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>solid gunplay and loot mechanics
>barebones plot, no insufferable dialogue and characters
>linear scaling, let good items you find actually have a measure of longevity at higher difficulties

I must wonder how these kinds of games would fare with something like a PoE-esque endgame. But it would probably need a shitload of extra mechanics and also a story that would be otherwise too grating to replay to justify it.