved by millions of players to this very day (Skyrim comes to mind immediately) I mean, I make fun of Fire Emblem on a regular basis, but I don't call it overrated just because it isn't for me. That would be dumb. I mean, I do think FFT and Advance Wars are better, biases or not, but that doesn't change that the ones I played were very solid strategy games and that I put like 50 hours into the series.
Overhyped is a better term imho. First of all, no one uses overrated to mean "rated" anymore. Review scores have nothing to do with calling something overrated. And Overhyped is at least more fitting a complaint. When like a game has been hyped by everyone and everything and you play it and it's just...ok. Like, this is the thing people were going crazy for? What? Really? Especially remembering 2014, where every other hyped game disappointed everyone. lolol watch dogs' grafix : 3
So with all that in mind, I never found the newer Sam and Max games that funny. That's like the main point of those games, to be funny, right? Didn't get that. Some of it was, a lot of it tried and just didn't stick. Also, it had an American Idol parody, which I've seen done like a billion times, and maybe two of them were funny? But even then, comedy is super subjective. I just found a lot of the character models to be ugly and really unappealing. Even for a pre-"Telltale has money" game, I did not find the character models that much more appealing than a lot of Wii shovelware people play ironically for youtube.
Similar problems with Stick it to the Man. But that I felt like just had the same joke over and over again. "Man, it sure would suck/be good/be odd if this specific thing I am bringing up would happen!" goes to get item to do just that But it did have a nice art style at least. Felt very 90s.
I guess Bionic Commando when I finally played it...I didn't consider it a top tier NES game? It's decent for what it was, but it wasn't as fun as it could be, even for the time. Grappling hook thing is fun but it's sometimes a bit randomly inconsistent and in how it works in my experience. Which leads to some unfair deaths, which is unfortunate.
I'll admit "overrated" may come off as harsh,but you shouldn't be given heavy backlash for expressing your opinion.
Well I'll go further and argue that we should not consider opinions sacred. This idea that people are "entitled to their opinion" and its implications are pretty dangerous. Not all opinions are valid. We decide which opinions are better in the contest of ideas, through argument and debate. We shouldn't hide in friendly bubbles and pretend that we're correct just because we're "entitled" to a different point of view. Disagreement is fine, great even, but you don't win by default via entitlement. You argue your case.
Which is part of why I don't value at all people stating something is overrated. Firstly because it's a negative sentiment which for the internet isn't a constructive starting point. Secondly because of the fact that you're essentially saying "people really like this thing but all of them are wrong, I'm entitled to my opinion". Ugh.
Some playlists: Top All Time Songs, Top Last Year
"Don't stir the pot" is a nice way of saying "they're too dumb to reason with"
@Snaplocket I feel for you. This thread is all in good fun, but it seems some people get too upset when their favorite games get called overrated that they have to derail the thread into oblivion with their butthurt comments.
@Snaplocket
I never said that people can't have an opinion. I just said the idea that people should be immune from a backlash when expressing it is garbage. When you say something is "overrated", "not as good as people say it is" or however you want to word it and want to create a "safe space" for those opinions? That's what you're doing. I'm strongly opposed to the idea of opinions and ideas being immune from ridicule.
@KirbyTheVampire
I think you're reading into the comments disagreeing with this thread. I'm not opposed to someone disliking a game or expressing an opinion I disagree with. I welcome the argument. What I dislike is the idea of creating a safe-space for people trolling popular games on a gaming forum.
Calling things overrated is overrated. Half the people who say that are picking something that's critically acclaimed and tearing it down because they're trying to be some kind of hipster. The rest of the time people are just picking something that they specifically don't like which isn't rated very highly anyways.
Skyrim, is buggy as hell, it could be a passable First Person Hack & Slash if Bethesda actually started fixing things in it (which isn't going to happen, they're just going to keep re-releasing it, putting in the minimal amount of effort).
Not sure where I fit on your scale. Skyrim IS riddled with bugs, so I can't be a hipster as they are a general concern, but the game was well received, so I can't be one of the other half either.
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