• Top 10 Most Overrated Games

  

  Written by Zeromage 168 Comments
  Last Updated:: September 19, 2008

  Oh boy, this is ganna be a controversial one. Your favorite game of all time listed on Old-Wizard’s most overrated video games of all time? Surely it can’t be! You know us though, we have a knack for knocking down the typical things people enjoy. In this list, we tried to think of games that just plain piss us off because everyone loves them and we think they’re total ass. Going into our thinking process when considering these overrated games were a lack of creativity and a lack of entertainment that these games possessed for us. We don’t understand why anyone would play them more than twice, but sometimes people do and other people think the game is good for this reason.

  10. Earthworm Jim

  Earthworm Jim was often championed for its innovative sounds and creative game play that expanded upon traditional side scrolling. None of these advances though could make this game less boring than it was to play it. Jumping on tires to get up to wires to hang on just sort of sucked. Nothing about this game grabbed me. It reminded me of that shitty ass Aladdin game where the only innovation in the side-scrolling format was being able to jump up to higher platforms. Jim’s weapons were dull. It was some average outer space laser beam. I really can’t keep talking about this game. It gives me a headache.

  9. Prince of Persia

  This game has garnered constant accolades for itself. It has transformed itself into a multi-platform adventure game. How is this possible with a game that has such poor controlling? You can’t make any of the jumps because when you press the jump button, the delay is 10 fucking seconds. Having to compensate for this poor response leaves you dead and bloody in a ditch. Master the jumping and you then you have to master the poor controls for the fighting. Mastering sword techniques in real life is much easier than mastering it in this game. The awful controlling of this game alone makes it shit, and confusing in its popularity.

  8. Resident Evil 4
  

  Resident Evil 4 came to the Gamecube in order to scare the player like a real-time Hollywood movie. This game graphically looks cool for awhile, then becomes dull as hell, as you walk around a house with random things attacking you. Its not scary, its just bad horror flick shit, like when someone comes from behind you to try to attack you. You get the usual weapons to fight off the usual suspects. You can get devoured by parasitic monsters everywhere you turn. Where have I seen this before? How about every fucking Ghost n’ Goblins remake there ever was. The the over-the-shoulder approach to this game couldn’t save it from being just plain dull.

  7. Tomb Raider

  Tomb Raider was an average 3D action game for the Playstation that won its success off of nerds who were actually turned on by the video game’s graphical protagonist. Beyond the sexual caricature of Laura Croft was a bland shoot-em-up. When you played this game for an hour you would need to throw up from being so dizzy from the poor screen shots that would always move in and out depending on Laura Croft’s moves. Shoot up some wolves, jump backwards and wear tight shorts; this is everything that this game basically covered. Great video games will never be fooled by a pretty faced protagonist. This game is a perfect example of that maxim.

  6. Sonic 3

  At the end of Sonic 2, Sonic was worn out. Granted, Sonic 2 was a great improvement over Sonic 1, but as Sonic 2 was the apex of the Sega Genesis nerd’s fantasy for console domination.  It saw it’s hopes dashed in this derivative sequel. Everything stayed the same. There’s Sonic, and Tails, and new levels with shitty music (compared to the often overlooked soundtrack of Sonic 2.) Sonic 3 though is championed amongst Sega gamers as continuing the Sonic “tradition” of always improving games. Oh yeah, you could play as Tails. Whew, what an improvement. This game didn’t improve enough on the Sonic series to garner the reputation that it received.

  5. Mario 64

  It is possible for Old-Wizard to dislike something that Nintendo made. There are plenty of games that were failures for the Nintendo franchise, but there were just too many good games to destabilize Nintendo’s power. One of the games we think that was overrated for the Nintendo franchise was Mario 64. It was made out to be huge, and it looked huge. But the storyline (that saw its height in Mario 3) was non existent, the controlling was below average, and game play was average compared to all of its memorable precursors. It’s not that Mario 64 was a bad game, it was just an overrated game that won its success off its new age blocky graphics. Beyond the graphics though, this Mario would not stand the test of time compared with the Mario’s for the SNES and NES.

  4. GTA San Andreas

  This game sucks. The cities are so big that you can’t even find the local grocery store. For some reason when you start off you’re being shot at immediately, making the game find itself in immediate violence over creative appeal. You really want to see how shitty of a game this was though? Listen to the music you had to listen to in the car. Listen to the DJ’s over the broadcast. They were both respectively more dull than modern radio, which is feat in itself. Beyond this shittyness was how slow the game could be. Have more than two cars on the screen and you could go make yourself a sandwich before you got out of your car. This was a failure for the GTA series. One of these games was enough without having to endure one that was less inspired.

