What would you uninvent about modern games? [Eurogamer.net]

[DP ServBot]

Dual-wielding: for a while, that seemed like the way games moved forward. What's better than holding one gun? Holding two! Good scrum everybody! But progress is a complex business, and while a lot of design is about adding new elements to the mix, what happens when you start to take things away?
In the week that modern VR makes its first proper stab at defining part of the future of games, it felt like a good time to ponder this sort of thing. The world of games is filled with wonderful inventions, but what would you choose to uninvent? Here are some of our ideas - and if they seem extreme/stupid, that was all part of the fun of this bloody-minded thought experiment.
But how about you? What would you uninvent?
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[WelcomeToTheNextLevel]

Downloading games online. Nowadays some games require you to download part of them online, due to discs. It's also much easier for publishers to remove games from availability permanently due to legal/licensing reasons.

[Edmond Dantes]

I'm not sure if this fits, but it annoys me when for a game's manual (especially on Switch), the manual is hosted on a website you have to access online. So if you wanna read the manual but you happen to be out of the area, tough cookies.

[RARusk]

Online DRM.

[kupomogli]

Digital exclusives. If a game is digital, I don't buy it. Unfortunately, even people who do collect still play games digitally instead of just standing their ground and refusing to buy digital content. You have people that only buy digital content, people who will buy whatever but would rather own physical, and then collector's who buy physical and will still buy digital games. Stop buying digtal games period and maybe we can make a change(not really, without some massive movement which is never going to happen, nothing is going to happen.)

[Gameguy]

Unfortunately, even people who do collect still play games digitally instead of just standing their ground and refusing to buy digital content.

Buying is still different than playing, there are ways around buying (cough). It's getting the same way with all media these days.


Let's see, there's probably a lot of things.

-The entire economy of modern gaming; full of microtransactions, season passes, loot boxes/gambling, episodic gaming, etc.
-Online gaming; forced multiplayer, and online chat/voice crap.
-Automatic checkpoint saving. There's no real consequences of failing or dying, just keep forcing your way through the game and you'll succeed. They're mostly all "baby's first video game".
-Narrative only games with no actual/meaningful gameplay whatsoever, this includes action games as well, not just adventure games. I like adventure games with stories, but they still need actual puzzles. Action games still need good gameplay, not just general filler in between cutscenes.
-Modern fully 3D analog controls and cameras, as I tend to prefer more limited viewpoints/controls which are easier to deal with like older Resident Evil type games. Most modern games tend to feel the same with the same look and controls.