MGS Phantom Pain’s free on PS4 this month, so playing that. It’s striking how much “open world” is its own genre that’s quietly but TOTALLY indebted to MMORPGs, particularly WoW

• you ride a mount
• collecting plants and animals and minerals
• around an open world full of enemies you see before you aggro
• or sneak by
• to collect treasure
• for the townbuilding and crafting money sinks cause why not?
• but sometimes you’re in a special enclosed space for a scripted run