「〜すぎる」と「〜まくる」はどう違いますか。

Question

question: Is there a difference in feeling for the words? Like すぎる feels more negative with an emphasis on disagreement with the action taken, while まくる is more about the amount?

Examples I came across:

食べすぎる
食べまくる

ゲームをやりすぎる
ゲームをやりまくる

Both pairs can be translated as ‘eating too much’ and ‘binge-playing games’ respectively (in my understanding).

Steps taken already:
I tried looking it up on jisho.org , but all I got was:

まくる: (2) to do over and over again; to do relentlessly; to do with reckless abandon​

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すぎる: to be too much, to be excessive

I also looked it up in my monolingual dictionary app and got this:

まくる:〔動詞のあとについて〕︿しきりに＼さかんに﹀する。「書き—」

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すぎる:〔動詞・形容詞のあとについて〕
①度をこす。「言い—・長—・しずか—・常識が無さ—・知らな—」
②〔俗〕〔ほめて〕ひじょうに…だ。「かっこよ—・すご—・美人—」
▽〔形容詞「ない」に続くときは語幹に「さ」をつける。「関心が なさ—」〕

These definitions seem different enough to not warrant much confusion. But I’ve seen まくる used as ‘too much’ also.

sources:

the jisho entry on まくる
the jisho-entry on すぎる
the monolingual dictionary I used (iOS)

Answer 1

-すぎる is always negative. It means doing something overly or too much. Note that -すぎる does not necessarily mean the amount itself is large. For example, taking 2 pills a day can be 薬の飲みすぎ.

-まくる by itself is "(very) much", not "too much". It's a neutral expression that can be used both in negative and positive contexts.