What were the most Overrated video games from your childhood?

[Steelangel]

Not even close to my childhood, but I wanna say FF7. Don't get me wrong, it was a good game but it was hailed as the second coming or something, and I liked FF6(3) way way better.

[VinceVega]

Everything Zelda... never understood what is good about it. Boring story. Gameplay also nothing amazing. Weird artstyle.

[JadedTauren]

Daikatana, and Postal 2

[Frozenbeef]

Anything Mario related, anything Zelda related anything final fantasy related..

I'm a Sonic/ Crash Bandicoot/ Spyro type of guy :P

[Arrashi]

Perhaps more teenage years than childhood but original Neverwinter Nights was massive disappointment after heavy hitters like BG, Fallout and Icewind dale.
Especially since it came out around the same time as Morrowind.

[Fencers]

Dunno, I played it at a friend's house as they had an N64 and I didn't (but we hung out like daily). It was so long ago I barely remember much other than being constantly frustrated.

Respectfully, I don't think this is the basis for a thorough and insightful assessment.

[Nnyco]

Definitly Mario.

[Fencers]

Thats what i wanted to say as i red "Goldeneye". You had to change the control scheme then you would move with the yellow buttons. It was like wasd movement. Goldeneye and Perfect Dark were the only 2 shooters i enjoyed playing with a controller.

This is exactly correct. Those are the only two video games in the FPS genre that actually played superbly on a console platform. Every other FPS genre shooter on a console is either worse than or the lesser than the KBM gameplay control schema objectively.

Habit leads people to think otherwise, but it is a faulty assessment and often experientially anecdotal.

[Cidzor]

Goldeneye (N64).

I enjoyed it, but I wouldn't even consider it in my top 20 as far as N64 games go. I often hear people talk about it like it's the undisputed best N64 game ever made.

[prwraith]

dragons dogma...what a shit game man

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Goldeneye (N64).

I enjoyed it, but I wouldn't even consider it in my top 20 as far as N64 games go.

I don't think i even had 20 n64 games lol. Mario, goldeneye, ocarina of time, majoras mask. maybe a krash bandicoot.

[tehealadin]

As much as I liked them, I think Mario games are severely overrated. Great, massive impact on gaming, however whenever I see them listed as GOAT contenders on various outlets I die a bit inside.

[prwraith]

This is exactly correct. Those are the only two video games in the FPS genre that actually played superbly on a console platform. Every other FPS genre shooter on a console is either worse than or the lesser than the KBM gameplay control schema objectively.

Habit leads people to think otherwise, but it is a faulty assessment and often experientially anecdotal.

Huh as a little kid I don't think I ever considered using the yellow keys for movement. I always thought it was fine with the analog stick haha

[Cidzor]

dragons dogma...what a shit game man

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I don't think i even had 20 n64 games lol. Mario, goldeneye, ocarina of time, majoras mask. maybe a krash bandicoot.

I didn't actually own that many N64 games as a kid, but we had a video rental store in my area (a locally owned/Mom & Pop type store, but basically the same thing as Blockbuster). Like $3 per night rentals, and the store was closed over weekends with a deal that if you rented something on Friday, you could keep it over the weekend and return it on Monday for the price of one night. So even without really owning that many games, I did get to play most of the major titles.

One incentive my parents gave me to keep grades up and generally not act like a little shit for the week was that they'd let me pick out a game to rent every Friday. Of course, I wasn't perfect, and there'd sometimes be weeks that I did indeed act like a little shit at some point, but I managed to score a game rental most Fridays.

[Zylos]

Respectfully, I don't think this is the basis for a thorough and insightful assessment.

Right it's an opinion based on personal experience, just like everything else in this thread. Lot's of people like it, I just don't get the hype.

[StillMcfuu]

Got to be Halo for me.

Its always so praised and people say its the first to do this or that, and I just thought it was nonsense. It was great if you never played a FPS before or if you didn't play Goldeneye,PD, or Turok on N64. Its not to say it isn't good, because it is, its just way over hyped. It wasn't some revolutionary game, and really it was barely an evolution, even compared to console titles.

[Kalium]

StarCraft... I played a few RTS games but StarCraft just didn't resonate with me.

[StillMcfuu]

dragons dogma...what a shit game man

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I don't think i even had 20 n64 games lol. Mario, goldeneye, ocarina of time, majoras mask. maybe a krash bandicoot.

Not to say I disagree with Dragons Dogma, but it was barely rated highly by anyone. It was an alright game to hop into and play if you were tired of Oblivion/Skyrim being the only options. It did some things kind of cool, the follower system, long cast on powerful spells, but i don't think many people even remember it. Which makes me wonder why Netflix would option it for their growing library of shitty anime/video game movies.

[Nerovar]

You shut your whore mouth

This guy is going all out.

OT: I'd say the entire CoD franchise. It's just never been good really. Also most Pokemon games. Though I'd say most games from that time are probably a bit overrated these days due to childhood nostalgia.

[Fencers]

Huh as a little kid I don't think I ever considered using the yellow keys for movement. I always thought it was fine with the analog stick haha

TIL some people played Goldeneye incorrectly. I'm in shambles. LOL

[Exodeus]

Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time, and Majora's Mask.

Totally agree they were getting 9/10 out of 10 from everyone but were just not that great imo.

Edit: I absolutely loved the previous Zelda games especially the NES ones.