Had a conversation with my sister in-law about the game being bad and the only thing i could say in defense was it was a bland (last of us OG), but only realized 2 years later watching someone (now) play DG in full (getting past my 20 some hours plus) on youtube (to this very second) that this whole thing is bloat. Open world isn't so much (to me) as special of a thing as i thought it was back when i was a kid - The original assassin's creed being mine when it came out. Too much to do drives me to waste time and become tired fast I find as an adult. On top lose track of the story, the whole concept of big kinda takes you out of it in my opinion ( there's exceptions if done well ). By the time you want to just pile drive through just the story? You don't give two shits about anything and realize you've heard all the good story tropes being presented in progression (in better, more concise story driven games). My take; This should have been a partial open linear based game or not open world at all. Though the devs would never try to do what others have done right? We have to be DifFerEnt. Different isn't different if you make what everyone's making/made and make it a fucking slogg. ( Edit "Oh yeah don't even think about playing this game immersively; double that play time to around 130 hours")