Anyone who thinks videogame preservation is frivilous really needs to look at it from a customer perspective - customers own your game and therefore they should have the right to fix it, update it, and do with it as they please after it's sales window is done. After a game ...
ugh please not the accessability argument, how hard is it to remember button combinations red blue, green x 5, etc. The maximum input length is 5, most spells are two and three input combinations, if you find that complicated there is something wrong with you. The game couldn't get any ...
Hard design problems should be put out to research communities in the universities IMHO. A lot of these problems can only be solved by many minds hammering it out. Things like flow field pathfinding came from university research. http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/387/how-does-flow-field-pathfinding-work
Aesthetics and mechanics cannot be divorced, you can especially see this in fighting games where the quality of the animations and their timing is critical to mechanics. Even abstract rules have aesthetics to them. Aesthetic mechanics is really broken down into sub categories: -Visible -Non visible
