I think all of those games are absolutely tiny when you take into account human scale. You can't traverse any real world city in the few minutes or so it would

I think all of those games are absolutely tiny when you take into account human scale. You can't traverse any real world city in the few minutes or so it would take for Geralt to circumnavigate the entirety of Novigrad. Agree that you should get lost in a big, redundant world. Bethesda have their work cut out for their next games. DayZ (and it's ilk) is probably the only game that comes close to 1:1 but is not to most players tastes to take a human amount of time to walk across rows of empty fields. That game is absolutely enormous. It's a pretty niche game though.