I already wrote about the importance of the setting but there were so many good posts about actual gameplay irritations on current games that I thought I'd list some of my wishes also:
- No black&white moral systems (more witcher, less pretty much everything else). There's more to making a game for adults than adding gore...
- Choices should have an impact on the world, which is why I don't like most sand-box games as they usually just ignore this. I prefer heavily scripted if that script wipes a town off a map because of my actions.
- It's totally fine that a choice I made prevents me from doing something else. Not everything has to be discovered on the first play-through.