As I said above, I think random encounters can be fine if they're not too frequent, but 90% of the time I just want to kill myself because they lose all effect they're supposed to have and just become an annoyance 10 hours into the game.Where did I complain about CYOA sections? I complained they were placed in between travelling, which is annoying at best.How dare they add more game to my game?Obviously. But 90% of the time these "random sections" get old after 2 hours of playtime. Seems like a waste of money to me anyway. I can't imagine not skipping them when I'm 20 hours into the game.depend on how varied and interesting they areThose random CYOA sections between city travelling are going to be a massive pain in the butt. I can already see the first mod is going to remove that shit out of the game.
A lot of people like the CYOA sections and requested more of them. They allow Obsidian to do stuff/situations that would be prohibitively expensive to handle as part of normal gameplay.
Spread them out throughout quests instead of dumping them when I'm trying to get somewhere to buy some shit or do some other quest.
So you've never liked random encounters in any game or P&P, I take it? To me, they help inject interest into what would otherwise just be clicking on Point B on the global or city map, but I can see how that might not hold true for everyone.
This is a problem that I can see PoE2 having. They're basically going "hey, people liked this! Let's make tons more of them!" This isn't necessarily a good thing.