Agree although if you can sift through the noise there are some gems about. For me, the golden era of games was SNES to PS2 as feels like the best mix of budge

Agree although if you can sift through the noise there are some gems about. For me, the golden era of games was SNES to PS2 as feels like the best mix of budget creativity and computing power. The industry was still figuring itself out back then. Games like Hollow Knight aspire to that older era too. That said, I recently picked up Overwatch 2 and I'm impressed at how high the skill ceiling is, the spatial and strategic reasoning to play that game semi-pro is definitely nontrivial and Blizzard are definitely a part of Big Gaming. >Games can be a force for good, but the average game company is not optimizing for cognitive performance Unsure if you have games like Factorio in mind or Nintendo brain games but games that are mechanically rich (eg Souls or Elder Scrolls) can give plenty for someone to reason about if they are already so inclined. I spent a lot of time thinking how to min/max from a very young age and it's a similar mindset to at least QA but also coding.