The story would be better if written by ChatGPT, without exaggeration. The games live on because of the huge open worlds and gameplay and nothing else. Very soulless but it has its market. They are definite slave labor shops though, the amount of people who work on these games to churn them out over the dozen studios that do contract work is insane if you look at the credits.

I actually like the worlds they build. Odyssey & Valhalla are probably some of the prettiest art we'll ever see of Greco-Roman stuff in a modern AAA space, no one else does anything close, it's just a shame they're wasted on such shallow & horribly written games.