| BTFeather55 said: When one asks if something is overrated, one is actually making a comparison between things that are rated properly and those things that are not . IGN refers to Zelda Ocarina of Time as an overrated game several times in this FFVII article and say it is overrated in the same way as FFVII in not being as good as earlier games in the series. Since IGN is discussing Zelda in the article being discussed here, then that means that Zelda can be discussed here. I make the contention that FFVII is actually far less overrated in comparison to the earlier games in its series than is OoT is actually no worse in quality than OoT is probably better, and the following FF games are probably some of the most underrated games of all time especially amongst vocal minorities in the fan community while the reverse seems to be true with later Zelda games in professional publications see Game Informer's article from 2004 where they say Windwaker was the best game of its gen when games like ICO were actually superior. |
No, one isn't. That isn't what being underrated or overrated is about, because the quality of games as intrinsic experiences exists in a vacuum, as does each individual review.
When one says that a game is "overrated" or "underrated" it implies an erroneous difference between the perceived quality of the game and its actual quality. Yes, the implication in these titles is that there is some objective standard of quality which these games do not meet, either by being above or below the accepted level, but it is still a fact of the game itself and has nothing to do with its competition. If you think that "overrated" means "overrated compared to other games", I don't know what to tell you except "overrated does not mean what you think it means".
The rest of your post has nothing to do with this topic.
