Nothing is Overated

[wizzy555]

If not for the role marketing plays in a game's early success, I'd agree.

I suppose the argument holds more weight when referring to games that have been out for a very long time, and haven't been marketed in ages.

Of course, if you're referring to critical success, rather than financial success, then I completely agree, give or take a few reviews with questionable motives.

But if a game receives large marketing, and a large number of people enjoy it, is it overrated? If a large number of people enjoyed it, then I don't think so. And I suppose it's possible for something like Star Wars Battlefront 2 to do well, despite being largely criticized, but it's still a critical failure. Which is what i'm focusing on. I don't think marketing matters that much toward whether something is "overrated."

It depends how is it rated. If it's claimed to be raiding highly because of awesome gameplay and you think the gameplay is shit then you can say you think the game is overrated.

The exact meaning of overrated is dependent on your theory of aesthetics or metaphysics. But saying nothing is overrated is stupid.

 

[maninahat]

I'd agree except the works of Jane Austen exist and I continue refusing to believe they're actually enjoyed and are instead considered worthwhile purely because they're old. Just go read a Bronte and thank me later

Read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; it?s the anti-Bronte Bronte book.

 

[Secondhand Revenant]

There is no objective measurement of quality. It's all subjective. Something cannot be overrated or underrated. It just IS. It has exactly as much success as it deserves. And since success isn't a measurement of quality anyway, the point is moot.

Discuss.

Subjectivity things can still be argued over. Nothing requires there to be an objective final answer to argue over it.

Also to say it has as much success as it *deserves* is subjective. How much it deserves is not an objective measure

Caring about objective fact is okay, trying to dismiss all subjectivity for it is more of an edgy objectivity fetish and you're doing it wrong anyways