Is this the most overrated game of all time?

Seriously, there's a great premise based around American exceptionalism gone horribly awry, a flying city built by geniuses that goes rogue and commits genocide while maintaining a fascist ethno-racist caste system... and then just dumps it in the toilet.

The visually interesting dystopia is basically a high school theatrical set - you can walk around all you want, but unless the game has decided that there's loot in a particular building, you can't go in. If you DO go in, all you can do is loot and fight inside. The promise of exploring this vast world boils down to "you can see if there's stuff to steal inside".

The vaunted plot is stoned-redditor "both sides are bad actually" nonsense. You spend the first half of the game being told to sympathize with the plight of a genuinely oppressed underclass, but then you murder their leader and spend the second half of the game slaughtering those selfsame allies you just liberated in the interests of making some kind of absolutely brainless commentary about power or whatever. Read some Frantz Fanon, ffs.

The precious sidekick character might as well be a dog for all the use she has in-game. She can fetch things for you and occasionally rips up her clothing or cuts her hair to show you how Very Serious Things Have Become.

And all of it, every last bit, the dystopia, the george washington machine gun robots, the mysterious sidekick, the workers' revolt... all get sidelined at the end for some bongwater goofiness about multiple realities. Why didn't you just make that game instead?

I hate this game and this franchise, and if I hadn't bought these things years ago on sale, I'd get my money back.