For most of my life, I've played very open games. I've played a lot of Rimworld, and I enjoyed the hell out of that shit because you can do a lot of things with all the different systems they offer you. Mods make it a trillion times better in some cases. I don't play it much anymore because of reasons, but it still influenced my tastes.
That's all to say I like open, moddable, "We give you a bunch of systems and mechanics, go wild" games, but I want to hear your opinions. Do you prefer more traditional, narrow games, or do you prefer open sandbox-y type games?
I really need the game to have a good reason to be open world other than you can put how bighueg it is on the steam page so teenagers with all the free time in the world and little money get the feeling they can play it forever.
It makes sense for Death Stranding to be open world, kind of the point. I'm playing Mafia 3 now and same as with two I'm wondering why this needed to be open world