Nude mode. We're all grown ups here.

Save and exit to desktop straight away with no going back to the main menu before. I'm looking at you Dark Souls series! It's like the developers have never used a computer for anything not related to writing code before.

I just want a exit to desktop button always available. I don't always have time to go all the way back to the title screen just to edit out.

Adding a reboot button is ONLY necessary if the game isn't made correctly. There is otherwise no reason to ever need to restart the game. I would see the addition of a restart option as lazy or an admission of failure by the dev.

Multiplayer games should have toggles to allow more than 4 people. Why do we need to install mods or change a 4 to a 6 in some config file?

This obviously doesn't work for games like It Takes Two where more than 2 players would be senseless, but your survivalcraft game shouldn't be limited in the same way.

System clock in the top right corner.

Pause and save during cutscenes.

I can't think of a setting that would universally apply to all games, like I'd be hard pressed to say a setting in Tetris that would apply to Minecraft. Vision and auditory accessibility is probably about it, but those settings would look pretty different I think depending on the game or genre of game.

Another commented said Fully Remappable Controls, but I want to foot stomp it. On PC games, I use EDSF instead of WASD, but if some controls can't be remapped and they overlap with EDSF then I won't play the game.

On console, I fucking hate that Elden Ring maps "crouch/sneak" to pushing down on the movement stick. I'm furiously fighting for my fucking life against a boss that attacks every 0.7 seconds. I'm moving that stick as fast as I can, which means I'm pushing hard on it. It sucks to be trying to run away from an attack but then start crouching and sneaking away from a 40ft tall axe coming down on you.

in general: settings which have multiple levels, display it as a slider so I can visually see which ones are actually maxed out and which arent. It's insanity when most settings have off/low/med/high/higher and randomly some of them have additional levels like epic/ultra/psycho/gigaultrapseudobullshit. You have to go each and everyone through to figure out which have higher settings. Now, this is not a flex, my system can't run new games on gigaultrapseudobullshitultra++, but older ones? sure.

for fps & tps games: FOV.

otherwise, in no particular order, option to toggle off entirely:

• motion blur
• chromatic aberration

otherwise, must haves:

• subtitles on/off
• master volume/music/sfx/dialogue as separate sliders.
• don't default volume to max, this is instant ear explosion if you happen to use different audio devices

Any game with a free cam should have the option to turn off 3d fly. Trying to perfectly position a camera while having to constantly turn in order to not go up or down while trying to slightly reposition has got to be one of the most annoying things.

Games should not have preset color options for people with colorblindness. Games almost NEVER do them correctly or offer good enough options. They should just give users full-blown color pickers for whatever gameplay elements require them and let users decide for themselves what colors work best.

A remove HUD options. I'd also like it if they put a big warning in the graphics section explaining how higher graphics can affect the game.

I see a lot of people bitching about lag, but if my shit connection and potato PC can run the game on low, I'm pretty sure the complainers need to reduce their expectations, accept that they don't have a top of the line computer anymore and bring down their settings.

As much as Starfield is hated, I like how they did the difficulty settings. Each type of interaction has different settings, the easier the less XP the harder the more XP earned. I like fragmented difficulty settings, not just easy, normal, hard and nightmare fuck myself have no fun.