4. We need really good graphics! Check!!! Only good graphics alone can't make a game good.
This is huge and so few shops understand. Growing up in the 80s and 90s, most games I played were either heavily text-based, or focused on interesting problems or stories because they couldn't lean on graphics like a crutch. Zork! King's Quest! Once the graphics started catching up to the storytelling, all the stuff that made games fun went out the window as secondary to graphics.
It's really, really hard to find games that are truly enjoyable to play that also have fantastic graphics
