I feel like this could be solved just by having a journal with a recap of where you have to go. “NPC said I need to go to the hut near the river just north of X village”, and then you could look at a map, find the river, and know it should be somewhere around there. No need to remember, but also no need to just mindlessly follow an orange marker.
This is what Morrowind did, but the journal was organized chronologically so it was a hilariously incomprehensible mess. You basically just had an unorganized bullet pointed to-do list, with zero context surrounding the individual points. So if you started one quest then picked up another in the middle, the first quest would be split in half as bullet points landed on both sides of the second quest.
I feel like this could be solved just by having a journal with a recap of where you have to go. “NPC said I need to go to the hut near the river just north of X village”, and then you could look at a map, find the river, and know it should be somewhere around there. No need to remember, but also no need to just mindlessly follow an orange marker.
Yes, this is what meant. That would be great.
This is what Morrowind did, but the journal was organized chronologically so it was a hilariously incomprehensible mess. You basically just had an unorganized bullet pointed to-do list, with zero context surrounding the individual points. So if you started one quest then picked up another in the middle, the first quest would be split in half as bullet points landed on both sides of the second quest.