User blog comment:The Milkman/Skyrim's Smorgasbord of Shortcomings/@comment-3202167-20120814225528/@comment-1786741-20120815023152

Thing is, people might want to roleplay. Don't get me wrong, I loved the lone wanderer in Fallout 3 but you were always 18 and loved your daddy enough to go looking for him. Since I always try to play as a morally good person, this suited my playstyle but what about the poeple that wanted to be complete evil bastards? Similar situation with Hawke, it's a little hard to create your own character when you only have a mixture of 3 main dialouge paths to choose from. Games like Mass Effect and Origins did great because even though they gave you a set background, they gave you more than one to choose from. It isn't quite as open-ended as a clean slate but it has enough wiggle room to work with.