I mean, what the title says. Publishers, Funders; budget for programming and stop blowing your ridiculous wads on graphics and presentation. AAA, I’m tired of these movie-ass games. Give me knobs to fiddle. Give me buttons to push! Give me knobs to fiddle while pushing buttons and give me buttons to push while fiddling knobs. Give me playgrounds to knob and button.
I see your point but that’s not what I’m talking about at all. I want new mechanics. I want games to feel different. Gameplay to evolve. I want my fiddling of knobs and pressing of buttons to be something other than things like: timed button presses, the vast majority of 1st/3rd person shooters out there, the vast majority of fighting games that more or less play the same, even racing/driving games had more variety in the past. Genres just smear into similar loops.
Make the pressing of buttons and fiddling of knobs do different things. Make it so I knob and button in different combinations. Do something, anything. Because I’m not spending my money on games that copycat their knobs and buttons from one another any longer. That’s what I am talking about.