Mine always is, completely forgetting what I was doing and where I was going after not touching a save file for a long time. This is happening to me right now with Stardew Valley.
I’m in Year 4, married Maru, have a decent farm going, I have yet to build the movie theater I just found out so that’s something I can do. And I know up until that point, I called it a conclusion of a game, but yet I forgot completely about there being some minor goals or things I wanted to do. Completely out of my head. It was a year ago since I last touched that save.
This happens a lot with old saves, because sometimes I have had something in mind as to how I was going to play the game or where I was going with a character.
My biggest pet peeve are collectables in games not primarily about exploration. I guess it can be implemented in a fun way, but I hate backtracking or not being sure I can continue without looking in every corner in a segment of a level. Replayed Mario Galaxy and it was pleasantly surprised being able to play it in your own way.
~I am aware that nothing is stopping me to do so, even with collectables. Unfortunately I hate half progress bars just as much TT.~
Yeah, playing Sniper Elite 5 atm, clearly the game was designed to follow your own path, however there are collectibles/things to find and/or information key to finishing optional objectives in basically every building. Then sometimes after finishing every main objective on a map, I’m resorting to running around like a madman slaughtering small pockets of remaining nazis because I’ve run out of patience after a 1-2hr mission - therefore ruining my otherwise perfect stealth run -_- .