N64 games were worse than what came after, because the technology of 3D graphics was new.

But when I say “Games should be shorter and look worse” I’m referring to the ways older games had to work within certain constraints in order to get made, and those constraints bred so much creativity.

There’s no reason why games need to be these unoptimized 200GB behemoths with photorealistic graphics. Especially when the gameplay itself is often so derivative