[BS403]

I love halo. is it a good game? Yes. Is it a great game? No F****** Way! Is it overated? Hell Yes.

I like dino's, why no dino's

[Deepblue]

I think it's a great game with uninspired environments. Hopefully this is rectified in Halo 3.

[Ashrak]

outcast absolutely fraking ownd

[Deepstar]

Unreal II
Doom 3
Civilization III
X3 - Reunion
Homeworld 2

[achtung]

Doom 3

[jr2]

Like this one time, I passed up this room with like 3 hunters in it. You know what I did? I walked around the room. Do the designers actually expect you to fight them? And everything is so repetitive. And it's all hallway.

I think that was supposed to be that way.. other wise, they would have fixed it.  ie, if you want, you can kill the Hunters, if not, leave them there... sometimes it's better to kill enemies found like this, because if you don't, you end up fighting them on the way back.

Anyways, I think ppl prolly like Halo because of the multiplayer, as well as Halo CE (lets you play user created maps, see my siggy)

[Unknown Target]

Half Life 1 (I suppose I am a bit out of touch, considering I played it about 3 years after it's release. Still, found it very boring).
Half Life 2 (Mind numbingly overrated IMO. A barely average shooter with some nice cinematic direction, that's all.)
Doom 3 (All show, no go. What was scary for the first twenty minutes became incredibly repetitive the rest of the 10 hours or however long it takes to beat that game).
Halo 1 (Meh. An average shooter, never saw the big deal. Basically the Half Life 2 of console shooters - nice cinematic direction, average gameplay (although Half Life 2 didn't even have the wicked fun melee' or grenade features, so Halo 1 beats HL2 gameplay wise).
Halo 2 (See above).

[Snail]

Doom 3 definitely.

And Perfect Dark Zero. It's a good game, but most of the levels sucked, IMO. They didn't get the full potential the game could have.

[WeatherOp]

Halo and Halo2, both good games just nothing OH MY GOSH!! incredible.

[spartan_0214]

I think UT2004 was more than slightly overrated, but not terribly. Yes, it's a good game, yes it's got good graphics (at the time anyway), yes it's more fun than a barrel of monkeys, but no, it isn't Halo. (BIG fan of Halo, maybe even to the point of fanboishness, but alas, I digress)

The indoor architecture is horrible. Like this one time, I passed up this room with like 3 hunters in it. You know what I did? I walked around the room. Do the designers actually expect you to fight them?

I do believe I know which room you're talking about: The Silent Cartographer, Security Override Room. The way Bungie developed Halo was unique in it's day. Bungie, IMHO, developed the game in a way that you could either run your butt off dodging plasma discharges, or go in, AR ablaze, mowing down every covenant b*****ds as the Forefunner installation can hold. Not like Oblvion or KOTOR, but.... You'll notice in Halo 2, you can't do that, you actually do have to kill all of the Covenant to proceed. Either way, I prefer the run and gun, but some people don't...

[Deepblue]

I think UT2004 was more than slightly overrated, but not terribly. Yes, it's a good game, yes it's got good graphics (at the time anyway), yes it's more fun than a barrel of monkeys, but no, it isn't Halo. (BIG fan of Halo, maybe even to the point of fanboishness, but alas, I digress)

The indoor architecture is horrible. Like this one time, I passed up this room with like 3 hunters in it. You know what I did? I walked around the room. Do the designers actually expect you to fight them?

I do believe I know which room you're talking about: The Silent Cartographer, Security Override Room. The way Bungie developed Halo was unique in it's day. Bungie, IMHO, developed the game in a way that you could either run your butt off dodging plasma discharges, or go in, AR ablaze, mowing down every covenant b*****ds as the Forefunner installation can hold. Not like Oblvion or KOTOR, but.... You'll notice in Halo 2, you can't do that, you actually do have to kill all of the Covenant to proceed. Either way, I prefer the run and gun, but some people don't...

Actually, you're thinking about 3 Elites. But the OP was wrong too, there are 2 hunters, and its in Assualt on the Control Room.

[MP-Ryan]

Half life 1 definetely.. it was good but not THAT good

I liked HL a lot. I will admit that there were some weak points, though.

HL2 was a true disappointment. It's very overrated.

Sacrilege!  HL2 is IMHO one of the best FPS games ever made for the PC.

How was it a disappointment, exactly?

[CP5670]

I could name a lot of things, but the level design was the main problem I had with it. It was inferior to even HL1 in some ways and didn't hold a candle to other games of its time, making it a chore to go through the game. In fact, HL2 wasn't just a disappointment, but quite simply bad. I don't think I would say that about any other game I've played in the last five years or so.

UT2004 was a very good game, but it alienated a lot of longtime UT fans like me by the major gameplay changes they made. The heavily neutered weapons, in particular, completely changed the pace of the game.

I thought Unreal 2 was actually rather underrated. It got fairly mediocre reviews, mainly because it had nothing to do with the first game, but the maps and weapons had tons of variety to them. You could ignore the story and still have fun just going through the levels.

[Polpolion]

How was it a disappointment, exactly?

HL1 had much better atmosphere.

I thought Unreal 2 was actually rather underrated. It got fairly mediocre reviews, mainly because it had nothing to do with the first game, but the maps and weapons had tons of variety to them. You could ignore the story and still have fun just going through the levels.

I thought that to when I played it. Of course that was a while ago, and I long since lost it.

[Desert Tyrant]

Half Life 2 is the main title that comes to mind.

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[Desert Tyrant]

Half life 1 definetely.. it was good but not THAT good, besides Unreal looked way better
OH, so what, graphics make a game now?   Seriously, I would rather play a good, fun game with a ****ty story, than a good looking, good story game with goddamn no gameplay(looks at FF fanboys>_>)
And Unreal 2 deserves to burn in hell.  Read the SA eview, its funny as hell.

[CP5670]

Unreal both looked and played better. The combat mechanics in that game were somewhat different from anything else seen in singleplayer FPSs, either before or after it. The enemies were both fast and strong, so it actually played more like a traditional multiplayer FPS, with strafing and dodging being much more important than in most other singleplayer games. Although to be fair, the story was indeed pretty lousy.

Half Life 2 is the main title that comes to mind.

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[Desert Tyrant]

Unreal both looked and played better. The combat mechanics in that game were somewhat different from anything else seen in singleplayer FPSs, either before or after it. The enemies were both fast and strong, so it actually played more like a traditional multiplayer FPS, with strafing and dodging being much more important than in most other singleplayer games. Although to be fair, the story was indeed pretty lousy.

Half Life 2 is the main title that comes to mind.

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Ya see, I preemp ****e like this, cuz I suck horribly  Least you have a point with Unreal looking better and having a unique feel to it

[ZylonBane]

You people are slipping--

Black & White

[Killfrenzy]

Black and White had its flaws, I would agree. But there were some good ideas in there.

As for over-rated.........I hate to say it, but my view is Wing Commander. Sorry, CIC guys, but it's true. Leave the story out and the way it's told and what have you got? A bunch of samey missions. Fly somewhere, shoot something. Fly somewhere else, shoot something else. Fly home. Whoopee.

Now, I could tolerate that for the first couple of games, but by the time it got to the fourth, it was getting a bit stale.....

Just my two cents. It's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.