I prefer when areas are designed to be handled by higher level characters rather than always scaling with the player like Skyrim does. My ideal is when said scaling is somewhat subtle like in Elden Ring - there’s an intended route, but if you go somewhat out of order it’s not the end of the world and player skill matters more than a few levels anyway. I guess we’ll see how much level matters in this universe.

I never could get into Crusader Kings or Europa Universalis. I generally love grand strategy and play a ton of things like Civilization but for some reason Paradox’s maze of menus and mechanics never seems to click for me.