Why oh why are AI personalities so bad. I've been through:
fallout 3
Oblivion
The Saboteur
Just Cause 2
Informas

Yet always when I meet npcs their either thick as two short planks or just plainly bugged. Is AI scripting so hard?

The other trend i'm seeing in open world games is copy and pasting of areas or just plain nothing... lots of nothing. I thought the whole point of a sandbox game is so you can go anywhere and see anything, but there needs to be something to see. I know fallout 3 is supposed to be apocaliptic wasteland but even in cities, where there are people eg megaton, there are large areas of nothing.

Maybe i'm just getting old and cynical but if anyone knows any decent open world games where the AIs have more intelligence than a field mouse on rails then please do say.