What restricts the day/night cycle in video games from being

nothing? it's done in animal crossing and pokemon to name a couple

not everyone is a NEET

>>386278991
Pokemon does it

>>386278991
Good game design

I want games to do 18-20 hour day/night cycles so that time still passes by slowly but you don't have to wake up at 4 AM to experience in game 4 AM.

>>386279728
most games running on real time have sparser things at weird hours understanding that only the autistic are anal enough to need to fuck up their irl sleep cycle to play a game. Do you get upset you don't experience IRL at 4 am?

>>386279728
Animal crossing and pokemon did it.

>>386280106
weren't they just 24 hours but you can change the system clock

To clarify, I didn't mean the time in the game has to match up with the time in real life, just that it would take 24 hours in game for a day to pass. If you paused and then left and came back an hour later, the time in game would still be the same as when you paused it.

>>386279950
4 am nature walks are comfy

>>386280584
How many games (that aren't online pew pew shooters, mobs or whatever) have you genuinely spent more than 50 hours playing?

Hard mode: No Fallout or TES