remind?

i play the game sometimes just to listen to that pure, simple, hilariousness.

add in the horse system and alchemy....

Lets just admit there is nothing even close to Skyrim except it's older cousins Fallout 3 & New Vegas. That said, which of those should I get? Never played them.

and, what does skyrim add to single itself out?

graphics.
level what u do. (already been done)
open world.

what is it, exactly, that skyrim has done that is phenomenol?

Both! FO3 first IMO. Better DLC in FO3 than FONV I thought.

Also, fallout games have the best music.

We already know what Skyrim has done to separate itself from the pack. The question was what games are like Skyrim and the answer is nothing has everything that Skyrim has and in the fantasy genre, the only game that comes close is its older brother Oblivion.

All of the TES series? It′s not like they suddenly invented the wheel with Skyrim, they′re all pretty much the same.

sorry, couldn't help myself:

ya, less story, no economy, unique dungeons yielding worthless items, i MUST roleplay, boring/repeatative, lack of custimization, fewer options, LESS CHARACTER CREATION, less less less.

oh, but the roleplaying is great.

Nowadays he likes to be called "sister"

So....you enjoy skyrim?

yes.

doesn't mean i gloss or hide from obvious stupidity.

or, is that to harsh?

edit- the elder scrolls and fallout 3/nv are what i play. forever. i critique.

No, it's an opinion, like the other guy had, the one you quoted.

yes, nordhnet, its an opinion.

do u need a marker?

I highly recommend http://www.divinity2-saga.com/ You can play as both human AND transform into a Dragon! Very cool game. I played through it, oh, probably 5 or 6 times. It also has a huge world to explore (not as big as Skyrim) with lots of quests!

Ah, no. Don't need a marker, I know where the high road is. Thanks though

obviously, u do.

i'll see you after you find me.

i have even more appreciation for 2worlds1.

thanks to all true open world gamers.

The spouse was semi-obsessed with Mount and Blade before SWTOR came out. He likes it a lot. It is not so much for me. The graphics are very basic, it's more of a strategy game than a roleplaying game, but I do like the realistic/ historic armors and weaponry. Their forums are great for that sort of thing. Also being a Turkish developer, they have a bit more cosmpolitan view and you get good representation of different fighting styles.

Fallout New Vegas features a relentlessly credible universe in which everyone and every faction is here for a credible motive, has credible objectives. You've got much more choices when it comes to solve the quests and some of them are true dilemmas without any obvious solution. Overall, I found it more subtle, detailed and tought-out than Fallout 3. As an added bonus, it has been made by a lot of the very people who developped the first two Fallouts and is therefore the closest thing you'll ever get to http://www.falloutwiki.com/Portal:Van_Buren canned by Interplay in the early 2000s. Oh and the Old World Blues DLC is a must-have, with its very funny sci-fi settings coming straight from the 50s.

Personally I like the original Two Worlds (Xbox). A lot of people hate it though, especially PC players. I think the Xbox version may be better than the PC version. Two Worlds has an incredibly huge open world, an interesting alchemy system, a good spell system, but the combat system is only so so,and the game is several years old, so the graphics are rather dated. I haven't tried Two Worlds Two yet because I read it was not as open world as the original Two Worlds and certain areas are locked out until you finish certain quests.

Two Worlds is no where near as good a game as an Elder Scrolls title, but is a better open world game than any other non Elder Scrolls game I have played. I play on PS3 and Xbox, so I have not tried any of the PC only titles.

It is really hard to find an open world fantasy game like the Elder scrolls series, so there is not a lot else that compares very well. I have played Dragon Age, but that is an entirely different type of game since there is really nothing open world about a Dragon Age game. It is a very linear walkthrough of a predetermined story.

Fallout 3 and New Vegas are very similar to Skyrim because Bethesda made them both. (Obsidian put together New Vegas with gamesas)

You should try them both out. Hundreds of hours of gameplay on both.

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning will be released in a couple of weeks. It's a single player RPG. I read some preview and it doesn't look bad. They say the game world is massive amongst the other things. I suggest you to google it and read something about it.

Arx Fatalis. Not really an open world, more of a dungeon crawl. But it is an excellent first person rpg.

Oblivion, Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, Kingdoms Of Amalur Reckoning.

All those things, excluding story which is opinion based on which you prefer, is as good or better in Skyrim than in Oblivion/F3/NV.

While its true that the fallouts and elderscrolls games are all essentially the same, I think New Vegas comes the closest to that certain rpg experience that people say everything post Morrowind lacked. In fact, Id say it was much smarter than Morrowind even. With the optional hardcoe mode the developers even went the extra mile to try and give people what they wanted. The only problem is how linear the experience turns out to be mostly due to level scaling which makes going off the beaten trail suicide.

None of the bioware RPGS would I add to this list, a completely different framework and not very much fun at all imo.

Dark Souls is more geared towards the dungeon crawl side of things but once you open up the menu screens and see a ton of confusing and cryptic stats and item descriptions it takes me back to the old old days of pcrpgs when they were 2d and first person, an ancient genre which I think the elderscrolls is the last of.

Two Worlds 1 was superior in almost every way to Skyrim. Factions, quests, armor, weapons, (maybe not spells, but close enough, they both svck terribly), alchemy, horseback combat... even the landscape. AND the dialogue was funny enough to be worth more than Skyrim's infinite loop playback.

Edit: But if you want something else like Skyrim, MW3 just came out. MW2 is fine too.