I hated them until I played Fallout 3 which I believe is an action-RPG but is openworld of a sort. You can go where ever you want and the world is just massive. Amazing game.
I liked No More Heros a bit but only the mission parts. The parts you went round the open world were just dire. Unfortunately I needed to play the open world part to get enough money to enter a particular mission. I found it to boring to do that and so could not enter the mission and so abandoned the game.
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