The key point is there are quite a few missions that don't show up right away, and finding them is part of the fun. You might stumble across an interesting garage in santo domingo that kicks off a quest for a sweet arch nazaré bike, or maybe notice a food bowl outside your apartment that lets you adopt a cat named nibbles.

If you're exploring pacifica, you can actually get an old roller coaster running again which triggers some unique dialogue, and while wandering through heywood you might find a chatty smart pistol called skippy in an alley. Really interesting stuff happens if you poke around the badlands landfill where there's this whole thing with rache bartmoss' body, and definitely check out the Jinguji store more than once because something unexpected happens there. The area near misty's shop has this street prophet named garry, and if you listen to him rant a few times it opens up something special. Oh and in japantown, there's this ai vending machine called brendan that's worth talking to whenever you pass by.

These aren't your usual go-here-do-that missions, they're more like little rewards for people who take time to look around and interact with the world. Most give you something cool like special gear or vehicles, but the real value is in the stories they tell.