This sounds like an excuse, but I think the sprawl of America and it's car centric infrastructure makes it way harder to organize. When you're in smaller country with dense, walkable urban centers, worker power is strengthened. I could be coping though. Russia's population density surely wasn't that high either.
Most of the praise was probably earned based on the first act of the game (most people only play this part anyway). Excellent start, just a bit of a disappointing narrative resolution.
I switched from Firefox because I started to have lots of issues with video playback. My gut tells me that it's google fucking with the competition because every other browser is fine but uses chromium and has tracking.
Everyone here is right, but also life before the internet was different. You did not have the same access to information as we do today. We're just seeing what our shit looks like because it's harder to hide.
I still think it's a great game and I respect that most people seem to appreciate the ending.
I think if I could just sum up my criticism; I know that the story is about grief. I don't think they did a good enough job resolving the questions of agency inside the canvas that they set up through getting to know our party, the gestrals, the sentient white nevrons, etc. The ending prioritized having an intersting meta-narrative conclusion, as opposed to delivering on the themes of the expeditions (you're literally walking over a bridge of expeditioners bodies at one point). In doing so, they undercut the importance of developing a relationship with our party and the world that we just spent 60 hours in. But I'll get over it.
That would make sense and fits with my view that the family is really not great. Clea was never shown to be anything other than vindictive and mean spirited, Renoir doesn't care about life inside the canvas, Aline does but only because she's using it as a tool grieve for her son. Verso is on team Renoir. Maelle is the only one that sees things clearly because she's the only one who has empathy for the regular people.
It's also not necessary to depict resource extraction and genocide because that would be a difficult topic also. They should just focus on making more Ashoka I guess.
He has a way of speaking so plainly, clearly, and with so much sense it's hard not to understand his point.