Nintendo’s first-party titles are usually very polished on release (Pokemon being a notable exception). Other than that, Elden Ring and Baldur’s Gate 3 are two recent major titles that I didn’t hear many complaints about, though I’m not sure if the latter counts since it released a couple years ago in Early Access.
Sonic games usually have great music but Sonic Mania in particular is full of bangers, highly recommend it.
Undertale’s soundtrack has been memed to death but it’s honestly really good.
If you’re still in the mood for visual novels the Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney games have some incredible soundtracks too.
Also, for something slower, I must give a shout out to The Sims 1. It’s suave as hell and very, very catchy.
Well, in such a scenario I’m also making two assumptions:
That the modders are indeed being paid by Bethesda to work full-time on it since it’s meant to be sold when finished (not unlike Skyrim Special Edition, only made by modders)
There’s a way to add code and assets from existing mods to their remake. If they have to make it all from scratch then yeah, a year is not enough.
I wonder what would happen if Bethesda gave a few of the best modders full access to the game’s code and to the latest version of the engine. I bet they could come up with a current gen remake in under a year without the involvement of a single Bethesda dev.
Nintendo’s first-party titles are usually very polished on release (Pokemon being a notable exception). Other than that, Elden Ring and Baldur’s Gate 3 are two recent major titles that I didn’t hear many complaints about, though I’m not sure if the latter counts since it released a couple years ago in Early Access.