Granted! I have my preferences, but I recognize that both Halo and Gears were amazingly designed and executed games. Personally, I'd just rather have a tragica

Granted! I have my preferences, but I recognize that both Halo and Gears were amazingly designed and executed games. Personally, I'd just rather have a tragically-flawed but also creatively-great Populus, Lemmings, Myst, or Worms. > No one seems to be pushing things forward almost at all anymore from what I can tell Imho, that's the tyranny of spectacle budget. At any given time, it costs this much to make something that meets state of the art, and gamers expect state of the art from their AAA games. Hopefully gen-AI provides a (still-likely temporary) reprieve from that, by lowering the cost of AAA-quality via more efficient labor and therefore making publishers take more risk on unique games.