Seeing Sierra Online games always makes me crave playing them, but everything I've seen of them tells me I'd hate actually playing them
it falls in that category of "this might be fun if I could dedicate a lot of time to just figuring out the game, trying out new things, failing, restarting, etc" but there's so much Stuff now that I just don't want to? Like, I don't know if it'll ever be time-economical to learn how to play them without guides now.
Restarting over and over because you missed picking up the Shiny ten screens back (and you can't just walk back) is more fine when you've got a lot of time to kill and there isn't much going on, but when I want to read a friend's story, there's anime I can watch on demand, people I can talk to, many other games I can play, books I can read, and I'm trying to fit all that in after a long and tiring workday?
It's kinda the same with JRPGs, really. Something that'd be fun with infinite time but not with the time I have
Like I'm trying to play FF7 and it's a GOOD game but I put it down for like a month and now it's like "I'm 5 hours in, do I want to replay 5 hours to remember what I'm supposed to know about Sephiroth or just accept that I gotta go kill him"