I just want someone to say "**** the open-world trading and mining and all that pointless bull**** fluff" and produce another tightly-focused, well-plotted singleplayer experience like FS2 or TIE Fighter. But lord knows if/when that will happen.
Or Wing Commander right?
Agree 100%! I don't do well with open-world/sandbox games, and I don't care much for multiplayer. I don't self-focus well in games (probably not in RL either), and then I lose interest before ever really doing anything fun. I do much better with a mission structure, whether linear or branching. Some side missions are OK, but if there are too many I will get myself bogged down in those thinking i need to level up before getting back to the main campaign, and if the side missions are too repetitious or not engaging on their own again i will lose interest.
I played the snot out of Wing Commander on my Super NES, replaying and tanking missions just to play through all the branches. And FS2 is literally the primary reason I bought my first PC. The original PC-only Crimson Skies and MechWarrior 3 also took a good bit of my free time.