Why

I don't know if it's overrated, I just know that GTA V is incredibly overrated.

It's a amazing game, just rightly praised. Handsdown best game of 2023, nothing comes close.

I don't think so. I played it last year and it's become my favourite game ever but it did take some time for things to start really clicking for me so I suggest just continuing to stick with it. I was enjoying it initially but it wasn't till a fair amount into act 1 when I reached the Underdark where I began liking it a lot and it wasn't till the last stretch of act 1 where I started outright loving it and got extremely invested thanks to a fantastic sequence in a dungeon. I haven't played DOS2 yet but I think the combat is great and becomes a ton of fun by act 3 once you're fully powered up and the story and characters take some time to properly get going but when those parts get fully going they get super good.

Depends on how you look at it.

- If you consider it just as standalone Larian CRPG (which are party based megadungeon crawlers masquerading as CRPGs) with AAA budget, which what most mainstream journalist (that usually don't know much about CRPGs, or are versed with 10 or so last years of the genre at the most) who gave all those rave reviews did, then it's pretty good game.

- If you consider it as a proper CRPG with flashed-out world and not a beautiful theme park waiting for the player to show up, then it's pretty weak.

- If you consider it as video game version of D&D 5e, then it's fairly mediocre.

- If you consider it as direct successor to Baldur's Gate 1&2, then it pretty terrible.