Great graphics, gameplay and a sexy main character. That is how you get players into the game. Not overcharging for the game and making purposely unappealing characters like Starwars Outlaws.

Fable 4 isn't out yet but Microsoft may as well just cancel it because it hasn't a chance if your main character looks like a joke. And Fable series never had amazing enough gameplay to have a main character this bad. Horizon was able to get away with it because the gameplay is above the average.

Took me from 1995 to just this year 2023 to finish Magic Carpet 2.

Mind you, it wasn't the same exact save file each time... what would happen is I'd play it pretty far but then just kinda leave it long enough that I didn't go back to it. Well this year I went full out, started the game from the start right to the end. Completely done now.

Other than the crashing, amazing game though for its time, I would play it every year almost but never all the way to the end.... mostly due to the random and repeated crashes you'd get in many of the levels which would turn the game into a routine of saving every few minutes to just be able to finish a level.

Another even older game is Ultima 7, I got it in 1992, I play it every year or so but never get all the way through it either... I'd just give up or get some game breaking bugs and have to quit anyways. You can break the game main story questline if you don't do things in a proper order for some of the quests... one bug was if you flew to Minoc on the magic carpet instead of walking there on foot, it wouldn't trigger the quest properly and you could never finish the game from that point on.