Open-world is fine without fast travel (or without using it heavily, anyway) if and only if traveling to the place is actually made fun with emergent gameplay. Running around a big empty map trying to figure out what the fuck you’re supposed to do isn’t fun, and I feel like the AAA studios have leaned on it as a way of artificially inflating the amount of time people spend in the game so they feel like they got their money’s worth.
If I can’t stand it in RDR/RDR2 or GTA among many others, I don’t think it’s something for me. I’m perfectly fine with going down a path with a few side paths to explore. Open worlds have gotten too pervasive and too big.
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Open-world is fine without fast travel (or without using it heavily, anyway) if and only if traveling to the place is actually made fun with emergent gameplay. Running around a big empty map trying to figure out what the fuck you’re supposed to do isn’t fun, and I feel like the AAA studios have leaned on it as a way of artificially inflating the amount of time people spend in the game so they feel like they got their money’s worth.
If I can’t stand it in RDR/RDR2 or GTA among many others, I don’t think it’s something for me. I’m perfectly fine with going down a path with a few side paths to explore. Open worlds have gotten too pervasive and too big.