Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28986801-20170212232334/@comment-679780-20170214011723

I really do believe the release years are roughly the times the games take place and it's not that much of a fourth wall breaking kinda thing. In fact plenty of movies do it, usually before showing some past event relevent to the plot before starting the story with "present day". Directors just don't care how old their movie will eventually be for the small message to be irrelevent.