The discourse around #DragonsDogma2 should be interesting next week as a lot of people are very excited for it - but it sounds punishingly old school.
Eg the map is all fogged out, no arrows over quest givers (in fact, NPCs largely seek you out and speak to you), they don’t tell you how to do the quests - just give hints, no fast travel, no compass markers so you have to run around and try to find the village for quest, then when there, no arrows for objective etc. Hard combat too.