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

[TheDreamWriter]

So, samer95, you're saying an open-world game that still has a set storyline?

So, for example, the player can do certain things (such as gambling at a casino) as long as it does not use money needed later in the game or use up precious time in a time-based game?

I think that a basic back-plot is needed to keep open-world explorer's valid and feasible, but their vast openness allows the game to shift around the player, rather than the player have to adapt to the game. Surely?