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.
Yup.
There are so many games out now where I am bored not even 2 hours in.
They treat every single game like it’s baby’s first video game and hand hold you and tell you what to do and if you take too long solving a puzzle they throw hints at you.
Just dump me in the world and allow me to figure shit out on my own. Create a separate tutorial for the slow ones.
At least there’s still games like Persona and Elden Ring. Where you’ll get half of the things wrong on your first run, then you can improve and become more efficient on your next runs.