10 Video Games Nobody Admits Are Annoyingly Overrated

2. Fallout 4

Metacritic: 86

On track to be the most overrated video game of all time, to this day it's impossible to fathom what hold Bethesda has over both critics and fans alike. Yes, there's since been a somewhat noticeable pushback against Fallout 4's incredibly positive standing, but "Game of the Year 2015", "one of the best open-world games ever" and being "incredibly innovative"?

Come.ON.

Back in 2015 you couldn't move for GOTY nods and pure critical adoration - sentiments that were backed up by Fallout's legion of parrot-like fans squawking in tow.

In reality, Fallout 4's reuse of its predecessor's tech was abundant from minute one. Outside of the litany of bad animation and character/environment clipping, thematically it just didn't add up. We had a character who didn't react to a world where life as he knew it was eradicated and replaced by nuclear Super Mutants, and story-wise the setup of retrieving your infant son was completely replaced by arbitrary fetch-quests and the Minutemen faction deciding you should be their new leader... after five minutes of conversation.

Awkward and misplaced settlement-building systems, character progression that mirrored everything we'd done before, forgettable locations and a bad Pip-Boy interface all compounded to make this one of the weirdest triple-A games in history:

All the money invested and reaped thereafter, but none of the quality execution.