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what's the most overrated video game ever?

Clam Fart Ampersand
15-08-2004, 03:58
Well?

I'm thinking Battlefield 1942. Sure, it was a pretty awesome game. But I beat both campaigns on my friend's laptop at an overnight LAN at my house. Let me clarify--it was one night of gameplay, albeit damn good gameplay. And sure, you can play any game more than once, but for the same price you could get a game like Ninja Gaiden for Xbox where the graphics are just as good, if not better, the cutscenes look better than TV, the gameplay is incredible, the enemies and bosses are hard and numerous enough to make you want to tear your console apart and it lasts for many a week.

Battlefield was cool, but for what it's worth you could get something better.


I would've chosen the Final Fantasy series. Once you've released 3 titles that have the exact same name, it's getting tiresome. Which one are they releasing now? Ten? Twelve? This is like those Land Before Time movies. How many are they going to churn out before people realize they're buying the same game over and over again?

Splinter Cell was awesome for everything but GBA, which totally sucked. It had no redeeming qualities whatsoever. All of the levels were exactly the same. If you haven't bought it, don't.
Bodies Without Organs
15-08-2004, 04:24
I'm thinking Pong, Space Invaders or Pacman...
Lunatic Goofballs
15-08-2004, 04:26
Final Fantasy series. Hands down. Though, there are many other honorable mentions. Diablo, for instance.
Incertonia
15-08-2004, 04:26
I'm thinking Pong, Space Invaders or Pacman...
Pong is teh r0xors (or something like that).
United Freedoms
15-08-2004, 04:27
I was trapped between Halo and Splinter Cell. Halo sucked, but come on, guards with 100% accuracy in a no-light situation, WHILE I'm using one of them as a human shield?!

In the end, Pandora Tomorrow fixed some of my problems with the original, so Halo got my vote.
Colodia
15-08-2004, 04:33
Final Fantasy...same game? I beg to differ. Although there have been many cheap Final Fantasy spin-offs (X-2 being one), all the games are unique.

Still, the only good ones are FF7 and FF8. FF10 is alright....



Most over-rated game is probably the World of Warcraft series. I really don't see what people see in that game.
Clam Fart Ampersand
15-08-2004, 04:35
Final Fantasy series. Hands down. Though, there are many other honorable mentions. Diablo, for instance.

hahaha yeah. It was tougher for me...but I'm the kind of person who hates to watch others fall victim to the system, especially when it comes to things like cheap marketing strategies. And the Final Fantasy series has gone far beyond cheap marketing strategies. It's just another sad example of programmers coming up with as many half-done games as they can so they can charge fifty bucks of people's hard-earned money for another crappy, thoughtless game. it's anybody's guess why otherwise perfectly sensible people will actually buy the next Final Fantasy Game, whatever the hell the number is, or for that matter why they would buy any of them in the first place.

Eventually the question comes to mind: Which one really is the Final Fantasy?
Clam Fart Ampersand
15-08-2004, 04:36
Final Fantasy...same game? I beg to differ. Although there have been many cheap Final Fantasy spin-offs (X-2 being one), all the games are unique.

Still, the only good ones are FF7 and FF8. FF10 is alright....



Most over-rated game is probably the World of Warcraft series. I really don't see what people see in that game.

The problem is, to find out that FF7 and 8 were good you had to buy all 375 of them.
Celack
15-08-2004, 04:36
Halo. The bases all have the same architecture and all you do is shoot aliens that run around. It get real boring real fast.
Colodia
15-08-2004, 04:37
oh hey wait. What about the Pokemon franchise? Make two versions of the same game, release an updated version a year later.
Colodia
15-08-2004, 04:38
The problem is, to find out that FF7 and 8 were good you had to buy all 375 of them.
Not really. I took a good look at the other ones (uncle played the SNES ones, my friend had FF9) and I drew conclusions from there.
Clam Fart Ampersand
15-08-2004, 04:39
oh hey wait. What about the Pokemon franchise? Make two versions of the same game, release an updated version a year later.

hahaha oh yeah!!! forgot about that. You really can't doubt that all of those really were almost the exact same. How many did they release? six? eight?
Colodia
15-08-2004, 04:41
hahaha oh yeah!!! forgot about that. You really can't doubt that all of those really were almost the exact same. How many did they release? six? eight?
*gasps for air*

Red
Blue
Yellow
Gold
Silver
Crystal
Saphire
Ruby

and the upcoming ones are:

Fire Red
Leaf Green
Emerald


the Fire Red/Leaf ones are supposed to be remakes of Red and Blue version. Go figure