Most Overhyped Video Game Franchises

I do play this game it's the best out of the Call of Duty fanchise in my opinion. I love the different exo mechanics. However saying it's my favorite doesn't make it under hyped. Everyone talked about this game at it's time of release Simply for the publicity it was getting. Again really fun game for me and I know not everyone loved it but it was still too over hyped

Call of Duty is played by 8 year olds who think playing it will make them popular at school. They also swear (the characters and the players). There should be a law banning kids under 13 years old from playing M rated games.

I think that people should stop talking about the franchise as if it was something new. Instead just treat it like a normal game, not one which the media posts articles about 24/7. Come on, it's been 6 years already!

I'm almost 12 and I already out grew it.There are actually a lot of kids who are my age but outgrew this game and there are a lot of them in my school.There are still so many kids between the ages of 7-13 that still think that this game is better than everything else.-TheCoolGuy1

Kids from age 6-14 worship this game like it's the holy bible, I mean sure it's cool to create whatever you want but it gets boring really fast and it gets very repetitve.

My friend bought this game 2 years in a row, I'm sensing that he'll buy it next year. It's starting to annoy me.

I believe that if you would like to play soccer, go play it outdoors.

This franchise is not overhyped. Everyone finally realized that the game was using the same gameplay mechanics.

Fortnite was good on launch but was taken over by children too young to play or adults who need to pick a better game and has such become overrated

Fun, but overrated. The fan base is more toxic than a nuclear fallout.

Should be higher up! It is a very overrated game in my opinion

Because it's awesome! A lot of us are already deciding which characters we think should be in the next game!

I know this will be controversial but I think that Mario Party was never good, not even on the N64.

2018: Mario Party 11 is released.
2020 somewhere: Mario Party 12 will rock the series.

I feel really intimidated by the fanbase and the huge timeline of games (what game is where, which Link is in the same time period? It's confusing...). There was a time when the whole format of the games was just being chucked up again until we got BoTW.
I think many fans put this series as "the best" probably due to nostalgia? I don't know. Also side quests in 3d Zelda games can be annoying sometimes.

But if the game used the same formula for multiple games, I hope the next game isn't some semi-carbon copy of BoTW.

What the hell is EarthBound doing on this list? I am sure 90% of the users didn't even played it.

I played Earthbound on the snes recently and I believe it is a little over praised.

I'm pissed we didn't get mother 3 still. Release it outside of Japan

This was the game to me that may have ruined console games forever. It was the first game I personally bought in which it felt like I was intentionally only sold an intro to the game with the goal of the developer being for me to buy expensive add on content to just get a full game experience. Previous games like Borderlands had additional content for sale for it truly felt like "add-on" content, new scenarios only tangentially related to the story and fairly affordable. With Destiny, much like many mobile games, I feel like I got the demo version (for $60) and was expected to pay even more for the full version.

Oh, and it was really boring.

Halo 5 very much deserves to be on this list. The lack of splitscreen coop was simply too egregious an oversight to be forgiven and I won't forgive. You had one good game halo. Then three mediocre sequels and then you made me angry.

Halo 3 god *nostalgic seizure* that hype