Honestly good points overall, but I will die on the other egg hill

Dave the Diver has a very good early game, but eventually the grind just became needlessly tedious in my opinion. I liked going down and getting the fish etc. but the grind in mid to late game is just very time-skip heavy

Eyyy me too. I truly felt like I was a part of Lemmy finally

Honestly psychonauts 1 and 2 are both absolutely amazing, and the art style means that they don’t end up looking ancient despite still looking old. The story is also very enjoyable and influential on the level design

Massively recommend psychonauts 2, but also 1 is absolutely still holding up in my opinion

Both grim Fandango and psychonauts 1 and 2 are absolute gems

Unfortunately you are mistaking them for bison chips which are indeed a distant relative of poker chips

Just to piggyback off of this/give an example of good usage of early access: to me BG3 was great usage of early access. It stayed there for a long time and actually used the early access to get player feedback to improve the game. When the game finally released the only dlc they had was given for free to everyone who played early access, and it doesn’t really change the gameplay experience at all, it was only stuff like an art book and some references to their older game.