I liked Jenson. Sadly, his entire world was destroyed. There are like two people that he interacted with that are still alive.
If you have to build an entirely new cast of characters around Jenson and explain why he would give a shit about them after losing everything else, last time, why not have a new character?
Why not give us Denton's older brother? Let us see how he got started? Or even someone completely new that happened to be involved in some plot that arose after Jenson's ex-wife went on to destroy the world for science. But before the events of the first game.
All these guys are doing with this lack of creativity is making it easier to ignore current gaming and just play the old stuff. The only new thing that they can offer people in AAA is shiner graphics and most of the companies are too lazy to even deliver that.
I may end up selling my ps4. This entire gen outside of Nintendo is turning into a scam. Hopefully Nintendo will get backed into finally delivering a gimmick free console next time. If not, the ps4 will be my last console.