mostover rateded games ever

[MJW]

My top 10 in no order

Black & White
Half-life 2
Final Fansty 7
M002
Kohan 2
Civ3 (at least beginning when it was crazy broken; all the reviews were made then)
Any Total War game after Shogun
Any Pokemon game
Sudoku (it's okay but it overhyped.)
Halo (good--but even gamespy (?) called this a Sacred cow)

It is interesting to note that most of these games spawned or came from sequels.

[Asher]

Super Mario Sunshine is WAY up on that list. Was an awful game from start to finish and got lots of 95% type reviews...

[RGBVideo]

Overrated in the gaming magazine and Internet media reviews? Plenty of games were and are, because the reviewers are trying to beat each other to reviewing the game first and when the release date is just around a day or so before the reviewer's deadline hour for the monthly magazine, the magazine tends to trust the hype instead of playing the game and thinking about whether it was good or not.

I'm limiting my list to video games you talked about:
Black & White, definitely
Civilization III is only insanely overrated when you start comparing it's treatment to Civilization IV when it was released. Both were given pretty much the same scores and same sub-scores (including music/soundworld, which got high 70s or 6-8 points in the largest magazines ).
Master of Orion II, not really. It wasn't treated as the BEST GAME EVAH but a very sound one, and such it was IMHO.
I agree with you about the Total War games, there wasn't really much added after the first one but the publisher seemed to get in the hype and PR machine in a better way, since Shogun was rated low 80s and 7-8 while it's sequels we're hyped to heaven in the press.
Half-Life 2, well yeah. Good FPS but not a great one, and really not the messiah it was treated as.

[DrSpike]

Re: mostover rateded games ever

Originally posted by MJW
My top 10 in no order (DrSpike's comments in bold)

Black & White not rated highly after release!
Half-life 2 No classic but pretty good. Probably worth it's reviews
Final Fansty 7 What are you smoking?
M002 Again, lay off the crack ok?
Kohan 2 didn't play it but don't remember it being particularly highly rated anyway
Civ3 (at least beginning when it was crazy broken; all the reviews were made then) rated about right overall I'd say
Any Total War game after Shogun the one saving grace of your list
Any Pokemon game never played but you're probably right
Sudoku (it's okay but it overhyped.) no comment
Halo (good--but even gamespy (?) called this a Sacred cow) really, drugs are bad, mmkay

[lord of the mark]

pokemon is appropriate punishment for parents who buy consoles for their kids

[Kuciwalker]

The original Pokemon was a great game for a handheld. The sequels aren't any worse, but they don't really offer much more either.

[b etor]

pokémon snap is a fun N64 game at 4am. i don't actually like pokémon tho.

[Solver]

Civ3 isn't really overrated. It's worse than the other Civ games, but it's still better than the average game. Yes, it had a number of game-breaking bugs before the first patch, but it seems reviews tend not to notice that for any game.

[Apocalypse]

I'd say Oblivion more than any on that list.

[Maquiladora]

I remember Hidden & Dangerous receiving 90%+ scores in most magazines, even though it contained some incredibly bad bugs.

It was a good game (when you weren't getting your legs stuck in the ground/vehicle or being catapulted into the sky on a gust of wind), but 90% is BS.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Apocalypse
I'd say Oblivion more than any on that list.

QFT

[Asher]

I disagree; Oblivion rocked.

[MJW]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
The original Pokemon was a great game for a handheld. The sequels aren't any worse, but they don't really offer much more either.

It was a great game for the handheld. But they where like 'this well change gameing forever'. All the others where pointless.

Super Mario Sunshine is a very overated game to. ff7 is overated because people always call it the best game of the serires. Civ3 is clearly overated when compared to Civ4 and Civ3's flaws only really influnce the high-end players

here are examples that are mostly good... It has some major holes in it

http://archive.gamespy.com/articles/september03/25overrated/

[Apocalypse]

I like gamespy but the list is a bit meh. Daikatana was getting bad press before the release.

Dead or Alive is considered a great sex game....not really known for much else.

BC3000 was always a joke.

Just a few examples.

[FrostyBoy]

The hype for Oblivion wasn't that high, compared to other games, I guess that's because the fanbase has learned not to expect too high of games anymore.

I think the hype for Oblivion was about right, I liked the game, and enjoyed the scenery and mechanics, but the overall gameplay was a little dry for me, the game would have been a lot better if there were more terrain types, despite the size of the world, I felt trapped.