THIS.

/end of Wastelands discussion


Edit: Redundancy for the sake of redundancy is still redundant. This thread has gotten boring. Wastelands is way over-hyped, but still a good story. Moving on.

 

Yo, I'm really happy for you, Jbern, and Imma let you finish, but Wastelands of Time is the greatest story of all time.

 

Something becomes overrated when everyone squees and recommends, spewing things like:

"It's epic!"
"You have GOT to read this!"
"13000/5!"

If they fail to include a few drawbacks with their recommendation, then they hyped it. Thus, Wastelands of Time is overrated, but like all fanfiction it has its flaws.

This said formula applies to everything, regardless if it deserves the hype or not.

 

You are an idiot. Either that or you have never been to ff.net to read reviews because let me tell you damn near every story on that site has at least one review like that. Therefore by your standards every story would be overrated which pretty much makes your formula useless.

Go take a look at my post about Wastelands again. You'll see exactly why it isn't overrated off this site. I can link you up to more stories like Methods with a crazy high numbers of reviews (and hype on other sites) in contrast to quality of writing and word count if you wish. Unless you are specifically talking about Wastelands being overrated on this site, I will always disagree with you and go out of my way to reference truly overrated stories so you can see the difference between the two.

 

Which is why Wastelands isn't overrated.

If you're really that intent on proving that it's overrated, you're more beneficial to that argument if you let Amerision or Nuhuh do the talking.

 

Enough. This is not the "Is WoT overrated thread?"

So to introduce another well-loved author: Jono.

Cue lynching.

Now, usually we hate authors preaching to us and thinly veiled political commentary. Yet Jono has it by the bucket loads. Also we have bashed melodrama by way of the story-that-shall-not-be-mentioned (which by common consensus does drama very well), but some of the dramatic student army scenes were just so painfully cringe-worthy. We like drama but we like it well done. There is much to like in Jono's writing but it's not held up to DLP standards.

 

While it's been good fun bashing Joe and jbern, I'm not sure what new ground we're going to tread. I'd be more interested in hearing what fics folks think are underrated.

A few that come to mind for me:
Grimm: A Fairy's Tale by belleradh
Equal and Opposite by Amerision
Path of Decision by lulu42
The Song of the Trees by Tinn Tam
Gentleman Usher of the Scarlet Rod by Heather
What Lies Beneath by Master Slytherin

 

I find Tinn's "The Song of the Trees", in proportion to review count, to be one of the most underrated stories on FF.net. I haven't re-read it in a while, but from what I can recall, it was nearly flawless.

 

A fic that I think is really underrated is Perspicacity's Hallows and Pathos. It was the first story I read on DLP, and aside from the ending, it's one of my favourite fanfics of all time.

Btw, Pers, I remember you mentioning that you might redo the ending to that fic. Is that still happening?

 

On ones that are underrated? Since most here will know the HP universe well and will post them, I'll try for a small underrated fanfic from Chrono Cross.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1813038/1/Of_Lives_Seldom_Written

Of Lives Seldom Written by Insert Coins. It's his only story and it's written amazingly well, concentrating more on the side characters than the main ones. Kidd and Serge. It does focus more on romance and is long at times. The pace slows a little in the second pair/chapter, but I think it's still engaging.

With the writing level versus number of reviews, if that's how we're measuring it, I say it's underrated.

 

Is that definite, or an assumption? I know it's been about two years since she updated, but I still hold out hope!

As for under-rated stories, I second Song of the Trees. It's a brilliant story, and the duel in the Department of Mysteries is one of my favourite action scenes in the fandom.

 

This is a case of relative hyping levels, IMO. The actual active "DAYDverse" membership is positively miniscule, and probably even smaller since the wank came up to the surface...but it cannot be denied that the enthusiasm of their inner circle can be rather intense. This coming from me who, in full disclosure, used to chat with them back when they had a Jabber-based chat room. I can say that a lot of the the hyping is directed at thanfiction himself, rather than just his fanfiction work.

Outside of that small circle, I'm not sure it's any more overhyped than other fics of its quality level, and probably less hyped than some.

As for its sequels? Sluagh I didn't quite like as much - I liked the author's Neville more when he was a working class hero instead of an epic one. I do quite like what's been written for A Peccatis, but I'm not sure that one will continue to be written in the post-wanksplosion era.

 

Fucking this. That was a kick ass story that I've read several times. It just never gets old.

 

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I KEEL YOU!

This. So much this. How anyone likes this story after the sixth book is beyond me; look at my review, in which I detail what exactly I find wrong with this story... namely everything. If there is one story I'd put up for most overrated, it'd be the R-Series.

Also, though I don't agree with it, I'm surprised nobody had brought up Barb's Psychic Serpent Trilogy. It's considered by most to be the seminal HP work. I think it deserves its hype, but I thought more people on DLP would disagree with that.

 

I don't think Gentleman Usher of the Scarlet Rod is underrated at all. At least not on this site. The amount of quotes and references made to it popularize it enough.

I actually didn't enjoy it as much as other people did. It just didn't sit right with me. It's probably just personal taste but I like to think I'm not the only one.

Equal and Opposite it definitely underrated. It takes an old idea (Femme!Harry) and makes it exciting and very sexy.

 

Not sure how I feel about this. :awesome

 

I honestly didn't like Equal and Opposite that much.

Actually, its better to say that I don't find it under rated. It's definitely a good read, but nothing phenomenal. I think it just about the amount of publicity it deserved.