What drew me away from RPG in the last few years is the lack of an overworld map ! All the locations on the "map" seems connected together... you never feel like you are part of a larger world.

There is NO exploration whatsoever in new console RPGs. Go there, now do this, now go there and do this. There is never a time when you feel you have a big world to explore, find caves wander around in forest etc... like you did in the old FFs and DW.

In those games, when you had the chance to finally get a ship, I was so happy I could explore the seas and find places I couldn't go before...

I guess for me the best part of an RPG is exploration, and now these days the only place I can find this is on a PC RPG. But I don't like western RPGs... in general... so I am out of luck.

Stephane