I watched some other videos of some free roaming action and I am less ill-disposed towards it now
It was not the quality of graphics that turned me off but actually the battle interface and the characters (macguffin and destiny talk within the first 10 minutes), as well as the palette selection, which reminded me of an early 90s ski jacket.
However free roaming is potentially excellent
Now the issue is whether it's free-roaming good (full of rad details) or free-roaming bad (running between fetch quests).
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