Yeah; I have to agree calling the game Far Cry 2 was kind of dumb. The 2 games have nothing to do with each other.
Different character.
Different setting.
Different "plot."
Different concept entirely (linear vs open world).
Probably because they called it Far Cry 2. If they had called it something else I bet it wouldn't have been assaulted so badly.
Thats the main problem with sequels. People expect everything the first one had only more and better. Often they will miss out on a great game cuz they were too busy thinking of the first one.
CryTek love to ruin their games by having shitty aliens. Far Cry, Crysis...seriously. Why can't they just leave it at a conflict between two human sides and leave it at that. Fuck the aliens.
I haven't looked, but I guess Crysis 2 also has aliens
Very much this
The games tend to go down the toilet when aliens show up.
Words could not describe how annoying flying around in zero gravity trying to shoot the aliens was, halfway through Crysis.
Movies too! Indiana Jones 4 anyone?
Spielburg - "George, I really don't want to put aliens in this movie."
Lucas - "Think about it this way, they aren't extraterrestrial...their interdimensional! Can't you tell the difference?
Spielburg - "Whatever man, you're paying the bills"
Lucas - "Now, about those crystal skulls......."
Spielburg - "............."
I enjoyed Star Wars: Rebellion quite a bit, back in the day. I never understood the bad reviews, cause it was fun to play. Although I was in high school back then and a HUGE Star Wars fan, so maybe I had some blinders on at the time *shrug*
I thought "call of cthulhu dark corners of the earth" was fun it did have its annoying as all hell parts and I understand why people who don't know about cthulhu did not like the game the game was primarily review'd on the "Xbox" not the "pc" now this isn't a case of the "pc" version being better due to patches or any such thing its due to the fact that console gamers and "pc" gamers have different ways of thinking I grew up playing Myst and other classic adventure games so I understood from the get go what this game was while console gamers amused this was a "FPS" I knew better this is cthulhu guns are useless if you ever get one ignore it and run because its just a waste of time
I thought "Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth" was fun. It did have its annoying-as-all-hell parts. I understand why people who don't know about Cthulhu did not like the game. The game was primarily reviewed on the Xbox, not the PC.
Now, this isn't a case of the PC version being better due to patches or any such thing, it's due to the fact that console gamers and PC gamers have different ways of thinking. I grew up playing Myst and other classic adventure games so I understood from the get go what this game was, while console gamers assumed this was an FPS. I knew better; this is Cthulhu, guns are useless. If you ever get one, ignore it and run because it's just a waste of time.
holy crap use periods.
EDIT: I couldn't resist. I am a grammar nazi for life.
Crysis? Overrated, not underrated. It's the Mecca of graphics but the game is maximum suck.
If you showed me a list containing the games mentioned here and asked me to speculate about whether people thought they were underrated or overrated, I would have been more likely to pick overrated.
Many of the titles posted were either well reviewed or popular, and often both. How are they underrated??
Looking at metacritic:
- Mirror's Edge has an 81 metascore/8.2 user score. I think that's a fair score for a game that had some good parts but a really short campaign and wonky combat sequences.
- Titan's Quest: Immortal Throne has an 80 metascore/9.0 user rating.
- Indigo Prophecy got great reviews with an 85 metascore/8.1 user rating and sold well enough to allow the aforementioned Heavy Rain to be developed using a very large budget. Heavy Rain received an 87 metascore.
- VtM: Bloodlines has an 80 metascore/8.9 user rating. It had a reputation for being buggy because it was buggy, and it is well thought of nonetheless because of the originality.
- Far Cry 2 has an 85 metascore/5.5 user rating, and is one of the only titles in this thread to be actually be viewed as mediocre by users. It still got great critical reviews, and the people recommending it usually include the sort of caveats you would expect in an average game, not a great game.
I'm not even going to bother looking up Asheron's Call (hugely popular at the time and very influential), Doom 3, Trine, Crysis, NOLF, Oblivion(??), Chronicles of Riddick (one of the best regarded FPS of all time), or MW2 (??).
If you showed me a list containing the games mentioned here and asked me to speculate about whether people thought they were underrated or overrated, I would have been more likely to pick overrated.
Asheron's Call. By far the best MMO to date in my opinion (and the opinion of nearly everyone that has played it for a good chunk of time). It was fairly popular in it's heyday (2000-2004ish), but it wasn't as well known as Ultima Online, Lineage, Everquest, and of course, WoW.
Titan Quest / Immortal Throne. Buggy, blatant Diablo II clone in a different setting, etc, but overall a great hack-and-slash with a good loot system. My only complaint is that the game needs more skills / spells, like Diablo II.
Really? Metascore gathers as many "ratings" as possible from both critics and users alike, and by definition is the exact thing that you should be using if you are trying to talk about whether a game is overrated or underrated.This is why metascore shouldn't be used as the ultimate arbiter in determining whether a game is good or bad, nor underrated or overrated since all of these are relative terms.
You can take any product in the world and probably find at least one person who likes it and at least one person who hates it. My five year old niece told me that Plants vs. Zombies looked silly when she saw me playing it on a laptop. I guess you should add it to the list of underrated games then? It probably is more underrated than Oblivion is.The point of those posts are that many come on here and call those games in particular overrated.
Probably because they called it Far Cry 2. If they had called it something else I bet it wouldn't have been assaulted so badly.
Thats the main problem with sequels. People expect everything the first one had only more and better. Often they will miss out on a great game cuz they were too busy thinking of the first one.
I admit I had a hard time loving Elder Scrolls 4 because of that. If they'd called it by a new title I would have enjoyed it as a completely new game and never have been so critical.
This x 100. There's a relatively recent enhancement mod for it as well called Camarilla Edition that is quite good.
Also, Armed & Dangerous. Same team as Giants: Citizen Kabuto. And while it wasn't as fun, detailed, clever, innovative or interesting as Giants was, it is still one of the most fun run-and-gun/platformer/3rd person shooters I've ever played, and still very funny.
Nier, but that isn't a PC game
Really? Metascore gathers as many "ratings" as possible from both critics and users alike, and by definition is the exact thing that you should be using if you are trying to talk about whether a game is overrated or underrated.
You can take any product in the world and probably find at least one person who likes it and at least one person who hates it. My five year old niece told me that Plants vs. Zombies looked silly when she saw me playing it on a laptop. I guess you should add it to the list of underrated games then? It probably is more underrated than Oblivion is.