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Antifar posted...

Not every game needs to have the same design philosophy, in much the same way that not every book needs to be written in the same style. Some authors tell an a-to-b story, and some obfuscate information and chronology to tell the same events in different fashion. Neither is necessarily better than the other.

No one is asking that. You're warping the the situation here. Witcher for example will have NPCs tell you things like "The next town over I heard there's a ferocious monster", and then you can go there. By default Witcher 3 has waymarks and hunter trails and all the other shit you'd expect from those games, but if you turn all of that off the game just becomes an immersive experience. The game's characters will point you in the right direction and trust you to figure it out on your own.

I don't need a devoted quest log, I just want NPCs to tell me where they're going. Some of them already do this, and those quests are the most enjoyable because I can do them on my own without having to look up a step-by-step guide on how not to let the character die because I progressed the story too fast on accident.

Like, 10% of the NPCs tell you where they're going and what to expect. The map more or less auto-fills, has giant glowing marks showing you where to go, and tiny pinpoints for every single point of interest. The map is practically the same as the skyrim map in functionality, it's just done a better job of feeling immersive since the UI elements on it don't look like UI. But for some reason adding one more pin to the map or having an NPC just say "Hey I'm going to the village of slaughter to slaughter some blood demons" is a step too far for souls fans. Again, despite the fact that a few of the quest lines already do exactly that.