>>716467390
Why do you guys bring this shit up now when this has been the case since Elder Scrolls and other games
The point of open world games is the scale of the world and seeing all sorts of shit to run toward on the horizon, that's why Elden Ring blew everyone out of the fucking door
All of us dreamed of going on adventures of our own when we were children and now that videogames have the means to make that scale real you piss your pants
>Its too empty
If there was shit every 10 feet the world would look fucking terrible and cluttered and there wouldn't be any substance to the rewards if they jingled keys in your face 24/7
>Travel just wastes time
You have horses/vehicles/fast travel/etc and the point is to give players more of the world to examine whilst they travel somewhere and create a mental checklist of things to explore after their next objective
>i cant think of an actually good thread so I decided to bait and argue in bad faith with the rest of everyone
and now we reach the real reason you're all here because you're all contrarians stuck cyclically baiting each other for years and years craving the stockholm syndrome from it all

Faggots the lot of you