This games got good fishing.

I want little to no mechanical depth to my fishing in a video game. Fishing in real life looks like it sucks eggs and the further games get away from that the better. What makes fishing good as an activity in a game is that it forces you to idle. People went buck wild for the benches in Life is Strange because sitting in a game rules and fishing is like advanced sitting.

You want to fish because it forces you to stop interacting with the game mechanically and start admiring the world. Find a place to fish, cast your lure, and then pan the camera. The gameplay is not catching the fish, the gameplay is panning the camera. Fishing is the sightseeing skill. It's the skill you should focus on if you just want to be a tourist in the world of FFXIV and I swear they designed it around this idea.

Training the skill gives you an ability that makes you not aggro monsters way above your combat level thus allowing you to explore the higher level areas way before your ready to from a combat perspective. It levels up super fast, opening the world to you immediately. The fishing mechanics are the same from start to finish and the only variable is the location you fish. You have to thoroughly explore the maps looking for bodies of water. The entire gameplay is explore and admire. Admire the world, admire the water, admire your characters fashion.

And then at the end you get a tiny tortoise pet.