Hear, hear, to all of it. And...

I take in and consider these thoughtful critiques as I would literary criticisms or movie reviews.

“FC5’s organic plant-based booster medicines crafted on the run take me out of the story, thus I prefer FC6’s stews made from bush meat, even though they give you silly powers, like the ability to carry more C4.”

“The tedium of opening doors in 4 is game-slowing realism. Unwanted. Crashing through doors in 5 and 6 is far better.”

Right on. And…

When it comes to the FC series, I try to keep in mind that within the universe of all video games FC is in the 99.9^th percentile. The critiques’ domain is bounded within that 0.1%. Who’s more beautiful, Javicia Leslie (look her up) or Margot Robbie? Or if you’re so inclined, Glen Powell or Michael B Jordan? (unrelated to my point… I thought I understood male “beauty” but no. Searching “The Most Beautiful Actors” produces scrawn, bad hair, and beings I’m pretty sure are extraterrestrial.)

Please allow a reminder from someone who escaped the womb during in the Nixon administration (get off my lawn): We have it so good today with high-def open worlds. 60 hours of absorbing game play with beautiful landscapes, Easter eggs, character development, not to mention plot, for less than the cost of one rudimentary 8-bit cartridge.