My favorite games are the games where the character is a blank slate. I like to be able to play whatever character I feel like when I start a story.

The one thing I wish more games did was have a reputation system. If my character regularly deals with problems by showing up in the dead of night, forgoing any agent attempts to talk things out, and personally murdering each and every person that inconvenienced me, I want enemies to react to that. Here I am walking the wastelands of fallout in a suit and a mask, eating automatic gunfire and taking out deathclaws with a combat knife, and raiders still think it’s cool to take one of my serfs as a hostage? No amount of jet makes you stupid enough to think that’s a good idea. Rumors spread through the wastes fast, why do the gunners take pot shots at me after I personally razed their headquarters and beat their leaders to death with my bare hands? Frank Horrigan never got this level of disrespect…