What is your ideal game?

I like different things in different games buuut if I had to pick something...

Bioware storytelling (trilogy era) + Bethesda open world

Witcher 3 was the closest approximation and indeed the most "perfect" game I've ever played.

I would probably still prefer a tight narrative Mass Effect trilogy approach though. The most perfect emotionally engaging narrative to date.

So rather than ONE game I'd be happy with either of those:

- A Mass Effect space pirate game set in the Milky Way before or after the reapers (linear or open world)
> with a race option
> limited romance options (playersexual is fine by me)
>branching narrative
> several different endings including turning into the bad guy

- Another trilogy by Bioware or CDPR, setting doesn't matter
> character creator not mandatory but importing choices would be cool
    >strong attachment to main character and their companions

- Bethesda's Starfield if it has
> alien race selection
> a dozen different occupations (space pirate, slaver, soldier, space cow farmer, trader etc.)
> base building (spaceship ports as well as farms, factories and small player bases of any kind anywhere)
> companions
> interesting varied factions, joining one might lock you out of joining another
    > joining factions might depend on your occupation (no more Skyrim style leader of each guild)
> main story could be helping fight a galactic war or rebuilding after a massive war (think reapers), contributing to it based on the role you picked
    > I would not mind locking most occupations out of direct combat, maybe only a soldier or tech expert fights, if you are a farmer maybe you just provide food and the story         unfolds automatically in the background
        >This means you experience the story from totally different angles each time you pick a different job

- A very specific scenario for an (post-apocalyptic?) semi open world game I'm sure nobody would be interested in:
> parent and child (and pet) on the road together, you play the parent
> story spans several years, child grows up
    > you influence how the child develops by your actions
> loooots of banter between parent and child and pet (pet could be an animal or a robot)
> main story mysterious, they are searching for something in a beautiful world that is devoid of human life for the most part
    >world could be Earth or an alien planet
>could be either sort of like Horizon if you played Rost and young Aloy searching for answers together OR something a lot more malancholy focused mostly on how parent and child     relate to the world (doesn't need to have much combat or even none at all)
        > NOT dark and brutal like TLOU, rather quiet and for the most part peaceful exploration