Overrated games this gen

[Nebagram]

The appeal is more "online competitive multiplayer" than "war FPS". Competing online against other gamers will never end. As long as there are video games there will be people shooting other people online.

If this were really true more people would be making L4D or Painkiller knock-offs, experimenting a bit with the genre. Though I suppose that could simply be down to laziness on the part of the developers or an unwillingness to take risks on the part of the publishers.

[Nebagram]

damned 500 errors.

[Zama]

There are many games but I going for Duke Nukem Forever since it was hype for a good long time

[Johnny_Rock]

If this were really true more people would be making L4D or Painkiller knock-offs

Um... why? Painkiller is an older feeling game, why knock off something that's been done so many times before? L4D is a cooperative game, not a competitive one.

[Lady Jaye]

Kameo. I expected a good action game, and found out that its gameplay makes it hard to enjoy. Thought it may have been just me, but I lent the game to a friend of mine and he agreed with my opinion.

Yet, if you do a search on metacritic, you'll find that the game's average score is 79%. Gotta wonder if reviewers who rated Kameo highly played the same game I did...

[Johnny_Rock]

Kameo. I expected a good action game, and found out that its gameplay makes it hard to enjoy. Thought it may have been just me, but I lent the game to a friend of mine and he agreed with my opinion.

Yet, if you do a search on metacritic, you'll find that the game's average score is 79%. Gotta wonder if reviewers who rated Kameo highly played the same game I did...

I think it's because it was a hyped up launch title. Perfect Dark: Zero has an 84% I guess I'd put PDZ as overrated too based on just metacritic.

To quote the GamesCritics blurb. "There's nothing "next gen" about this title other than the graphics and sound. The gameplay would barely pass as mediocre on the last generation of consoles."

[The 1 2 P]

Give the war FPS genre a rest people! This is worse than the fighting game craze of the 90s. The shit all looks the same to me. When will people finally get tired of the war FPS genre? Call of Duty 8, or Battlefield 15?

This is how I always felt about World War II shooters. I never got their appeal and always wondered why they made so many each and every year. As for modern war shooters, the reason why has already been answered. MW was the only one I've been playing the last few years but as a fps fan I need to atleast give BF3 a try.

For me I would have to say Burnout Paradise was overrated. Coming from Burnout 3(the greatest racing game ever) and Burnout Revenge I just wasn't into the open world of BP. One of these days I'll give it another try but I definitely prefer the older set up of races and crash challenges.

[Baloo]

They'll stop making first person shooters when the market bottoms out on them like what happened to fighting games in the late 90s and 2000s.

[shopkins]

Negativity, negativity, negativity.

The whole concept of "overrated" is so pissy/pouty. If you don't like a game...fine, but the idea that a popular game is actually bad and only you "get it" is so...how do I put this...teenage-drama-queen. I've used the term in the past too, but with age comes wisdom. No game is overrated. There's just games that I like and games that I don't like.

Fallout 3 rocked BTW and Vegas was even better.

I agree with you. It is both egotistical and immature for someone to tell people they're *enjoying the thing they enjoy too much,* while they on the other hand are a superior creature who knows the true objective worth of things. What impulse drives someone to see people enjoying something and tell them they're wrong and should stop?

I've already finished the House Always Wins. I could also kill Yes Man I suppose.

If you want to finish their storylines, you're supposed to do quests for them, not murder them.

[Sunnyvale]

I agree with you. It is both egotistical and immature for someone to tell people they're *enjoying the thing they enjoy too much,* while they on the other hand are a superior creature who knows the true objective worth of things. What impulse drives someone to see people enjoying something and tell them they're wrong and should stop?

Nobody here is saying 'you enjoy fps, yer wrong, I'm right'. I fail to see how people can come to a thread that is all about bashing popular games and get defensive. No one said stop playing, no one is saying that only noobs play fps...
They are, um, how does one say...
Answering the OP.