/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2177389
>Also games in the past didn't consist mainly of arcade games. What the fuck are you even on about?
Let's see. I'd estimate an average 3rd gen title to last about 40 minutes. Mastering it would take about 5-6 hours, 10 hours for challenging titles. I'm talking about games like SMB, SMB3, Contra, Castlevania. JRPGs took about 15-20 hours.

Modern action titles take 20-25 hours. Mastering them takes about twice that much due to additional modes, unlockable difficulty levels, unlockable skills, online play etc. Modern JRPGs take about 50 to beat and about 80 hours to master.

Here I'm completely bypassing arcade games... which were paramount in 80s and early 90s gaming, which you should've known if you knew anything about gaming history. But just for you I'm not talking about those. Still, modern games take much more attention to beat than retro games. That is factual, independently of my personal opinion on which games are better.

Modern games are much more commercial, focus-tested, stale. That much is true. But "low atention spans and dudebros" is, simply put, a myth.