Yeah, I too actually just played through "Shadow...", and while I really admire the inventiveness of the various colossi and their weak points (though some I NEVER would have figured out without a walkthru), as well as the graphics and design of the world (for PS2, it's pretty damn impressive), and especially the music, I really can't say I had much fun playing it; I dunno, boss battles always kinda stress me out because they're so often such a pain in the ass, and when the entire game is nothing but 16 boss fights, eh...however, I can see myself enjoying it WAY more when I come back to play it a second time through some time in the near future, as I won't have to annoyingly figure out the secret to beating each one. But yeah, good god is that camera unbearable, and the ending was a massive disappointment IMO
I just find the Resident Evil games to be way too ridiculous story and setting wise, and while I had fun with RE4, I feel like it went on WAY too long, and went way downhill once you left the village and especially the castle (the village had this fucking awesome foggy atmosphere, the castle had some cool stuff, but the island was just lame gung-ho nonsense IMO) - never played 5, I'll probably snag it when it's like $20
5 is fun but it really doesn't have the personality or atmosphere of 4, well at least up to the island anyway (and no shop guy, that was a fucking disappointment, I was totally looking forward to hearing his hilariously hammy dialogue again). I, too thought that part was pretty lame after the cool intrigue and mystery of the village and castle (cept for that part where you have to go through that old prison, it's only one tiny part but it's chock full of terror when you hear those weird regenerator things making that fucked up sound and you know they're waiting down there somewhere but you don't know where). It's also borderline unplayable in single player mode due to the partner AI graduating from the Natalya school of uselessness.
For overrated games, it's gotta' be:
The Grand Theft Auto games: Drive here, kill/deliver/steal this, escape, lace with dull side missions that nobody does and slather with violence 'til retarded teens rate it higher than games that actually go somewhere.
Every sequel to Halo ever: For the amount of awful games bearing the Halo title you'd think it was a hollywood blockbuster getting the game translation treatment. Seriously, an RTS game? With every new stillborn product they birth cold and mucousy onto the shelves they get one step closer to "Halo: Racers"
MMA games: Buy a "fighting game" fighting game, something with fireballs and gigantic armoured dudes with humongous swords fighting tiny little asian girls with massive halberds and even bigger jugs. That makes for a fun game, not 2 punches followed by 8 minutes of violent hugging.
Tony Hawk games: 1-3 were awesome, from then on Tony Hawk games have seemed driven to simply be a huge melting pot of every bad extreme sports cliche ever. If I'm playing a skateboarding game, I want to play a skateboarding game, not drive cars or sneak into some shitty punk gig. It's any wonder why I think extreme sports people are douches.
Recent Need For Speed games: Why would you want to play as the kind of person who puts a racing exhaust on a Hyundai Lantra and is the subject of head shaking and unheard derision at any number of red light intersections? Ricers are fucking stupid, go away.
Music games: Experience the thrill and adulation of having musical talent, complete with the depressing come-down that is the realisation of the talentless, hum-drum reality that takes place after you stop playing. Imagine not having a musical bone in your body AND being terrible at one of these games. That's the kind of stuff blood splattered office building side walks are made of.
MMO: Spend all day working a menial job to pay for a game where you spend all night working a menial job to pay for power ups that allow you to go questing for a better menial job to pay for better power ups that allow you to go questing for a better menial job to...yeah. That's a special kind of pointless perpetuity only known to sweatshop workers who, ironically enough, also play these games, and will totally do your menial in-game job for you while you're at your real life menial job. This is the worst humanity has to offer, it's everything you love about dull process work and a mind bending narcotics addiction. The fact that Koreans will drown in basements full of their own piss trying to level up before they get those fatal 2 teaspoons of liquid goodness into their lungs should be evidence enough that this is not a hobby to have.
