They're video games for people who don't like videogames.

A pretty hefty amount of popular mobile games were actually rips of flash games with microtransaction added lol.

The original and the expansion are honestly flawless multiplayer games. Modern Warfare and its sequel perfected the bombastic cinematic war movie style campaign and addictive multiplayer progression loop.

There is no reason to play a call of duty game beyond the first black ops (maybe MW3 just to see the conclusion of the story) but there have been, what 16 games since then?

I always preferred 8 and 9 over 7. For some reason, the characters in 7 never held my interest as much as in other games, and the gameplay was pretty basic for an RPG of that age.

And not even the final one

Agree. I never cared much for the original FF VII. To be fair I am old enough where I started with the first one on NES, so VII was not my introduction to the series like it was for so many others.

I do really like remake though. I thought they did an excellent job with it.

It was a neat Warcraft 3 custom map.

Then it got weird.

Why though?

I don't think X4 would fit as overrated, since even the fans are quick to point out how much jank and questionable design you have to put up with in order to play

Oof. Elden ring is my top 5 for sure. But hey, that's why we got choices and preferences.

Did not expect caves of qud to be on anyone's list, as I thought it was pretty niche.

I also really wanted to like the game, but it felt oddly empty. I wanted less lost in the wilderness, less static quests, more dynamic stuff to do and explore.

The fetch quests were particularly disappointing for me, given the history of Elder Scrolls games (cough cough Morrowind cough). I didn't mind the combat system (being able to equip anything in either hand was an improvement over previous games), but much of it did feel the same.

I think Skyrim is the perfect answer to this question. It’s a good game. Everyone has played a billion files because while it’s good it’s entirely unfocused and mediocre so people don’t feel motivated to take their character to the end of the game

I have much respect for "it's not fun for me" and less patience for "it's bad". Totally understand why you might not find the games fun.

I love Fromsoft games, but I've always thought that people kind of have horse blinders on when evaluating them as a whole.

What I think sets them apart:

• the art
• the setting and vibe
• melee combat controls

What I think they severely lack:

• sometimes it feels like I have to google nearly everything in these games because they never explain mechanics/items/quests properly. Most people would argue that's part of the charm, but I don't think it's executed well at all.
• Basic combat is generally very fluid, but there are things that are just straight trash, such as ranged weapons. I just won't use those weapons for anything other than pulling mobs away from others
• the story is just so abstract sometimes that I rarely know etc is going on
• co-op multiplayer sucks. It really says something when a player-created mod works better than a system that's been in multiple games

Sorry I hate you. Demon's souls changed my life, and I've got 1000 hours into nightreign and probably 950 into Elden ring and I've played all the dark souls also. This formula is my Jam. I love them.

But at the end of the day... It's not everyone's cup of tea. I enjoy plenty of other games too. Hollow knight, balatro, etc.

Yes? I don’t understand this comment I don’t think. Isn’t that exactly what it means, the majority of people like this thing, and I don’t? Making it over rated? It’s not like there’s the “game rater” on earth like you might find a “name rater” in pokemon. Not like you can say “oh this guy objectively got this one wrong”.

Breath of the Wild seems like it would make more sense if you're a kid.

I know I would've spent countless hours just wondering the world, considering the real one kinda sucks.

Botw is the worst thing to happen to games in years. I enjoyed it when it came out, thought it was a good game but bad Zelda game with it's lack of progression having a single toolset you get immediately.

But then everyone started copying it, Becoming open world games for no good reason, just to pad game length with travel and crafting whether or not it actually supports the central gameplay loop

I'm also a botw hater. No Zelda dungeons, forces you to explore with shitty weapon health mechanic. I disabled that in the emulator and realized how pointless exploration was when you didn't need to replace your weapons. I'll give it the glider but every open world game has a glider now so there's better choices.

My problem with BOTW after enjoying many other Zelda games was that my weapons broke and for some reason I was never able to get past that which made me not enjoy the game and quit.

The McDonald's of wrpg

I never forgave them for removing medium armor and spears.

Halo CE is definitely a but dated now, but 2 is one of the best campaigns even still. I'm not sure it can be overrated though. 3\odst is some of the best multiplayer experience there was before the series was infected with CoD.

You need cursed halo. All of the silly without any of the serious is exactly how I like my vidya

C'mon, weren't you blown away by the (at the time) novel digitized voice? "He slimed me!"

Of course, escape from Castle Wolfenstein did it even earlier ("was ist los, was ist los" and "ach, mein leben!").

See but ghostbusters always crashed on my c64. So it was like the forbidden fruit. I never got to lay more than 5 minutes of it, but in my head it was the best thing ever. Lol. Human brains just suck.

Yeah I bought it on GOG based purely on the hype. Mistake. I played maybe 10h, got throught the introductory areas and started the main game. I just couldn’t. I am not sure why it gets so much praise.

Oh yeh that looked cool I was pretty pumped about that. Is it not so good after all?

It was very pretty, and the soundtrack deserved the praise it received. Nothing too innovative about the gameplay though, and the story was good but typical for this genre.

That being said, I did enjoy it a lot. But that gameplay style is one of my favorites, so the visuals and music were just perks.

This is a reasonable take, though I don't feel the same way.

OoT felt like an open world game at a time when those largely didn't exist (some did, but not really on console). The gameplay was still somewhat linear, but it felt like there was a lot of freedom compared to a lot of other games at the time. As a kid, I spent hours just exploring. I'm guessing this has something to do with its popularity at the time.

I prefer ALttP

Agreed. I just don't like that type of game myself.

I remember playing Skyrim at launch. The very first mod I downloaded was to restore Esbern's voice lines; an npc critical to the main quest early on.

Bethesda forgot to reference his voice lines in the script, which broke the game.

Skyrim was extremely interesting when it was new because there wasn't anything quite like it, but now there's a lot of games that are like it and it's not that great and it's just kind of aged with mods or whatever