I think the major difference is that I found that the game really worked for me, and obviously it didn't work for you. Impossible to say why that is, but I think either way both of our views has some validity.

Well, you are just lucky that I can't throw feces through the internet (yet). But thank you, likewise.

The only point left for me to make on regards of DX 1 would be that it "didn't work" for you (As you already said yourself). It was a little bit like a cake or a stew, each part for it seld wasn't that great, but togehter it was pure magic (for me). I guess the old saying "you mileage may vary" was never truer than in this case.

You really should try DX:HR. You can even skip IW, as HR doesn't pick up on the story (beeing a prequel). As HR has a lot more to offer on the "gameplay" part, but less on the themes and issues part (imo). It's still better than 95% of the games out there in this regard, but I found the themes and issues of DX 1 closer to my interests. But it could very well be that DX:HR does a creepy precognition like DX 1 did in its time.

I can't relly say if you will like it or not. But imo it is a great game of it's own and makes DX 1 in some way reduntant as it uses many of its strenghes and does away with a lot of the negative points.

To give a little perpective. When I heard about a DX sequel I first thought "You know, f*ck you, you greedy money grabing bastards for ruining my beloved games with a surely medicore run of the mill shooter sequel". Never bothered to follow any trailer or news of the game, as I was sure that it would definetly suck balls. Well, I noticed its release on GG so I went over to the pirate bay to get it and confirm my solid preconceptions. I played it for 5 - 6 hours straight. Then I went to GG and bought it for full price. I played through it twice in direct succession.

There might still be a bunch of stuff to criticise and maybe there is no 16x shader and full frontal anti aliasing or whatnot, but boy, this game enchanted me like no game in a very, very long time!

So, try it and let me hear back from you in how you liked it.

every single sonic game ever made, most of the CoDs and Gothic 1&2.

Skyrim :P

It's not out yet but i am already starting to get sick of its name. I'm not going to buy it on release day. I'm going to be good and wait a week and keep a close eye on the forums.

I have a bad feeling about it..

Is it too late to vote for Pong?

Not a game, but a company: Sierra. Something about at least 80% of their games put me off in ways that Interplay and EA never managed.

Syberia, which someone else listed. Nice artwork, way too much filler, and bad voice casting or direction for the English version. Tries to make some kind of artistic statement about following dreams, but feels half developed.

I liked Beyond Good & Evil a lot. At the same time, it could be criticized for unusually being less than the sum of its parts.

Vampire: The Masquerade: Redemption wasn't all that good. I don't remember it receiving universal acclaim at any point, so overrated isn't the right term. Same with Summoner, actually. People seemed to treat them both fairly.

Quake series, in my mind at least. Good tech, boring use of it. Not bad, just overrated. Actually liked Quake 4 in lots of spots.

Res Evil felt very overrated when I first played it. I can see some of the appeal now.

I've avoided GTA for ages. It has potential to fall on either side of the scale.

Must be others, but I'm not coming up with them.

Actually, Quake 4 is by far my most favorite Quake game. Everything just ticked with me about that game, it's pretty, it's quite varied and it keeps introducing new stuff throughout the whole game, and ... well, it's just generally very fun and enjoyable experience.

I'm going to go with Halo 2, and Killing Floor.

halo 2 on xbox... boring as hell

And yet discrediting other people's opinions by calling a game "overrated" is perfectly fine?

That's rich.

I wouldn't call Final Fantasy XIV overrated because I don't think anyone liked it.

The gunplay in Quake 4 just felt right to me. While nostalgia won't let me say it's my favorite, it's definitely up there in quality with the others.

No, that's called trolling.

Disagreeing with other people while giving them valid arguments, or at least telling others why do you feel that way, is called making a point however. It's up to people that feel differently to either try and counter those arguments, or just ignore them, whatever they feel like doing.

and well halo is also an extremely overrated game. I usually do not play any console game but i just had to see what is so awesome with it. I played halo 1 with a friend till the end and well....
Must be good for many console gamers because they never played a serious ego-shooter before ?
The indoor levels (70-80% of the game) are close to a massive rip-off copy paste job.
The enemy types you could count on one hand. They even gave them different colours ( as if you would not notice this...) so that they can claim they have more...
The AI if you can call it like that was also no big deal either. For me halo was simply great for newbies and console gamers who never played pc shooters before. And you could play it together.

Biggest thing that bugged me was how obsessively it pursused the idea of limbless torso as body horror. Horror, yes, but by the end of the game they had made it a cliche. In many other ways the game was truer to classic Doom than Doom 3 managed to be.

fanboys man, fanboys