Overrated :


-Half-Life
-Empire Earth
-Shadow Man
-Powerslide
-Dune 2000


Underrated:


-Sacrifice
-King of Dragon Pass
-Shogo: Mobile Armor Division
-Alien Rampage
-State of Emergency
-Septerra Core

After watching sale voting during the past few large Steam events I can't claim what looks to be overrated because most of the masses tend to buy mostly stupid crap.

Was that really the 2013 Summer Sale or the Torchlight II / Left 4 Dead 2 Sale?

Underrated is the solo campaign for Aliens Colonial Marines

People hated it because it was too hard
after patch they hated it because it was too easy
after the next patch they hated it because it was too hard again
and they were upset that quite a few left over models from the PS2 era were implemented.

But I've been playing video games since the start of them so I know how to past graphics less than NVIDIA QUADRO K6000 pushed to max and old school difficulty does not scare me.

2K should mark this shit down and just sell the solo campaign.

Word of device for developers: If it ain't CoD you won't get far with muliplayer without a server browser.

Underrated: 90% of every FPP adventure ever made.

Nothing to do with the games per se, it's simply a consequence of the widespread bias that favours TPP adventures, particulary comicky TPP adventures.

Overrated: HL series

How can a series get so much praise for its story when it has none ? It boggles the mind.

I am almost beating Baldur's Gate 1 and after that I am going to play Planescape Torment, and I am going in with a modest to low expectation because when everyone here and the tagline says, "The Best/Pefect story in an RPG ever" I think blind Nostalgia might be a factor to that, but than again the game was made from the same team that made Fallout 1 and 2, (not bioware) and I liked there stories.

What is a FPP adventure?

And do you mean HL as in Half Life?

First Person Prespective

Yep.

Overrated:

- Theme Hospital
- Rollercoaster Tycoon (I'm still trying to give this a benefit of doubt, as I haven't played this as much as TH)

I am trying to understand what are the elements that are supposed to make these games fun or interesting. I don't even find the fake "flat footitis"-like disease names fun in TH, the game tries to be cuter than it really is.

Under Rated Too Human, Alpha Protocol, I think people judged them more as action games than RPG's, they didnt realise you had to build your character correctly.

Over Rated, Uncharted (3 games with basically the same story and the same gameplay mechanics, bit of auto platforming, fight a 100 enemies, 'nother bit of auto platforming....rinse/repeat, Heavy Rain (basically a tech demo for the six axis controller)..

Well lets make it interesting, which of the 2 you find more overrated than the other HL1 or 2 plus episodes?

Overrated:
Modern shooters (e.g. Call of Duty, Halo)
Guitar Hero / Rock Band
TES IV: Oblivion

Underrated:
Realms of the Haunting
Journeyman Project series
Amber: Journeys Beyond
Black Dahlia

What bothers me most is the complete lack of originality. Half-Life 2 is an incredibly soulless game, IMHO. There's generic totalitarian stuff, generic sci-fi stuff, generic horror stuff and a really dull plot with really uninspired and unbelievable characters. The most original thing was that Eastern European design of City 17 but heck, what's up with that? Why? Just why? Sure, the character animations and physics were impressive - but all in all the game felt like a tech demo, especially in retrospect. Half-Life 1 was also kinda generic scifi + conspiracy stuff but to me it always felt like a parody with lots of black humor and clever homages which kinda justified the whole design. I like Half-Life 2 but it's not nearly as good and sophisticated as people make it appear.

Anyway: my ultimate overrated game is Empire Earth. IMHO it's just crap. Real crap. Crap crap - crap crap crap - crap. The whole game is one big design flaw and as if that weren't enough even its technical execution is just horrible (how the modern warships got past QA is a riddle to me).

One of my ultimate underrated games is Vietcong. To me it's one of the best war-themed games ever created (only talking about the first one, mind you - not the botched sequel). That unpredictable AI haunts me in my dreams to this day. Plus it had lots of novel ideas which were even executed extremely well and it really felt like the developers had done a lot of research to capture the atmosphere of that particular conflict.

Overrated:
GTA4
Any Assassin's Creed game
C.O.D
Skyrim
Halo
Dragon Age

Underrated:
Witcher 1
Ego Draconis
Divine Divinity
Human Revolution
Far Cry 1
Hard Reset

You're the man! I loved fighting games... until the Street Fighter 2 phenomenon. I inserted countless coins into Karate Champ and Yie Ar Kung Fu coin ops as a kid.


Underrated:

Halo PC
Halo 2 PC
GTA3, GTA Vice City and GTA San Andreas PC versions
Final Fantasy 7 PC
Final Fantasy 8 PC

Well, I kinda agree in that both games' plots are really dull and simple but I must give credit to Half-Life 1 for the way it tells that almost non-existent story, especially considering how that kind of stuff usually worked in action games back then (if it was at all present). Half-Life 2 on the other hand... it's badly written and it doesn't really do anything novel or impressive to tell that dull plot.
You the man indeed. Fighting games after Street Fighter 2 are like some sort of freestyle QTE sequences.

They're equally overrated.

HL1 was never meant to have a story, it was meant as a fun competent shooter with some disconnected references and allusions here and there that served as an 'interesting' distraction from all the shooting but never meant to ammount to anything even remotely close to a story. The fanbase endless speculation about completely, from a 'story' prespective, meaningless stuff put Valve on the spot and they had no choice but to keep up the masquerade, queue another bunch of loosely connected bull and a few WTF moments thrown in for good measure that in no way shape or form at the end of the day equal a story.

There's more 'story' in half a post of any HL fan that ever speculated about the G Man on the web than in the entire series put togheter.

Hence why I think if Half-Life 3 "Ends" the whole story I fear it will be the most dissiponting/worst ending ever that the internet will screech to a halt much more worse then the Mass Effect 3 ending.