But does this make a game more ‘fun’?

Was actually thinking maybe Bullfrog or Maxis pre EA, but actually.. Yes! LucasArts. Disney was dumb to shut that down. Their 90s was also great, but early 2000s was to me the peak.

No it doesn't. That is my point I was trying to make.

If I want to mimic the real world to that extend I may as well go live in it.

Every generation we have to buy DLC stuff or season passes on top of the game. Just give me complete and fun games to play that is all I want.

Sorry, is this a serious question? I mean, apart from fun being subjective category?

Yes, actually.

Sorry then mate, can't help you with that, since it appears that your definition of fun doesn't include a lot of games or even whole genres.

You never mentioned any game or genre for me to deny, nor does any of those attributes you mention imply a specific one, so I don’t see how you came to that conclusion. But okay I guess that’s that then.

This exact same sentiment was shared by Gabe Newell in the Half-Life documentary!

So yes, realism makes games more fun as what you expect to happen happens, positive reinforcement.

Fun is coming up with a 'solution' and then executing it. The more possibilities, the more chance you come up with a working solution.

Invisible walls and forcing you into a predefined path / way to solve something is not fun.

Tough choice:

Definitely one of my all-time favoites, and I'm yearning for a real Might & Magic game and a HoMM, both in the orignal Science Fantasy world instead of Ubisoft's shitty High Fantasy universe of Ashan. Fuck Ubisoft!

Bullfrog was great, as was Lionhead studios (Black & White, Fable), the follow-up studio of Peter Molyneux. 22cans, not so much...

And also Wing Commander/Privateer while we're at it!

But despite all those great studios, my choice falls to... Sir-Tech, the studio behind the Wizardry series and also Jagged Alliance. I'm still mad that the horrendously bad Jagged Alliance 2 sales in the US (24k, compared to over 100k in Germany alone) sank the company and resulted in Wizardy 8, my favorite game ever, to never be truly finished - Sir-Tech even sold advertisement space in the game to get it to a mostly finished state and finally closed doors the week the game got released. And mad props for the developers offering support for years after the release despite Sir-tech being long defunct by that point, ironing out almost all the bugs.