Great Moments in NPC Dialogue: Horizon Zero Dawn - The Frozen Wilds

"This is my sort of delve! A thousand little problems to solve, a million minute and invisible factors! My father used to say to me, 'Gildling?' -- he called me Guildling -- 'Gildling,' he used to say, 'Don't make the delve harder than it needs to be. The best delves are done in half the time it takes a campfire to sputter out.'

Now my father was a great man, mind you, but dead wrong when it came to choosing a rubric by which to judge delve quality. To find yourself stuck, and then unstuck! To fail, then to succeed! To get lost and find... YOURSELF! That's what makes a delve!"

- Gildun from Horizon Zero Dawn - The Frozen Wilds explains why I keep coming back to puzzle games, MMOs, RPGs and open-world adventure-em-ups.