My experience with games with mahoosive worlds is I spend a lot of time staring at a square telling me how many M's I am from the waypoint, and rarely looking at the environment because I am too focused on trying to straight line it all.

A fantasy based on reality. I so hope the equivalent of traversing the Northern Crater to the final succession of multi-bosses is an M6 Toll Road with each checkpoint blocked by evil highway deities. Seriously, I want this.