Vordus
If you have a quest marker, you can jump straight there using the quest log, no fiddling around with the map required!
In previous Bethesda games I eventually just started doing calculations in my head constantly about whether the stuff I was grabbing was worth the weight involved. I'm still not quite at that point for Starfield, but I'll get there.
Counterpoint: If not having room for a $70 game because there's a $60 game already on there (which also isn't normally a problem for him because his main gaming system is his $500 gaming console) is an issue, then the article is already being written from a position of privilege.
I'd make a joke about the pistol having repeatedly fired blanks over the last couple of years, but I think that's the point of a starting gun isn't it?
Bloody ChatGPT
GTAV has had quite a bit of polish, comparatively. Of course, I'm sure that if they weren't mostly doing it to keep GTA Online looking vaguely fresh it would still look like a PS3 game.
It's also a holdover from arcade games, which would have an 'attract mode' when there was nobody playing.
I replayed through Hypnospace Outlaw. And hoo boy does that game hit harder when you're playing it whilst the major social networks are crumbling.
Still waiting for more Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment genre games, personally.