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For any video game in general, which ones do you personally consider to be rather overrated?
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The Last of Us. It's not that it's bad or anything... it's just not as good as everyone says. One of the reasons why I chose a PS4 over the XBox One (other than price) was because of its much hyped exclusives like Uncharted, Infamous and of course The Last of Us. Obviously, I haven't played Uncharted 4 but Infamous ended up being super fun and dynamic. Last of Us was tonally depressing, repetitive and nowhere near as engaging of a story as reviews would have you believe. It's a 7/10 for me at best which is a good score but when you go in expecting a 9/10 or 10/10 game it's disappointing to say the least.
I'm pretty sure the mods can merge it with the other thread if possible. Nothing to fuss about.
but any one that doesn't like TLOU is wrong
I agree with TLOU. A very good game, but for me, not the masterpiece everyone said it was.
I wasn't necessarily 'fussing'; I was just making the OP aware so that he can have it merged...
Yeah, Watchdogs reviews were very mixed and even the ones that liked it expressed disappointment that it didn't live up to the hype.
This is what is wrong with gaming now. Games have to have some sort of "deep" story to suddenly become amazing.
Minecraft is one of the biggest games out there now and has zero story. I wish games would go back to putting their efforts into good gameplay and stop all this cutscenes rubbish.
Have to agree with the previous poster about cut-scenes. When they first arrived, they were there to compliment the game. Now it seems there are whole adverts for games with small print at the bottom of the screen saying "not actual in-game footage" or suchlike...
Doesn't make me want to but the game! Let's see the goods.
TLOU had that "deep story" because that's what they were going for. I don't fault them for that. If it wasn't for the story I would only be giving it a 4 / 10.
But thats the great thing about gaming, there are plenty of choices for every taste.
Infamous Second Son, solid 7 to 8 as well, Watchdogs was boring, to me 5/10 just not worth playing compared to my last go at Borderlands 2
Pretty much every final fantasy game since Sakaguchi stepped down. Pretty much all of SE's output over the last 5 years for that matter (and that company has so many great brands which are just shelved while they milk a couple of flagships).
Aion Online (which was hyped up to the hilt as a WoW killer and was dull as shit)
Star Ocean The Last Hope (way to ruin a great series)
Grand Theft Auto III (I felt that installment was so flat, the only one I haven't completed)
I have no patience with stealth games, which renders this series pointless to me.
Ditto the uncharted series, which seems to be spruced up Tomb Raider with stealth and cut scenes.
Last of Us as other posters have mentioned, isn't bad. Though its an intermittent interactive story.
ill admit its great but i don't think its as good as i thought it would be
actually its not, they are broken up into different worlds and Mario dosent have a health bar...he has power ups..
so one hit and its goodnight vienna..unless you have a power up....and they vary
so quite varied really
Personally I am glad there are different sorts of games. I enjoy a good story driven game as much as I enjoy a game which only has gameplay and no story driven direction to the game.
QFT
The other thread was titled better "Games everyone loves apart from you"
BIB: absolutely agree, if I were to list all the different games I've loved or became in some way addicted to they span both extremes and all have totally different appeals.