People... "Overrated" means a game that was, in the end, bad... but everyone said it was so good.
People here keep putting "Enter the Matrix" and "Outpost" as great examples for this list. Those games were POORLY RATED, PLAYED BAD BUT SOLD WELL and LOWLY-RATED AND PLAYED BAD, respectively. Outpost was never said to be great. It was a flop. Done. It wasn't "overrated"
These games, and many others you are suggesting, deserve a place in the "25 most dissapointing games ever," but not "25 most overrated games ever."
Halo - PC Jedi Knight: Knights of the Old Republic - PC Splinter Cell - gamecube/ps2 Metal Gear Solid - Ps1, Ps2, Gamecube Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance - Ps2 Halo 2 - will be on PC The new Ninja Gaidan game - Xbox Exclusive Brute Force, Mech Assault - don't know Any sports game - Ps1, Ps2, Pc, Gamecube
I bought SMS when i got my gamecube, and i played a level or two and was like "This isn't Mario 64, this sucks!"
Now, a year later, I hadn't gotten through ANY of my gamcube games (I have 17). I kept getting too many, played each for a week, then went to a new game. (I got 45% through Metroid and stopped for 6 months - i have to restart now cuz i dont know where anything is).
Flash forward to this summer, I decided to adopt a new strategy: Play each game until i beat it. I've gotten 46 shines in Mario Sunshine and I have to say it's one of the funnest games I've played in a long time. How do I know? because not only are the boards so well designed, but when i beat a challenging level, there is SUCH a satisfaction, like when you first beat level 8-2 or 8-3 in the original super mario bros. Oh, and yes, the retro levels are amazing. Truly, as one person said, Mario for adults. No WAY a 5 year old can beat some of those...
Overall, and EXCELLENT game. Up there with SM64 (but sm64 wins by being so original)
You can make a 1444x4266 jpeg in photoshop with a single "painted black" background. There - 40k. However, this is probably not simply "Black" but rather a photograph of space, meaning every other pixel might be another shade/darkness of black, resulting in 1444x4266= 6160104 potentially different pixels.
a) We already have Mt. Rushmore. b) I think there are probably a few clues on Earth that we're an intelligent species without having to make a huge statue of a "face"
I agree 100%. It's what I call the XFL marketing strategy...
You have a new and potentially interesting product that is going to compete with an established and well-loved by the public juggernaut. Instead of offering your product as an ALTRERNATIVE or ADDITION to the mainstread item, you go out and say that everyone who likes said established thing is a loser. Why did the XFL have to say the NFL is a bunch of pussies? Do they not realize that the football fan who loves the NFL does NOT like to be called a pussy?
On the other hand there's the iced tea drinks that don't try to say snapple or lipton is crap. Instead, they simply market against that megabrand as an alternative or addition.
I think you must have forgotten about the six day war in 1967 (OK so it was a "preemptive strike".
There were 6 nations lined up at the border of israel ready to invade. By your logic, if Americans had attacked the Japanese airplanes that were ready to bomb Pearl Harbor instead of waiting for the Japanese to attack first, your logic would say that "America launched an unprovoked attack on the Japanese"
I know. I was being sarcastic - i.e. "Isn't Palestine the country that is apparently SO desired by the arab world that they MUST have made it when it was 100% in their power to do so when they controlled ALL the land in question from 1948-1967?"
will soon extradite these people to the US so they can be prosecuted - that or blow them apart in a helicopter raid
I'm with ya man. The NERVE of some people, trying to arrest HEROES and FREEDOM-FIGHTERS* whose only crime ("crime" is such a strong word - more like "minor social inconvenience") is blowing up buses full of 7 year-old schoolchildren while carrying dozens of picklejars full of nails and screws so that the scrapnel rips apart as much human flesh as possible. (I mean, that fucking 6-month old baby girl on the cover of the NY Post yesterday woulda taken out the suicide bomber if he hadn't taken her out first - he did it in self defense! and now Israel has the nerve to try and arrest the organizers of that heroic act???).
*Note: I support the roadmap and i 100% believe there should be a palestine, and I am not in favor of harrasement of innocent, non-violent Palestinians (i DO fully support their right to protest, dissent, etc) - oh yeah, and i'm jewish and lived in israel for a while
Do they mean Palestine, Texas... or Palestine, West Virginia?
Wait! Maybe they mean the middle-eastern country "Palestine" that the Jordanians and Egyptians gave to their Arab brothers when they controlled 100% of Gaza, West Bank and Jerusalem from 1948-1967.
