Loot boxes aren't done right unless you can directly buy the stuff that's in it. Hiding stuff behind gambling is a terrible thing to do. It preys on vulnerable people and makes people who just want a specific thing overpay massively. Loot boxes are far worse than traditional micro transactions. Remember how we hated those? Back in the long long ago 2015.

Pay to win is a much worse feature. Many games offering loot crates dont affect or benefit players like buying a weapon that no one else can get thats best in class. I played alot of OverWatch, Gears 4 and Halo 5 and all they offer is cosmetics. Nothing you need to spend your money on unless you are a fan and just want to collect everything.

It's getting worse and worse with loot boxes and developers will continue to carve more and more content out of the game to hide behide gambling.

Even if you are a fan it's not ethically justifiable to be massively overcharged. I've opened hundreds of lootboxes in RL and I'm not even close to have everything I wanted. And they're making new boxes constantly. Making the most popular things extremely rare develops an unhealthy side market where people pay 20 bucks or more for single items. People laughed about horse armor, now imagine the horse armor being 100 bucks. That's where we are today.

It's getting worse and worse with loot boxes and developers will continue to carve more and more content out of the game to hide behide gambling.

"It's just cosmetics" isn't an argument. Cosmetics in onine games are a core part of the game. Cosmetics used to be free, you know, until companies found a way to exploit people. All lootboxes do is massively increasing the price of micro transactions. If they had just increased the price of them everyone would've revolted but making them even more expensive and preying on weak individuals with addictive personalities is somehow a good thing? 

If it doesn't effect my gameplay and aslong as i get the full value out of my product for the price i personally couldnt care if there in the game or not. 

No one seem to care that OverWatch had them.. i wonder why? Maybe because gamers were too busy playing and having fun with the game. 

Loot crates in my opinion have been blown out of proportion and seems to be a thing gamers want to hold close for to pin there blame and critism on.

I have only played 1 game this gen where i didnt enjoy my experience and that was Battlefront where everyone was running around with that Han Solo gun and it gave newbies like myself a major disadvantage at the time. I heard Battlefront 2 isnt any better how ever since it has a campaign it wont effect me.

If it doesn't effect my gameplay and aslong as i get the full value out of my product for the price i personally couldnt care if there in the game or not. 

No one seem to care that OverWatch had them.. i wonder why? Maybe because gamers were too busy playing and having fun with the game. 

Loot crates in my opinion have been blown out of proportion and seems to be a thing gamers want to hold close for to pin there blame and critism on.

I have only played 1 game this gen where i didnt enjoy my experience and that was Battlefront where everyone was running around with that Han Solo gun and it gave newbies like myself a major disadvantage at the time. I heard Battlefront 2 isnt any better how ever since it has a campaign it wont effect me.

You put a lot of stock in review scores then. The way most big media outlets come across is that AAA third party titles are reviewed on a different scale then retail games of a smaller scope. Essentially, the smaller scope titles obey the normal standards while AAA third party games commonly see their scores bumped. You play a AAA game with a score of 80, realize that it's bad and begin to associate scores of 75 with bad games. So now you treat the games you listed as questionable when they actually deserve better.

Rune Factory is derived from Harvest Moon and adds more RPG to the run-a-farm foundation. It has spawned its own full series with several installments, so it's no surprise that the user ratings are high, especially because Harvest Moon's quality has dropped off and the fanbase had to look somewhere else to get their fix.

Fantasy Life hits a very similar taste, so the same logic as above applies. The question is if you like Harvest Moon and its offsprings in general. The people who like such games are getting served well, so the user ratings are high. Personally, I ignore such games because I consider Harvest Moon more work than fun.

Ever Oasis is a game that I reviewed and gave a 7. I think you read my review, so no reason to say more here.

Tales of the Abyss belongs to the longrunning Tales series of Namco and if you've played one of them, you pretty much know what you are getting from another one. The quality of the story may differ, but gameplay-wise they are all very similar. Abyss is a solid entry in a solid RPG series. I don't consider Tales great or amazing, but the games tend to be decent to good and can be considered safe buys if you are looking for another JRPG.

Yokai Watch seems to target a younger audience, so I advise caution. The one thing to remember with user ratings is the target demographic which unsurprisingly happens to be the demographic that is most likely to buy any given game. Games are designed to fit the given tastes, so there is a high chance for a positive response if a game is at least decent. For example, Skylanders is a very kid-centric IP, so it's getting glowing reviews from young gamers; but for an adult the games are probably way too easy and basic to be satisfying, at least that's my personal experience with Skylanders. Or you could take Nintendo's Style Boutique series which heavily targets girls; if you aren't even remotely part of the target demographic, then good user ratings are quite meaningless.

In summary, I'd expect you to end up liking Ever Oasis and Tales of the Abyss. I am unsure about Rune Factory and Fantasy Life, but I'd assign the former with a higher chance that you will like it. Yokai Watch is the one where I'd say you won't like it. Regardless of if you like the five games you plan to play, it's going to expand your own knowledge of IPs, so there should be a net gain even in the worst case scenario.

http://www.metabomb.net/overwatch/features/why-the-communitys-angry-about-the-anniversary-loot-boxes

"has caused the community’s increasing background frustration with the current loot box system to boil over."

Also, if content in the game is locked behind a gambling paywall, be it cosmetic or otherwise, you're not getting the full value of the game you paid for, you're getting what the developers chose to give you, and the opportunity to pay them extra to "win" the rest.

Yes, I also think health insuarance shouldn't exist, after all, I'm not even sick right now.

See you in a year when developers are putting things YOU like in loot boxes because people didn't protest loot boxes enough.