@Erathsmus
I have done the horrible quests in single player Warband a total of : 0 times.
Because I was roleplaying a squire and considered myself above collecting cattle, training some loser lords men and being a messenger boy.
I did do quests about starting wars or ruining one nobles honor to favor another or hunting bandits. That fit with my view of the open world.
They call Skyrim "Sandbox". It isnt. M&B IS Sandbox.
And no, I dont consider Skyrim (or Oblivion for that matter) a decent RPG that changed the game market. Morrorwind? That one YES! That one yes a million times... but sorry Oblivion and Skyrim just no. Its not a hipster thing, its a loving computer games thing.
So until you start mentioning names like PLANESCAPE: Torment, BGII and Fallout 1 & 2 I dont plan on bowing down to games that really changed the industry.