411Mania: From Final Fantasy VIII and Super Mario RPG to Oblivion, World of Warcraft, Xenogears and more, the 411 staff ranks their 5 most overrated roleplaying games of all time! Check out the full article to see which games made their lists and why!
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5.Earthbound- I'm fairly sure I just pissed someone who writes here off, but I could never get into Earthbound. It's an innovative concept for an RPG, but I wasn't a fan of the battle system, and the entire thing seemed more than a little childish to me. Maybe I just tried it too late in life to appreciate the style or something.
4.World of Warcraft- I know, I know, I was flat-out addicted to this game for over three years, like many people were and still are. Currently, they're trumpeting that they have over 12 million subscribers thanks to the Cataclysm expansion, and they've reigned unquestioned for their entire run. They were in the right place with the right franchise at the right time, and nobody's saying they don't deserve success. But there's a reason that I only played Cataclysm for a month and then gave the game up entirely. I'm not even saying that something like The Old Republic will knock them off the top spot. But really, in many ways, WoW is no better than any other MMO on the market, and in some ways, it's a pretty bad game, and as the years go by, they've gone to some pretty big extremes in dumbing down the game to keep people interested and attract new gamers.
3.Fable- Good lord this game is just...so...boring! Plus, the whole "be good or be evil" thing is a joke, you have to essentially murder everyone in every town in the game to be evil, and even then, doing the quests in the storyline can erase all your bad work in seconds. It may have gotten better in future installments, but the first one is just a case of unfulfilled promises helped by heavy promotion.
2.Chrono Cross- As good as Chrono Trigger was, that's how bad I find this game. It made no sense, it overwrote the entire story of the first game and made it worse, the battle system was silly, and of the forty characters, maybe five of them were at all memorable or necessary. I've played Chrono Trigger a dozen times. This one? Once. Barely.
1.Final Fantasy VII- Ooh, there it is. There's the one that sets off the Comments section. Don't get me wrong, FFVII was revolutionary and ground-breaking and sold a billion copies and was a pretty good game. But it's not the be-all and end-all RPG that a lot of people like to say it is. Hell, it's not even the best Final Fantasy game. But it's the one that gets half a dozen spin-off games, movies, action figures, and all the publicity. Plus I sort of blame it for moving Final Fantasy away from its fantasy roots into a weird sci-magi-tech amalgam.
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1) Oblivion - The big world and graphics fools people into thinking the game is actually good. But when you start playing you find the gameplay, story , characters, and stuff to do in the world is all boring
2) Final fantasy VII. I dunno I got bored.
3) Fable- each game more mind numbing than the last
4) mario @ luigis bowers inside story - I felt like the gameplay and world were stripped
Chime in all the FFVII hate because it is probably the most popular game to hate on simply because it is the best recieved RPG of all time regardless of all the others that many hold dearest in their hearts. If VII hadn't had so much overexposure with the spin offs I highly doubt ppl would be seeing it that way now.