Your 10 most average games

[Lodestar]

People need to stop with the COD hate, it's getting old.

Maybe, but I just want to go on record and say that I didn't like Call of Duty before it was cool to not like Call of Duty

Damn, that might be the sickest 'shop I've seen all year.

[equalsign]

I'd have to say, the most average game I've ever played though is Fable on the Xbox... that's exactly where I'd put my 5 out of 10 rating. It was enjoyable enough, I played it though but it was exactly middle of the road. it didn't excite me nor did it disappoint me, it was a resounding Meh.

Feel exactly the same way.

Most average Platformer, 2.5-D: Klonoa Door to Phantomville

FOOL I WILL CUT YOU.









Kidding. Based on your definition of average I can see why you picked this.

[equalsign]

Also:

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Made in 5 minutes in some ghetto online photo editor. It's so hard to see the glasses when the image is only 64x64 pixels.

[Erik_Twice]

Well... I did a little experiment on Gamerankings.com which lists all game reviews and apparently the average rating for a game is a 7.6 out of 10.... which is stupd. 5 should be average, bloody rediculous.

Non-sense. That assumes that games of all qualities are proportionaly reviewed. It also pressumes that the 0-10 scale used by Gamerankings has 5 as "average" instead of "mediocre", which is far more reasonble.

[Luke]

Everyone does top 10 favorites or 10 most hated lists. Won't someone please think of the middle of the bell curve? What would you choose as your most C average, middle of the road, neither here nor there, just passable games OF ALL TIME?

You know you're just opening the door for people to bitch about games right?

I'll try to give this my best shot though:

The Lego game series: Good, not great
Star Wars Masters Of Teras Kasi: Finally a SW fighting game...that's mediocre.
Snakes Revenge: A game I thought was a sequel to Metal Gear.
Tetris 2: You're not Tetris.
Earthworm Jim 2: See my comments on tetris 2. Sometimes you just set the bar too high.


I don't know JT. Most games are filed in the good or bad category for me, so it's hard to list games that are just "blah". I'm looking at my library of over 1k games, and I just can't find one defining game I would consider a C.

[Croooow!]

Average 2D Platformer - Rayman on Saturn/Ristar on Mega Drive

I agree with you on Ristar. I've nothing against the game but it just feels uninspired (except for the awesomely bad 90s stage intro screens).

When I was obsessed with PSone RPGs I did find Legend of Dragoon just average. I'd be willing to give it another chance though if it was released as a PSone Classic.

[dsheinem]

I am not sure if I want to cobble together a top ten of all time, but I feel like most of the recent console games I've been playing are all painfully average:

Medal of Honor (2010)
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Red Dead Redemption

Bunch of mehs all around on these titles. MoH is the worst offender with 75% or more of the missions seeming like rehashes from other, better games. B:AA must be the most overrated game this gen (unless it is going to get drastically better in the second half) and RDR is just GTAIV with cowboy hats (actually, GTAIV and RDR might be even more overrated that B:AA). Suffice to say I am not especially fond of any of these, but have to admit that the high production values and occasional moments of fun and novelty make them passable.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

Average 2D Platformer - Rayman on Saturn/Ristar on Mega Drive

I agree with you on Ristar. I've nothing against the game but it just feels uninspired (except for the awesomely bad 90s stage intro screens).

When I was obsessed with PSone RPGs I did find Legend of Dragoon just average. I'd be willing to give it another chance though if it was released as a PSone Classic.

D: Ristar is probably my favorite platformer on the Genesis.

Anyways, average games...

Deus Ex
GTA series
Mario Kart
After Burner II
Trine
The Lego games as has been mentioned

There are several others, but it's hard to remember average games. They just don't leave an impression on people. I can much more easily name my 10 favorites and 10 least favorites.

[Original_Name]

...I don't understand how Ristar fits your criteria for being an "average" game, especially on a console like the Genesis which is so filled with average platformers. What about Aero the Acrobat, Bubsy II, Chakan, Chuck Rock, Cool Spot, Earnest Evans, James Pond, Mr. Nutz, Taz in Escape from Mars, Toki: Going Ape Spit, or Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel? Ristar is a very inspired game that pushed the Genesis that in terms of audio and video is one of the most impressive games in the console's entire library, at least in those regards. The stretching-arms element to the gameplay is inspired and well-executed to the point that I wouldn't think anyone would just see it as a meaningless gimmick; it's an effectively-implemented gameplay mechanic that defines Ristar as a game, and makes it stand apart from any other platformer of the era. Plus you have to take into consideration just how difficult those algorithms would have been to code back in those days.

I really like Kid Chameleon and Decap Attack, for instance, but to me those would qualify as much more average platformers compared to Ristar, despite my enjoyment for them. I know I'm making a mountain out of a molehill here, and it's kind of silly to have much real debate on how "average" a game is, but I don't think Ristar qualifies as an average game at all, let alone the most average game.

[J T]

You know you're just opening the door for people to bitch about games right?

It doesn't matter what you post about, someone always takes it as an open door to bitch about games.

I don't know JT. Most games are filed in the good or bad category for me, so it's hard to list games that are just "blah". I'm looking at my library of over 1k games, and I just can't find one defining game I would consider a C.

Well, part of the reason I made the thread is to get people to think about the shades of grey. We often brand games as a 'like' or 'dislike', but then we always end up with these lists of best and worst games (that are always the same games in a different order) while everything inbetween is forgotten and never talked about. Even the professional critics tend to deal in extreme scores. You hardly ever see anything rated as 5/10. It's either 7-10, or 0-3.

Plus, I just thought it was funny to make a "top 10" of averages.