No ones forcing you to buy a game who’s gameplay you don’t vibe with. There’s a ton of games that are more sandboxy than linear, so don’t take it out on the linear.

If you think every gamer who enjoys games with story, even if they’re not 100 hour bethesda/ubisoft open worlds is a dog who only wants to do what they’re told, perhaps it’s not the existence of those games that’s the problem, but you yourself who can’t get out of the mindset.

Some people enjoy the Arkham Asylum Games, some people enjoy the Dark Souls Games.

Just because people who like one are talking about it doesn’t mean developers arent constantly working on making more games like the other.

Maybe the one you don’t vibe with isn’t for you, and that’s okay.

Love the fact that one of them actually delivered a perfectly fine working game with no bugs so to illustrate how ‘bad’ it is, they had to look for an unflattering photomode frame.