This resonates. A lot of games nowadays emulate something more like a movie or book and like you said, it’s about finishing the experience. Even something like Hades he gameplay is old school and fairly straight forward, but the sheer amount of recorded dialogue makes for an experience in and of itself.

Along the same lines I grew to care less about 100%ing a game unless it’s a game WORTH doing so.

“Simulator” games are surprisingly deep I have noticed. Power Wash Simulator and House Flipper are really fun and I’ve logged quite a few hours in both despite never pay attention to the genre before.

Never played Chivalry, but Bannerlord for me. There isn’t anything quite like it despite the devs over promising. Besides the actual battles the rest of the game really needs mods to feel fleshed out.

SquaredCircle and also r/thefighterandthekid. Homeless cats know