Obviously Oblivion but I have that. I want a game similar to Skyrim with good graphics.

Fallout series.

If you need good graphics try Morrowind with the overhaul.

Morrowind overhauled > Skyrim.

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I've never tried it, but Two Worlds II is supposed to be an open-world RPG.

Well if you want great graphics you are missing out. Arena and Daggerfall are great games as well. They are dated though so may not appeal to your "graphics" critiera. You can get those games for free off the Bethesda site I believe, so try them if you care to.

Wait for Kingdom Of Amalur

I am drooling. I want it now mum!

Let's hope it lives up to the hype. The gameplay from the trailers look awesome though.

It looks promising on the gameplay front.
Art direction is awful though. Plain awful.

But competition is a good thing.
The slight tingling feeling of having your toes bit by the competion just might give Todd Howard the right incentive to reavmp TES in the next instalment.

You got to be kidding me. I might have been doing something wrong but Morrowind with overhauled graphics still looks like crap compared to Skyrim.
Seriously the npc's look like bobbleheads and the creatures look like crap.

Now if we are talking about gameplay though that is another matter because I do miss quite a few things that you could do with Morrowind that you cant do in Oblivion or Skyrim.

i.e. jumping high as hell, flying, levitate, featherfall etc..

I would say Borderlands. It's a great game with awesome humour and addictive gameplay. It isn't as deep as TES/Fallout but it's still awesome. It also got a leveling/perk system and millions of weapons.

LOL exactly. I have no idea what some of the Morrowind fan boyz are smoking. I actually downloaded Morrowind + all expansions a couple days ago. Also added the graphic overhaul mod like MGEgui, total garbage. Wasted 2 hours setting it up only to find out how utter fail it was. Baldur's gate 2 is still playable and has aged nicely. Morrowind however is just a complete fail.

Fallout 3/Fallout-New Vegas as well as all those DLCs. Same thing with Oblivion + DLC = much gaming goodness.

It kinda depends on what you like to play. If you like sci-fi at all, there is Fallout 3/ New Vegas. There is also the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Series if you have a PC. Tho arguably none of those are quite as polished looking as Skyrim. Stalker games, are a little glitchier, but I think they have some pretty good mods. I really liked the new Deus Ex, it's pretty limited as far as open world, but I found it to be dripping with atmosphere, I was completely immersed for the duration that I played it.

On the fantasy side, Two Worlds 2 has a pretty large open world, though, from the little bit I played, it seemed to be lacking, mechanically, but it was fairly interesting to wander around. Risen is also an open world that is interesting, but again the gameplay mechanics are not very polished, there is also Divinity 2 which seems roughly on par with the last couple games I mentioned.

In my opinion, Bethesda makes some of the most interesting game worlds, that I like to just hang out in. I've got almost 100 hrs into SkyRim and have only finished like 25 quests. I keep getting side tracked, and I try not to use fast travel too much, so it takes me forever to get anything really accomplished.
I did the same thing with Fallout 3 and by the time I finally put that one to bed I had logged like 900 hrs, and still didn't find every location in the entire game.

I'm sure there is a ton of other games that are worth playing, but those are the few that I can think of right off the top of my head.

Depends on what you mean by similiar.
If the setting dosent matter and it dosent have to be fantasy there are some other good Open World Series:
Fallout - Post Apocalytic, I prefer it a lot over TES.
Stalker - Post Apocalyptic, less cool game world but much better mechanics for combat, NPC behaviour etc.
The X Series - Space, much more evolved then TES when it comes to open world and things you can do in it, working economy etc.
Gothic - Fantasy, pretty similiar but you are stuck with one preset character, can pick skills etc. though.
The latest releases of those series all have pretty good graphics.

Kingdom Of Amalur and witcher 2

All games from the german developers Piranha Bytes: the old Gothic-games + "Risen", the latest game from PB.

I wish they would completely update the earlier parts of the Elder Scrolls series before Morrowind. In fact I wouldn't mind playing through Morrowind again.

Morrowind, Gothic 3 with community patch.

Really? I'm really liking their art direction. Its certainly more stylized fantasy, I think it looks great.


Certainly agree with this. They've been using the same formula since MW now. Its good, and they seem to have perfected it a bit, but its time to grow a bit I think. Get a new engine, get refocused, get ambitious. If the next FO or TES comes out on this same engine with the same bugs and the same weaknesses in the story telling and gameplay I think I'll have finally seen enough. Skyrim is great, buts its time to evolve.

I want to be excited about Reckoning because Bethesda is the only company making an honest effort at open world single player RPGs. However, it looks very much like a single player MMORPG based on the gameplay videos. Not in the combat neccessarily, which looks like God of War, but instead in the obtrusive interface and the apparent lack of interactivity/life in the game world. I'd love to be wrong and have just gotten a bad impression, so I'll keep up with the game's release. However, it won't be a 0-day purchase for me.

It's hard to even put my finger on what rubs me wrong, outside of the interface and art style. I know things like the NPC's statically standing in place and the clutter/world objects being static set pieces wouldn't bug most people...but they do me these days. Seems like a step back from where Bethesda has us as far as "open world" goes; instead of an honest attempt at competition.

Kingdoms Of Amalur Reckoning will be fine competition to Skyrim.

Witcher 2 aren't similar to Skyrim or any TES game at all. In fact no other developers make any games like TES as far as I know. If OP is just talking about open world RPGs, there are plenty.
But if we are talking about similarity in gameplay, openness and freedom, Bethesda's games are the only ones. The closest I can think of would have to be Kingdom of Amalur, nothing from past.



I agree with all this, but I can accept that. It is not trying to be TES but with God of War like combat. The selling point of the game is the combat, open world, and perhaps some traditional CRPG elements that modern titles seem to have abandon.

Anything made by Bethesda really. Fallout 3 is really different, but the same, it's really weird. Oblivion is worth playing, and Morrowind is too if you can get past the dreadful combat system, horrible animations and waffle dialogue.