Red Dead Redemption 2 – does it deserve its reputation? (pic: Rockstar Games)
Readers discuss the games they feel don’t deserve their good reputation, including classics such as Halo and Bloodborne.
The subject for this weekend’s Inbox was suggested by reader Gadfly and didn’t necessarily have to be about games that are considered classics, but just titles you think are undeserving of their critical acclaim.
There were plenty of sacred cows being sacrificed, although in many cases people were happy to admit the game was good – it just wasn’t for them.
A discouraging word
Undoubtedly the most overrated game of all time in my mind is Red Dead Redemption 2. Currently sitting at 97 on Metacritic, and comfortably, as rated by critics, one of the greatest games of all time.
Except, when you look beyond the surface, it is a pretty average third person shooter with a very basic mission structure (travel here, shoot things, travel back, repeat), a padded story which is so self-indulgent it won’t even let you skip the inane chatter between characters on the way to missions.
In my opinion Rockstar seemed totally fixated on the technical side of the game they completely forgot to inject any fun into it. To be fair, they did a good job. The world is absolutely beautiful, a flawless recreation of the American West which does a great job of transporting you into character and sucking you into its world. The animations are great, and we all know the effort they put into recreating horses. but that’s not even near enough for classic status the critics bestowed upon it.
Almost everything else is bang average. The shooting is unremarkable (as always with Rockstar), the missions are dull and repetitive, the story is bloated and far too long. After around 10 hours the gameplay has exhausted itself and got me thinking, to paraphrase Trinity The Tuck Taylor: Where. Is. The fun?
But don’t just take my ‘it is overrated’ word for it. GC’s original review was glowing, as with all other publications, until the PC version came out a year later and a re-review righted some of the wrongs and called it ‘fundamentally flawed’. In my opinion, critics were swept away with the hype and majesty of the game, it’s incredible environments and perfectly realised world, and that’s why it ended up with the reviews it did – and so little mention of how rote the gameplay becomes just a few short hours in.
Henshin Agogo
Rare opinion
I’ve always felt that pretty much everything Rare has ever done has been weirdly overrated. As usual the reason for this is that their graphics are good but I’ve always found their games to be second-rate copies of other, better games. Even if the graphics are often better there’s no way that Banjo-Kazooie is better than Super Mario, Diddy Kong Racing better than Mario Kart or Donkey Country better than proper Nintendo platformers.
Even things like Battletoads were rubbish and Star Fox Adventures was …read more
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