Oh that is very true, everything regarding both terms is certainly subjective.  That is why I find it hilarious that a few people here are trying to defend certain games that others may not find as fantastic.

We all have our own opinions, and I see this thread as a place to share said opinions.  There is no reason for people to try to debunk the opinions of others however, because the entire subject is subjective to begin with.

I find BotW to be my GotG, but others don't agree.  That is fine, and they have their reasons.  And IMO, that is how it should be for a thread such as this.

For games I have never played, probably some indie game, good thing I don't play them :).

For games that I have played. Probably Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity. Now don't get me wrong, people don't really rate it too high. But to me it is STILL overrated. Omega Force hasn't been too great in years, but this game managed to become their best selling Warriors title.

GOW 2018.

Umm what? Cyberpunk 2077 has bad bugs, bad AI, not the open world people were promised, etc. It is the definition of overhyped. And also if you like action/adventure, of course they are your cup of tea so you would be in a prime position to judge if am action/adventure game is worth the hype. But if you don't like shooters, you really aren't the best person to talk to regarding whether a game is overhyped or not. That should be obvious to everyone involved, no?

Celeste: Good Meat boy clone, people give high scores because of the "themes" the game touch, but ,personally, i can take seriously a video game character when they use the "Mumble,mumble" instead of real voices . For me was like a group of hipsters wanted to make a game about depresion, but only could copy Super meat boy gameplay.
6.5 rating for me.

Nier Automata: Really good game but people give too much praise. The narrative structure is great but the story is your typical japanese rpg existentialism "Life is meaningless,your actions have no sense, everyone is going to die..." and some really Jrpg cliché characters like Adam .. i mean a character motivated by "Hatred" like a thousand jrpg villans before.
Some characters reactions are really bad, like 9S, in the las route of the game, looks like a weebo angry because someone kill is favorite waifu (Maybe that was the idea...)
The music es excellent but that year Cuphead music was better(more complex and original) and deserve the games award to best ost.
Nier Automata is a very easy game. the first secuence in the game (Battle with the giant crate) is the most hard fight in the entire game. The hard dificulty setting is just a cheap "one hit your die " without diferences in the enemy ai.
Other flaw in the game is the lack of enemy variety, the firs 3 hours show you almost the 80% of the enemy types in the games, and some bosses are just recicled regular enemies.
make no mistake, Nier automata is a truly good game and one of my favorites this generation, but some people treath this like is the second coming of christ.

Sorry for my bad english.

Ha, I guess I'm the opposite. All those ? marks on the map stress me out as well as a huge to do list of side quests. I rather explore on my own and discover things by finding them instead of following a marker. In Death Stranding, I ignored all the quests at he start of Chapter 3 and set off exploring the entire map on foot first. It was epic. I did the same with RDR2, spend days trying to find a way to sneak into the locked area by water. Elite Dangerous, roam around the galaxy and now I'm roaming around the world in FS2020.

Hence TW3, not my favorite, feels like chore. Same as Ass Creed ? mark games. Fallout works better for me, more stuff to find in the environment instead of collecting a bunch of todo's from a quest npc or mission board.

Games need to have a fixed map to explore though. NMS was fun for a while yet the procedural generation got old fast. After I had exhausted the story lines I was done with it. I got burned out on Elite Dangerous as well. The Galaxy is very close to the real thing, yet the contents are all procedural generation. It still lasted me about 5 months. Death Stranding and BotW style maps is what works for me. And currently Earth.

The free exploration and not having a to-do-list is what made BotW great for me. I really dislike open worlds with hundreds of side-quests and missions from NPC's (usually generic take-and-bring or go-there-and-kill missions). In my opinion it destroys the very meaning of an open world. An open world is there to explore and discover things, not knowing what comes next. If you just have a to-do-list of main quests and side-quests scattered around a map, to me it feels then like a standard (non-open world) game where you complete one mission after another until you beat the final boss incl. optional missions with the only difference that instead of having a hub-base (where you buy things, upgrade, talk with people, etc. and select the next mission) the different missions are connected on map where you can move around freely. But then again, in this typical to-do-list open world games this free space is mostly filled with uninteresting emptiness. In BotW there's also lots of empty space but the fact that you never know what comes next makes these empty space actually one of the strengths of the game. In other words, the exact same empty space can be fantastically immersive or just boring and uninteresting, just depending on how the direction of the game is set.

I also second that (for me) an open world needs to have a set map. It's not necessary to see the whole map right from the beginning and it can be interesting that there are hidden places that will never appear on the map, you have to find them. But a limitless space like in No Man's Sky or Elite Dangerous is just not what motivates me. For me it feels like there's no end but I want to have an end, even if it takes 200-300hrs but at least you know eventually I will get there. I also don't like procedural generated words/levels. They are a complete turnoff for me. There's just so much more quality in a careful handmade word/level. In general, for me, for open worlds the maxim Less is More very much applies. I rather have only 30hrs of immersion and good story with no fillers (and no side-quests) than 300+hrs of repetitive standard missions, fillers and hours upon hours of nonsense talk with uninteresting NPC's.

Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Horizon: Zero Dawn and God of War. Not a huge fan of Sony's Western-made cinematic games, though they are probably the best looking games out there from a technical standpoint.

Well not being shit to everybody doesn't mean it doesn't fit my definition of shit. In my opinion, bad AI, bad game-breaking bugs, bad open-world design, etc make things shit and if something is shit to me, I'll call it shit. Even if you don't think it's shit, it's still overhyped and overrated though. It's a generic 1st person shooter with a semi-decent story.