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1. OlderGamer
   Moderator

   For me its CoD MW2. There are many on the list in my book. I feel that a games advert budget has more to do with its sales then does its quality and value. The marketing push behind MW2 was Halo size(or bigger). To me MW2(and most newer CoDs in general) carry ho-hum sp modes, and slightly better then average MP modes. It just doesn't do it for me. And CoD reminds of the oversaturation treatment that Acti often gives it big name franchises in general. Tony Hawk or Guitar Hero anyone?

   What is your most over rated game of the 2009 gaming year? And why?

   Posted 3 years ago #

2. Johnny Cullen
   Moderator

   Agreed, MW2 for me.

   It is a good game, no question. But dear God, it was over-hyped and overrated.

   Posted 3 years ago #

3. SlayerGT
   Member

   MW2 easy. The multiplayer is good. As good as any addictive shooter. The single player was most disappointing to me. I'm about five missions in and I have no want to finish.

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4. Anonymous
   Unregistered

   Sorry G1GA :( I have to agree MW2 was so over hyped and a let down that it makes Halo ODST look good. I liked the single player part a lot,but MP sucks ass man. There are so many campers that ruin the fun of the game just because they want a damn nuke.

   The game should be called Camper of Duty Multi Warfail.
   Spec ops were cool though...frustrating at times but cool.

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5. Detale
   Member

   Yep, would have to agree. I'm not really sure how I went from 'It can wait until after Christmas' to 'Waiting outside Sainsburys at 7.45 to get a cheap copy' but somehow I got caught up in all the hype.

   It's a good game, but it comes to something when the company secretary (a lovely woman in her fifties) comes into our office to ask what all this terrorist warfare game thing was about. Apparently she'd seen it on some Sunday morning TV programme. It was everywhere...

   Posted 3 years ago #

6. G1GAHURTZ
   Member

   Whoah, whoah, whoah!

   Stop right there.

   Back up a good few hundred yards and start again.

   Please define "over rated".

   Do you mean that in your personal opinion, MW2 was in no way deserving of its current 94 Metacritic rating or record breaking sales, however you can fully appreciate that to many millions of people it most certainly is?

   Do you mean that it's not deserving of its amazingly high scores and sales, and that it's just not that good a game, so there must be some sort of conspiracy between Activision and the gaming press/retailers to make it seem like it is?

   Which one, because I personally find it difficult to turn my 360 on since its release without there being at least one person playing it, and on average there are about 5 or more out of the people on my friends list.

   In fact, yesterday I wanted to play some Free-For-All (not a team game) and I (annoyingly) got numerous invites from 3 totally seperate people/groups to play with them, so if the game isn't all that good, then why are people still playing it?

   So far, I've put over 50 hours into the MP, and SP and Spec Ops have probably taken another 25 or so hours of my time, and I'm begining to enjoy it more and more.

   So what I say is that if you like this kind of game, that is if you like twitch shooters and are competitive online, then the game is by no means over rated. In fact, it's the best option that there has been in a good long while for said gamers.

   However, if those things don't appeal to you, then I still don't say that it's over rated.

   The reason being that not everyone likes every type of game!

   If you put me in front of a stealth game, such as an MGS or a Splinter Cell, I wouldn't like them. Put me in front of a turn based JRPG and I might fall asleep through boredom. There a many many games that I personally don't like, or have the patience to play, but I can totally see that they obviously appeal to a huge number of other people, for whatever reason, and therefore I would be reluctant to label them as over rated or so-so or average or such things.

   The simple fact is that unless something better comes along, MW2 is probably going to be the most played game over the next two years. Out of all releases, I say that more people will put more hours into this game than any other game released between now and November 2011.

   If that turns out to be the case, and I'm sure that it will, then there's proof right there that even though you may not appreciate it for justifiable reasons of personal preferance, the game is not over rated by any means at all.

   Posted 3 years ago #

7. Anonymous
   Unregistered

   You guys are in trouble now G1GA is here and he's about to kick ass....I'll be standing on the side lines eating a hotdog (with mustard and relish) :)

   Posted 3 years ago #

8. G1GAHURTZ
   Member

   @ tea.

   lol!

   I took way too long to write that last post. hehe...

   btw, FFA is much better now if you want to give it another try. They clearly listened to people and have added loads more maps into the rotation.

   However, it does have the problem of boosters atm, which I hope will get fixed sooner rather than later.

   Posted 3 years ago #

9. Detale
   Member

   Maybe I've confused the original question, and mixed up over-rated with over-hyped.

   Enjoyed the game, but not all the surrounding media hype.

   Posted 3 years ago #

10. Len
    Member

    MW2 for me as well.

