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Most overrated games of 2015

Tom Chick - "Overrated is a loaded term. It looks good in a headline. It’s often used for no purpose other than to goad a reaction. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t useful. When I call a game overrated, I don’t mean it’s bad, that the reviews were wrong, that the people who liked it were dopes, or even that I didn’t like it. It just means I’m surprised more people weren’t more critical, that the conversation wasn’t more often about ways the game could have been better."

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FlipSwitch3061d ago (Edited 3061d ago )

Halo 5 is definitely over rated even though it's currently the lowest rated Halo. The single player should have been better considering it's the first Halo on next gen.

That should really be number 1 on the list

It's not good enough for a flagship title. I doubt we will see Nintendo or Sony scoring so low with the next Zelda or Uncharted

And to answer his question. The Witcher 3 100% doesn't belong on the list

mikeslemonade3061d ago

Her Story and Witcher 3 are overrated.

ic3fir33061d ago

witcher 3 combat sucks, skill tree is so bad, is a good action game, but a mediocre rpg.
mgs v is the most overrated

sullynathan3061d ago

@ic3fir3 An "action game" with sucky combat is not good. You should choose your words carefully next time. You don't seem to know what makes a good rpg or action game.

thekhurg3061d ago

Witcher 3 isn't on the list. They just used a pic of the game to cause the article to be more flamebait/clickbait, knowing that no respectable publication would ever call that masterpiece overrated.

sammarshall1023061d ago (Edited 3061d ago )

Halo 5 is the best FPS out right now

And if the Witcher 3 was on this list it would be invalid because it's one of the best games ever made

otherZinc3061d ago (Edited 3061d ago )

@FlipSwitch,

The next Zelda & Uncharted, combined, will not produce 400 Million Dollars in sales in 6 days for Nintendo or Sony either.

Metacritic review scores are overrated, subjective, & biased. In their Halo 5 bashing, the game play & mechanics were never in question. Critics wanted to attack Story. Now, these so-called "game journalists are movie directors; GTFOOH!

Not only that; The next Zelda & Uncharted will not produce the Replay value of Halo 5 either:
Campaign
Campaign Co-op 2-4 Players
Multiplayer
Forge Mode
No Season Pass
21 Maps at Launch
18 Free DLC Maps on the way

And, Halo 5 made NPD in back to back months.
#1 in October
#8 in November Against All Multiplats.

And for the record; that Halo 5 story was great. If you play it, listen to the dialogue so you don't sound stupid like angry Joe; Saying "we don't know why Dr. Halsey lost her arm" dummy, Spartan Locke TOLD US HOW SHE LOST HER ARM! STFU & listen next time angry joe.

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FlipSwitch3061d ago

@OtherZinc.

"The next Zelda & Uncharted, combined, will not produce 400 Million Dollars in sales in 6 days for Nintendo or Sony either"

You are clearly someone who swallows MS PR. Halo only sold 1.5 million in the first week. I guarantee that Uncharted 4 will sell more than those numbers. Hell Infamous and a niche game like blood borne sold over 1 million in a week.

If you seriously think that U4 and Zelda combined won't beat Halo 5 numbers in 6 days then you are seriously deluded as most xbox fanboys are.

U4 will beat Halo 5's first week sales without a shadow of a doubt. If there is a console bundle it will beat those sales to

Azzanation3061d ago

Halo 5 is one of the best FPS games this gen. Its a great game and is filled with heaps of replay value. Far from overated. I say its underrated.

wodan3061d ago (Edited 3061d ago )

Dude look at this:

Uncharted Collection sales 2.69m:

http://www.vgchartz.com/gam...

Halo 5 sales 2.78m:

http://www.vgchartz.com/gam...

main Halo game barely outsold Uncharted collection and that after a full year without exclusive games on the X1, so UC4 will not just outsell Halo5 it will destroy it in sales.

DARK WITNESS3061d ago

As a former Halo fan, I say former because Halo 5 killed whatever love I had for the series dead, I think about the other halo games before it... think about halo 5... and my humble opinion of it is that it was garbage.

it's just my opinion.

Of course halo 5's sales were through the roof, everyone bought the game day one just like we had bought every other halo game day one and expected the very best epic experience possible.. just like past games had delivered.

had I known what the final product would play like I would have left it for the bargain bin.

boodi3061d ago

so give me another good fps ( is there any around ?)

