Like Skyrim? Here's What Else You Should Play

1up: Skyrim! We love it. You love it. Even Japan loves it, and those guys hate games from America! With sales topping seven million already and no corner of the Internet free of Skyrim discussion (not to mention hilarious videos showing off wanton abuse of Dragon Shouts or whatever), I think it's safe to say that Skyrim has awakened the world to the fact that a well-made single-player RPG is a lot of fun.

[mynameisEvil]

Fallout: New Vegas? That's my personal recommendation. Hell, it may be buggy, but it's still easily my number 1 game of all time.

Avadon was great. Got me back to playing Geneforge. A great series.

Borderlands? If you liked Skyrim, play Borderlands? That's a bit of a stretch, I must say.

Planetscape: Torment made the list! One of my favorites. Chris Avellone <3

[Bolts]

Avadon is more like BG and Dragon's Age than Skyrim.

[Iroquois_Pliskin]

I used to play Fallout: New Vegas, until i got an arrow to the knee...

[PygmelionHunter]

WIN

[Tanir]

yeah i hate border lands and its nothin like skyrim.

i hate dumb articles

[Spitfire_Riggz]

I love the Elder Scrolls and I hate the Fallout Series with a passion. So for me no. Its the environment, its easy to get into a lively beautiful forest like Syrim or up in the galaxy (mass effect) but out in a lonely ugly depressing ass wasteland, forget about it.

Edit: I also hate Final Fantasy lol... so maybe its just me

[Ducky]

There's the Stalker series as well.

Hopefully the interest in open-world games makes people try Stalker2 (whenever it comes out)

[soundslike]

Stalker: where the debilitating glitches are just as mysterious as the anomalies themselves.

can't wait for Stalker 2.

[SuperNerd]

nice

[rexbolt]

you like buggy games? hm

[SuperNerd]

Nice recomendations dude . If you like long , immersive , challeging , but rewarding games you should ccheck out Dark souls .

[MAJ0R]

good thing I play FNV on PC ;)

[mynameisEvil]

@Pliskin
Fkin winning.

@ Tanir
Indeed. "Duurrrrp, it haz rp elemntz. Must b Skyreeem! durpdurpdurp"

@ Spitfire_Riggz
You're one of the few. For most, an apocalyptic world is beautiful in it's own way.

@ FatOldMan
LOVE those games. Buggy, yet still great as hell.

@ Rexbolt
I don't care that it's buggy. No game has provided me with over 2000(!) hours (and still no sign of stopping) of entertainment with such great RPG elements. It truly is what Fallout 3 failed to be. It is, as buggy as it may be, a masterpiece.

@ SuperNerd
Been looking to getting that for a while, but there's always a game that I want more to push it back on my list. I'll grab it one of these days.

@ MAJ0R
As do I. Oh, how I do so love those mods. Underground Hideout, WTF would I do without you?

[rexbolt]

yeah and no game has gave me so much laggyness that i wana burry it in the desert next to ET

[Baka-akaB]

"Even Japan loves it, and those guys hate games from America!"

Rofl 1up on its best behavior i see ... how about just phrasing it as people fancying other things over there ? Just like plenty westerners dont care about plenty japanese games

[soundslike]

QQ

[Baka-akaB]

f*** you ? Now go QQ about that

[SockeyBoy]

whats QQ?

[JoySticksFTW]

I was almost in tears laughing hard at these comments right here :D

[m-s-8-2]

10 years later and im still pissed that the Gothic series doesnt get the appreciation it deserves.

[kevnb]

gothic has been ruined, but the old devs made risen which was excellent on pc.

[m-s-8-2]

Yeah, I never touched gothic 4 knowing Piranha Bytes didnt make it. From what I understand though they now how rights to the Gothic IP back.

Had Risen on PC from a Steam sale like 2 years ago, but I've long since stopped really playing games on my PC. Did pick it up off the Xbox Markeplace though. I enjoyed it.

[kramun]

I must admit I have never played Gothic, I might have to give it a try. But also, I've seen vids of the game and I can't say it seems like a good move to play it after I've played Skyrim.

[Silly Mammo]

Wait around for one of the huge Steam Sales. I bought Gothic 2 & 3 for $7.99 (both). Haven't played them yet.

[Viper7]

Bought the older gothic games from steam sale and was impressed pretty impressed with them. Its a shame that the newest installment seems to disapoint many.

[MorbidPorpoise]

Should give the underrated Divinity series ago, definitely recommend Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga (Remastered version of Ego Draconis with the expansion).

[kma2k]

How about the previous elder scroll games? lol kinda seemed like an obvious miss to me?

[kramun]

That's too easy, that's what they'd be expecting.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[Kahvipannu]

New Vegas! It surprised me how awesome it was, it's the game FO3 should have been. Give it a try if you haven't yet.

[ShottySnipa417]

Off topic, but:

"Even Japan loves it, and those guys hate games from America!"

Has the author of this article even seen Halo Legends? Halo is an American game and anime companies (for example, Toei Animation, creators of the Dragonball anime adaptation) from Japan made Halo Legends.

[Imalwaysright]

Arx fatalis is probably the closest ive seen to an Elder Scrolls title and imo a very good game.

[newflesh]

New Vegas is totally awesome but not better than Fallout 3.

[Chnswdchldrn]

no witcher 2?

smfh

[NeoTribe]

How about Dragon Age (1)?

[SephirothX21]

Dragon Age 1 isn't very similar to the Elder Scrolls but it is one of the best rpgs ever made (the pc version). The game has massive depth and play it on its hardest difficulty for a real challenge. You can buy the ultimate addition with hours of included dlc for only 30 dollars on steam. Now that is one hell of a deal.