What I found very surprising to the game in person was simply luck. You can happen anytime, anywhere just about anything.
You can a farmer encounter on the street where his horse was stolen and please bring it back to him of you for it, or a type you ask him to increase and steals ur suddenly your horse. But best I found the woman at the edge of roads apparently the coach is upset. Well, it looked just like this. In reality, half a dozen bandits were behind the coach who wanted to rob me.
This random principle made the game in my opinion more realistic. A unique new feature that puts the open-world genre in an entirely new light.