Saturn was an awful system all around, and even in 1997 when it came out, $200 for a cd-player was very pricey (as opposed to PS2's launch in which a dvd-standalone player could cost $250 itself)
But the point the grandparent is making is not "I love nintendo, and (whine-cry-sob) PLEASE stop posting stories that say my console is a flop!" The real point is that it's just stupid that there is an article seeminbgly every week about "Joe Schmo, on his Geocities website, talks about the Console Wars, and how Nintendo is falling behind." or "Is Gamecube a Disaster?" You get the same N-zealots and anti-N-fanatics throwing the same flamebait at eachother story-after-story ("Nintendo is kiddie!" vs. "Nintendo makes the best games!"). Enough already!
"Yo-hay-va-hay," roughly translating to "I am that I am."
I'm fluent in hebrew, and that's not even close to the translation of the hebrew sentence "I am that I am" (but that's still a nice theory)
My favorite theory I have heard (and the one i lean to) on YHVH's name is this. Take a look at these 3 hebrew words (and how to spell them in phonetic english)
HYH = Past
HVVH = Present
YHYH = Future
Therefore, YHVH, or G-d, is a combination of the 3... a code for "Past, Present and future." Those who have studied gods and mythology will understand that the G-d of the Bible is a "Gd of time" as opposed to Zeus, Ra, etc, who were "gods of nature," thus making the YHVH (G-d) name a good candidate for some sort of time-relevence.
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People... "Overrated" means a game that was, in the end, bad... but everyone said it was so good.
People here keep putting "Enter the Matrix" and "Outpost" as great examples for this list. Those games were POORLY RATED, PLAYED BAD BUT SOLD WELL and LOWLY-RATED AND PLAYED BAD, respectively. Outpost was never said to be great. It was a flop. Done. It wasn't "overrated"
These games, and many others you are suggesting, deserve a place in the "25 most dissapointing games ever," but not "25 most overrated games ever."
I think the Metal Blade in Mega Man 2 was the best. It shot in 8 directions! It ruled!
What do you think? What about stupidest weapon? (I think Bomb from MM1 - it was too slow).
was Link the best choice they had to use as the Gamecube-exclusive character for Soul Calibur 2?
Um... seeing as how gc version of Soul Caliber 2 is outselling PS2 and Xbox combined, I'd say yeah.
Is it just me, or does the gamecube seem to be the most popular system here on /.?
I mean, slashdot is not the average users' demographic, but it always just seems to me that a LOT of people here have a gamecube...
Halo - PC
Jedi Knight: Knights of the Old Republic - PC
Splinter Cell - gamecube/ps2
Metal Gear Solid - Ps1, Ps2, Gamecube
Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance - Ps2
Halo 2 - will be on PC
The new Ninja Gaidan game - Xbox Exclusive
Brute Force, Mech Assault - don't know
Any sports game - Ps1, Ps2, Pc, Gamecube
I bought SMS when i got my gamecube, and i played a level or two and was like "This isn't Mario 64, this sucks!"
Now, a year later, I hadn't gotten through ANY of my gamcube games (I have 17). I kept getting too many, played each for a week, then went to a new game. (I got 45% through Metroid and stopped for 6 months - i have to restart now cuz i dont know where anything is).
Flash forward to this summer, I decided to adopt a new strategy: Play each game until i beat it. I've gotten 46 shines in Mario Sunshine and I have to say it's one of the funnest games I've played in a long time. How do I know? because not only are the boards so well designed, but when i beat a challenging level, there is SUCH a satisfaction, like when you first beat level 8-2 or 8-3 in the original super mario bros. Oh, and yes, the retro levels are amazing. Truly, as one person said, Mario for adults. No WAY a 5 year old can beat some of those...
Overall, and EXCELLENT game. Up there with SM64 (but sm64 wins by being so original)
Well you two will be able to do tunneling software and play against eachother!
MK:DD showdown-to-the-death!
I may be wrong, but here's what I think...
You can make a 1444x4266 jpeg in photoshop with a single "painted black" background. There - 40k. However, this is probably not simply "Black" but rather a photograph of space, meaning every other pixel might be another shade/darkness of black, resulting in 1444x4266= 6160104 potentially different pixels.
...and i think the shadow is a little off too
a) We already have Mt. Rushmore.
b) I think there are probably a few clues on Earth that we're an intelligent species without having to make a huge statue of a "face"
Um... if israel never arrests anyone, who the hell are all these prisoners being released?
(oh, and we all know all these ACs are just one guy)
I agree 100%. It's what I call the XFL marketing strategy...
You have a new and potentially interesting product that is going to compete with an established and well-loved by the public juggernaut. Instead of offering your product as an ALTRERNATIVE or ADDITION to the mainstread item, you go out and say that everyone who likes said established thing is a loser. Why did the XFL have to say the NFL is a bunch of pussies? Do they not realize that the football fan who loves the NFL does NOT like to be called a pussy?