  3. Gunstar Heroes

  Among other overrated aspects of the Sega Genesis, comes Gunstar Heroes, a game that tried to be sophisticated for its age but failed in most aspects. The storyline tried to be intricate, but was derivative and banal. The side scrolling action was nothing new. The recurring bosses made the game ever more boring, making the gamer feel like he was in an endless circle. The combo-based weapon system was supposed to seem innovative for the time but came was poorly engineered compared to all the advances that Nintendo was making at the time (especially with Super Metroid). This is one overrated game, but its always overrated by Sega fans.

  2. Shining Force

  RPG’s in the 16 bit age were some of the greatest games ever created, and for this we applaud SNES and Squaresoft for their timeless contributions to the genre. We don’t applaud the shitty excuse for a RPG called “Shining Force”. The characters were dull, the dialogue was meandering, and the story had trouble leading the gamer to anywhere beyond his bedroom. Beyond this, the game’s battles were grotesquely hard right from the beginning of the game. A mark of a poor game is its inability to let the gamer become acclimated to the game by starting off with easy battles (Ghosts n’ Goblins is the best example of this). This game had no merit to be called a true RPG in any sense.

  1. Pokemon Red and Blue

  It was because Pokemon Red and Blue that civilization had to endure the endless amounts of Pokemon-mania that came after it. The characters were irritatingly soft, and the game play tried too hard to be simple, and lacked the kind of depth needed to make a RPG great. The game certainly tried to act like an RPG, with turn based battles and areas in which you could speak to another friend, but c’mon, look at some of the enemies you had to face; happy bats and mice that looked like the kind of mice your cat brings back to you to show affection. RPG’s are great in that they transcend the small ambitions of the real world and escape into epic fantasies. Pokemon lowered the standards for the great game style of the RPG.

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168 Comments

1. #1 avi says:
   March 10th, 2010 at 9:35 pm

   WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO HALO 3.
2. #2 Stratostygo says:
   March 10th, 2010 at 8:33 pm

   WHY THE CRAP IS MARIO 64 AND SONIC 3 on the list???
3. #3 gamergame says:
   March 10th, 2010 at 1:31 am

   GOD I FUCKING HATE THE LISTS ON THIS WEBSITE. why would you put pokemon on there i mean ok im not a pokemon fanboy but i mean ITS MADE FOR KIDS some people dont understand the ofcourse kids dont like complex rpgs its for fun pokeon is fun and gta san andreas is nothing compared to gta 4 i mean i fucking hated that game 10 NO not 10 this game is a 7 to 8 i fucking hated thet it was in new york i mean you drive in one direction for 10 seconds hd to turn 10 seconds i hated it GOD and mario 64 yehh i know that it is aoverrated but the storyline is noexistent….. THE STORYLINE i mean its mario go save the princess not so complex and where is metal gear solid guns of the patriots it sucked 10 no not a 10 not ever metal gear solid 2 (the only one i own nr4 i played through at my friend) is 10 times better then 4 you just shoot shoot shoot but mgs is about stealth yes you could stealth but i was soooooo boring nothing comered to nr2
4. #4 geez... says:
   March 10th, 2010 at 7:58 am

   this list sucks. mario 64, RE4 and GTA San Andreas are all some of the best games of all time. this site sucks at making lists. games become better with time, and you guys making this list seriously needs to get over your 2 grey bricks that is the only thing that dominates the lists.

   even gamespot would do better lists than you.
5. #5 Avi says:
   March 10th, 2010 at 11:17 am

   mario 64 was a good game, but is it really the best 3-D platformer ever? RE4 was a good game also, but did it really deserve a 9.8? IMO it’s more like a 6.6 maybe. it was a good game, but not a good resident evil game. I didn’t really like San Andreas that much. and ya, MGS4 probably would make my list. though I could probably do this only with FPS’s. some of the most overrated FPS’s:Halo 3, Halo 1, COD3, Bioshock, Redsteel, COD4, Half-life 2 (I haven’t played it but from what I’ve heard it’s well pretty much a copy of Halo), and Duke Nukem Forever (lol.) SMB3 would make my list as well. LoZ:TP would too. not to mention Tomb Raider 3 and the whole guitar hero series. and maybe Metroid Prime 3. P.S. no I did not put Prime 3 on the list of overrated FPS’s cause it’s a first-person adventure game not an FPS.
6. #6 Avi says:
   March 10th, 2010 at 11:18 am

   and Ghosts N Goblins would make my list as well. Sonic 3 was again good but overrated.
7. #7 TwiTchy says:
   March 10th, 2010 at 4:22 pm

   this web site has to be the worst at making top lists. seriously, pokemon is a game for relaxing and KIDS, mario 64 was amazing and i did not see anything about halo 3. yeah i like halo but halo 3 is way overrated.
8. #8 Wolf says:
   March 10th, 2010 at 9:06 am

