@illegal_peanut: They are like none of those games. It's basically an empire building game and economic simulator. That's probably simplifying it but you're basically hanging around a map with a gazillion filters for various factors and lead your nation to glory. Its more complex than the games you mentioned but its a completely different strategy subgenre, after all. It's a huge time sync and can be slow.

People should know better than to buy at launch in this day and age, anyway. 3/4 of high profile games release with multiple kinds of problems, though the MTX are always working perfectly. Also, 80$ or whatever ridiculous price the base GTA 6 game is gonna cost, isn't justified. Especially not for a company that raked billions every year for a decade now from just one freaking game.

Then they're gonna be able to raise the base price by another 10$ and claim they need it so they can recoup their "development costs", lol.

@crusador: Sounds like a you problem. Game grabbed my attention from the prologue. Art design is imaginative, environments are beautiful, dialogue is and voice acting good. And that's just after 3 hours.

@lonewolf1044: I agree. But its also not going away. It might not serve a purpose to people like us, but tell that to the corporate suits who earn billions a year from MTX in Fortnite, Call of Duty, the EA sports titles, etc. A lot of the current issues in the gaming industry is the fault of...people who play games.

@girlusocrazy: There's a fine line between challenging and tedious/unfun.

She doesn't have the charisma nor the physicality to be Lara Croft. She's a dramatic actress, at best, and not a great one.

@Slannmage: Game is still great and this remake is a great accomplishment.

@bsiebenhaar: It's because a lot of people on the internet feel they aren't cool unless they're participating in hating the current controversial thing. The argument you mentioned is one that came to my mind as well when this nonsense started. AC games have ALWAYS been historical fiction, with the emphasis on the fiction.

Of course, it doesn't help that Ubisoft has been on a roll over the last year with dumb decision after dumb decision which makes them easy to mock or hate.

Lastly, I'd say there's also the current trend of white-knighting things that don't need to be white knighted. Personally I'd put these symptoms down to more and more people nowadays feeling desperate for attention and being relevant in some way. They can't/won't make a positive difference in their own lives, so with the help of the internet, they feel like they're participating in something greater than themselves. Even if that something is just a toxic pool that perpetuates itself.

Guess it says something about me that I've already watched 15 out of these 16, lol.