I wouldn’t go so far to say people are tired of open worlds they are tired of established and in many cases poorly designed open world experiences.

If an open world was done with far less busy work and well developed and rewarding progression from exploring I’d be very open to it. But most aren’t interesting most are kind of just tacked on and create busy work.

Personally I’m very much in favor of a curated well executed linear game and story. And I think we need more of them. But if someone comes along with something special I’m all ears.

I haven’t played this remake yet so I can’t speak to its execution. But I know far too many others have had pitfalls. Looking at you Retro studios …