Part of what makes D&D is the journey & travel and everything that happens along the way. While I like it for testing in this kind of thing, i usually like having to walk from city to city and go through interesting areas and then once you reach another city you can fast travel between - with chances of encounters and what not) as it shows days 1,2,3...progressing. Keeps time elements and other things in nice motion. Golden paths to quests, hand holding, teleporting, are all newer inventions.
That being said, people are used to games getting rid of anything requiring patience and there is a good chance of alienating a lot of people who never had to learn it in their youth
Makes me miss the days of games like Morrowind, no quest markers and questgivers would give you vague directions that had you wandering in circles trying to find the one rock that looks different from the other. I found the Zhentarim secret Underdark bunker from a quest marker, which was a kinda immersion breaker moment. Not expecting Larian to remove quest markers here given how ubiquitous they are though.
I wouldnt have looked NEARLY as hard as I did for the wall if that thing wasnt there, it was driving me nuts. I did talk to the wolf who says "there is a stone wall but no stone smell" and you need to get pretty close, but otherwise it kind of taught me a lesson to look more closely. I was thorough, just not THAT close thorough.
Then again they dont have detect magic yet, so that is kind of an issue, we'll see if the implement it...Hmm I wonder if the mask from the hag detects it. I shall test that post-haste.
But yeah, morrowind and stuff having 400 hours of gameplay where Im just learning the world was pretty amazing. Its a hard game to mimic, but there are some good lessons to learn from it.
