Alyxx Thorne

I just bought Bejeweled for my phone. Love it so much!

Yeah, it is a bad habit, I agree.

Drinking Urge Intense and playing some MW3.

That sounds like a good idea in my opinion.

Yeah, I agree that it feels outdated nowadays, and Duke Nukem 3D was a much better game and came out in 1995. Doom is a good game but way overrated like you say.

It's not that I don't like it, it's that I felt the game was forcing it on me. Everything felt forced and contrived, and most of the time, I didn't feel scared, just annoyed. It wasn't the fact I didn't have any weapon or the fact that I would have to run away from enemies, that was fine with me. What annoyed me was that the protagonist acted like that and felt like a complete coward to me. I lost all respect for him. Also, the game's reliance on light was also a huge mistake to me because there wasn't nearly enough tinder or light sources to remedy this and I felt forced to more or less hold back on them but that would just make my character go fucking batshit insane so I HAD to use up all my light just to keep him from grinding his teeth and cowering in fear of the dark. Goddamnit... While I'll admit that the game is different and a less action'y take on horror, it's annoying as hell.

It's very refreshing to hear these perspectives, in my opinion. What do you expect, the game is from 1993. I think that's a bit of an unfair criticism in that regard.

DARUDE - Tell Me (Original Mix)

Aww... *gives a free digital hug*

Yeah, ODST seems interesting. I did enjoy Bungie's Marathon games though.

I wanna -rep you for that post but it made me lol too hard.

Take a walk? That usually helps me.

Yeah, different strokes for different people. I really enjoy MW3 at least, but it's pretty much the only CoD game I've really played. But I agree it's really overrated and hyped to hell, that's for sure. Aside from the multiplayer in MW3, I don't feel there's any other reason to play it, there's really not much depth to it when compared to games like Deus Ex.

Banned for making me lol

Banned for taking the time to find that out.

Banned for hoof flailing

IF he makes Freeman's Mind 2, I think he'll use the vanilla game like he does with HL1. Otherwise it would ruin the fun of the game which is that people recognize the game and the situations and they can relate to the humor that way. Using an obscure mod ruins that aspect.

Drinking coffee and watching Mythbusters.

Will it blend? That is the question.

