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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 7683227" data-attributes="member: 6701872">Let's try an illustrative analogy of game content as food:A fine dining restaurant has a small number of options on the menu. There are a few appetizers to choose from, entrees that are at their base a choice between types of protein (chicken, steak, or fish, for example), and there are a couple of desert options. Each of those menu items has been carefully planned, and focus is given to producing a high standard of quality, which is more easily reached and maintained because the kitchen staff only have these handful of things to concern themselves with.A restaurant that is decent quality, but definitely not fine dining, might have a menu which has 8-12 options in each menu category, and might even have more menu categories than a fine dining restaurant. Using a local favorite of mine as an example, they have a dozen snacks, 25 appetizers, 10 starter soups & salads, 13 entree salads, an assortment of sandwiches, a variety of burgers, street tacos, pizza, steak, ribs, and sections of the menu dedicated to seafood and vegetarian options. It is functionally impossible for their kitchen staff to be able to deliver each of these menu items at fine dining quality because there are so many different things for them to have to pay attention to. By no means is the food necessarily going to be bad enough to call inedible, but if you want better sushi than they serve you need only go to basically any sushi-focused restaurant, you want better pizza you can find it at a pizzeria, a better burger at a burger joint, and so on.And, to bring the analogy home: At a fine dining restaurant, I have confidence that I will be able to enjoy anything on the menu that isn't obviously something I don't like (i.e. I know not to order octopus because I have had "good octopus" and found that I don't like it). At a restaurant like the one I describe above, which I again state is one of my favorites in the area, they might have 100 menu items... but their menu reads like this to me: deviled eggs, blackened swordfish tacos, pizza, because those are the only portions of the menu that meet my standards for what I will actually eat.</blockquote>

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