Comment by throwaway17_17

BOTW hit me like a truck. I think that’s the only game as an adult, with a job and family, that I have over 500 hours in. I think it is also illustrative to consider the next closest game in play time for me is Elden Ring at ~400 hours. The similarities (and with FromSoft acknowledging world design inspiration from BOTW) to creating vast worlds with a clear and compelling ‘style’ absolutely carry the experience, even in spite of the less than technical cutting edge implementations and hardware.