I still can’t get over The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? I want to try something newer, with better technology, but I hope they can be as rich and interesting as Skyrim.
Depends on what you actually want. If it’s the first-person RPG experience, there’s a handful such as Tainted Grail and Cyberpunk 2077. If it’s using a slightly different system, either the Witcher or BG3 or Expedition 33.
But modding… I cannot find any other RPG that gets better if it is modded, as Skyrim – and Morrowind and Oblivion – pretty much designed to be modded.
You could try the remake of gothic 1 thst released last week. Thats not such a vast open world, but still a very nice RPG.
Death Stranding
When I played Witcher 3 I remember immediately thinking Skyrim felt extremely dated. I would play any quest in W3 again before any quest in Skyrim.
But yeah, Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is recent and supposed to be for Skyrim fans. Haven’t played it yet.
But yeah, Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is recent and supposed to be for Skyrim fans. Haven’t played it yet.
I don’t know if I’d call it that. It’s much more story-oriented than Skyrim’s “here’s a sandbox, figure things out, do stuff, oh, btw, there’s technically some quests you can do too”.
Crimson Desert’s pretty damn good.
The entire time playing Crimson Desert I have the feeling: “this is Skyrim, but better”.
Have you played Enderal?
Some call it a mod, but it’s a whole ass game, made in Skyrim Engine.
Arguably with a better main story and side quests and great voice acting (in the original German version at least). It also incorporates some of thr best Skyrim mods and has a seperate installer so only Skyrim is necessary to play it.
Oblivion Remastered - basically Skyrim, start here IMO.
Kingdom Come Deliverance, 1 and 2 - exacly the same as Skyrim except super realistic and historically accurate.
Dragon’s Dogma, 1 and 2 - faster paced dynamic combat with a big, vibrant world to explore, but without the finer details.
Dragon Age, Origins, 2 and 3 - More strategic combat and dialogue, less world detail.
Mount and Blade, Warband and Bannerlord - ok not that much like Skyrim but similar appeal. You go into battles with dozens of soldiers, command and fight alongside them, plenty of RPG elements and questing but is mainly a sandbox for you to figure out your own goals on your own.
Was able to get Dragons Dogma 2 from my library last week and boy is it fun. Probably 20 hours in so far and really enjoying the systems and world.
Pretty darn solid game. I’d second this recommendation for Skyrim fans.
Telling people what in particular you like about Skyrim is going to get you much better feedback as there are many, many games that are similar in some ways but not others.
The crab monacle mod 🦀🦀
I like the scripting language? It’s stupid easy to edit the bytecode and change something if you want to without needing a full dev environment.
Edit: honorable mention for worst scripting language in a game: X4. Have you seen a for loop in a xml-like “markup” language? Would you like to?
Best advice I can give you is to just play Bethesdas other games, with maybe the exceptions of Fallout 4, Starfield, and Arena. Daggerfall has a Unity mod that makes it playable and Morrowind has OpenMW that makes it play nice with newer systems also Oblivion got a remaster a bit ago. The biggest problem with making suggestions past this point is that Bethesda struck gold and folks have been chasing it for over a decade with little success but I’ll give you a list of maybes.
The original fallout Duology.
Arcanum.
Outward.
Kenshi.
The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series.
Mass Effect Trilogy.
Dragon Age, but only Origins and Inquisition.
Now for my probably not but I like them so here’s some suggestions list.
Colony Ship.
Age of Decadence.
Dark souls 1 and 3.
Atomfall was a decent apocalypse style game not from Bethesda.
I’ve heard mixed reviews from other guys who share close opinions with me on games so I’ve generally avoided it. The consensus amongst said friend group is more or less good but not what any of us want.
Yeah, it’s a decent stealth shooter, but not really comparable to an RPG like fallout
Yeah not my cup of tea, I like stealth games where the focus may be stealth but I can go loud if I want or when I fuck up. I find Thief boring even if it’s objectively a good game but I love Dishonored and probably put hundreds of hours into the PS3 version.
Outward is fun. Reminds me of playing a heavily nodded Skyrim gameplay wise
I can give you older and with worse tech - Morrowind is better than Skyrim
morrowind storyline and world building is peak.
This is how you honor the sixth house and the tribe unmourned.
So is Oblivion, though in terms of “better” it belongs in the middle spot it happens to occupy numerically as well.
Eh, I tried Oblivion, the Cyrodiil seemed to be quite small, while both Morrowind and Skyrim are quite gigantic for their time.
The expansion helped for sure, Shiv Isles.
True though it was for sure smaller (unless you ever tried to “no fast travel” rule yourself then you’ll find out how big it is real quick lmao), but (and I concede Morrowind is just better, it just is there’s no way around it), but while Skyrim was large, effectively “who cares” because it was empty and dull and drab and gray. Cyrodiil is smaller but it’s absolutely gorgeous and vibrant throughout (even in the snow covered regions so that’s no excuse.)
Furthermore, my fundamental issue with Skyrim is the quests are just…dull. The main line is ok (Oblivion’s was better and Morrowind’s better still), but the side quests are abject dogshit, and the side quests historically were my favorite part. I stole a goddamn Elder Scroll, I snuck past every Ancestor Moth, I became the mother fucking Gray Fox, and in skyrim “hey you remember that same dumb silver vase you stole from one dickhead’s house? Steal it again from another dickhead’s house. Gray Fox? Whodat?” I loosened the bolts on a man’s stuffed moose after sneaking through his crawlspace to avoid his paid security, and got a bonus for it, and eventually became The Speaker. In skyrim “go kill that guy. Cool do it again.” The most memorable part of The Brotherhood in skyrim was from oblivion, by Lucian Luchance’s ghost.
I’m gonna be real, I kinda didn’t like skyrim and don’t think I’ll get 6. I’ll replay the oldies. My only real complaint with Morrowind is beast races can’t wear helmets and boots (I understand “human ones wouldn’t fit” but think given their existence in-lore it would make sense for them to have seen humans wearing them and gone “hey let’s do that for our shape.” I do however accept that the Cats and Lizards might still not though, Argonians being newly freed and technologically behind, and the Kitties need their claws but should have helmets, even if only leather.) My only real complaint with Oblivion is I wish they’d have left a bunch of shit from Morrowind like crossbows etc.
Have you tried Skyrim: Anniversary Edition, Skyrim: Special Edition or Skyrim: Legendary edition? /j
skyrim with kinect was genuinely the best version
Love the idea that you can actually scream the shouts :D
Oh man, have you heard of Dragonborn Speaks Naturally? You can scream the shouts, for sure, but you actually say the lines of dialogue your character speaks to NPCs to select them! Paired with VR (and a hundred other mods) it’s one of the craziest game experiences I’ve ever played!
There was s Skyrim for Alexa add
for breathtaking landscapes I would say elden ring. although style of play is waaayyyyy different.
Skyblivion is coming out soon. Not better tech but it’s still exciting
Tainted grail: fall of Avalon.
Its janky, but pretty cool in its own way.
its janky
Ahhh! The true Skyrim experience.
Also, everyone should listen to Ymir by Danheim at least once
It’s a banger! Comes on at the perfect time too. I sat there and listened for quite a while lol.
I know they
stoletook inspiration from some elder scrolls elements, but it’s honestly nothing like TES. If anything it really shows how hard it is to make an elder scrolls game.
