kids these days and their adhd)) have you ever played NES SNES PS1? )) does anyone remember any fast travel in games like Soltice, Zelda, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy... hell even Fallout1/2, Fallout 4 survival mode, Morrowind, whole GTA series for fuck sake
you ether have to have difficulty for this or you should pay somehow for fast travel, like risk of random encounters (like in Fallout 2, Kingdom Come ) or pay for cab/carrage to go from city to city (Morrowind, GTA)
While I personally never had consoles while growing up, I did have a PC, and did play both original Fallouts. And I will not stand you pretending like there was no fast travel in Fallout.
The overworld map WAS one giant fast travel mode, in both games. You were not walking on your two own legs across the world in either of original fallouts, you were simply watching a point moving across the map on its own. Only taking breaks to fire off random encounters.
GTA games have fast travel, it's taxi and/or trains depending on particular GTA game, and it also has a whole cast of vehicles you can drive yourself. Which means you practically never have to travel on foot in any of GTA games.
Morrowind has a whole slew of cheesy spell and enchantment combinations that allow you to practically fly across the entire map in seconds.
Fallout 4 was an inflated, boring slog, I powered through that one on sheer defiance.
Never played old Zelda, Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest games (had no console duh), so can't say anything about those. But the newer entries of all three series have introduced fast travel mechanics.
you ether have to have difficulty for this or you should pay somehow for fast travel, like risk of random encounters (like in Fallout 2, Kingdom Come ) or pay for cab/carrage to go from city to city (Morrowind, GTA)
Also, funny how you first claim there not being fast travel in Morrovind and GTA, and then mention fast travel (the cab IS fast travel) in Morrowing and GTA...
Either you don't know what fast travel is, or you are intentionally lying about things.
Unlike then, the map wasnt one big empty field and you could travel from one end to another in about 10 minutes.
Also, this. Map sizes got so ridiculously inflated over the years.
For example, look how GTA map size kept ballooning with each new game: