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>>1117729
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That, to me, is what "exploration" is really about. Collecting powerups and finding secrets is something you can do in any video game. That's not exploration. Exploration is the ominous entryway before and music within Ridley's lair in Super Metroid. Exploration is when you get to Outland in WoW for the first time and your first instinct is not "I want to check every corner for loot" but rather "I want to check every corner because this is a strange new land and I want to take in all the sights". Exploration is when you catch the normally brave and stoic swordmaster on the Night of the Final Day cowering in the back room pleading to the gods for his life. Exploration is uncovering constant references to the "Great Poison" that has been destroying Tallon IV's ecosystem and driven off one of the most powerful races in the galaxy, then reaching the Phazon Mines and finally getting to see it with your own eyes--only to discover shortly afterwards that your nemeses have harnessed it for their own purposes.

All of that is exploration. Exploration is not finding random chests filled with random items in random caves that exist for no reason other than for a video game character to find them.