Top 10 Good But Extremely Overrated Things About Certain Video Games
Let's face it, you really do wish that critics would focus more on other more important aspects of these gamesThe bullet-dodging gimmick that it centers around is incredibly cool, yes, but has already been done before (and hopefully with less predictable bullet patterns if nothing else) by Shin Megami Tensei; also, sparing the monsters is too easy, killing them is way way way way WAY too easy, and FAR too many of the fights are scripted to make them essentially impossible to lose (cough, sort of like the Super Metroid boss fights, wheeze)
Me: Alright, alright, Gordon, tell me then; "point of view" gimmick aside, what DID this series have in the way of actual plot?
Gordon Freeman: (sorry, writers were too lazy to make him actually say anything or even DO anything remotely expressive and also sorely lacked the creativity to make it charming and interesting the way that Nintendo does)
Me: Exactly; besides the core plot of "stop the evil aliens from destroying humanity", there's basically nothing. I mean, yeah, sure, we may have the G-Man, but let's face it; even in the full length of Half-Life 2 with BOTH of its additional episodes installed, that pasty-skinned creep only gets literally about NINE MINUTES of screentime in total
Go ahead (those of you that played this game), just TRY and tell me you didn't see Masked Man's identity coming
Back To The Future in melodramatic Final Fantasy form; that's seriously ALL it is
I think the Donkey Kong Country SNES graphics deserves the praise, it looks gorgeous, the newer DK Country game's HD graphics honestly kinda ruin them for me
GLaDOS (P1): Sarcastic for the sake of being sarcastic; would have been forgettable without the ending song in my opinion
Wheatley (P2): Basically the same thing except so dumb that you can barely even tell whether or not he's BEING sarcastic; also falls squarely into the classic (and incredibly infamous) James Bond cliche of villains ALWAYS having thickly posh British accents and lifestyles; also would have been forgettable without the ending twist in my opinion
I was just never going to vote against glados. Also, I have to agree that the original games graphics on the Wii U were overhyped. But in my opinion the switch graphics are as good as promised.
They ARE beautiful, yes, but calling them as beautiful as WALL-E and the like is just a tad pushing it if you ask me
Great music; not NEARLY as great as that of the Mario/Zelda/Metroid trifecta, however
GREAT TIER:
Mettaton
Asgore
Papyrus
Greater Dog
Alphys
Burgerpants
The Amalgamates
GOOD BUT INCREDIBLY OVERRATED TIER:
Undyne
Toriel
Sans
Asriel/Flowey
Gaster
Red
Chara
DECENT TIER:
Napstablook
Mad Dummy
Muffet
Dogamy/Dogaressa
Grillby
Riverperson
Lesser Dog
Shyren
Vulkin
TRASH TIER:
Aaron
Gerson
Temmie
Glyde
Ice Wolf
Snowdin Shopkeeper (I think trash-Y would be a better word)
Nice Cream Guy
Tsundere Plane
Annoying Dog
Royal Guard 01/02
Mettaton's NEO form
Bratty/Catty (same here, honestly; still REALLY want to see the former's feet though)
Jerry
Snowdrake and his father
Most of the generic "enemies" in general
So Sorry
Personally, I'd rather watch South Park: Bigger, Longer And Uncut almost ANY day of the week
Lower Brinstar in particular
They're both complete jerks all throughout most of the game
By the time you reach the ending, it's actually pretty hard to feel any REAL sympathy for them whatsoever, as Yahtzee pointed out
Pretty sure it wasn't even the game that actually invented scripted boss fights