10 Video Games Nobody Admits Are Annoyingly Overrated

10. Final Fantasy XV

Metacritic: 81

One of the weirdest things about FF XV is just how close it gets to satisfying, yet at every turn there's a crucial missing component.

Combat, whilst flashy, is a truly bizarre attempt at real-time third-person action where you hold buttons to pull off attacks, FF XII-style, forgoing any tactile feedback. Seriously, why the hell can't any Final Fantasy game post FF X get combat right?!

You can't control other characters so issuing item and target-based orders becomes the norm, and aside from seeing Noctis get rocked by a powerful blow - which puts him in a slow, lumbering state incapable of doing anything - you've got no sense of any real sense of a fight's progression. Either you dominate in seconds or you're knocked for six and forced to suck up endless amounts of potions.

Missions and story are far worse, with literal "Go get this and bring it back" fetch quests comprising 99% of the side content, and the main story beats themselves making zero sense. Until months later when it was patched out, we had a borderline broken, PS2-era 'seen or not seen' stealth section that saw Noct trawl through 45 minutes of corridors and nothing else. It came right at the close of the story when things were supposed to be wrapping up, and completely destroyed what little pace was present.

How this has a cumulative 81 score is beyond me.