Most over-rated games ever

[Jabso]

Grand Theft Auto 3 and Vice City IMO are overated.
I enjoy them and think they are good, but not "the greatest".
Its great fun but the missions are just too trial and error for me. Once you get down to it it's either kill person X, get car X, destroy person X in car X or taxi mr.x around.

I used to love all highly rated games. But now these games don't last long. Probably to do with my increased amount of study and addictition to Collingwood and Champ manager. I rate Metroid Prime really highly but I don't think I even completed 50% of it. Now all I seem to like are sports games (and wrestling games), they seem to have the greatest lastability of them all for the person with little time.

N64 was the greatest console ever IMO (never played SNES when I was young so missed out). The most bagged too. But despite the lack of games there were so many classics. That's if you like the platform/adventure type games and can look past the cartoony characters.

 

[Leigh Roy]

Those who constantly go on about 'kiddie' and 'mature' games are in fact people who still are embarassed they are playing with (what they perceive to be) children's toys. So they try and draw a line between two types of videogames that they themselves played just as much as the other when they were young/kids/in the G for General group.

They can't fathom that children ten and younger play, enjoy, and are just as good at games like Half-Life, Mortal Kombat and Grand Theft Auto just as much as they play Mario and Pokemon. When I was a youngin, the only 'series' I stuck to were the MK and Donkey Kong games on the SNES - both ********in great franchises.

 

[nonchalance]

children ten and younger play, enjoy, and are just as good at games like Half-Life, Mortal Kombat and Grand Theft Auto

Ten year old children should not be playing GTA. Seriously.

I agree with the rest of your post, but that's just ********ed up.

 

[Leigh Roy]

Ten year old children should not be playing GTA. Seriously.

I agree with the rest of your post, but that's just ********ed up.

I'm using it as an example, but we can't disprove it isn't happening. I know how young I was when I watched the Great Scourge to Children in my generation - those horror slasher movies. I was what would have been considered too young to watch Jason or Michael or Freddy or Chucky kill people.

Those arcade games with the bloody zombies/actual people you have to shoot with the gun they provide you (House of the Dead/Lethal Enforcers); that's what the 'mature gamers' used to love playing before they were 'of age' in the censorship rating's eyes.

 

[nonchalance]

It is happening, I know. I wish it wasn't, and I wish the OFLC had a R18+ rating for games so that adults understood that these games do not ******** around, but I saw a copy of GTA3 at an acquaintance's house last week - it had been rented for the two twelve-year-olds that were there.

The slasher flicks are a reasonably good correspondence, true.
I wasn't particularly clear in the last post - or perhaps I was too clear. What I should have said is that ten-year-olds should not be playing GTA without parental supervision, and those parents should be clearly and helpfully explaining the differences between on-screen violence and real-world violence, etc etc blah blah blah.

 

[Stan.]

I know plenty of kids playing gta3.

Whats the big deal.

 

[Leigh Roy]

My original point was that I have a problem with the holier-than-thou videogame players who are so insecure about their hobby that they won't play a game that's got cartoonish stuff in it as opposed to something like DOA Volleyball which is basically like one of those MA15+ anime movies you see on SBS/World Movies from time to time.

The OFLC actually could be to blame - instead of being a way of warning parents what games are/aren't suitable for which age groups; the 'Nintendo is for kids' group (generalising, here) only limit themselves to the M15+ and MA15+ games. Excepting the sports and racing genres though. In primary school, we all played Street Fighter 2 Turbo as much as we did Super Mario Kart; but then in high school the more and more games we had that were M/MA were like badges of honour or something. I remember everybody going ga-ga over how much better Toshinden and Tekken and Virtua Fighter etc were better because they 'games for us big boys'. Super Mario 64 suited me fine.

 

[nonchalance]

Stan: Would you want ten-year-olds watching Reservoir Dogs?

Leigh: Ah. Now I understand, and I agree totally.
Mario Kart DD is one of the most fun games I played this year.

I don't think the perception will change, although a proper rating system for games would help a lot. If we rate games C/G/PG/M/MA/R/X in the same way as movies, people will begin to understand.

I watch and enjoy G movies. I play and enjoy G games. Gameplay, for me, is far far more important than graphics in any case, and the choice between cartoon bright graphics and gritty industrial dark graphics is not really an issue.

 

[Squall]

Doom