yes that’s exactly why I dislike it too. It doesn’t feel like I’m exploring, more like I’m playing one of these linear single player FPS games where you have zero agency in what you experience.

With Fallout 3 I actually felt like I was exploring a post-nuclear wasteland. No one was forcing me to see anything, I found everything on my own organically. Or at least that’s what it felt like, which is the only thing that matters.

It’s mostly this amateurish map design that treats its players like toddlers that turns me off NV.