Gazondaily3061d ago (Edited 3061d ago )

While Halo 5's campaign falls short of its own lofty standards, its multiplayer really puts almost every otherfps to shame.

343 have managed quite a feat with the MP with loads of value, loads of game modes and really moved the formula forward.

If Halo 5 as a whole is considered a disappointment, there is very little hope for other titles. It is the best console fps exclusive by a country mile with the best MP by a wide margin.

Oh btw, I don't take Quarter to Three seriously at all. Their misinformed jokes of reviews really beggar belief.

UnHoly_One3060d ago

Witcher 3 is absolutely the most overrated game of the year.

People on this site worship that game and completely ignore the fact that the combat is abysmal and the skill trees are awful. Namely, the thing you spend the most time doing and the thing that defines a good RPG are both bad.

It has fantastic graphics and a few really well written quests. But the rest of the game is really weak.

It's a huge, empty, bland world, where you fight the same identical people and monsters at level 30 that you fought at level 1, using mostly the same moves and skills because the level progression is nonexistant.

It's not just overrated, it is a bad game.

ShadowKnight3060d ago

What? Witcher 3 shouldn't be on this list.

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IC3_DEMON3060d ago

@ sammarshall102

Sry to say thiss, but the best FPS out right now has been holding the title for about 3 years now.

Show me an FPS capable of beating CS:GO!

uth113061d ago

With all the hate Battlefront gets, how can it possibly be considered overrated?

I agree about Cities: Skylines. It gets so much praise, but I was disappointed that it's mostly just copies all its mechanics from Sim City and doesn't bring much new to the table or carve out an identity of its own.

3-4-53061d ago

What? City Skylines doesn't copy Sim City, it completely beats it in every way imaginable.

I own both games, and City Skylines is by far the better game in every way. It's everything fans have of that genre have been asking for, where as Sim City got boring within hours and didn't offer much.

Maybe you just don't see what over 1 million others did. Not that my opinion = fact, but it seems like you are trying to not see the good in that game.

I haven't even played the expansion yet either, I'm mostly talking about the game as it shipped.

uth113061d ago (Edited 3061d ago )

I've played Sim City (1989 release), Sim City 2000, Sim City 3000, and Sim City 4. Virtually everything I encountered in this game was lifted straight from one of those games. What's different about it?

kraenk123061d ago (Edited 3061d ago )

@uth11

Just the fact cities are not restricted to grids is a huuuuuge difference!

Rimgal3061d ago (Edited 3061d ago )

This guy reason why Rocket League is overrated.

"Yep. Soccer with cars."

Wow what an insightful reason.

What about Heroes of the Storm, this guy explanation why is overrated.

"A MOBA that doesn’t suck is still only a MOBA."

Please just stop, don´t go too much in detail why you think these games are overrated.

Ugh. I regret giving this website a click.

overrated443061d ago

This is Tom Chick in a nutshell, he constantly presents an opposing point of view while picking and choosing (mostly) universally loved games to shit on. It's best to just not pay any attention.

Seafort3061d ago (Edited 3061d ago )

I call those kinds of people trolls :)

They have nothing to offer the gaming community apart from their miserable existence to try to piss other people off.

Just ignore and they fade away :)

kraenk123061d ago (Edited 3061d ago )

Hipster trolls.

Kingdomcome2473061d ago

This guy, and his site, should be banned. He's a troll of the worst variety. He gave Forza Horizon 2 a 3/10, and TLOU a 6/10... idiocy at it's finest.

deadpoolio3163060d ago

Its completely true that Rocket League is nothing more than soccer with cars. It IS completely overrated, people worship that crap like its on the same level as Witcher 3 or something

Nivekki3060d ago

They love the game, you don't. It's as simple is that.

You don't like them loving it and have to spew your crap about it. You really are an obnoxious little fellow.

gangsta_red3061d ago

Have to agree with his Fallout 4 take. Great game but not the follow up I was expecting.

_-EDMIX-_3061d ago

I know right, wasn't a racing game or sports game. /s

Sorry but I have no clue what you were "expecting".

gangsta_red3060d ago

"I know right, wasn't a racing game or sports game. /s"

Your weak attempt at sarcasm makes absolutely no sense.

"Sorry but I have no clue what you were "expecting"."

