No 'Halo' answer from me. If any Halo game comes close to not deserving its praise, I'd say it's Halo 3. It's simple fun.

For me, the most overrated of this generation would be MW2. I was a little irked by MW1 already, and I just can't stand Call of Duty anymore, especially the multiplayer. I haven't had tons of fun with COD since COD 2, where not everything was special forces and small squads. It changed my perception of war, and the set pieces wee brilliant, not generic like mw's.

The military aspects were more modern, without a doubt (battles aren't as huge, as I've hinted), though I ultimately ended up not enjoying MW's campaign as much. What was really the final straw for me was the MP. I couldn't find any games that had under 24 people and were not HC. I managed to joined a local clan for a while and MW's multiplayer became a whole other game, and things were slower but definitely more fun.

r4v3gl0ry

Agree with everything you've said here. (except the halo comment, those games are overrated as **** :))

They took a great franchise and turned it into a Michael Bay movie.

Aside from the unforgivable fact that MW2 has no dedicated servers, it's pretty sad how gimmicky the multiplayer has become. The original Call of Duty, a game with no killstreak bonuses, no perks, no unlockable weapons, somehow had a much higher skill cap and required much more strategy as a team and lent itself far better to competition. To me, that says everything.

In my honest opinion of-course it's Mass Effect 2. Not only it's the most shallow RPG I've ever played, but it's also boring, pretentious, badly written, relies on fetch quests, and it doesn't get good until the last hour of the game.

People criticize Oblivion for being too shallow...honestly.

GeneralShowzer

A guy with a chris nolan movie as his sig is calling something pretentious. I love it.

do you know what pretentious means? i suspect not. ME2 has the plot of basically a generic action sci fi movie, and it knows it. Someone needs to tell Christopher Nolan his movies aren't that important ;) Calling something shallow / badly written and not specifying at all is more pretentious than ME2.

I think ME2 is a great example of an action RPG. ME1 was extremely tedious and many of the RPG elements were simply useless. ME2 ramped the gameplay up (which is usually a weakness in bioware games) and did a better job developing better characters. It's not Baldur's Gate 2, but it's hardly overrated. And when you look at the quality of writing of most video games, ME2 is quite a bit better (though not amazing obviously...shepherd in particular has a lot of cheese, but the interactions with the characters is really well-written most of the time).

I'd love to discuss it in more detail but you just threw out a bunch of stock pseudo intellectual criticisms so I can't really refute anything concrete.