Here you can share which games you think are overrated and, preferably, give some reason. Please refrain from flaming, but it's okay to state your opinion! So yeah, if you need to get it out of your system, here's the thread to do it. I'm not going to bash games I haven't actually played though so even if I'm tired of people hyping Minecraft and stuff I don't have any interest in, I don't feel I can fairly judge those games because I just haven't played them. 1. Metroid Yeah, I get it, Samus was a big deal, whatever. But aside from some revolutionary aspects, the game is bad. I mean, really bad. The level design is confusing as hell. I mean, you can only go through so many identical rooms before you go insane and you're lucky if you can navigate this game without using a map. Also, the game lags down to like 2 FPS whenever there are too many enemies on the screen, and it's so easy to die from just being hit by enemies. It's definitely a frustrating game at that. With all the games that have come out since, like Metroid II and Super Metroid and, well, fucking Metroid Prime, I don't think this game is worth playing anymore. Just play Zero Mission instead. It's much more enjoyable. And who the f*** thought it was a good idea to remove the save function when porting it to NES? You think people LIKE inputting those passwords? Nope. 2. Grand Theft Auto series I've tried pretty much every GTA game there is and I still don't understand why people play these games. I'll admit Vice City was kind of fun with all the 80's style going for it, but really... why do we play GTA? Is it for the shitty music? The story? No, people play GTA to just fuck around with it. That's the sole reason people buy these games. It's so they can fuck around with cheat codes and mess with the game engine and just do whatever. It's fun for 10 minutes and then it gets old. Fast. Mindless violence is only entertaining for a while before it just bores the fuck out of you. GTA in my opinion is horribly overrated and the best example of why sandbox games are pretty much useless. I'd just start a mission, fail it over and over and just do random shit until I got bored and shut off the game. Sorry, but this is not my cup of tea. 3. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion I've tried to get into Oblivion twice now because everyone keeps telling me "oh this game is so great you gotta fucking play this game, bitch!!!" and I'm like "okay, just stfu!!!". So yeah, the first time, I didn't like it. It felt confusing, hard to play and just overall a bad experience. So I wanted to give it another go recently. Sure, I played a bit of it, got into the story a bit. I really wanted to like this game. But... I lost interest. I don't understand why people think this game is so good. It's littered with annoying bugs, the graphics are horrible (especially the character models which look like they were shat out of a blender) and the game is just confusing as hell. Sorry but this is not my cup of tea. Doesn't help that I've never liked fantasy settings either. I just associate them with bland boring games for the most part and this game didn't help me at all. It's also for this reason I have ZERO interest in Skyrim. You can hype it and play it all you want, but it's not going to trick me. I'm sick of bland overhyped fantasy titles. Guess I took an arrow to the knee. 4. Halo: Combat Evolved So yeah, Halo is kind of a big deal, the flagship title for XBox, Microsoft's big juggernaut, the one thing every console gamer is playing. So I decided to try the first game to see if it was worth all the hype. Well, it's a good FPS. Everything about it is good. But it just... didn't feel engaging. In fact, I just ended up being bored with it. It felt horribly bland and just not that interesting. So even if I love science fiction titles, this game is just overrated for me and I've lost all interest for future titles. 5. Team Fortress 2 It's not so much that I dislike the game, it's just the fact it's everywhere. This game is the source of so many fucking memes, so many avatars, and so much SHIT on the internet that I wanna STRANGLE the makers of it. I don't care for TF2, I don't care for squad based games in general. The game isn't that fun playing, never feels satisfying to me and I don't get why people love it so much. The visual style and voice work is okay I guess but nothing more. It doesn't feel like it has any good gameplay mechanics to draw me into it. It's not satisfying on the same level as MW3 imo. But yeah, that's just my taste, I don't care for it. And I would like to just forget about it but EVERYONE ARE FUCKING PLAYING IT AND CONSTANTLY REMINDING ME OF IT! So yeah, glad I got that out of my system. 6. Dreamfall: The Longest Journey I've already spoken about how much I hate this piece of shit in my review of it, but what baffles me the most is that nobody else seems to be speaking up about it. It got glorious reviews, and people who have played it thinks it's okay. It's an overrated and overhyped piece of SHIT that could've been so much more than it was. WHY? Just... WHY?! 7. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Yeah, I'll probably get some hate for putting "the best game of all time" on my list. But sorry, this isn't a good game to me. It feels bland, boring, and just... too weird. The entire Zelda franchise is just too weird for me. There's so many weird shitty characters and the whole game feels weird and just annoying to me. Other than that, I guess I can respect it for being the biggest game on the N64, but... yeah, it's definitely overrated imo. I mean, it's an okay game but "best of all time"? Really? You wanna go that far? I don't get it. 8. Amnesia: The Dark Descent I guess this is a game I'll never understand the hype of. I played it for like an hour until I got so frustrated and angry with it that I shut it off before I literally threw the keyboard into my screen. I mean, talk about restricting you to play as a total pussy who goes insane whenever he doesn't have light. And good luck finding enough light... This game is a total mess imo and I don't get why people praise it so much. I guess it just works for some people, but not for me. It's overrated as hell to me. 9. Fallout 3 Fallout 3 isn't a bad game, it's just a very mediocre one. While it did fit as a sort of FPS/RPG hybrid, compared to Fallout 2, it's a disappointingly bland game. Definitely really overrated imo. 10. Super Mario 64 Yeah, sorry, I just don't have anything nice to say about this game. The controls feel very weird and it feels impossible to control Mario correctly due to the perspective. I often misjudge jumps and stuff and just end up getting frustrated. I dunno, something about 3d platformers in general just feel off to me, though Tomb Raider got it right, more right than SM64 in my opinion. What baffles me is that everyone seems to regard this as one of the best games ever, which is what I don't get. SMB3 and even SMW were much better titles imo. So that's my list. What's yours?

Watching Egoraptor's MAGFest panel. YRAoR0rKtec

Oh well, let's not get too sidetracked.

Eating yourself is probably not a good idea. But yeah, I guess it's a bad habit but I can think of worse habits.

I disagree, BTTF stayed fairly close to the source material and even had Christopher Lloyd reprising his role and AJ LoCascio doing an admirable job as Marty. As a BTTF fan I think it's the only BTTF game that got it right. Otherwise, A:TDD just isn't my kind of game, I didn't get it at all. The story was boring, the puzzles were confusing and for the most part I just felt annoyed and like I was trying to control a crazy pussy rather than feeling like I had any freedom in the game. It didn't feel atmospheric or scary, just frustratingly restrictive. Like, after playing the game for an hour I wanted to toss the keyboard into the screen, I was that frustrated and angry with the game and I was literally cursing at the protagonist to get his shit together. I really really didn't like it. I guess I'm not easily scared at all, regardless if I play in a dark room with headphones or not, and playing a character like that just made the game worse, it didn't enhance it for me.

Banned for being hyper.