I may be crucified, but Mass Effect 2. I still hold that they dumbed down ME1 way too much to make a pretty ho hum shooter, straying from the tactical combat.

Plus, it didn’t feel like there was a main mission, just a series of character quests.

Yes.

Might want to take a gander at the Walking Dead cutscenes. NONE of them are animated.

It’s a bit different now. Back in Half-Life’s days, you only got patches through slow dial-up internet or from magazine discs. Now, games get rushed because they can just keep working on them. Basically, it’s just a bit of bad PR that everyone eventually forgets.

Examples: No Man’s Sky and Cyberpunk 2077. It may have hurt their rep a bit, but the games did fine eventually.

Master Sword in Breath of the Wild. Finally, a weapon that doesn’t permanently break.

Yeah… those already exist.

The thing you’re looking for is called a console.

Vampire Survivors was made to make a much better Magic Survival. It did.