"There is no joy or sense of accomplishment. No pride in making something clever or quickly, and all progress is associated with the AI and not with you.
Everyone hates this. Most of devs my age are planning early retirement and are just waiting to be laid off."
![I think, individually, those each could have been good games. Together, they fought with each other. You would have this mystery that you were trying to solve, then you would be facing this action sequence, and you'd do this cool action thing, and you'd get on the building, and you'd say, "What was the mystery I was trying to solve?" Covert Action integrated a story and action poorly, because the action was actually too intense. In Pirates!, you would do a sword fight or a ship battle, and a minute or two later, you were kind of back on your way. In Covert Action, you'd spend ten minutes or so of real time in a mission, and by the time you got out of [the mission], you had no idea of what was going on in the world.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n27jnp26plwjmjkj57ng6fid/bafkreidwbcln2alodnthmhfmgxbamwpzcriexhue5i77hpa4hrrklilx2q)
