Hopefully I'm not the only one who's felt this, but there's something about Cyberpunks map, the city and the badlands, that feel so much more like a real place than basically any other game city I've seen.
Like all others, night city is shrunk way down from what it would be, but for some reason I never really register it like I do in other games.
Whenever I'm walking around in Novigrad, or Saint Denis or Los Santos, it feels very obvious that it's just a game space meant to resemble a city. Beyond just their scale there's something about their layout or atmosphere that just doesn't feel real. The same goes for the rest of the maps for most of these games, not to the same extent but that disconnect is still present.
I'm interested to hear what people think, is this actually something people have noticed beyond my own bias? Why do cities and deserts in cyberpunk feel so much more like cities and deserts?