When did Open World become a bad thing?

>>380343352
When the worlds started to get bigger and more empty.

>>380343352

When the open world became mainly empty travel space between missions and objectives with mild collectable things in between point A and point B with limited actual exploration.

If the world is such where I don't know what is around then next corner when I am playing, shit is hidden everywhere that could potentially be of great use, and other such things, then it is great.

No a days open world is just a waste of space and slows down the action with no benefit.

ubisoft towers, AssCreed unironically killed open world

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>>380343352
Wide as an ocean but as deep as a puddle

>>380345193
This and Skyrim

>people mindlessly compare BotW towers to Ubisoft towers

it became a bad thing when "Early Access" and "survival" were also included with it.