I’ve seen that kind of song and dance before. The consumer consumed the product and doesn’t want to feel bad about what they consume, so after the fact excuses for the bad parts must be fabricated.
In that it is no worse
Believe that all you want, but I call bullshit. False equivalencies are exhaustively common for people trying to justify whatever entertainment they consume and I know it’s impossible to convincingly talk you out of yours so I won’t even try.
Again, you do you. I have problematic favorites of my own, but when it comes to bleak future dystopias, I could easily find something a lot more diverse, creative, and complex that isn’t so rigidly confined in the tropes under whatever excuse and dares to reach out from there, including into the supernatural. By that I mean Shadowrun as the first and most shining example, rough patches and bad editions at times and all.
I actually enjoy grim fantasy medieval settings, as a parallel example, but if the bleakness is all that there is to emphasize, I’m going to lose focus and interest fairly quickly if it isn’t even going to try to reach beyond that and just wallow in it the way ASOFAI does. That’s my same issue with the franchise you like; it just… stops there. It’s fine if it goes there, but I want more, without any “doing more is not as bleak, we have a doctor’s note to stop here” excuses.
The hentai-baiting beginning is bad but it isn’t quite a bad as the “and this is why infinite unlimited genocide is cool, good, and funny” propaganda messaging afterward for the rest of the show’s run.
Do you need help with that or…?
I personally don’t have any stakes here
Which is totally why you won’t ride your little unicycle off to the sunset already, you liberal clown. 🤡
Now you’re kind of close
We could go into communication 101
You are communicating nothing but your own autoerotic fascination with your own perceived smartness.
We have the best mods, don’t we folks? 
Shadowrun, as a counter-example that you definitely can’t dismiss as easily as the other one I gave, is a franchise that decade after decade, for better or for worse, does change. It can be a bleak, even dark setting, but it doesn’t wallow in creativity-stifling excuses like “if nothing changes, that’s actually the message. Yeah, that’s the ticket.” It also helps that there’s a lot of urban-legend style street magic and lots of color and variety so it isn’t just 1980s aesthetics forever and ever.
tbh I’ve not seen anything of Watch Dogs or its sequel that made me do anything but disregard it as shallow trash,
I feel the same way about the CDPR take on the Cyberpunk franchise. I gave up playing it and watched some fairly long critical reviews instead.
What’s so great about it?
I could ask the same question. I didn’t say Watch Dogs 2 was high art but it was trying something other than “what if Cyberpunk setting but 50 years later with more copaganda and a lot less punk?”
I think I might just be enamored by the experience of deflecting bullets with a katana and using a mag rifle to shoot people through walls or something
That’s fine and you can enjoy that all you like. I’m talking themes and messaging for the most part, not moment to moment gameplay. The game certainly is less of a chore to actually play than the Witcher series was.
It is in the nature of a liberal clown to eat their own shit and feel accomplished because we have to smell it on your breath. 🤡 💩
I know what it’s doing. It’s awfully convenient too, to just extend what was in the 2020s to the 2070s and say “it’s the same because it’s bleaker that way, maaaan.”
Could have been bleaker in newer, updated ways, the way Watch Dogs 2 was, for example.
How’s it going, fellow leftists? Don’t you know that liberals are anti-capitalists too? Let them in! Praise them! Make them feel welcome!
I’d be fine with some homage/nostalgia bits if it went more past that instead of just digging in, then and there, while moving the calendar date up some decades.
We need better liberal clowns. 
It’s a garbage excuse so creepy writers can have titillatingly presented sexual violence and a plot contrived justification for retributive genocide.
Lib is a slur? Or do you mean clown?
Get new material.
I’m getting warning bells on your Romani aspect
You already tried a “no u.” Eat your own shit and continue eating it. I’m not taking a bite of it.
I already said I’m not interested in your sophistic excuses for why you enjoy a titillating sexual violence extravaganza with nationalist-genocide apologia.