On the other hand there's the iced tea drinks that don't try to say snapple or lipton is crap. Instead, they simply market against that megabrand as an alternative or addition.
I think you must have forgotten about the six day war in 1967 (OK so it was a "preemptive strike".
There were 6 nations lined up at the border of israel ready to invade. By your logic, if Americans had attacked the Japanese airplanes that were ready to bomb Pearl Harbor instead of waiting for the Japanese to attack first, your logic would say that "America launched an unprovoked attack on the Japanese"
The UN offered the Palestinian people the same land which they're now complaining about not having back when Israel was formed
:)
Not true. You forget that the UN offered the Palestinians ALL of east jerusalem as well.
Funny how anti-israel people never bring this up...
Oh, and Palestine is NOT a country.
I know. I was being sarcastic - i.e. "Isn't Palestine the country that is apparently SO desired by the arab world that they MUST have made it when it was 100% in their power to do so when they controlled ALL the land in question from 1948-1967?"
will soon extradite these people to the US so they can be prosecuted - that or blow them apart in a helicopter raid
I'm with ya man. The NERVE of some people, trying to arrest HEROES and FREEDOM-FIGHTERS* whose only crime ("crime" is such a strong word - more like "minor social inconvenience") is blowing up buses full of 7 year-old schoolchildren while carrying dozens of picklejars full of nails and screws so that the scrapnel rips apart as much human flesh as possible. (I mean, that fucking 6-month old baby girl on the cover of the NY Post yesterday woulda taken out the suicide bomber if he hadn't taken her out first - he did it in self defense! and now Israel has the nerve to try and arrest the organizers of that heroic act???).
*Note: I support the roadmap and i 100% believe there should be a palestine, and I am not in favor of harrasement of innocent, non-violent Palestinians (i DO fully support their right to protest, dissent, etc) - oh yeah, and i'm jewish and lived in israel for a while
Do they mean Palestine, Texas... or Palestine, West Virginia?
Wait! Maybe they mean the middle-eastern country "Palestine" that the Jordanians and Egyptians gave to their Arab brothers when they controlled 100% of Gaza, West Bank and Jerusalem from 1948-1967.
(oh, wait a second, that never happened...)
3DO also cost like $700 when it first came out
Saturn was an awful system all around, and even in 1997 when it came out, $200 for a cd-player was very pricey (as opposed to PS2's launch in which a dvd-standalone player could cost $250 itself)
They can afford losing another couple of races, especially with their in-house franchises (mainly Pokemon), bringing so much cash in
Don't forget Zelda, Mario, Donkey Kong, Kart-racing, Starfox, Kirby, Metroid, etc. People will buy these franchises EVERY time they come out.
As for anti-nintendo articles well cry me a river
Disclaimer: I'm a Nintendo fanboy.
But the point the grandparent is making is not "I love nintendo, and (whine-cry-sob) PLEASE stop posting stories that say my console is a flop!" The real point is that it's just stupid that there is an article seeminbgly every week about "Joe Schmo, on his Geocities website, talks about the Console Wars, and how Nintendo is falling behind." or "Is Gamecube a Disaster?" You get the same N-zealots and anti-N-fanatics throwing the same flamebait at eachother story-after-story ("Nintendo is kiddie!" vs. "Nintendo makes the best games!"). Enough already!
Personaly, I'm getting sick of these Anti-Nintendo articles
Me too. Can we please stop the "Gamecube is an enourmous flop" stories?
While we're at it, can we also stop the "Dreamcast was the greatest system ever" rants as well?
Dude. Polybius is 100% true. I'm serious. My brother's wife's aunt's roommate's son played it once.
And I'm a Levi... care to have your feet washed?
it's Yud-Vuv-Aleph-Lamed
General rule-of-thumb, most hebrew names ending in "el" will be spelled "aleph-lamed" because the name derived from "of G-d"
"Yo-hay-va-hay," roughly translating to "I am that I am."
I'm fluent in hebrew, and that's not even close to the translation of the hebrew sentence "I am that I am" (but that's still a nice theory)
My favorite theory I have heard (and the one i lean to) on YHVH's name is this. Take a look at these 3 hebrew words (and how to spell them in phonetic english)
HYH = Past
HVVH = Present
YHYH = Future
Therefore, YHVH, or G-d, is a combination of the 3... a code for "Past, Present and future." Those who have studied gods and mythology will understand that the G-d of the Bible is a "Gd of time" as opposed to Zeus, Ra, etc, who were "gods of nature," thus making the YHVH (G-d) name a good candidate for some sort of time-relevence.