ah, well, I'm a loner in rl so that's not an issue for me but I lovveeee sandboxes! The bigger the better. And you do eventually get companions! But Bethesda style companions, nothing like loveable bioware type companions. If bethesda wrote characters like bioware, with their enormous games, fuck, I'd be in heaven.
No I haven't, admittedly I'm a huge pussy and I can't do horror. Horror movies and definitely not horror games! They're so much scarier than movies >< Watching others play the likes of silent hill was enough to deter me for life! Though i like the telltale walking dead game, that's an ickle bit horror-esque