Troika Games had their fate baked into their name:

• Troika means "3 of a kind" in Russian
• 3 as in 3 head developers of the original Fallout games (Leonard Boyarsky, Tim Cain, and Jason Anderson)
• 3 as in 3 games they developed at Troika Games (Arcanum, the Temple of Elemental Evil and Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines)
• 3 as in The Fallout title they wanted to develop (and crucially, started to develop) - but got outbid by Bethesda, which was the final blow to the company

What mostly killed the company was however the very bad sales of VtM:Bloodlines. 74k, only half of ToEE (128k) and a quarter of Arcanum (248k). This was due to Activision contractually wasn't allowed to release the game before Half-Life 2, so Activision honored it... by releasing the game the fucking same day as HL2! Seriously, how blind can those execs be???

Oh right, Sir-Tech was also one of the greats.

Sir-Tech's spirit lives on in Japan, where they've kept the Wizardry series alive. It might not be the same as Wiz 8 or the Bradley titles, but it is something.

EA, on the other hand, has been sitting on the Ultima IP. Richard Garriott has apparently offered to buy or license it back, but to no avail. On the other hand, Garriott himself was dabbling in NFTs for awhile, hopefully he's given that stuff up. 

I'd bring back Game Arts/Studio Alex for a proper Lunar 3, to erase the mockery that was Dragon Song. I'd also give them a big budget to let them do a new game or a remake of Lunar with the production levels of something like Persona 5 or the remakes, or perhaps even using the artstyle of Valkyria Chronicles.

Oh yeah, I completely forgot about Black and White, You just gave me such an extreme jolt of nostalgia. 

With that initial post, I actually painted a picture of freedoms of tabletop RPG, brought to video games for the first time via advancements in tech - something that people were trying to achieve ever since Ultima 1, but nobody ever really got anywhere near it in the whole 45 or so years of the genre, since it was not technically possible. And those same things can be applied to some other genres. And you asked if that makes game more "fun"?

So, again, apart from fun being completely subjective, what is the point of your question?

Don't know about that, i have been having a shitload of fun with all these predifend path games,the open world(modern) stuff however.

Bland and boring

Thing is, it only covers the Llylgamin series (essentially the first 3 and the 5th title, as the 4th is mostly skipped over) and not the more story-heavy and generally more developed Savant saga.

And still, the last release of a Wizardry title apart of the remaster of the first one is almost 15 years ago (2011 with Wizardry Online). They have been sitting on the IP too - it's just not nearly as egregious as EA or Ubisoft.

I mean predefined solutions. HL2 is an amazing predefined path game, but rightfully so the playground right at the beginning was hailed as a great addition for fun and experimenting with the physics to use later in the game. So you get in the mindset that you can drag floating barrels under a lever etc, real world solutions to virtual puzzles. 

Open worlds are more engaging if you can make a mark / permanent changes. Hence such a crude game as Minecraft became one of the biggest franchises in history. Open worlds get bland and boring when everything resets 20 paces away :/ They have to work a lot harder, like TotK to keep you engaged with 'realistic'
physics.

What's not fun is follow the clearly marked hand holds, press X to throw rope in this pixel position, press X to swing over gap. That's like QTE for combat.

Quintet is one that released so many great games during the SNES era, but never had the budget to really go on with it in the PlayStation era as only ActRaiser seems to have been successful.  I wish SquareEnix would introduce Quintet’s other great SNES games to a new audience.  Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia/Time, Terranigma… Even Robotrek had some interesting ideas that make it worth a look.

They could have been huge given the right opportunity and marketing budget.