   ok firstly Prince of Persia was a great game for its time your not even taking into account what other games where out there the same time prince of Persia was i would understand you thinking the sequels are overrated but your not even taking into account when it was made
   secondly once again your not taking into account what other games where around when tomb raider was made it has puzzle elements in it rather than the average TPS back then
   Sonic 3 was a great game it didn’t make a drastic leap from 2 but nonetheless a great game
   and Mario 64 was a very big game to explore given all the worlds inside of the castle and the more you went on the more you unlocked to go further it was one of the best if not the best 3rd person explorer/action games
   Gunstar heroes… that’s not very well known
   shining force… never even heard of it
   and Pokemon red and blue are about the only Pokemon games that aren’t extremely overrated the ability to rather than just have a small party of usually 1-4 characters to control but instead have 150 monsters to collect and lvl and trade was revolutionary back then so once again your not taking into account when it was made and what other games were out
9. #9 LEGONESFISH says:
   March 10th, 2010 at 8:09 pm

   i agree with most of this list, especially Super Mario 64. As you say, it’s not a bad game, but it’s just so easy, uneventful, and most of all, boring, completely unlike it’s predecessors. Admittedly the game was innovative, in the sense it was the first game to get 3-d platforming right, but it’s not that freakin’ innovative that it should be hailed as the no. 1 game of all time. If anything else, it lacked the charm of all it’s predecessors, and is extremely overrated.
   (the same applies to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, but to a lesser degree)
10. #10 nophilip says:
    March 10th, 2010 at 1:08 pm

    It’s hard to say that Super Mario 64 is overrated since it was pretty much the first of its kind. A lot of overrated games on this list and other like it are actually pretty good games (FFVII, Halo series, Zelda series, etc). These games just tend to get absolutely worshiped by the more fanatical gamers out there.
11. #11 Apollo says:
    March 10th, 2010 at 1:33 am

    I happen to agree with Gunstar Heroes, fiddly controls and extremely punishing. I have always thought this was overrated.

    The rest of the games on the list are all pretty much classics.
12. #12 .execute. says:
    March 10th, 2010 at 12:00 am

    Why isnt Halo on this list? Halo is completely overrated, its just another first person shooter… I don’t even understand why its so good. I’m not saying its a shit game (or franchise for that matter), but its made out way better than what it is. Gears of War blows the shit through Halo.

    GTA: SA is one of the best games of all time, great storyline, and a great game overall, especially for the PS2 port. I don’t understand how it sucks. “The cities are so big that you can’t even find the local grocery store.” Well your not trying to find grocery stores, so why does it matter? Its like putting The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on here because the maps too large to run around on. And I don’t understand why you say the music is shit, the game is set in 1992, so the music would obviously be old.

    And I also don’t understand how PokeMon Red and Blue are on here, it was especially fun to do the “rare candy” cheat, so you could level up all your pokemon before reaching the 5th gym, or catching MissingNo. and watch it screw around with your game. It is now overshadowed by all the new PokeMon games; Ruby, Sapphire, and those new ones. But if it wasn’t for Red and Blue, we most likely wouldn’t have the PokeMon games today.
13. #13 ash says:
    March 10th, 2010 at 3:29 pm

    Lotta people getting pissed off about this list… San Andreas??! For God’s sake, man
14. #14 arbeZameniC says:
    March 10th, 2010 at 3:30 am

    WOW. Mario 64? GTA: SA? SONIC 3!?! EVERY OTHER GAME ON THIS LIST?!?!?!?!?!? What are you, a Jack Thompson fanboy?
15. #15 kenny says:
    March 10th, 2010 at 4:34 am

    The list isn’t worth anything without halo and final fantasy on it.
16. #16 CaptainAustralia says:
    March 10th, 2010 at 5:39 am

    It’s official:

    You guys make the WORST lists on the entire internet. If there was a list for top 10 worst video game reviewing websites ever, you guys would DEFINITELY make number 1.

    Only a retarded idiot would think Sonic, GTA and Pokemon were overrated.

    Way to disagree with millions of fans… >_>
17. #17 miketheratguy says:
    March 10th, 2010 at 4:56 am

    Oh good God what a good list. Except they made a mistake of putting GTA San Andreas, the best in the PS2 series (and best-selling PS2 game, period) rather than Halo. And they also forgot to put Halo in first place when doing so.

    A sci-fi shooter? Pretty damn original, I’ll give them that. One whose multiplayer caused bed-wetting sycophants to overlook a simplistic story and standard gameplay because it was the first time their online hymens were broken? Nifty. But best of all is the superb character design. That dude in generic armor isn’t just a dude in generic armor, he’s fawking MASTER CHIEF, dood, he’s like de kewlest cuz he da Mester Chef, yo.

    But the character design probably stands out the most to me when I think of the aliens. Nothing’s more satisfying than shooting chickens and lizards that wear body armor. Because if a game sells as much as Halo does, I can only expect that it is because it’s about a faceless character with a generic name shooting chickens in space. One in which I can use one hand to shoot people online and use the other to pleasure myself to how lucky I am to be basking in the game’s artistic genius.

    Halo can fuck my bloody excrement.
18. #18 namr says:
    March 10th, 2010 at 9:50 pm

    there was no Grand theft auto in 1994