NY Daily News: If you play only one game this year, make it this one: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, our Game of the Year.
Bethesda’s latest Elder Scrolls title isn’t bereft of bugs, but it is a truly unique gaming experience, with a world that’s advanced and tremendously detailed. Much like previous series titles, Skyrim is a world in which the gamer crafts the story, acting and reacting to the world around.
It is this outstanding, absolutely breathtaking world that pushes Skyrim to the very top of the 2011 heap, but it’s a narrow victory in a year as loaded as this one. Here are the nine other titles that gave Skyrim a run:
Interview with Stephen Russell, Actor for (Nick Valentine, Codsworth, My Handy) in Fallout 4 which is a vast open world role playing game set in the apocalyptic wastes of Boston, the Commonwealth. The career goes further with other Bethesda games from Starfield to Prey to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Replaying Skyrim after 13 years is a reminder of the progress made in western RPGs over the last decade, but also what's been lost.
RPGs are often huge, sprawling endeavours. With limited playtime, we have to choose wisely, so here's the best western RPGs available today.
"I started playing games yesterday" the List... Meh!
How about a few RPGs that deserve some love instead?
1 - Alpha Protocol - Now on GOG
2 - else Heart.Break()
3 - Shadowrun Trilogy
4 - Wasteland 2
5 - UnderRail
6 - Tyranny
7 - Torment: Tides of Numenera
And for a bonus game that flew under the radar:
8 - Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden