Open-World or Plot-Driven?, Which do you prefer? Options

[TheDreamWriter]

This is the basis of a new long-term game project that I am developing (Explorer, exclusive to RPGRev).

It is an open-world explorer with no pre-set plot. The game will evolve around the player's game style.

If you complete a quest, it may unlock one quest but lock another from access. But, at the same time, you could sit at home farming.

Do people think it would be better for a game to be open-world or plot-driven?

~TDW

[bulmabriefs144]

Plot-drven. I am in favor of open-world, but well... look at the Elder Scrolls games. They have a central plot that you can completely disregard to do sidequests. I think the plot should be set in stone (I don't like the idea of shifting too much due to the characters, as I think the author should be trying to tell something specific in terms of a message for their players, which gets lost if it's too flexible), but the flexibility should instead be in the game's sidequests.