If what you're doing on the side isn't in some way helping the player reach that goal then it's hard to justify why you should do it. “It's all a part of the same world, and the player has one meta goal for the game. “I honestly don't understand how you don't weave the side missions with the main story,” says Holmes. “I think any time you're working on an open world game the spectre of Rockstar is there” Drew Holmes, Saints Row series writer
