there sure are a lot of peeps ready for ubisoft to dump story all together. the argument that video games make for shit story blows my mind when video games are such an inherently immersive medium. AAA titles just regularly fuck it up or downplay it with a generally awful game, if you can say they really bothered at all. this isnt a general fact, and stuff like the last of us exists, but these examples of story-driven AAA games feel suffocated by this attitude that these big publishers resonate
i know its a meme, but wasnt undertale great because it was a good game with a good story that reflected its gameplay and premise? theres a lot of good shit out there, man, and when you look past the veil of the mainstream, you would be amazed at how much video games can come across as art
it breaks my heart to see a publisher back away from the idea of a story that requires effort to make with the excuse of going for a players "own story". i know something like that can be done to a degree, but making something as open ended and personal as something like skyrim takes another level of expertise and coordination. you dont achieve an open-ended campaign by firing your writers