"Overrated"?

It is mostly used as a "People like this and I don't. My opinions are universal truth. These people are wrong."

I wouldn't know when anything is 'properly' overrated though. I don't think it exists.

Well, you could say that about any game with a good metascore that you don't like

Praised to heavens by everything and everyone while I find it to be lackluster.

For me games that don't excel at what they do yet deserve praise as if they did, for example Half-Life 2 compared to Half-Life 1 is dumbed down and rather on improving on it's gameplay Valve made it incredibly easy and focused on it's narrative.

When it has a legion of pissy fanboys

When a game is "rated" higher or "over" what I, and many of my peers, believe it should be. Some games fall flat, especially when they have so much hype and build up (which is common when we announce a game and make it available for pre-order nearly a year before it comes out). The reviewers, they're just as excited as anyone, and getting a short time to cast a full review makes them think it's as great as anything. Then we play it, and after some time the shine dulls and we see it as what it really is, a pig with some make up.

That is overrated.

I really, really don't care if a game is overrated or not. I just play, and enjoy, or not.

Like when a game gets so hyped it automatically gets a 10 on IGN when in fact it is lower.

If I am disappointed by a game that was recommanded by a friend