I am sorry but you have pretty low standard if you think this is a 10/10 game. I am gaming for more then 20 years and this is an average game at most It also have average reviews from the players 7/10 is pretty average in my opinion. (Valhalla has 7.6/10 and would you say its and exceptional game? )
ah well..
i play since 1987 on my Commodore 116, good for you that you play for ~20years
belive what you whant, but in my opinion its the best game of 2020.. and maybe will be 2021
and AC Valhalla...
i did play it, 99% completion because there are sill some quests not working
and its still full of other bugs like skills not working
and some stuff did make it unplayable on release... sounds familar i guess
and i just cant play AC Valhalla a 2nd time, because the game was just booring and a donwgraded version of Odyssey, my personal opion
after ~50% of the game you knew who Loki is, most of the cult people didnt even take place in the main story or even side quests, if you even wanna call those shit mini quests side quests
just show me a citiy on this scale that is better detailed (some buildings or streets of NC could be buildings in real life)
if you disbelive it... just search for Morphologis: An Architect review
you say you turn around and people disapear??
i did try that today a couple of times... didnt happen to me on a scale like you discribe it
and no... even 200 so called braindead NPCs make the game more alive then 5-10 NPCs every few 100m
i even looked for identical looking NPCs... hard to find...you sound like every 5th npc looks like a clon
well maybe those are consol problems... i dont know..
and like i did say so many times befor.. i love this story
it got me so many times by supprise,
i did feal excitement, i did feal sadness..
i even did sob a bit at Jackys death, or his funeral,
or when everyone calls you at the credits
for me it was a wilde ride of emotions...
Sinnerman quest comes into mind
so many good eastereggs hidden
if you didnt like the game.. fine by me, i respect your opinion
but you have absolutly no right to tell me, that i cant like the game because you or other people dont like it
and i got my vallue already out of the game...and still getting more
played ~250h.. for a singleplayer games thats kinda impressive in my book