Theorem: No game is over rated or under rated. All games are merely rated.
Proof: For every person who claims a game is over rated, there will be at least one person who claims it is under rated. Likewise, for every person who claims a game is under rated, there will be at least one person who claims it is over rated. As the number of people claiming one way for any given game approaches infinity, so to does the number of people claiming the opposite, thus canceling each other out. Since the difference between over rated claimers and under rated claimers is zero, a game is merely rated. This holds for all games.
The concept of overrated or underrated is silly to begin with. All it says is whether the average rating is above or below your personal rating, which is not inherently better than any other rating to begin with. Except for mine.
Actually the theorem does not work. Proof: Infinity minus infinity is indeterminate. Infinity cannot be treated as a number and no infinity may be equal. Infinity is a concept not a constant. Also, they will not be equal as I highly doubt any Halo fanboy would say that Halo is underrated. Someone may say a game is overrated because it is really popular, if it is really popular, you think there are a lot of people thinking it is underrated. Basically, you are subtracting two variables which may grow at different rates. Sure, x^2^ - x^3^ may be equal at certain points, but not all the way throughout their domain. I explained that better with math than I did with actual examples O.O
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Theorem: if we all stopped worrying about whether or not a game is under or over rated by the majority and just thought about what we thought about it individually, and on the merits of those we trust (ie, the reviewers we choose to read before deciding what game to buy) then the whole problem eats itself and we're all better off for it. I couldn't care less whether X game is overrated or Y game is underrated, it makes absolutely squat difference to my own personal enjoyment (or lack thereof) playing it.
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