I know what you mean. I’m sure the next game will be streamable to some affordable tablet or something, for the bereft Sony people.
I agree Skyrim and RDR2 had great worlds. W3 was a little less interesting as a place in my opinion - it had more interesting things happening, but as a physical place Velen was all fairly homogenous. Skellige felt a bit more like the place where just getting around was an adventure, and of course it was itself a bit Skyrim-like. I would put Gothic 3 above it as a place where exploration itself was the adventure, although as a game it had shortcomings. Interestingly (to me :) I’m finding my memory of routes around G3’s world finally fading, despite having known them so well, just as they do of a real place. I feel a bit wistful - that experience built up over hour after hour receding back into nothing.