RE: Most Overrated Games
I guess a follow up to my previous post. Since CoD is an obvious one. I will make a second choice.
People will hate me for this but,
Skyrim!
Don't get me wrong, I love skyrim, but it is SOOOOOO over rated its ridiculous. I'm a long time Elder Scrolls player, I've played Arena to the recent Skyrim. People jumped the shark with Skyrim because it had dragons. I had people who never played an Elder Scrolls game before start joining in and saying its the best thing ever. If anyone has played the prior game, Oblivion, Dragons are the same thing as an Oblivion gate. All over cyrodill was oblivion gates, randomly spawned (To about 92 gates, tops, I think?). Skyrim? We have dragons randomly spawned.
Skyrim felt like Oblivion in every way possible, but Oblivion is (Within people I know) talked down upon? I don't get it.
Skyrim feels completely watered down from its prior games of Oblivion and Morrowind. They merged a ton of the skills together and made the levels system a bunch easier. While it is a welcome change for some as it makes the broken system (And exploitable) from Oblivion, less clunky. I found the system in Oblivion much more fun as I had to plan my battles ahead of time so I didn't mess up my skills and stats.
Skyrim was also clunky in its own right. I mean the game was a buggy mess at release, I forgive that as its an Elder Scrolls game. However what I DON'T forgive is the complete massacre of the PS3 version. Now I know, "Get the game else where!", And I did, but the point is, the PS3 version was unplayable until around February, 2-3 months after its release, and they KNEW about the PS3 bug prior to release, but never fixed it.
Another thing is people claim the graphics are much better than before. I see what they mean, Skyrim at times can be beautiful, but good lord, I hope you like Gray, browns and white! I found Oblivion much more colorful which I enjoyed.
Like I said, don't get me wrong I love Skyrim. Its a ton of fun, but in my view, it only got as popular as it did because of Dragons. The original trailer came out and I only heard a few people say it looks cool. But when Dragons were announced, everyone and their grandmothers exploded with excitement.
Skyrim just feels like oblivion and morrowind to me. Nothing more. I just don't get the hype-train for it.
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