What's a common feature of video games we could really use in real life?

Choose an amount of time to sleep, sleep right away the whole time, wake up immediately after and actually rested

Save points

Being able to select dialogue from a few options, instead of having to actually be skilled socially.

I despise Fast Travel in video games, to me it's a feature that appears necessary because no thoughts were given about making the environment interesting to traverse

But in real life ? I crave the time saving it offers

Re-spec. Leveling up instead of getting old.

Everyone starts with the same stats and opportunity.

Recover from any injury by eating whole cheese wheels

Save scumming.

In Rimworld you can click on a pawn and see all of its health stats, stuff like heart blockages, leg and arm injuries, immunity progress of diseases and other things like that. It would make things so much easier. I'd look at my health panel and see "Common Cold (87% immunity)"

achievable goals and a clear path to success

I'd settle for fast travel

New Game+

Being able to buy a house by selling bugs and rocks would be cool.

Pause.

No one has said a HUD yet? Being able to instantly recall information about objects in your environment, how to use them, red outline for nearby dangers, etc? Wouldn't even have to be Terminator T800 level for it to be immensely useful. Google Glass didn't get there, but maybe Apple Vision Pro can help pave the way.

Equal application of the rules

Saves, especially save states/quicksave. Some kind of way to tell you what is actually the correct answer, not just what someone thinks is, or wants to be, the correct answer. Enough predictability to give you a reasonable shot at things.

Going to the gym and getting fit in like 10 minutes like in San Andreas

Medkits. Just grab one off the wall and you're back to 100%.

To be fit and healthy no matter what you do or eat and super fast healing from injuries

To my mind pop:

Save states (quicksave, load, stuff like that)
New Game Plus
Short range teleport, because why not.

Item duplication glitch, infinite gold, infinite health potions etc. Post scarcity world, here we come!

3rd person view, especially when driving

Quit

Being able to play the same scenario multiple times

Respawning

Save scumming.

No damage on friendly fire

Checking stats and buffs/debuffs

A challenge most people fail in video games for unfair reasons will generally be considered a badly designed element of that game by fans and critics.

Meanwhile the challenge of making it ahead in modern life, which most people fail at out of no fault of their own even if they play the cards they were dealt as smartly as possible… is considered a perfectly good design element of adult life.

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On a lighter note I really wish the pinging system in games like Alex legends could be combined with a simple face recognition overlay (that only pulls from your semiprivate private network of photos with friends under certain sharing conditions) that just reminded you of people’s names and maybe very succinctly their connection with you.

I'm short af, so double jump would be great

Re-loading a save.

Instant constructions and destructions. City needs a new road? Done in a second. Wind turbines and solar panels? Plopped before you could finish blinking. Pipe network to get water in and sewage out? There, it's already flowing beneath you.

Detailed walkthroughs on YouTube

Save scumming. You could get it - whatever "it" is - out of your system, and then just reload from your last save.

The ability to be disconnected from the internet and still function properly.

Quicksave

Fast travel (assuming nobody beat me to it)

Save games.

The ability to walk at 40km/h speeds.

Eventually being able to defeat the most evil thing in the world.

Character creation/editor would be amazing.

A quest log would be great.

A status screen.

Skill increases/level up.

"how bout a round of Gwent" answer to everything

Choose your own appearance.

Unlimited time

Volume adjusters

Balanced economies.

Health Potions

Infinite wealth exploits that the average person can exploit without getting into trouble. I could especially use this feature.

Though, a more serious answer would probably be something like infinite resources you find in certain games. For example, infinite weapons in games like Fallout 3, NV, and 4 from enemies periodically respawning when you're gone. Or in sandbox games like minecraft, how you can easily get seemingly infinite trees and bonemeal without completely destroying the ecosystem.

Fast travel.

Being able to choose between single player, coop, and multiplayer.

Detailed options so I mute background chatter or silence selected NPCs.

Subtitles for conversations not in my native language.

Stacking items and having it only take up one inventory slot in our backpack!

Mushrooms that make me grow tall and gives an extra life. Bonus would be the fire flower.

A pause button

Quest markers, always providing information on how to progress

Carry as much as you can fit into your inventory and ignore the weight.

Inventory packs that seem bigger on the inside.

Like seriously, how does Red from Pokémon carry a whole dang bike in his backpack? Imagine trying to smuggle that across toll booths.

I play a lot of VR and I catch myself trying to use the gravity glove to pick things off the ground

Difficulty setting. I play on easy mode and DGAF what anyone thinks because my time is precious and I’m playing for fun. I decide what’s fun.

Creative/cheat mode…let me just pause, build myself a fantastic 10 story house… Open inventory and spawn a wife, 3 kids, a dog and 2 billion dollars in my pocket. Oh no, does that mean I can't get achievements because I cheated? Oh well.

Steal a car, lose the cops and it’s mine now. No consequences.

Important story moments of your life play as cutscenes which you have no control over…so you can’t mess it up and know you’re exactly where you should be. This would be peaceful.

Hints & tutorials.

Play as a different character.

Choose your appearance instantly -gender, body shape, skin/eye/hair color, size of nose/ears/eyebrows, clothes, accessories

Things you buy spawn instantly wherever you are

Change tattoos instantly, including removing

Closed captioning for all dialogue and other sounds

Increase skills simply by grinding, even for things like skateboarding, singing, playing music, acrobatics etc that require raw talent and YEARS of training/practice

Respawn.

Bug reports

God mode and no clip mode

Free repec my self. Want to take all the work I put into my current career and relocate it somewhere else.

Running and jumping all the time without issue. I'm not old per se, but I'm no spring chicken. I'm only 35, in decent shape, and I have a pretty active job, but I still cringe at the thought of the sheer impact of landing from jumping as high as I can. I was not kind to my knees in my late teens and early twenties. And I'm so goddamn tired.

Pause screen

Infrastructure designed for a fun game experience, not cars.

Emotional reward.

Gameplay balance.

character creator, shove a RobCo Reflectron in the newborns face so they can generate their preferred potato look

Inventory autosort

Private maps that show you where you've been and what missions you need to complete there.

Right now, all I have is the thermal map of photos linked to a Google account, and that is way too creepy because the location-based data is housed with a transnational corporation and is dependent on photos I feed to the machine.