| zeldaring said: Mainly talking about console games as I'm sure most gamers in that era never heard of these games as PC gaming was very small back then. It's not just botw by the way. Most games were 2-3 hours longs in the early 90s till n64/ps1 came out. Gaming is just massively better now. You can play racers, fighters, and shooters online. Triple aaa single player games are mainly around 20-40 hours long and that's not even including if you want different endings and wanna get complete all the side missions, then you have massive open worlds like gta, witcher 3, botw,rdr2 and skyrim giving 100s of hours of gaming. Just compare thr highest rated games of 90s to the highest rated games of 2010-2020 and compare play time it's not even close. |
Yet those older games were actually fun to replay. None of those up there did I ever entertain the thought to ever play them again after finishing them. And 'finishing' those 100+ hour games usually leads to playing until you get bored of it. I very much disagree that gaming is massively better now. It's pretty rare nowadays when I feel like starting another play through. The new God of War, didn't finish, too much crap. Older GoW games, played several times and enjoyed every play through. More is not necessarily better, often it's worse. The big problem with open world games is you do all the fun stuff first, then you are left over with the work to finish the game :/
Plenty long games on PS1 as well, but not bloated with open world repetition. And the best things: No online multiplayer, play with friends locally in split screen. No MTX, no season passes, no limited time content, no buggy mess at release, no spoilers everywhere, no You Tube / Twitter / TikTok nonsense.
Btw Might and Magic 3 came out for PC, Mac, Amiga, Sega CD, TurboGrafx-CD and SNES, but yeah after that just PC and Mac.
