Lol, nice.
I really like building up a character, watching them get stronger and stronger, fighting harder and harder things. Typical RPG stuff. Problem for me, is the huge open worlds that have very little guidance on where to go or what to do, get over-whelming to me where I just give up and don't ever go back.
Witcher 3 I felt was a solid balance between Main story, and side quest stuff. For Skyrim, it was solidly in the wtf is even the main story? Oh, but go steal some shit from this dudes house. Was very off-putting for me.