Sometimes I'll glance down a side street or between a row of houses while walking home and get the strangest little reminder that there's so much more to the world, just out of sight of well-worn paths I know like the back of my hand. I need more exploring, less routine.
I've been told that what I'm describing is very Shenmue-like, but I want an open-world game to capture this feeling. A dense, bespoke, richly detailed map that you spend the first 5-10 hours always taking the same route across, too pressed for time to explore