There is this tiny company called Nihon Falcom. They make this game series called Trails that I adore. they have like three programmers work on each entry.

In the time since Star Citizen was announced they have released:

• The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails 2012
• Ys: Memories of Celceta 2012
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 2013
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II 2014
• Tokyo Xanadu 2015
• Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana 2016
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV
• Ys IX: Monstrum Nox 2019
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak II
• Ys X: Nordics

as well as a bunch of ports of older games to modern platforms and localizing them to the west. All of these are worth playing and some of these were GOTY material for me.

Its good to quantify how much time has passed, and how much you can get done with a smaller budget and focused scope.