Weekend Hot Topic: The most overrated video game ever

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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