superstande: Somehow these days I have a craving for games where you can explore cities... Like proper big sized ones.
And not cities filled with zombies or enemy troops... the ones where you can just walk about and see npcs do the same... and preferably just watch npcs busy at work while I drink beer and do nothing ;) any suggestions are more than welcome for this sort of chances in games :)
Skyrim - although the cities aren't really big. Oblivion in parts, the schedules of the NPCs are more primitive.
The Witcher 3 - Novigrad. Best (medieval) city simulation I've ever seen. It's big, living, breathing... and both beautiful and ugly. What people you see and what they're doing depends on the part of the city you're in and the time of the day and even the weather.
You can have a drink, have fun with "easy girls" (both cheap and expensive), play rounds of Gwent in some bars and taverns, beat up some robbers in dark alleys...
Downside is, that unlike in games like Skyrim you can't have Geralt sit down on any chair or bench. I wish the developers would include this somehow, but I guess it would make the "what's interactive" decisions of the UI overly complicated. Happens often enough I blow out a candle instead of talking to the barkeeper ;-)