Yeah, I went through this already. Enjoying shallow gameplay isn't a bad thing. Developers making games with shallow gameplay isn't a bad thing, so long as their heart is in it. Developers making games with shallow gameplay while obviously pouring far more effort into bloated, portentous narrative, dramatic direction and performance, while the press falls over itself to praise such an approach, isn't necessarily a future I think gaming should follow. I'm in love with game mechanics and new ways of integrating them and building upon them. TLoU obviously didn't do that. It's a half-baked amalgam of other people's games (including ND's) with dudes swapping cool dialogue and celluloid homage. It bored the crap out of me, both when I was playing it, and when I wasn't.
Like I said, I have preferences, just like everybody we share this planet with does. And that's all they are. If that sounds like a 'high horse' outlook to you, then your issue is you, not me, because you really shouldn't give a damn.
