Sony, we know you miss Uncharted - we all do - but it's been 7 years. They're gone now, and they're not going to waltz through the door and make you feel like it use to. It's ok to let go, just please, make a new type of game.
If tropes from the early PS3 & Xbox 360 days were some type of fungal infection, then DMC4 is one of those zombie ants that's already crawled to the top of the tallest branch to release spores.
This game felt like going to see a Nirvana tribute band, only to find Kurt Cobain's mutilated corpse strung up by the overhead railing like a marionette, Fender Mustang bolted to the rotten meat that long ago were once his hands.
Devil May Cry 3 is the Arch of the Covenant for mid-2000's cool, but rather than melting peoples faces off when opened, it blasts Linkin Park's "Meteora" as loud as it can while shooting out Blockbuster membership cards like its life depends on it.
The greatest FPS of the 21st century has been buried under an avalanche of functionless bloat and baffling game design choices so great, that I don't know how big of a shovel we'd need to get it out.
Y'know the infinite monkey theorem? Black Flag is like one of those monkeys actually typing out the first few acts of Hamlet before reverting back to hitting keys at random.