"Sonic: The Most Overrated Game Ever?"

[recursivelyenumerable]

i would vote for final fantasy 7, but i don't really care.

[benjipwns]

This is the worst topic here in a while

Well, the jerk store called and they're running out of you!

[tiesto]

HL2 felt like a leap forward in graphics, presentation, physics etc. It immediately made Doom 3 feel kinda trash in comparison so that's why. Awesome game.

Dark Souls is the most overrated game of all time. Ugly as fuck, trial and error dreck . The only reason people talk about it is because of how desperate everyone is for a non-shit japanese game or a non-shit hard game. 6/10.

I haven't played too much of Dark Souls yet but I thought Half Life 2 was one of the most overrated games I've ever played. Long levels that stretch a (usually shitty) gimmick to its dragging point, floaty movement where you were constantly getting stuck on the environment, and a few easy seesaw physics puzzles and vehicles with crappy controls for "variety".

Goldeneye's gotta be up there too, game was technically deficient even back then with its 10 FPS framerate in multiplayer.

[Stoney Mason]

Well I think part and parcel with "over-rated" is a lot more complex nuanced discussion which involves influential games or innovative games. Some games are important not necessarily because they are timeless classics but because they opened the door to something different or something bigger.

Goldeneye is an important and influential game because it was the first, big fps shooter that really demonstrated that fps games were something that a mass console audience would be into and especially on the multiplayer side. Not that it was the first console fps game of course. But that it was the first one that really resonated. The fact that it would be very difficult to go back and play Goldeneye now is arguably true. But the influence of that game is a lot more important than just the goldeneye experience. Not every game is something that everybody will want to play 10 or 20 years down the road. I think a very small amount of games retain that sort of relevance.

[Fifstar]

Goldeneye has a lot of problems, but also a a lot of innovations or leaps in executions. The way zooming/aiming with the crosshair worked (very cleverly adapted to the N64 controller), the different targets on the difficulty levels which also change the way you approach the levels (relatively few other FPS do this and most of the time they do it in less interesting ways), some great designed levels (first level for example, also brilliantly teaches you how to play the game), the elegant mixture of sneaking with satisfying stealth kills and full on action sequences, the tons of multiplayer options, they way the weapon becomes an extension of the player, compared to other games where the gun is just glued to the side or the middle of the screen. Somewhat difficult to go back today because of technical reasons and some levels are awful (partly due to being overambitious), but it wasn't just the first good console shooter, it also was really different from pc shooters of that time.

[bork]

My favorite thing about Goldeneye is that it made a whole generation of gamers put the movie up a pedestal.  I never heard anyone talk about that movie, then two years later when the game came out, it was suddenly one of the best Bond movies.

[Himu]

Haha, to be fair, goldeneye was a big deal when it came out. First bond movie in theaters in a lonnnnng time

[Tasty]

Sean Bean

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So I actually tried to watch this video and FUCK I couldn't make it through half of it.

I mean, Sonic is overrated but so is half the nostalgia shit we go nuts for. Who cares; Sonic did what it needed to do and kids loved it.

However I think a lot of people confuse 'overrated' with 'being a product of its time' or simply not aging well.