The most overrated games of 2017
After the jump, the ten most overrated games of 2017.
10. Bomber Crew
A bunch of arcade action missions in which you get all your stuff back if you die, your crew doesn't matter, and you're not even flying a B-17.
9. Cuphead
Why would you create something this good and then make it too hard for mere mortals? Cuphead is on the wrong side of the line between challenging and punishing.
8. Total War: Warhammer II
Since when are we putting Roman numerals after titles when it's pretty much the same game with a new roster of players? I don't play sports games, so that wasn't a rhetorical question.
7. Middle Earth: Shadow of War
In case you were worried the last game left out any animations of ways to kill an orc, here's a thousand more. Also have a bunch of tedious loot to push you into microbuying stuff. Stick around long enough and you can have a pointless base-building boondoggle.
6. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
Finally Resident Evil borrows from some new sources! If only it had understood them better. Or at least put them into a better game. From the review - '' ... Instead of a horror game that follows through with the obvious inspiration it draws from Silent Hill, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Blair Witch Project, you get a horror game that taps into you fear of not having enough room to carry the green herb you found.
5. Assassin's Creed: Origins
Assassin's Creed: Origins is Ubisoft at its best and at its worst. The ancient Egypt they've built is nothing short of breathtaking for its detail, expanse, aesthetic, and sheer splendor. And it damn well better be, because it's pretty much all there is to this game.
4. Xenoblade Chronicles 2
A game about leveling up a bunch of cool characters . . who stand around on the sidelines while you play these other putzes.
3. Destiny 2
Look, I know that Bungie knows gunplay. That's been clear ever since i put Halo into the first Xbox 1. They're even doing a fine job situating that gunplay into a never-ending MMO. But the glacial progression system is a wet blanket over the whole thing. Destiny 2 demands that you care about the difference between a light level of 216 and a light level of 217.
2. Super Mario Odyssey
Insipid mascot with a creepy porn ' stache who should have been retired ten years ago, formulaic puzzles n' jumps we've seen a thousand times before, pointless sprawl that exists mainly so you can ride a camel or some damn thing, an obligatory moon slice every three minutes, a surfeit of meaningless coins because humans are conditioned to want coins, and desultory levels with no aesthetic consistency and zero surprises. I suppose the T-Rex was pretty awesome while he lasted. Everything since then has been a tedious procession of forced candy-colored jubilance and meaningless bubblegum gameplay.
1. Horizon: Zero Dawn
Hunting robot dinosaur is thrilling stuff and beyond reproach. But this writing, characters, and cutscenes are some of the most shamelessly derivative and clumsy pandering i've ever witnessed.