7) Free running
It may not be very realistic to give every player the coordination of a Cirque du Soleil acrobat, but we’ve played Assassin’s Creed and we know what we want. Rather than casually climbing over objects like no one is firing bullets at our faces, we want to take running leaps... especially through glass windows, there’s nothing cooler than jumping through a glass window.
Let us scale walls and climb to places we’d normally find unreachable. We’ll just scour the game for glitches that allow us to access these forbidden hiding spots anyway, so why not make a feature out of it?
Hideo Kojima originally had "no plans" for a character like Metal Gear Solid's Cyborg Ninja until Yoji Shinkawa's art had him saying "hell yeah, a ninja cyborg!"
One of the most iconic D&D RPGs ever made stood out among Baldur's Gate and Fallout as it was the "first" to make companions "feel like fully functional parts of the story"
