One thing that I despise about modern vidya is how you can't get to the meat of the game quickly. Open world games are the worst with this where you usually have to sit through potentially hours of cutscenes and tutorials before the game actually cuts you loose and lets you explore the world and do stuff. Basically you're in an objectively worse version of the game until the developer trusts you enough to let you actually get to the part you want. You can see a really good example of this with Fallout 3 where for the first hour or so of the game you're in this really scripted railroaded tutorial where all you do is wait for npcs to tell you things and walk from point A to point B. And Fallout New Vegas by comparison just cut the bullshit and let you skip all that and leave the newbie town at any point.
I just started playing pic related recently and one thing I immediately noticed was the game has coop wave based multiplayer where you're intended to survive waves of enemies of increasing difficulty in multiplayer maps and get unlocks based on it. And you can do it alone, it doesn't force you to play with someone. I immediately really liked this as I was able to get a sense if I'd like the game or not within minutes of playing it and I don't have to wait through cutscenes.
What other games do this? It used to be most games had a basic multiplayer mode that let you do it (see Half-Life) where you could walk around a map and screw around with the guns. Now that's all been evaporated from modern vidya.