    As I said in another thread, played about 5 levels in, switched it off and haven't gone back and I loved mw.

    Sad but c'est la vie, plenty of other things to play and at least I'l get my money back on it,...

    Posted 3 years ago #

11. OlderGamer
    Moderator

    I love you G1GA ;)

    Hey listen, of course its my opinion. I even said so - take a look.
    But that is what it is. And I am not alone. A lot of people think the same thing. Sure people are buying it. Sure people are playing. And yes, many people are enjoying it. The same could be said for almost any game. The word fun is a wide open range of peoples opinions. Give me 10 people, and they will give you 11 different opinions.
    MW2s launch was huge, maybe the biggest in history. The prelaunch was ramping up, no one in their right mind was going to review the game as anything except glowing. And if they did, they may very well have been seen as doing so just for the sake of gaining publicity. Hard to go against the grain on something like that.
    in my opinion MW2 was alright. A good game. But my god man, its not the greatest game of all time. Or even close to it. I stand by my statement. It was/is VERY over rated. Yup, thats my opinion. My two cents, your milage may vary.

    Guess I should clarify. I mean Hyped. Eventhough I use the word rated. But in my mind rating are greatly impacted by hype. For example how easy would it have been for the major reviewers to give MW a lower score? Not vary considering the massive dollars spent on said reviewers sites/mags. Not suggesting there is a cover up, thats silly. But I do think it makes a difference, even if in a small way.

    Posted 3 years ago #

12. G1GAHURTZ
    Member

    Thanks OG! <3

    lol!

    That's a completely different thing though. Over hyped vs over rated. Over rated means that the game is not as good as the reviews suggest. As in, it's not a 9/10, it's a 6 or a 7. Over hyped means that no matter how good the game is, it's not TEH BESTEST GAME EVAR!!!1 as people might have claimed.

    I don't have a problem with people saying over hyped, because that will no doubt be the case for a lot of people who only bought it purely because of the hype.

    In some ways, it's their own fault though, for buying a game that they probably would never have bought without mistakenly thinking 'Everyone else is gonna buy it! I should follow them!'

    Besides, what you seem to forget are the facts of exactly why the hype existed.

    1. CoD4 was, and AFAIK is still selling at full price, when other so called 'AAA big hitters' hit the likes of £9.99 a few months after release (I will mention no names).
    2. CoD4 was still one of the most played online games even 2 years after release. That meant that the gaming press had a guaranteed boost of hits/copies sold with any CoD related stories.

    So even though there was hype, much of it actually came from people who actually play the game. Not from the press telling people 'the game is good, the game is good'. It was CoD fans spreading the news by word of mouth to other gamers/ potential customers that really drove the sales. Not the media hype.

    Sure, if CoD4 had fallen off the radar in 2008 with the release of CoD:WaW, then you might have a point, but there were millions of people 'chomping at the bit' for this game for a long while.

    Posted 3 years ago #

13. SlayerGT
    Member

    O.G. I'd like to take this time to give the props on these post. Enjoying them. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't looking forward to what you got next =)

    Posted 3 years ago #

14. OlderGamer
    Moderator

    Points taken G1GA.

    Thanks SlayerGT, I been looking at the forum side of things and it seemed sparse. Everyone enjoys talking in the latest news sections, but the stuff scrolls so fast(Pat and friends must be machines!), that its hard to really get a convo going. So a couple times a week at least I am going to try and start one in the forums.

    Posted 3 years ago #

15. G1GAHURTZ
    Member

    Here are mine, btw...

    Over hyped: Bionic Commando/Wolfenstien

    Over rated: DJ Hero

    Under hyped: Prototype (I believe there were only 1 or 2 reviews available even on release day)

    Under rated: Halo Wars

    Posted 3 years ago #

16. Len
    Member

    I really should try and pick Prototype up but I got dragged into and loved Infamous so didn't go back for that as wanted to play somethiong different.

    Worth a punt...?

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17. SlayerGT
    Member

    I was actually looking forward to Prototype but also did not pick it up. Open world games take their toll on me. I too could only handle the one (infamous followed closely by Red Faction). But now I have AC2 Soon to be followed by Just Cause 2. I love em. But they do take decent time investment.

    Posted 3 years ago #

18. OlderGamer
    Moderator

    Prototype was pretty good. A decent buy, esp if you find it on the cheap. imo.

    Posted 3 years ago #

19. MushroomStamp
    Member

    Killzone 2, Hands down!!! yuck! Definetly the #1 game of 2009 I want my money back from.

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20. reask
    Member

    Tell me youre messing mush about kz2.
    I was looking forward to picking it up next week.

    On the mw2 thing folks.
    I actually done a thread on the game a couple of weeks back.
    I was about half way through and a little dissapointed so had a hissy on it.

