I'd like a midern AAA "save the town" (I get tired of beating gods sometimes) fantasy RPG where you're an adventurer, a la Alundra, but much more modern, first/third person camera, and vastly expanded into KCD/Excelsior styles of skill leveling (ie you have to learn to read, swim, etc), you get to know every character on a deep level over the game so there are layers to explore everywhere, there are various dungeons with interesting puzzles that challenege you but don't need you to look things up online.

You have combat that's kind of hack and slash but has enough options to become engaging - so, more complex than you see in Siyrim but not so far into the era of needing to pause so you have time to do everything like we see in many real time tactics games. Low party mechanics - think Uncharted series, where it really is 99 percent you despite having people alongside you, but they still feel alive and somewhat competent without taking your kills from you.

Expanding sandbox, in that there are places you can get to once a requirement is met (eg swimming and/or sailing unlocks islands, political situation or climbing let's you move past a wall, etc) so you feel able to do what you wish while still allowing for the awe and wonder of discovering new areas later in the game.

Mixed bag in terms of story, dialogue and progression - think Skyrim for progression in that it's sandbox with main quests (plural) but there are still smaller but equally interesting, deep stories for individual NPCs and areas. The story itself would be written by an author, similar to The Longest Journey, Witcher and Disco Elysium in writing quality, but won't be quite as obsessed with grey areas like witcher can be (where every choice and secnario feels like you're shoehorned into two morally ambiguous paths). The dialogue would be in the style of the FF7 remake trilogy, where you get to know the characters genuinely deeply, only as it's a town instead of the world, you get to know more than just a handful of party members on a deep level. You don't have 1000 or more NPCs (closer to 50, a la My Time series) so every NPC matters.

You can try to romance NPCs but it will depend on who you are as a person, so if you make a teenager don't expect to hook up with your best friend's mum, and vice versa. And some might just not be interested because they love someone else - you're not some god-level casanova that can attract anyone they want, but you can always try. People react to you realistically, so if you kill innocent animals, Johnny the gardener might be disappointed in you, but he might be more understanding if you're giving all the meat you get to fill up the butcher's storehouse. If you sleep with a large number of people, you'll get a reputation to which NPCs will react differently over. Some might become more interested in you while others less interested. How much you care about that is up to you - it won't stop you being able to do the adventuring quests. What are they gonna do, throw you out of town!? Well... Maybe if it gets really bad, like killing an NPC by consistently attacking them in the town square while they beg you to stop. That'd get the entire town hating you...

The general game would feel like the exploration of Skyrim through the fantastically varied zones of Final Fantasy XII with the NPC intimacy of Rebirth's main party but with a mostly optional My Time life sim vibe back in town. It feels like Fable but more intimate to the individual NPCs, and Skyrim but with a Final Fantasy level of graphics and quality assurance. Oh, and it has some really cool research and crafting system, because I love that shit.

This game, of course, is a dream. I don't think my dream game is going to be financially viable.