I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it?

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• slumberling@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is on sale on Steam right now. I’ve only played through the prologue, but it seems pretty good so far.

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  • PonyOfWar@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was about to recommend this too. Probably the closest thing to Elder Scrolls that isn’t actually Elder Scrolls or a mod. Excellent game, and quite an impressive achievement considering they had nowhere near the budget of a Bethesda game.

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    • makyo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I am curious about this one - what’s combat like? I’m pretty picky when it comes to mechanics.

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  • danciestlobster@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I also came to recommend this, I have played a lot of the game. Same exploration and basic leveling mechanics, similar balance of silly humor and serious story, really fun underrated game

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  • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Grab the DLC too or no?

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    • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes. Is good stuff.

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  • axh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Looks interesting, anyone knows if it can run on Linux?

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    • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes, I beat it and only played in Linux.

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Protondb.com is your friend, but also essentially everything can that isn’t multiplayer, and most of that can as long as it isn’t from EA or China.

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• Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ok you want something as rich and interesting as skyrim, so I’m assuming open world games are your jam.

  There are three games you should play.

  1. Red Dead Redemption 2 - it’s a Western, the world is very believable, and it makes you feel like you’re really part of it. You can follow the main story line, or you could spend your days hunting and fishing. You could travel from town to town playing every poker game you can find. You can conduct train robberies, breed horses, really, there’s just a whole lot to do.

  2. Cyberpunk 2077 - this is RDR2 but in a scifi dystopian future where the corpos own everything, sex is for sale on every billboard and every ad break, and the only justice is what you can achieve on your own. You’ve got a ticking time bomb in your brain and no time to fuck around. In this world where you can’t trust anyone, somehow what really matters are the friends you make along the way. (seriously)

  3. The Witcher 3 - from the same studio that made cyberpunk, the Witcher 3 is truly a masterpiece of storytelling. The one caveat I have for this game is that it starts hard, almost “souls-like”. But get past that first rough hour and there is an extremely rich world with a seemingly unending collection of stories to become a part of. This may be the most skyrim-like of the games listed here, but you’re in for a treat, because this is a much better game than Skyrim.

  All three of these games are gonna make you feel real feelings, they’re all actually better at telling stories than Skyrim is. The Witcher 3 in particular loves to live in the grey zone, it’ll make you make ethical choices that matter, and you probably won’t like any of the possible outcomes. But this is a good thing!

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  • Gumus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’d throw Kingdom Come in there, too

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    • Hubi@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Looking at the basic gameplay loop and quest design, Kingdom Come is probably the closest to Skyrim. Just with the realism dialed up to 11.

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    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In retrospect I probably should have mentioned the horizons games as well, but I just finished with cyberpunk, so that’s been on my mind.

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• plutopos@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Have you tried Skyrim: Anniversary Edition, Skyrim: Special Edition or Skyrim: Legendary edition? /j

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  • BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    skyrim with kinect was genuinely the best version

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    • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Love the idea that you can actually scream the shouts :D

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Witcher 3.

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  • dragontology@retrofed.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The Witcher 3 includes all the DLC now, and it’s like $10 on Xbox. Or at least that’s what I paid last week. Just started for the first time.

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    • Anivia@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      On PC it’s also DRM-free, even the Steam version, not just the GOG version. So if one of your friends has it you can just copy it from them

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• Folstar@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m just looking for a game where I can hoard consumables in perpetuity. Any suggestions?

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    • Folstar@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You never know when you might need them.

      Have you considered going meta and hoarding games you might play about hoarding consumables in perpetuity?

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    • ajikeshi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      check out factorio… you can hoard as much as you want :D

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  • stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The crab monacle mod 🦀🦀

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    • Folstar@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sorry, nothing can match the glory of Post Mudcrabs, especially when paired with samuel L jackson mudcrabs in SKYRIM.

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    • toynbee@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Don’t tell my kid, who won’t stop playing Crab Rave over and over in Beat Saber (and wouldn’t stop watching the music video when we didn’t have a good VR setup), about this.

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This might just be too obvious, but nobody’s mentioned it… Have you played the other Elder Scrolls, like the Oblivion remaster?

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  • popcar2@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The Oblivion remaster is great. If you can get past the terrible performance, it’s very immersive and feels like Skyrim with a smaller world and more fun quests. The DLC included was also great.

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    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It really was! It was available for free on Gamepass, so even though I’d already done SO many playthroughs, I thought I’d check it out. I didn’t put it down until I had done almost literally everything.

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• SaraTonin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I can give you older and with worse tech - Morrowind is better than Skyrim

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    morrowind storyline and world building is peak.

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    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Add in OpenMW and Tamriel Rebuilt.

      Tbh, I really need to get into Morrowind myself. I’m excited for Skywind and kinda waiting for that to come out instead, since I have a lot of projects keeping me from gaming this year

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    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is how you honor the sixth house and the tribe unmourned.

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  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So is Oblivion, though it belongs in the middle spot it happens to occupy numerically as well.

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    • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Eh, I tried Oblivion, the Cyrodiil seemed to be quite small.

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• Floating_head@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For me it was Witcher 3 and the dlc. Love that game so much…

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  • 46_and_2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And a new DLC is coming soon!

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  • Amberskin@europe.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is the right answer

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• Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Tainted grail: fall of Avalon.

  Its janky, but pretty cool in its own way.

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  • Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    its janky

    Ahhh! The true Skyrim experience.

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In that case, Two Worlds and Gothic 3 should be perfect matches 😁

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  • Summzashi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I know they stole took 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.

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  • solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Also, everyone should listen to Ymir by Danheim at least once

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    • Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s a banger! Comes on at the perfect time too. I sat there and listened for quite a while lol.

