Overused overworld tropes/cliches in RPG/Adventure games that you still want every game to have.

[Kirin]

On the treasure hunt thing earlier, I assume everyone's pretty much everyone's on the same page with this, but yeah hunts that boil down to "check every tile" are obviously bullshit but ones where there's a somewhat subtle tell that's actually pretty easy to find if you're looking but just enough to make you feel momentarily clever are aces.

 

[conchobhar]

I never tire of linked worlds: two (or more) versions of the same world— be it time travel, a parallel universe, or different seasons— that are intrinsically connected, and that you need to do things in one to progress in the other.

 

[Falselogic]

Let me build up my own town and recruit people for it. This is always the best.

 

[Paul le Fou]

One word:

AIRSHIPS.

 

[BEAT]

One word:

AIRSHIPS.

THIS GUY

HE GETS IT.

 

[MetManMas]

I want an airship in a modern RPG but not one on some abstraction of a world map like the old RPGs or one that's little more than a level select menu like the PS2 games.

I want, like, this huge unwieldy thing to fly about one of those open worlds like FF15 or GTAV where you have to figure out how you're going to park this damn blimp without dying in a fiery explosion.

 

[MCBanjoMike]

Not exactly an RPG overworld trope, but I love it when games give you a hub area or safe space, then later in the game it is destroyed/comes under attack/becomes unsafe in some way. Gets me every time!

 

[WisteriaHysteria]

Related but not quite the same: any sort of "dark world" or "other world". Don't care if it is some wholly separate universe or an astral plane or whatever, just something along the lines of "here the map kind of looks the same, but there are differences, and maybe you can do things here that impact the other world". Cannot get enough of "solved a block puzzle in this world, now a door unlocks in the other world", even when it makes exactly zero sense.

The finger curls on the monkey paw and you get the Silent Realm in Zelda Skyward Sword

 

[Torzelbaum]

The finger curls on the monkey paw and you get the Silent Realm in Zelda Skyward Sword

 

[Bongo]

The finger curls on the monkey paw and you get the Silent Realm in Zelda Skyward Sword

I thought monkey's paws traditionally result in bad things?