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by sdegutis 3629 days ago
SNES was the golden age of video games. I wish people would make more games in that style. Super Metroid will never be topped at this rate, and that's pretty sad. You don't have to make games look realistic to make them addictive and fun. Give me a world I can explore, with secrets I can discover, where my character can grow and gain new abilities and combine them for unique new experiences. Stuff like that.
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Have you not seen the Cambrian explosion of retro-style indie games on the PC? Quite a bit of it is RPGMaker shovelware, but there are a lot of real gems in there as well.
I really love the open world rpgs like far cry, fallout, witcher, and others. Metroid felt big as a kid, just not sure if it'd hold up today.