Quote Originally Posted by kaynide View Post
GW2 does a pretty decent job of this; There are a lot of just generic buildings that are wide open. Some have a bartender that's an actual vendor NPC, some have NPCs that path around. It's very similar to FFXIV's adventurer guilds, but on a larger scale. An average establishment is probably nearer to the restaurant area in Crystalarium in size, or the entire aetheryte plaza area in Eulmore.

The good is that it's easy to wander into one of these and find people RPing casually in a pretty PG setting. The bad is that they kind of unrealistically big or in a weird, out of the way place. (The entire scale for everything in GW2 is rather huge)

What really makes the game good in these settings is there is minor banter happening in the background between NPCs that is voiced. Some of it is quite long or detailed.. obviously some is just 1-2 liners. It makes a lot of difference/immersion to hear/see the banter in your chat box.
Been so long since I played GW2 so can't remember much of that.
But I do remember some random quest (or something) where NPCs started a bar brawl and you had to knock some sense in them.

I do enjoy the Inns in ESO.
I must be honest that I haven't really payed much attention to the NPCs or pathings they do.
But each inn (as far as I can remember) got a bard playing music.
When I am inbetween queues or something I tend to just park my dude next to a bard and listen to the songs they sing.
Some are really good and adds a nice cosy atmosphere.