Anonymous: What game franchise is the most overrated and why?
Raycevick: Destiny. Diablo. Borderlands.
Put any loot-based game on a board and throw of the dart.
I understand the core-gameplay is meant to be the bridge from exciting item to exciting item, the problem for me, is both are often anti-climatic, and I much prefer core gameplay to have unique context.
I much prefer a Half Life to a Far Cry, a Titanfall 2 to a Warframe, etc.
Even in Multiplayer, lots of my favorite games often facilitate context. Halo 2 in Big Team Battle is radically different than Hardcore 4v4s. Siege's claustrophobic quick kill atmosphere is unique from Deathmatch havens of other Military Games.
I just can't play a game based around looting for the amount their fans seem too. Even something like Mass Effect 3, didn't keep me hooked because of the drops, it was the universe. It was finally being able to see this world Bioware created ages ago, be taken to new extremes in ways a campaign could simply never achieve. Like a defected Cerberus officer with whips smacking biotics alongside a Krogan Vanguard, helping the unpossessed Collector mow down waves of Geth, assisted by a Geth.
Playing games because you want something to engage while also conversating, I get, but for that I go to TF2, Halo, or Call of Duty, not games that require so much more time to maximize the fun out of.