Not to continue beating my favorite dead horse but....
Why has no one incorperated the asherons call 1 leveling system? Where instead of each level getting some fancy new fireball as you level you gain skill points and use them to adjust your characters abilities. Hell I don't even think I remember what level I was when I quit, it wasn't about leveling!
On the same note in ac the quests you did were usually a very specific line working towards a super nice item, they were not the entire spine of the game. I had more fun pointing myself in a random direction and killing everything between me and the ocean than I have had since in any game.