    Sure sp was a little dissapointing in parts but overall ok.
    Now lets take the other aspects of it.
    Spec ops is tremendous imo especially for folks who do not go online much.
    I mean this is another game here in all fairness.
    You get the buzz of playing online without the normal hectic nature of it.
    IW have to get kudos for that imo as I have never had as much fun online up to this point.
    Then take mp itself. not my thing but I have delved in and out and it looks cool to me.
    the little one was on today and found games I didnt know existed such as one on one.

    So to take an overall picture I would come to the conclusion that the money spent on this game was justified and I would urge people to try out every aspect of it as there is a lot there.

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21. Anonymous
    Unregistered

    Mushroom said: Killzone 2, Hands down!!! yuck! Definetly the #1 game of 2009 I want my money back from.

    I wanted to make a pirate joke, but then I realized you can't mod the PS3 :)

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22. reask
    Member

    So Tea is he right or wrong?
    Honestly now.
    I mean I like both consoles and am not looking to put either down but I have seen a few threads giving negative thoughts on it.
    I will most likely pick it up anyway as I would hate not to have played it.

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23. MushroomStamp
    Member

    Rent it first! Honestly, I thought they were the worst guns/shooting mechanics in any shooter I have played. Only reason it was hyped is because it was really the only shooter on the PS3.... till MW2. But now people are cheating like mad on the PS3 version until it's patched. So if you have both MW2 is better on the PC, err, i mean 360 :)

    Seriously, rent KZ2 first, then decide for yourself.

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24. SlayerGT
    Member

    If your looking for that fast paced CoD kind of gameplay, look elsewere. Killzone's biggest difference from other games is the way it "feels". I'd suggest getting a demo if your worried at all.

    Posted 3 years ago #

25. SlayerGT
    Member

    Patch is coming for MW2 btw. Announced today.

    Posted 3 years ago #

26. Psychotext
    Member

    Overhyped: Modern Warfare 2 (Not the second coming, was good though)
    Overrated: Killzone 2 (Graphical, not gameplay showcase)

    Posted 3 years ago #

27. Anonymous
    Unregistered

    well he's almost right Reask. Killzone is no halo or COD. Killzone is killzone and I love it for that reason. If you were to pick up this game and think it controls like COD4 you would sorely pissed. The shooting mechanics are set to sim a real rifle almost. If you fire rapidly you will suffer from hella recoil.
    THIS IS NOT RUN and GUN...but can be run and knife :) (forget that part).

    Overall the game is fun and enjoyable. If it wasn't then the game would have been seen as a failure by the whole industry. Because I was kinda turned off by MP I'm going to advise you to be cautious and rent....wait a sec there's a demo in the PS store. Try that before you rent. The game feels like that both SP and MP. Story wise don't expect a final fantasy script. Most of the story is in part 1 to be honest with this games plot playing hide n go seek at times.

    You'll still understand every bit clearly though. The KillZone universe is very interesting...to me at least. Just one other thing....have patients with Rico, that idiot is a pure meat head. In the first Killzone he was ok, but here he is a straight up asshole. In other words he's the American version of Mike :D just joking, but yea play it safe, try the demo. If you like that then go for the rent try MP. If you like that then yea buy it and add it to your PS3 exclusive collection. Hope that helps...I'll even play with you online and help you get the trophies if you want.

    Posted 3 years ago #

28. Anonymous
    Unregistered

    Killzone2 is not overrated, the ratings it got it deserved, Halo ODST on the other hand MEGA overrated. That game was a 7/10 at best. Halo fans almost committed suicide...I know two of them :(

    Posted 3 years ago #

29. Psychotext
    Member

    Maybe if you rate multiplayer highly (I couldn't comment on it), but it sure was overrated if you place any value on the single player experience.

    As for ODST, it has the second best campaign of the series (Only Halo:CE is better)... which is what the game was all about, given the multiplayer is from Halo 3. If your friends weren't after the single player experience, they probably should have avoided it (it's not like we didn't know in advance that there was nothing new for MP).

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30. Anonymous
    Unregistered

    it has the second best campaign of the series to who?....oh that's your opinion again I see...just like the SP of Killzone2

    last time I checked when Killzone2 first came out people were rather enjoying it, both SP and MP.

    When ODST came out many sites including most of those green themed ones :) shitted on the game calling it a waste and boring overrated cheap experience. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/reviews/2009/09/the-60-expansion-pack-halo-3-odst-underwhelms.ars ....these are facts not opinions when the die hard fans of Halo even agree.

    General public response
    Halo ODST: Mega MEH
    KZ2: why doesn't it play like COD4?

    Posted 3 years ago #

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