Yea feeling really weak and physically challenge isn't all that appealing especially at the start of the game. The game was a little off putting at the beginning to say the least.

Play Fallout 3 with Enclave mods.


God Bless America.

A good game to play after Skyrim...Dark Souls.

As for Morrowind compared to Skyrim/Oblivion, Morrowind is a very good game, but I can see why some people would be turned off by it. If you stick to the game until about level 10, it starts to grow on you. I am going to say that Morrowind had my favorite story by far.

Picked up Divinity 2 a few days ago. Very much enjoying it. Might want to give that one a look.

Outside of that, highly recommend Morrowind and possibly the Gothic series. Just be sure to stay from Arcania.

Morrowind without a shadow of a doubt, easily my favorite of the series, and one of my favorite games in general. You can enhance the game quite a bit with all of the mods available for it, but it is a very challenging game, so don't go into it lightly. Another RPG I'd recommend is Arcanum, which was probably the first RPG I ever played on PC, it's all around fantastic. Lastly, I'd recommend Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines, as it is also one of my favorite games, and an exceptional RPG.

Reckoning's going to be really good.

The Witcher 1 is fantastic. I'm only about 1/3 of the way through and I love it. As for other RPG's that I highly recommend

1. Morrowind GOTY Edition (With ir without Mods)
2. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (the first not the second one)
3. Mass Effect 1 and 2
4. Mount and Blade: Warband (Very different, but fun and entertaining none the less)
5. Fallout: New Vegas
6. Dragon Age: Origins



This. I run Morrowind with MGSO (Morrowind Graphics and Sound Overhaul) and it looks better than Oblivion in my opinion.

Morrowind is a very "old-school" RPG. It still runs on the "dice-roll" system so combat can be frustrating at early levels. However after you get used to it it's one of the best games you will ever play IMO. I've probably clocked close to 1000 hours between Xbox and PC and I still haven't finished 50%-60% of the quest lines including the Main Quest. The game is ridiculously fun yet hard to get into for newer TES fans. One of the things is leveling, the highest level character I had was level 71 and it took me an entire year of non stop playing to get him there. Pretty much if you don't explore and dungeon dive by yourself and just do the quest lines you aren't going to level the way you should. So a good strategy I follow is this.

1. Make a new Char.
2. Get some low level good equipment.
3. Do low level faction quests to get some money and buy more good stuff.
4. Dungeon dive until level 20 or 25.
5. Start quest lines and adventure on my own in between.

Also, the game doesn't hold your hand like OB, SK, and FO do. There is no quest marker, quest givers are very vague, and you have to use your brain to be able to do anything. There is also no level scaling so if you walk into a Dungeon at level 1 there's a chance that you'll get owned by 5 daedroths at once. It's a very very harsh game, especially on new players coming from the newer generation of TES games. However once you get used to it it's one of the best games ever made.

Gothic 3 is actually pretty good once you apply the latest fan patch to it- it just lacks the story cohesion that Gothic 1&2 had and can start to feel like a bit of a grind towards the end. For Gothic 1&2 it's not the interface that people tend to have an issue with, but rather the controls. The controls for both games (particularly the first), are a bit unconventional, and for the first couple hours of play people tend to really struggle with them. However, once you get past those first couple of hours the controls actually start feeling pretty natural and you can enjoy the rest of the game without even really noticing the control scheme. As for Gothic 4, the reason it was crappy was because it wasn't really a Gothic game, but rather just a game with the Gothic name slapped on it; after Gothic 3 Piranha Bytes (the developer) and JoWood (the publisher) went their separate ways, with JoWood getting the rights to the Gothic name. They farmed out Gothic 4 to a novice developer that had had absolutely nothing to do with the other Gothic games, and well... you saw the results. Piranha Bytes ended up creating Risen, which is basically Gothic 4 in all but name and is much more in line with the rest of the Gothic games (and it's quite good).

And now they have the rights to the Gothic series back in their hands. After Risen 2, I am hoping they announce something. Even if Risen was, more or less, another Gothic game.

And of course Risen probably deserves a mention in itself: really nice little game, that was. The ending quest wasn't so hot, but I thought that the rest of the game was good enough to make up for it.

A suggestion from another angle.

Anything you play after Skyrim will not be as good in the areas Skyrim is best at.

So, try one of the recenter Spiderweb Games titles, like Geneforge 5: Overthrow. It doesn't try to have anything like modern quality graphics or sound, instead it has better-written quests, storytelling, and dialogue, and innovative gameplay mechanics that break the mold of most sword and sorcery RPGs.

They're cheap on Steam.

If Bethesda is wondering how they'll ever top Skyrim in the next ES game, they should study the works of Jeff Vogel and figure out how to make that depth of character and story in a sandbox universe.

Woah woah, wait a second... you can finish Skyrim?

I'm going to play a wild card here. Though no game can truly be better than Skyrim (at the moment), there are games that I have thoroughly enjoyed that others (and I'm sure I'll hear it) would tell you to avoid. I'm suggesting Two Worlds II. It's an awesome game and way better than most people give it credit for.

I'd get the original, just for the Last Days Lord of the Rings mod.

This.

I'd also recommend taking a break from gaming in general, as you don't need to be constantly playing games.

I find that taking a break from games actually makes them better once you do get around to playing them again.

lol this

Mass Effect1-2

Dragon Age Origins And Awakening. These are a must play!

Thanks for the replies guys. I've bookmarked this page for when I need a break from Skrim :thumbsup:

Thinking of re-installing Eschalon Book I and II and going through them again... lovely old-school RPGs.

Skyrim Creation Kit Edition is coming out in January. It will be a never ending, totally free and much improved version of the original game. I suggest you at least try it.