Yeah, I was kind of missing some linearity with this game. The big problem I had was the way many quests were broken down into subquests that might also have subquests of their own, but there was nothing in the game that kept you out of those subquests if you hadn't already started or even found the main quest. All too often I'd find a random letter, or get into some random fight, or talk to a random NPC that would trigger something that made no sense. Hours later, when I finally encountered whatever starts the main part of the quest line, I suddenly have a whole bunch of "I already did that" moments ꦉwith the quest giver. The past games, like Origins, did a decent job of giving you freedom while still keeping things orderly; you had to actually start a quest before you do any of the parts of a quest. This game is almost chaotic by comparison.

Mass Effect trilogy. Every t🐬ime I start a playthrough, "this time will be different, I'm going renegade all the way and I'm going to romance space racist Ashley! Yeah!" Halfway through the first 𝓡game, Ashley is dead and my paragon meter is full. Looks like I'm doing a paragon Tali romance again...

New Aloy looks like someone c💜osplaying as old Aloy. Even her clothes look like a home made felt over shirt with a basic brown cotton t-shirt under it, instead of the animal skin and rough woven fiber combo of the original.