Quite often I feel like the internet is over-critical of AAA. Yes, on many occasions they put out manufactured slop, and it’s important to consider reviews from multiple sources for that reason.

Even Ubisoft games, when you ignore their little MTX menu, have some flashes of writing brilliance or interesting historical attention to detail. Other times, people manufacture their own forms of annoyance, like “Visiting every single icon on the map is boring!!” Yeah, no shit, that’s why they desperately try to stop you from doing that. FC5 even sleep-darts you to forcefully pull you into story missions, though that idea was derided.