I played a litlle of breath of the wild (Which I don't think is a bad game, but it's not the huge budget game you were talking about), very litlle of RDR2 because I was too bored and I played GoW.
None of them are "bad" games, but they're extremely safe games.
GoW literally transactioned to the most safe genre there is.
Best games I've played this generation? Off the top of my head:
Factorio, Rimworld, Bloodborne, Sekiro, Dead Cells, Mount and Blade, Nova Drift, Noita, Return of the Obra Dinn, Tales of Maj'Eyal, Divinity: OS, Darkest dungeon, Slay the Spire, Enter the Gungeon, Risk of Rain 1/2, Hades, Kerbal Space Progra, I could keep going.