For millions of years humans wandered around eating stuff they found on the ground and fighting skeletons.

Skyrimblionwind is a game about wandering around eating stuff you find on the ground and fighting skeletons.

I sincerely believe much of the appeal of open world games is that for most of the time there have been humans we kind of just wandered around exploring and finding neat stuff and sometimes getting eaten by lions. People who live in capitalism hell where everything is fenced and it's illegal to go outside and you move between a series of small artificially lit boxes get a chance to wander around and explore and find neat stuff and eat things they found in barrels are like "oh my god this is what I was meant to do. This is why i am a biped with two dedicated limbs for grasping and manipulation. This is why i have binocular vision and symbolic reasoning. This makes sense, while my life of misery and boredom does not.