What does this mean? Like Dragon Age VG? Cause Baldurs Gate 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 are definetly "modern audience" games and it they get a pass but DA VG or the Last of Us 2 doesn't because it does it the wrong way. Don't get me wrong, I hate DA VG ham fisted writing and Neil Druckmanns fetishism making it's way into his work is weird AF but you can't say modern audience games generally as long as they don't fuck it up or make it the focus of the game or in some cases if they do that but just happen to be really good like FF14 which is basically a playground for furries to get off. Do you include BG3 and Cyberpunk as modern audience games or is it just the games that are modern audience but are shit at the same time?

Totally but so many enjoy this cancer I'd hate to see it cured. Single player games are alive and well and that's all I care about it. 

I don't think there is anything small that would push me away from a game. Big things like being a rougelike or most first person shooters yes, but nothing small.

Just when games emphasise that in advertising

Live service and F2P gacha are dealbreakers for me.

The words "Electronic Arts," "Ubisoft." or "Activision" aren't especially promising for me, either.

One that comes to mind is Epic exclusivity since I'm kinda boycotting the Epic Games Store but at this point their exclusivity initiative has thankfully mostly died due to it not going as well as they hoped so I don't really get annoyed when I see their logo instead of Steam at the end of a trailer any more due to how rare that's become. The next Playdead game is gonna be exclusive to that though which is unfortunate but since it's gonna be published by Epic I can't complain too much and hopefully it's temporary like Touch Type Tale was despite the publishing.

Honestly the publisher. If its published by Ubisoft, EA or Activision I immediately lose interest. Those publishers have lost my trust over the years with buggy and microtransaction filled games.

My go-to thing that usually makes me tap out before release is when they say "we're making the new game for people who aren't fans of the franchise". I remember they said that about Tales of Arise for example and since I'm a fan of the franchise, they were outright telling me they don't want me to buy it so I didn't (in that particular case, them not having multiplayer which was a staple of the series was also a huge factor).

In general when they say they're making it for people who aren't fans, it makes me as a fan feel like they're deliberately trying to make me not like it, and I've been right about that in most cases, so...

At this point I've become very picky with my gaming.  It must have the following things:

1) Be on a Nintendo system.
2) Be on a physical cart.  (No download codes)
3) If it's a long game, then it must be what I would consider S Tier.  BotW and Elden Ring are the only long games I'd consider S tier out of the long games I've played since 2017.  Octopath Traveler was an A tier game.  It was fantastic, and yet I have no desire to play OT2 or replay OT1 or Bravely Default 2.  Hell I haven't played TotK or Elden Ring DLC yet either.  If the game is long then the content must be amazingly fantastic.
4) No long tutorials either.  I want the game to be fun ASAP after I start playing it.

Right now I am trying out a big stack of Wii games that I found for cheap, and I'm having a blast.  This is what I'm looking for right now.

Arise wasn't best Tales game but I thought it was the best one since Vesperia.  It had nothing on Symphonia or Vesperia. It felt very much like any other Tales game to me, but I've never played any of them multiplayer.