botw and totk. "oh im gonna go to this village! oh wait look at that, theres a shrine over there, ill go to the village later! on the way to the shrine. oh look! a bunch of monsters, better fight them, my weapons are almost breaking. oh look, im at a stable now, better do the quests. etc
“You’d have these conversations where you’d be sitting in a design review and somebody [would] say, that’s not realistic." The developer continues: "And you’re like, ‘okay, what does that have?’ like, ‘explain to me why that’s interesting.’ Because in the real world, I have to write up lists of stuff I have to go to the grocery store to buy. And I have never thought to myself that realism is fun. I go play games to have fun” Gabe Newell