Re-spec. Leveling up instead of getting old.
Everyone starts with the same stats and opportunity.
In Rimworld you can click on a pawn and see all of its health stats, stuff like heart blockages, leg and arm injuries, immunity progress of diseases and other things like that. It would make things so much easier. I'd look at my health panel and see "Common Cold (87% immunity)"
New Game+
Being able to buy a house by selling bugs and rocks would be cool.
No one has said a HUD yet? Being able to instantly recall information about objects in your environment, how to use them, red outline for nearby dangers, etc? Wouldn't even have to be Terminator T800 level for it to be immensely useful. Google Glass didn't get there, but maybe Apple Vision Pro can help pave the way.
Medkits. Just grab one off the wall and you're back to 100%.
Going to the gym and getting fit in like 10 minutes like in San Andreas
To my mind pop:
- Save states (quicksave, load, stuff like that)
- New Game Plus
- Short range teleport, because why not.
To be fit and healthy no matter what you do or eat and super fast healing from injuries
Quit
Respawning
No damage on friendly fire
A challenge most people fail in video games for unfair reasons will generally be considered a badly designed element of that game by fans and critics.
Meanwhile the challenge of making it ahead in modern life, which most people fail at out of no fault of their own even if they play the cards they were dealt as smartly as possible… is considered a perfectly good design element of adult life.
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On a lighter note I really wish the pinging system in games like Alex legends could be combined with a simple face recognition overlay (that only pulls from your semiprivate private network of photos with friends under certain sharing conditions) that just reminded you of people’s names and maybe very succinctly their connection with you.
Save scumming.
Quicksave
Eventually being able to defeat the most evil thing in the world.
Volume adjusters
Unlimited time
Balanced economies.
Health Potions
Choose your own appearance.
Infinite wealth exploits that the average person can exploit without getting into trouble. I could especially use this feature.
Though, a more serious answer would probably be something like infinite resources you find in certain games. For example, infinite weapons in games like Fallout 3, NV, and 4 from enemies periodically respawning when you're gone. Or in sandbox games like minecraft, how you can easily get seemingly infinite trees and bonemeal without completely destroying the ecosystem.
Detailed options so I mute background chatter or silence selected NPCs.
Subtitles for conversations not in my native language.
Quest markers, always providing information on how to progress
Difficulty setting. I play on easy mode and DGAF what anyone thinks because my time is precious and I’m playing for fun. I decide what’s fun.
Creative/cheat mode…let me just pause, build myself a fantastic 10 story house… Open inventory and spawn a wife, 3 kids, a dog and 2 billion dollars in my pocket. Oh no, does that mean I can't get achievements because I cheated? Oh well.
Steal a car, lose the cops and it’s mine now. No consequences.
Important story moments of your life play as cutscenes which you have no control over…so you can’t mess it up and know you’re exactly where you should be. This would be peaceful.
Hints & tutorials.
Play as a different character.
Choose your appearance instantly -gender, body shape, skin/eye/hair color, size of nose/ears/eyebrows, clothes, accessories
Things you buy spawn instantly wherever you are
Change tattoos instantly, including removing
Closed captioning for all dialogue and other sounds
Increase skills simply by grinding, even for things like skateboarding, singing, playing music, acrobatics etc that require raw talent and YEARS of training/practice
Bug reports
Running and jumping all the time without issue. I'm not old per se, but I'm no spring chicken. I'm only 35, in decent shape, and I have a pretty active job, but I still cringe at the thought of the sheer impact of landing from jumping as high as I can. I was not kind to my knees in my late teens and early twenties. And I'm so goddamn tired.
Pause screen
Free repec my self. Want to take all the work I put into my current career and relocate it somewhere else.
Free cam
Emotional reward.
Private maps that show you where you've been and what missions you need to complete there.
Right now, all I have is the thermal map of photos linked to a Google account, and that is way too creepy because the location-based data is housed with a transnational corporation and is dependent on photos I feed to the machine.
Inventory autosort
Unexpected invisible walls. /s
A guaranteed buff from sleeping (unless werewolf)
Money in the grass
Anti-addiction
Reset, New Game.
Unlimited carrying capacity
Morality meters.
Turn based combat
WeMod IRL
