Yes.
I've been trying to avoid the word "overhyped" because people will get all like "you just say that because you don't like it". Or because, just like it happened on this thread, people think that if something is considered overhyped it's because it's a bad game, which isn't true.
I don't really care about Overwatch, it's not my type of game, I don't have a positive nor a negative view about it (even though I enjoyed way more of TF2 than I did of Overwatch Beta). But yes, I do feel it has been overhyped like crazy. Lately it's impossible to check video-game related stuff without being bombarded by Overwatch content. Either ads everywhere, journalists doing tons of videos about it, people everywhere saying how good it is and how you have to try it.
I felt the same way with stuff like Titanfall, Evolve, Undertale, Fallout 4 and a few others. It's like the guys mentioned on the podcast some time ago (cant remember if Bombcast or Beastcast), you get such a dump of hype that you get to a point where you get so annoyed and bothered you lose the will to even try the game because you just can't listen or see stuff about it anymore.
Luckily, I don't feel the overhype here on Giant Bomb, or ar least not with the staff (the forums have a bunch of threads about it but there's still more focus on Dark Souls III). But just go to something like GameSpot and it's like walking on a minefield.
It's kinda hard to explain, make sense and present a good argument on why we feel the overhype. But I think other people who also feel the it can understand it better.
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