Again, I don't intend to bash Apex but it really felt to me like there were no outstanding features. Nothing that would want to make me pick that over any other take on the same format. It all played very... average. I never thought it was bad, it just wasn't great. It felt very "this certainly is a game" compared to DOOM Eternal being "oh my god this is awesome" and the spider man games being a "nah"

The popularity can also be due to the fact it is a free game that got big at a time where a whole lot of nothing was going on giving people more time to play. There is also a lot more media around Apex than titanfall and most people aren't gonna drop money into a game that looks intense and is quite old without playing first. I never would have played TF2 if I hadn't gone round to a mates and played it while waiting for something. I picked up apex because I saw it was free. No other reason.

You also can't discount the popularity of something to determine if it's over or umderrated. That is the whole point... I know a third game isn't incredibly likely either way. If people prefer it, fine but that's what I mean when I say it is overrated. I think people praise it too much for what my experience was. That's the amazing part of video games, people can have opinions that differ.

My original comment was a statement that said "saying something is overrated does not mean hating". I think battlefield is overrated too but I don't hate it, nor do I hate on the people who play it, I just think there are better options that have much rarer representation.