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I kind of prefer when they do just tell a straightforward story, sekiro is one of my favourites for that reason.
I don't mind the incomplete story when the world is done well ahead of time. I think that after seeing dark souls 3 tack on a bunch of stuff to the original story, it mildly soured me on the concept. Elden ring is fortunately a lot better about it.
Yeah, the Souls style works for me but I totally get why it would be offputting to others. I love worldbuilding and lore theorising, so getting heaps of that with very little in terms of character development is fine by me