This is where reading comprehension and common sense kicks in. You see in my first sentence I agree'd with the author's take on Fallout 4, my closing remark only clarifies his points as it was not the follow up I expected it to be.

Now I expect you to go on and on and on about how the developers never intended to make a game that followed in a rpg model, or how the sales prove I'm wrong about what to expect, or that they're working on DLC to cover costs or anything else that is non-related and has nothing to do with anything anyone is talking about.

bradleejones3060d ago

Just picked up mgsv, can't complain so far, and I've played every MG's oddly enough, besides metal gear (msx/nes). I've beaten snakes revenge to portable ops, peace walker, all of the rest. I don't see what peoples complaints are so far, then again I am just getting intobit.

KurtRussell3060d ago

There is a reason Konami gave 6 hours for reviewers to play at their review camp. Gets tedious and repetitive after that. Open world was a bad idea.
It isn't a bad game, but it definitely doesn't deserve all the 9 and 10 scores it got.

bradleejones3060d ago

@kurtrussell Guess I'll see. I'm only starting but bad ass so far. If it gets tedious, I suppose I'd expect that like just about every other open world game.

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Fallout 4 – Next Gen Update 2 Notes

A new update is now available for Fallout 4. This update adds the ability to manage your control over graphic fidelity or performance and addresses some further stability and visual issues.

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Tacoboto2d ago

How nice of them to give us more control over graphical settings as a way to *completely* avoid taking accountability for the broken Xbox settings.

bondsmx1d 22h ago

Well, I still crashed like 5 times last night within two hours. So there’s that.

anast1d 3h ago

I had to stop. The game is not good. I'd rather play Skyrim and that game isn't that good either.

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I Think It's About Time We Realize Fallout 4 Wasn't That Bad

Ahmed from eXputer: "2015's Fallout 4 received harsh criticism upon launching, but I think it was unwarranted and the game deserves more praise than it got."

helicoptergirl7d ago

It was totally that bad. I couldn't finish the campaign it was so bland and boring as I recall. Got so sick of it. 1000 stimpaks on hard. It is very rare that I play half a game and then just quit. I usually always finish it. But i was so bored with this game I just stopped and never went back and never regretted it. Just thinking about that game makes me shudder

Furesis7d ago

That's exactly what happened to me too lmao
Fallout 4 is not a fallout game period it's a bethesda game

Vits7d ago

The comparison with Skyrim is mind-boggling. Yes, Skyrim has streamlined many of the systems that Morrowind introduced. However, it did not tamper with the core of the Elder Scrolls franchise; it did not diminish the freedom and sense of exploration that made Bethesda RPGs famous. Fallout 4, on the other hand, did exactly that to the Fallout series. It eliminated what made Fallout such a beloved series to play. There are no consequences for your choices, no reason to explore, and barely any interesting set pieces in the game.

It's not terrible, but it's a painfully mediocre game in a franchise that typically doesn't produce such mediocrity. So that is why people see it as bad, the bar is just much higher.

anast7d ago

They both feel the same because they are, it's just that one has swords and magic and the other has swords and guns.

anast7d ago

I'm replaying it now. It sucks. I'm about 30 hours in and thinking about quitting again. I am so tired of the dialogue I just spam a random button because it doesn't matter. The upgrade just feels like a graphical mod, everything else is not good.

Good-Smurf7d ago (Edited 7d ago )

I couldn't play the game as-is it was insanely boring and grindy and the grind itself are not fun at all.
Mods helped me stomach the game a bit better but after a while I just stopped playing and uninstalled it because the game did nothing after the first few hours to give me any motivation to keep playing it, it just became a mindless looter shooter with obsession in settlement building and defending.
Compared to F3 and FNV, F4 was barely a mediocre game it wasn't bad but it's also very forgettable entry.

MrDead7d ago

It's not that bad after 300+ mods that fix it's issues and make the game fun... but lets not talk about mods right now as they are f****d.

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Interview on Fallout 4 with the Actor for Nick Valentine, Codsworth & Mr Handy (Stephen Russell)

Interview with Stephen Russell, Actor for (Nick Valentine, Codsworth, My Handy) in Fallout 4 which is a vast open world role playing game set in the apocalyptic wastes of Boston, the Commonwealth. The career goes further with other Bethesda games from Starfield to Prey to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

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