Those 2 AAA games cost 50-100 millions if not more and their gameplay is subpar compared to many other AAA games, yet they get 10/10.
The industry is gettnig lazy and just burns money.
lazy is a harsh word. i think what you're noticing are developers not taking risks that are tangible to the end user. it's easy to overlook them
the last of us put a lot of work into the craft of their story, and production values are so high because of the resources required to achieve what these giant studios want to produce, that they can't afford to risk the title flopping. this can return players, from an interesting cutscene, back to been-there-done-that gameplay
Forget the last of us, pick any shooter outhere, its just lazy work compared to their previosu efforts.
why am i the one who has to tell tom that Muramasa is a port and not a sequel