My favorite video games are the ones that let me feel pretty and powerful without making me talk to annoying people. Or at least let me spend as much time as possible away from them.

Like, Skyrim understands if I just want to walk off into the forbidding, snowy mountains and never be seen again.

But a lot of games expect me to talk to characters they think are cute or interesting but are frequently just annoying or political mouthpieces for the developers' weird ideas.