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• anyhow2503@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Skyrim is actually the last skyrim-type game to be manufactured until Bethesda announces Skyrim 2 hopefully sometime this year.

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• iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Have you played the Fallout games by the same dev? 3, New Vegas, and 4 play very similarly to Skyrim just in a different genre.

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  • jarmitage@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    With New Vegas being vastly superior to the others in story and characters.

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    • EarMaster@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And it might be no coincidence it is the one not developed by Bethesda.

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    • iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I preferred 3, tbh. With the smallest exception of the glaring dumb plot hole at the end, though they did patch that.

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    • Delta_V@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The writing and atmosphere is better in New Vegas, but the gunplay is better in 4.

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  • slimerancher@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I am playing Fallout 4 these days, and it’s giving me an itch to go back and play Skyrim 😀

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• foenix@lemmy.radio ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. Not the same kind of “magic” but if you want immersion and a super rewarding story I highly recommend it

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  • Aneb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And make it gay, make it soo so gay.

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    • GarboDog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And when we mean gay, like make it REALLY wet and sloppy kind of gay, yk? The kinda gay that it even embarrasses the queerest of queens.

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• the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The witcher does a pretty good job IMO.

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  • ahornsirup@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you’re fine with a preset player character. That’s a big difference, I never could get into any of the Witcher games because of it.

    By contrast in games like Skyrim or BG3 I can come up with my own character with their own backstory, personality, motivations and, essentially, their own story (within the confines of what’s in the game).

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  • farmgineer@nord.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’re only 3rd person, IIRC. I’m not a huge fan of that, personally.

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    • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Then dont play them.

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  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I played 1 for a little while, 2 right up until sneak mission, but 3 lost me. Is it really worth a second try?

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    • M137@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      3 is one if the best games ever made, and that’s a widely had opinion.

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    • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Honestly I think 3 is, I bought it back when it first came out and I just didn’t get into it, I got bored before the main quest line finished and quit. I tried it again earlier in the year and suddenly I can’t put it down, I don’t know whats different this time around but I’m glad for whatever it is.

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• LoonyTrix@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Red Dead Redemption 2

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was so disappointed with a Witcher game. I forget which one it was, but good god, what a bore the intro is.

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    • EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The first two were super janky. 3 is one of the best video games ever made.

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• Cypher45@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Kingdom Come Deliverance 1 was great.

  But it’s a Medieval RPG, not fantasy. So you won’t find elves or orcs or magic.

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  • locahosr443@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And the sequel is of equal quality, the combat was simplified a bit but I like both approaches.

    The sheer amount of high quality narrative across both games is pretty unique. There’s very little that feels like filler busy work, which was what most of skyrim felt like for me. Especially after oblivion.

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    • Cypher45@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I hear great things about it, I didn’t mention KCD 2 because I didn’t play it.

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  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    All those things you added can be added to Skyrim as well via mods

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    • Cypher45@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah that’s what I said, I suggested KCD because I was playing a modded Skyrim.

      If OP wants the feel of vanilla Skyrim, then KCD is not the right choice.

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• Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There are a lot of good recommendations in here, but if you like Skyrim that much have you considered playing a total conversion of it? Enderal: The Shards of Order Is so different that is basically a completely new game, but within the concept of Skyrim, it’s engine, and a lot of its assets. Think the change from ocarina of time to majora’s mask, but even more extreme

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• lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • macros@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There is Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2.

    Uts different, few mods are about extending the original Content, and few about graphics, but so many mods with their own stories, even integrating card games long before Witcher came and with widely different stories. Its awesome.

    Also NWN: Mask of the Betrayer is among the best RPG stories I have played, only surpassed by Baldurs Gate 2.

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• DupaCycki@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Heavily depends on what makes Skyrim special for you.

  The most obvious similar games are other Bethesda titles, especially Oblivion and Morrowind. Install some QoL and graphical mods, and you should now have 3 Skyrims.

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• ramius345@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Baldurs gate 3 is not quite the same thing, but has similar themes. It’s one of the only other games I have over 800 hours in.

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  • PikasGameStudio@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve heard of this game as well; it’s great.

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    • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You should definitely play baldur’s gate! Very little resemblance to Skyrim besides being a fantasy game, but the story, build variety, characters, setting, literally everything, is fantastic. I’m almost through my first playthrough of bg3 and it’s been tons of fun

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• SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Have you played Enderal?

  Some call it a mod, but it’s a whole ass game, made in Skyrim Engine.

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  • CitizenKong@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Arguably with a better main story and side quests and great voice acting (in the original German version at least).

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    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Personally I didn’t care for the more drab and depressing tone of Enderal over TES. But that’s my personal opinion on it and if you like that sort of vibe then you’ll likely have a good experience

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• it_depends_man@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Have you looked at the gothic remake? It’s probably not as big but it should scratch a similar itch.

  Otherwise… no not really. I could recommend wildly different games and genres that also feature exploration, but skyrim is just very good.

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• greg_orjan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Totally biased, since I lived in half of my life in Skalitz. Have you considered KDC?

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• TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon

  An indie game which has a lot of Skyrim vibes.

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• TwinTitans@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oblivion.

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• Perky@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I'll be the third person to mention Cyberpunk 2077. They genuinely perfected the Bethesda formula. I've put in hundreds of hours over half a dozen full playthroughs; it's absolutely exceptional.

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• leftascenter@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Skyblivion Coming out this year. I personally think morrowind was the high point in elder scrolls series scenario-wise but is aged very poorly. Patching and modding the hell out of it might be worthwhile. Nehrim is cool. Fallout new Vegas works well. Cyberpunk has already been mentioned several times.

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• BluePea@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Rdr2 my friend, rdr2

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• mech@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Have you played Enderal: Forgotten Stories?

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• teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• mellowistheyellow@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This game is overrated beyond belief, play more games.

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