Felt this way with Skyrim when it was released, then BOTW, then Horizon: Forbidden West, then Elden Ring….
Like a dog in a park that sees a squirrel 😂
I'm all for interesting side quests, but it does hurt immersion a little when High Priest Powervac impresses upon you how urgent it is that you stop The Great Finger Eater and save the galaxy, but you've also really got to gather nine forget-me-nots for Widow Stoop and honestly, they're of equal importance.
Some games give you breathing room during the main quest. Like, your early contact in Morrowind outright tells you to fuck off and have adventures on your own for awhile. If devs are gonna make a big open world they should build around it like that.
Ff14 is good at that, there's intense shit and then there's playing in the woods shit
Yeah it does hurt immersion, but for some reason they're fun to do still.
Literally me in Cyberpunk and Starfield
literally me in any game whether or not it's meant to be open world or whatevs x3
Literally me. Picked up red dead redemption 2 again (never completed), and at the rate I'm going, never will. I've probably added another 30/40 hours to my tally just hunting and picking fucking flowers
This meme format always catches me off guard, because it's from my tiny-ass country lol
Oh look, a diagram of my players for the TTRPG I'm running 😂
Ultrahands feet
