most overated PC game ever?

[Jethro83]

Originally posted by Dalgetti

you mean Q3 arena? It's months of mindless fun in a box. what's not to like about it? besides my fingers convulting after each multihour session.

Because it didn't innovate on the genre. All it provided that was different from Quake II was flashy new graphics. I preferred Quake II since it had a decent single player game.

Still, the only Id games I truly found to be worthy of the attention they got were Wolfenstein and DOOM.

[Adalbertus]

Moral Hazard, I don't remember who had the signature "Nostalgia isn't what it used to be", but that one was good
When rating games, I try to compare the time they tied me to the computer at the time when I got them, and the way they perform against games published later. Thsi way, I hoped to get around the nostalgia effect or the fact that newer games can assume the better hardware. The games I mentioned in my first post were Civ2, where I probably spent most of my time (if it wasn't Civ1, I don't know). SMAC/X, the first and only game where I had the impression that how I perform was limited by my phantasy and not by the game mechanism or my dedication to micromanagement. M.U.L.E was probably not my most-played game, even not on the C64 (I'd guess it was Pirates!), but I had the impression that is was the best made of all times (as far as I knew the games, of course), in terms of workmanship and clarity of design.

[Imran Siddiqui]

The Sims - Oh God what a waste of money
Diablo II - Point, Click, Repeat... same game as I only bigger.
Europa Universalis - Without the events of EU2 was breattakingly dull.

[Buck Birdseed]

Diablo was ****. It would have been sort of fun with a decent control system (ie. using the keyboard), but as it was it was boring, repetetive, ugly and nowhere near the console RPGs it was emulating.