Older gamer here, that has just dipped his toes in RPGs in a long time by buying Elden Ring. These days there’s no time to bash your head in the same bossfight two dozen times. Fun has to be a little less “long haul”.
Oh I have played so many Stellaris games where I quit because of boredom after neutral space runs out and midgame borders are formed. I just don’t have tolerance for the slow political shenanigans.
I really don’t care about outdated graphics, but unless the exploration is brilliant, I don’t see much potential content. Combat looked ‘hack and slash’ without proper mechanism.