Maxie
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I must confess something dire to all y'all. I tend to somewhat enjoy The Elder Scrolls, but for all the wrong reasons one'd enjoy an RPG game. Namely, I enjoy hiking, that is getting from one point to another through wilderness, fighting terrain rather than monsters, for no particular quest reason at all - just to try whether I will succeed. The various hypothermia and assorted autistic mods for Skyrim only strenghtened my, err, predilection, to avoid the term 'fetish'.
I would be grateful if you could name a few games you had the pleasure to play which invoked a similar feeling, that is of some good ass video game hiking. Mind you, hiking is not exploration, that is you do not discover hidden secrets and snippets of the world gone by, but you simply cross the terrain. I enjoyed me some hiking in New Vegas, and probably would've enjoyed it even more, were it not for the somewhat peculiarly located invisible walls. The less fantasy fare and questline molestation you encounter while on a hike, the better.
I wouldn't mind if likeminded hikers shared their thoughts on the phenomenon either. We're a repressed lot, apparently, in the sea of story aficionados and combat grogs.
I would be grateful if you could name a few games you had the pleasure to play which invoked a similar feeling, that is of some good ass video game hiking. Mind you, hiking is not exploration, that is you do not discover hidden secrets and snippets of the world gone by, but you simply cross the terrain. I enjoyed me some hiking in New Vegas, and probably would've enjoyed it even more, were it not for the somewhat peculiarly located invisible walls. The less fantasy fare and questline molestation you encounter while on a hike, the better.
I wouldn't mind if likeminded hikers shared their thoughts on the phenomenon either. We're a repressed lot, apparently, in the sea of story aficionados and combat grogs.