There's a difference between an opinion and an informed opinion. We don't need to psychoanalyze tivec to provide the latter.

Not a question.

It's your hope.

Haven't played it but I don't like how u can't repair weapons.

Nope. That's not how it works in the real work and no one must, has to, or should speak with authority. Simple observations are fine. I don't need to play Halo to know it's not my cup of tea. I don't need to play World of Warcraft to know that its graphics do nothing for me. Sometimes I have the time, money, and/or opportunity to play a game and make an informed statement about it. Other times, it's simple observations and I don't expect anyone to take them as informed opinions.

Like I said, I doubt you or anyone else has only commented on things they've experienced well. Most of the time we comment on things on which our experience is extremely limited.

Lets not be silly now, I'm not trying to psychoanalyse anyone, just trying to answer a simple question which is the OP didnt really provide much information and so the point of discussion is perfectly reasonable (or are you saying a discussion forum that only posters can post if they meet some high standard of approval).

This silly conversation wouldnt have got this far if a few people wouldnt be bleating on about how salty people are or how their opinion is better than others. As I said, I've given an opinion, I've said the world looks empty, prove me wrong, post some images, give some experiences to the contary, that would both be enlightning and probably be more interesting to people who are interested in buying, rather than hearing some elitest stuff about being more informed.  You can be informed without having played the game, that was the point, obviously that point is lost.

Rolstoppable's post has probably been the best so far, at least he's put his thoughts about the game into useful context.

It's incredible so far! I've never had such a feeling of being off on an adventure with any other game. The freedom you're given to go wherever you please is amazing. It takes a while to adapt to certain things, like your weapons being breakable but it adds an unexpected layer to the gameplay as I'll whack weak enemies with my low-end weapons because I want to keep my high damage swords for tougher encounters.

For the first time in decades, the game is actually challenging. I've run away from fights because I knew staying around was asking for death. The little of the story I've experienced so far is great and I could write more but I'm off to play the game instead

Yes it is, deffinetly deserves the 98.

The 7.8 user reviews are just trolls and fanboys trying to drag the score down because they don't want to buy a Nintendo console to play it, but they feel the need to further justify passing it up by attempting to make it look like an overrated game.

Playing it on Switch and loving it. Deserves all the praise it is receiving and very well could be GotG.

Its really, really good
its up there with my favorite Zelda's I hated Skyward Sword and Wind Waker
its right up there with MM and OOT imo and im just 15? hours in possibly even less.

Informing oneself is "elitist" now?

I can agree with this. It reminds me very much of Gothic in this regard. It's a nice open world game with a Zelda skin.

However I so far cannot agree with the ludicrously high scores. I have yet to see a single thing it does better than other open world games I've played.