Unfortunately, people tend to confuse quality with personal taste. For instance, I can't stand Call of Duty, but I would never call that game overrated. Why? Well, because it's a very well made game series. The controls are spot on, the graphics are impressive, the combat is intense, the stories while goofy are entertaining popcorn flicks, and the multiplayer is some of the best on the market.
So why don't I like it then? Because I'm not a fan of military shooters. I think they are pointless, and I prefer the sci fi setting with my shooters. I like unique weapons in my shooters, I like a large variety of creatures to fight, I like all the possibilities that sci fi offers. It's my personal taste in the genre, and it just doesn't work out with CoD for me. But that doesn't mean that I can't see the appeal of CoD.
For a game to be truly overrated, it has to be received really well from the media, but turn into a broken mess when released to the consumers. For instance, if Aliens Colonial Marines had been released unchanged from what we got, but got nothing but 8's and 9's from the media all across the board, that would be the definition of an overrated game. But stuff like that rarely happens.
Even if you go and play Final Fantasy VII, or Ocarina of Time for the first time this year, even if you personally don't like them, you can't really call them overrated, because those games are 17 years old. You'd really have to be there back in 1997 in order to appreciate what those two games brought to gaming as a whole in order to understand why they are as beloved as they are. Like it or not, those two were game changers, and their effects are still felt through most games released today. But since we've grown so accustomed to their effects, they come off as trite these days.
Anyway, I'm just rambling at this point. But I hope this made sense.
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