Overrated games

[Rayaan]

All I've been talking about throughout this thread is games objectively. Whether or not they are overhyped and overrated, objectively.

There's always an element of subjectivity and without it we wouldn't be able to say whether or not a game is overrated. What I don't think you get though, is that I'm talking about whether or not a game is overrated on the back of that subjectivity. The game reviewers, the promotion, the fanboys. They're all subjective, but is the game as great as they all say? Yet again, I don't see how anyone can say anything but no...

I think that the most objective you can get is by looking at the technical issues of a game, but when you make an evaluation on how great it is overall (or on how other people think how great it is), then, ultimately, that is always going to be a subjective assessment. Along with that, even the major technical flaws that you see in the game might be something minor for someone else. So there's a little subjective element there as well. People naturally tend to magnify or minimize certain problems depending on their own biases, without even knowing it. So I agree with Summer that it's not actually possible to answer objectively as to whether or not a game is overhyped/overrated. I think that Skyrim is one of the games that is overrated, too, but I know that that is not an objective conclusion.