98 has some of my favorite games to ever come out, like:
- Marvel vs. Capcom
- 1080 Snowboarding
- NFS3 Hot Pursuit
- Tekken 3
- Starcraft + Brood wars
- Commandos
- Fifa 99
- Pokemon
- Fallout 2
- Half Life
- Ocarina of Time
- Baldur’s Gate
And many more
98 has some of my favorite games to ever come out, like:
And many more
I think expectations have grown astronomically since 2004, budgets have ballooned, graphical fidelity and animation quality has skyrocketed, development team headcounts have gone through the roof and many games just have more systems than they did before.
Games are less frequent because they take a lot longer to make, I read the other day that Halo 2 was apparently churned out in 10 months, these days even games building on other games foundations such as Tears of the Kingdom can take 5 years to come out.
Tears of the Kingdom taking five years actually kind of shocks me, because it doesn’t play that much different from a re-skinned version of its predecessor.
@SatouKazuma @_pete_ There are lots of things that go into games design that make it take that long in the modern day, so just because it plays very similar to its predecessor, there’s still a lot of work to be done to get the game to the state that its in.
I might be a developer, but I can’t say games are exactly in my wheel house. With the new enemies and animations, however, I can’t say I’m that shocked it takes a while.