No.
Nothing can be overrated, and nothing can be underrated. People’s opinions are people’s opinions. Every reviewer’s perspective on their respective games are perfectly valid given the context that they are based on opinions.
I believe that there are no such thing as perfect games, and that 10/10 scores do not reflect this mythical ideal of a perfect game, but rather, it’s a representation of a perfect satisfaction of entertainment in the reviewers’ opinion. So if someone can find flaws or things that needs to be improved for a certain universally praised game, that just reaffirms that not all games are perfect.
But to say that people over rate their enjoyment is quite a dangerous claim, and I admittedly falls into just another writer who has blamed games for being overrated and underrated, myself. But when I use those words, I don’t actually mean that the games are flawed in a way that the reviewers inaccurately gave their opinions. I actually mean hype. When I call a game overrated, I just mean that the bar for expectation for that game is set higher than that game may achieve, so when someone decides to pick it up based on this over hype, they might get disappointed. Conversely, underrated games are just games that many people may have overlooked because of negative hype.
And I understand why websites publish these sort of articles. It’s the same reason why HipHopGamers scream at their audience--views. Calling a universally acclaimed game bad is as click-attractive as reskinning Modern Warfare to Modern Warfare 2 is to game sales. But I hate this sort of journalism. It’s a profiting strategy at the expense of integrity. Michael Pachter pulls weekly bullshit out of his ass to get views, and it works, but that’s just so pathetic.
I’m sure that there are tons of people who are now blacklisting me in their minds, calling me arrogant or whatnot, but this is just my honest opinion. And whether or not you agree with me, people’s opinions are just their opinions, nothing’s wrong with that (unless publishers starts to pay for reviews like certain websites that rhymes with FameSpot). So don’t blame the reviewers, don’t blame the games, can’t we all just agree to disagree?
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"Is -Insert Popular Game Here- Overrated?
No. "
Ignorant is right. There is a trend to give games by big publishers and developers consitently high scores, even when they are deemed average by the users. There is nothing wrong with questioning the validity of a review.
A lot of modern games have decent visuals but shallow gameplay and or stories, people look back at the greatest games and what do they remember?, they remember the stories, not the visuals, and not the hype, but the stories.
90% of all the games being hyped right now will not even be remembered in 10 years time. BFBC2? not a chance, KZ2?, not a chance. When a game gets a 9/10 and the majority of that score is made up of visual praise then you have to wonder how long the reviewers have been gaming for.