What is the most overrated game you've ever played?

[Sloshy]

In that case me am very girly man

Same here ! In all seriousness, I'm not the biggest KH fan, but I really, really liked the first game. Most of the game was pretty meh, but about when I got to Hollow Bastion the game suddenly seemed a lot better to me. Just how easy it was to fall, how you didn't have your keyblade for a bit... the game just felt more challenging in a good kind of way. HB was freaking huge too; it took me forever to navigate that thing, and just discovering the little surprises everywhere in it felt fun.

...oh yeah, overrated games. KH2. 358/2 Days was pretty good in the long run, Re:coded is really fun, but KH2 was so boring! You almost never had a hard time to find chests, virtually no puzzles in the environment to solve, and you just mashed X and /\ the whole game (especially that battle where you had to kill 1000 enemies... what a chore). The game was fun as a whole, I liked battling Sephiroth and some of the other bosses, but everything besides boss battles was a chore compared to the first game. And I beat KH2 on both Standard and Proud difficulty with 100% everything, so I should know if the game is easy relative to the others or not.

Regardless of all of the above, the music, art, cinematic-ness/etc. of KH2 was awesome. I still listen to the credits music sometimes <3. Oh, and the gummi ship in KH2 was better than in KH1 (though easier).

[Nick]

Oh and I cant believe I forgot about this. Every single game that has Tom Clancy's in the Title. Especially Endwar!

[Sloshy]

Oh, almost forgot Pokemon. I had a lot of fun with Pokemon back in the day, and I'll always be nostalgic about it, but those games are huge time-sinks. There's so many Pokemon to catch that there's little opportunity for them to the balanced, especially the countless "legendary"-type Pokemon (of which there are like 9001 right now; thanks, D/P for adding so many to that total). The new games are so backwards compatible that it's a detriment to the game: Effort Values, Individual Values and things like that are extremely exploitable by professionals and hackers (*cough*PokeSav), making the only way to be really competitive being to either hand-raise a bunch of Pokemon from scratch or making them out of thin air with a save-modifying tool. Now that Black/White just came out, introducing even more Pokemon into the game, it's even harder and more confusing/unbalanced. They really, really need to re-invent the series to be more foolproof before I jump on that bandwagon again.

[Aeolus Aeneas]

The thing is, Pokemon hasn't been OBSCENELY over hyped since the first generation, when literally everybody played it and it was a cultural juggernaut. I personally think the series reached perfection with generation 2, and everything since then has basically just been a reskin with different stats and trying out different type combos (and some are just stupid, like fighting/psychic), but Pokemon as a whole is nowhere nearly as over hyped or overrated these days.

[Sloshy]

I personally think the series reached perfection with generation 2

This. Gen 2 will always be my favorite (heck I should probably play it again... *loads up in browser*).

[bennett_2009]

I expect flack for this one, but i think that Halo ODST is totally overrated. I am a long fan of the series, loved 1, 2 and 3 but ODST was just a waste of time!

Thank god Reach got things straight.

[Slacker Magician]

There are morethan double FF Fans than SMT fans in the US

Everybody knows about Final Fantasy, it's higher than double.

To me they're like girl-only RPG's or something... Ontopic: The World Ends With You, I keep hearing it's the second coming of Christ in JRPG's, and for the NDS, but damn, I got bored quite quickly at it and I loathed the quasi-Squall like character.

They are, and I don't get why anyone likes them. Massive hate summarizes what I think of The World Ends With You, and I haven't even played it.

[garrendesares]

ff7 is still worse than the kh series though. i mean they even had a ps3 demo of a new ff7. though i do have to admit if sony wants the ps3 sales to go through the roof, make the new cg version lol

[Cookie Monster]

ff7 is still worse than the kh series though. i mean they even had a ps3 demo of a new ff7. though i do have to admit if sony wants the ps3 sales to go through the roof, make the new cg version lol

What demo?
And you are wrong, FFVII>any KH, tbqh.

[Slacker Magician]

What demo?
And you are wrong, FFVII>any KH, tbqh.

I don't like FFVII but, I'd easily play and beat it before I decided to play a Kingdom Hearts game.

[Gare]

He's probably talking about that PS3 tech demo from years ago. And it was just a tech demo, not the intro of an actual game. Square said this a million times.

[garrendesares]

What demo?
And you are wrong, FFVII>any KH, tbqh.

i heard there was a small demo for it, or maybe it was just at the convention

[Elin]

Seconding Ico. Beautiful aesthetically, but I found it an absolute chore to play, and would rather simply have watched it as a movie. Fortunately they got their act together there for Shadow of the Colossus, which is just as beautiful artistically and manages to be a lot of fun to boot.

Also, I'm not convinced Final Fantasy VII is even all that overrated anymore. For every person that says it's OMG BEST GAME EVAR you have one who says OMG SO CRAP WORST GAME EVER MADE, which is just as (perhaps even more!) unreasonable. For me, opinion on it has more or less balanced itself out now.

[cOcO!]

Final Fantasy X, X-2 and XII, they are shit.

[garrendesares]

Final Fantasy X, X-2 and XII, they are shit.

oh sure, why is x shit to you? and tell that to its greatest hits lable. x-2 was bad i will agree with you on that though i enjoy playing it. and not for the half naked girls eather. and 12 was ok, if you knew what you were doing.