Heh, I'm the polar opposite of you in this regard :)

I need a good and well told story to justify why I am pressing buttons. It needs to be going somewhere eventually. Just messing up random monsters for a random reason doesn't interest me.

Would it not be the best solution to have the story elements there, but make them easily dismissible? I mean they usually are, to be fair. Just press a button. But maybe there could even be a setting to disable story elements completely.

That way you can cater to all. If there is no story at all, story lovers are just shit out of luck.

Thank you guys for recommending some point and click adventures to me. I guess most of them just pass me by because I'm on the PS5 and consoles pretty much get fuck all when it comes to point and clickers. Although the most recent Monkey Island was pretty good, I forgot about that one! Guess I could boot up my crappy PC sometimes to catch up on that scene.

* AAA Real Time Strategy games.
* Local Split Screen Multiplayer and LAN functionality.
* Games with a focus on story and narrative, less on superfluous side quests and fetch quests, it's boring and repetitive as shit.

More RTS (Real time strategy) games like Age of Empires or Starcraft 2.

For the medievall/antiquity setting its just age of empires and the spinoff Age of Mythology (remade last year) that are holding the genre alive. There's barely ever new RTS series releasing.

Au contraire.

Adventure games released in the past months to ~ 10 years which are available on PS 4/5 (incomplete list, there are actually way more):

Broken Age, Beautiful Desolation, Lost in Play*, Guard Duty*, The Forgotten City, Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express, BROK The InvestiGator*, Blacksad - Under the Skin, Loretta, 3 Minutes to Midnight*, Beyond a Steel Sky (successor to Revolution software’s semi-classic Beneath a Steel Sky), Lacuna, Encodya, Unusual Findings*, Norco, Kentucky Route Zero, Syberia - The World Before, Silence, The Wardrobe: Even Better Edition*, Nine Witches: Family Disruption*, Thimbleweed Park*, The Last Door - Complete Edition, The Book of Unwritten Tales 2*, The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo*, The Darkside Detective, Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders, The Dark Eye: Memoria, The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav, The Raven*, A Space for the Unbound, The Little Acre*, Eastshade, Nobody Wants to Die, Broken Sword 5

Old adventure games, for which remasters and/or enhanced editions are available on PS 4/5:

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars, Blade Runner, Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, Full Throttle, Sam and Max (not the LucasArts game but the 3 Telltale games)

* recommendations for modern adventure games which have a classic feel to them (e.g. Guard Duty and 3 Minutes to Midnight are love letters to 90s point & click adventure games)

We arguably get more adventure games each year today than back in the 90s. Plus, there have never been so many ports of adventure games to consoles than in the last and current gen. The problem is that most people don‘t know about them, even people who (claim to still) like the genre.

I’d also recommend Colossal Cave, which is super old school. It was made by Roberta Williams of Sierra fame. 

Berserk games. Like I have wanted this for years esp since DMC like Souls and many other properties like Final Fantasy have taken inspiration from Berserk. Yet Berserk only has 3 games. Dreamcast. PS2 and a Warriors game that was underwhelming.

I don't want a straight clone of DMC but within that genre but slower combat since GUTS's sword is massive and slow. Soulstice is the closest I will get and love that game but I want a legit Berserk game.

I also want a high budget good third person shooter set in the Appleseed universe.

My dream game, and been talking about this for years. Remember how Cuphead looks identical to a 1930s cartoon? Not just talking about cel shading, but it legitimately looks like a cartoon. I want that in 3D but for an 80s anime-styled mech game. imperfections on screen. Fuzzy VHS look. Not just cel shading, but you almost can't even tell it's a game. That new Samurai Cats game nails the looks like an 80s anime look for that property. My game would be 3D play, more like ZOE. Inspired by Macross/Gundam/Madox 01/Megazone 23 and some 80s/90s Cyberpunk anime like Bubblegun Crisis, Ghost in the Shell,Akira in world look/setting. Different kinda of mechs. From Motorcycle turning into a mech. One similar to Jehuty. A ground mech like Madox 01. The city scape looks similar to the city in Akira. Not licensed but a massive love letter.