pokoko said:
spemanig said:
pokoko said:
Ah, one of those threads where people call "overrated" games that other people loved but they personally did not.
I'll participate, too. I name whichever game you really like. That game, it's overrated. |
...That's stupid. It completely misses the meaning behind something being over rated. Your first line is in complete oposition of your second. Your second line is making it seem like the only reason people call a game over rated is because of the people playing and not the product. Your first line, correctly, states that "people call 'overrated' games that other people loved but they personally did not." That's the definition of over rated. The Last of Us is over rated because my personal opinion of that game is in negative contrast with the overall consensus of the game's quality and impact, not because I think it's "mainstream" of I'm "hipster" or I don't like/respect the kind of people who do enjoy this type of game.
Your retort is petty and misses the point of calling something over rated.
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That's stupid.
My retort is basically that I'm calling the action of naming something 'overrated' as being a petty thing. I'm calling the need to elevate your own opinions, while downgrading someone else's opinions, immature. You get it now? The whole action is silly.
My cousin, when he was a kid, had the habit of calling anything he didn't like 'dumb'. I'd beat him at a game and he'd call it 'dumb'. Any TV show he didn't like was 'dumb'. The need to label things as 'overrated' is pretty much the same, just with adult wording.
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The whole action isn't silly. It's criticism. It's silly when your a child and you call anything that doesn't go your way "dumb." It's not petty when you have reason and evidence not only as to to why your opinion of the game is not as high as others, but also why you feel that others are misguided in their rose tinted effection.
"I think the Last of Us is overrated because blah blah blah, and I think that people look past these faults because blah blah blah."
Critisism.
