Do people even know what the word overrated means? Why do people keep mentioning stuff like Luigis Mansion and Sunshine? These games have never been very popular oO Also, since when would anyone defend Shadow the Hedgehog? Is this a new meme im not aware of? A guy (Bloodletter) posted the game a few minutes ago in place 5 of his top 50 fav games of all time and Frickinfrik thinks people would get mad about somebody calling it bad? What is happening???
Yeah. I have no idea why people turned the thread into "video games you hate". Probably because of a conditional logical that 1st condition "mention overrated GameCube games replaced with 2nd condition "Lets continue the hate" lol.
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For example people mention Wind Waker. This game was never liked in the context of whole gamers. Even die-hard Nintendo and Zelda fans hated it in every atom in their bones lol. This is the game that was so "underrated" and "unfairly hated" SEGA fanbois used it to make fun of Nintendo and Zelda fans lol. People compare it with other Zelda games and bash it with "childish", "the hell", "weird style", "bad visuals", "what is that forced stealth mission", "they just threw you into world and said goodbye", "chore gameplay", "lack of story", "bad characters", "where is the SpaceWorld 2000 graphics?", "IDK where I should go or I'm going", et cetera lol. Even before internet was popular around you would never hear any video game in a popular series hated so much because people usually loved whatever was popular just because of how popular it was, so the Wind Waker situation was a very shocking and weird aspect in gaming culture people were like "the hell you doing Nintendo". At the time SEGA was also ruining Sonic games so people thought "is this the end of Japanese video gaming?" lol.
Eventually, the game has a niche fan base that's even more separated than the Zelda fan base. There are tons of people who dislike Zelda games but like Wind Waker. Nintendo tried to attract "non-Zelda gamers" and they were partly successful with it by almost losing the Zelda fanbase lol. Calling the game "overrated" to hate it is actually way more "overestimating" the situation than how much fans of the game overestimate the game lol.
However when you check the game's score around all you will see only the part of gamers who love the game and raise the score of the game around while haters ignore the game. You can even hear people who don't accept the game actually exist or part of the series lol. Some even call the game "Celda Wind Waker", they don't accept the game as a part of an "official" series lol.
I do like Wind Waker by accepting it's not even one of the good games in the series, as it rather only has a meme-worthy humor, I would call it underestimated anyway just because I judge the game as a video game, not as a Zelda game.
If we base "how the game was liked" in "objective way" by comparing how much it sold, Wind Waker sold half of about how much Ocarina of Time/Twilight Princess was sold. Wind Waker sold a little more than Majora's Mask in which if the game couldn't attract non-Zelda gamers it couldn't sell that much. Also Wind Waker HD is among "worst-selling Zelda game" in the context of how much other Zelda games sold that people don't even consider as "main/important" Zelda game. This is probably why Nintendo didn't care to port the game to Switch and I really don't think they would ever unless they feel very generous. Wind Waker may be the only Zelda game Nintendo regrets and wanna forget, talk about "overestimated" huh? lololol