Top 5 overrated/underrated games


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underrated: ( i cant come up with 5)

Psychonauts -- fun story

Red Orchestra -- I guess their take at realism is a bit of a turnoff, people want run and gun. I love the fact that you cant just shoot a few rounds and hit reaload and all your ammo combines in a new clip. You switch to a new clip but the old clip stays with the remaining shots left. Also, no hud of how many shots you taken, you have to keep count.

Mirror's Edge

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Overrated:

Halo series (Except #1)

Resistance 2

Motorstorm

UT3

World of Warcraft

Underrated:

Tiger Woods 2010

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

Flight Simulator X

Transport Tycoon

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not trying to be rude - but isn't this a personal opinion?

Well the topic starts off with "What are your top 5 overrated and underrated games? ", so yea it is a personal opinion.

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I'm just trying to think of some games that hasn't been mentioned, and all I can think of is F-Zero GX being underrated. It's pretty terrible mutiplayer-wise, mind.

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Don't know how some one could play a game for 20hrs straight... that is abit strange..

Where do you get your information from The Onion? The Day Today?

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Overrated:

Zelda Twilight Princess

Left 4 Dead (Fun for 5 min)

Neverwinter Nights 2

Halo X

World Of Warcraft

Underrated:

America's Army 2 (Haven't tested v3 yet)

Ascendancy

KOTOR I/II

Freelancer

Sins of a Solar Empire

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Adding another to my Overrated list CounterStrike, never saw how that game was fun.

It was fun in the beta. Before it got popular round 1.0 and attracted the pillocks which made my life as an admin laborious and hellish.

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overrated

(insert fps game)

(insert gta game)

(insert mmorpg)

Street Fighter IV

God of War series

Underrated

Super Street Fighter 2 X

Tetris Attack

Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo

Project Justice

Ikaruga

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Adding another to my Overrated list CounterStrike, never saw how that game was fun.

I enjoyed CS: S back in the day, playing IRC scrims and occasionaly ED friendlies/officials. Was great fun. Public isn't fun in the slightest, and being an admin these days isn't that difficult since there are so mandy server plugins to help you deal with it.

Don't play it anymore though, got a bit stale after a while. Would've kept on playing if I bothered to get even better but that just required too much effort.

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So what we can conclude here is that any form of mainstream success = overrated? :huh:

Pretty much. Its called the WWE syndrome. Most humans just love crap.

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Overrated:

Halo series

Gears of War series

WoW

GH / Rock Band games

Left 4 Dead

Underrated:

Warhawk

Civilization IV

Supreme Commander

SimCity 4

GTA: Vice City

I agree with your underrated almost completely.. I don't think Vice City was underrated though, when it was released, I recall it getting good reviews.. I loved the game personaly.

Warhawk was a blast, I wish I still had that game.

Civ IV is an instant classic, now that you mention this game, I think it's time to install it on my PC as soon as I get off work, lol.

Oh and Sim City 4, wow that was a great game.. I am really hoping that Maxis releases a true Sim City 5, not that Sim City Societies junk they came out with a few years ago. They cut out everything that made that game SIM city, turned it into a kiddie game. The thing I loved most about Sim City 4 was all the micro-management you had to do. I loved it.

And Supreme Commander, that game is brilliant. I loved the massive coordinated battles, base building was fun. The 3 races all had they're pros and cons, and for the most part, balanced well. And the effects were awesome.. the explosions, lasers, gun fire.. battles really felt epic. I can't wait for Sup-Com 2.

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Overrated:

-Halo series.

-Gears of War 1&2.

-Counter Strike.

Underrated:

-Metal Gear Ac!d 1&2.

-System Shock 2.

-Monster Hunter series (maybe not "underrated", but it didn't get that much exposure out of Japan).

-Serious Sam.

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-Monster Hunter series (maybe not "underrated", but it didn't get that much exposure out of Japan).

I remember wanting to play that game a while back, i looked in about 7 different stores across Florida for it, never found it. I FINNALY found a used copy - and it, of course, was broken.

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Overrated

Halo (Series)

Final Fantasy (I just do not get it)

Silent Hill (good but I never understood the fanatics)

Metroid (just never thought it was great)

Sonic The Hedgehog (just thought the first one was okay, never got the love for the series)

Underrated

Far Cry (really introduced a new way of approaching an FPS)

Battlefield Series (still seems like it gets no overall respect, BF2 is the most well rounded, enjoyable MP exerience IMO)

Max Payne (I know this is debatable, as many people love it as well, but I just think it is a classic)

Solider Of Fortune 2 Double Helix

Joints Ops (introduced GOOD huge MP games, not sure why it never picked up)

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Revolt!!! I used to have so much fun playing that game!!! I wish we could see another RC Car/Truck game like that come out.

Yeah,revolt was one hell of game. Me and my had it we we used to modifty the car's speeds,handling etc and we would send each other the results. I was really upset when I found out how the game was underrated.

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One of the greatest games ever overrated? Your list sucks it.

Yeah, in my opinion (and a majority of Asias opinion) Starcraft is a large of part of what defined the RTS genre. It's, in a sense, the RTS of equivalent of Doom, a game that helped define the FPS genre.

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I agree with your underrated almost completely.. I don't think Vice City was underrated though, when it was released, I recall it getting good reviews.. I loved the game personaly.

Warhawk was a blast, I wish I still had that game.

Civ IV is an instant classic, now that you mention this game, I think it's time to install it on my PC as soon as I get off work, lol.

Oh and Sim City 4, wow that was a great game.. I am really hoping that Maxis releases a true Sim City 5, not that Sim City Societies junk they came out with a few years ago. They cut out everything that made that game SIM city, turned it into a kiddie game. The thing I loved most about Sim City 4 was all the micro-management you had to do. I loved it.

And Supreme Commander, that game is brilliant. I loved the massive coordinated battles, base building was fun. The 3 races all had they're pros and cons, and for the most part, balanced well. And the effects were awesome.. the explosions, lasers, gun fire.. battles really felt epic. I can't wait for Sup-Com 2.

I just loved the way Vice City did pretty much everything right with the 80s setting. From the cars, clothes, music and the other visuals and it still my favourite GTA game. Mainly because the 80s ruled. There should be more games based in the 80s :p

I've had loads of fun on Warhawk and love the fact that you can do splitscreen multilayer online. I think i'm going to start playing it again.

I also wish they'd do a SimCity 5. Hopefully that CitiesXL game spurs Maxis on to make a proper sequel.

And yep, can't wait for SupCom 2. Although i'm not sure my PC will be able to handle it :laugh:

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One of the greatest games ever overrated? Your list sucks it.

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Perhaps he doesn't like RTS in which case it would seem overrated in his opinion.

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