I'd much rather have cities and towns with hundreds of NPCs than the ones in Skyrim with 20. With larger cities, you can still have those 20 NPCs all with unique quests, among the other NPCs. If anything it would make searching for them a game play mechanic in its own right.
DO NOT TRY ARGUING WITH ME I DO NOT CARE - FUCK OFF.
Wasn’t there only like 20 npcs in disco Elysium? 40 if you count Harry’s mind
Yeah, but that's a much different game where the quests are the people. The conversations are the dungeons.
Never played it