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I would love if they got rid altogether of any forced background. No courrier, no vault dweller, no recruit.

IMO, the only reason for having a minimum information of the past is to kick out the plot, start the MQ.

You don't get back and deliver the platinium chip if you weren't supposed to deliver it in the first place. You don't go for the water chip if no one need it back home. You don't go looking for your father if he didn't raised you. You don't go for the Geck if it isn't needed at home. You aren't the chosen one if the game isn't a satire of chosen one's tropes.

But if they manage to start the plot without forcing too much background on the character, the better.

I don't think that having a forced character is the right way to make an RPG.

That's one of the reasons i sometime feel uncomfortable with The Witcher.

IMO, the RPG is supposed to allow me to shape the character according to what i want to do and deal with the consequences.

With forced background i would never be able to decide some of the past event no matter how hard i try.

On that same note, i hope they will stop making player's previous protagonists automatically male/good in sequels.

I mean, when you play Fo1 or Fo2, you can play those as a woman or as a bad guy.

Still, next games automatically assume that you were a male that did good things around him.

I hope that they will avoid being too much specific in upcoming games. Or have unlikelly approach, like making the lone wanderer a lady, or the courrier six a sociopath that betrayed everyone.

And if they have to make some endings canon, i rather have them on limited number. As long as most of the endings are open-ended, the choices you make keep their weight. If the same thing will be considered to have happened in the next game, no matter what you are choosing in the current game, your current choices lose a lot of weight.