Open-World Games’ Storytelling Doesn’t Gel With Their Best Features
When you're a kid, playing outside in the summer as the sun starts to set, you know that the worst thing possible is going to happen: A parent is going to call you inside. You don't want to leave the playground. Playing open-world games, especially those like Cyberpunk 2077 and the most recent Fallout and Elder Scrolls games, can sometimes feel like that--a playground that we don't want to leave, while the developers are our parents, trying to look out for us.These games always offer a campaign of some…