It must run on PC. I’m using Windows 7 on a laptop, but it ran Skyrim last year in low quality graphics(which still looked beautiful to me).
Anyway, games I’ve played.
Fallout 1-3 and New Vegas.
Elder Scrolls 2-5.
I really would prefer a more recent game like Fallout 3 or Skyrim as opposed to Fallout 1 or 2 style, like that new Wasteland 2 game that is coming out soon.
Anyway, except for Fallout 3 and Skyrim, etc., what games have a nice open world style of RPG? My favorite things in Fallout and Skyrim style games is leaving the main storyline behind and following side quests or exploring dungeons. I did complete all those games main story(well, except Daggerfall), but not until I was ready.
Anything else like these games or did I already play all that are like this? Thanks!
They’re both open world RPGs where you can leave the main storyline and follow side quests or explore dungeons. The Borderland games are closer to Fallout 3 & Skyrim than Diablo in that they can be played in first- or third-person. Plus you get some neat vehicles to drive around and shoot mobs with.
Perhaps you’d be interested in the Mount & Blade games? Totally open world but only With Fire & Sword has any real storyline. Too soon to tell what Bannerlord will have, the website doesn’t even list its features yet.
You can play in third-person in Borderlands? I never found that setting.
Anyway, Borderlands (once I checked that it had a PC release) was my first thought too. Heck, I think I like the Borderlands games more than Fallout 3 and New Vegas.
I know it’s old now, but didn’t Jade Empire have a fairly open world? Bioware before it was bought by EA and being so old it should easily run on a modern system.
Both Far Cry 3 and Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag offer large open worlds where you can wander off to do your own thing. Mainly explore, harass the bad guys, find collectables and get mauled by wildlife. Both have side missions although they’re not very “role play” oriented – more like “Go kill this guy and get a reward”. The biggest difference between them and the Bethesda worlds is that they are “completable”. If you take over an enemy camp in Far Cry 3, it stays taken over. Defeat a sea fortress in AC4 and it stays defeated. Eventually you’ve done all the side content as opposed to Bethesda worlds that sort of regenerate. Both offer some stripped down crafting (“craft two pelts into an ammo belt to hold ten extra rounds”) and some form of progression: FC3 has actual skills, AC4 has you upgrading your pirate ship.
Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl offers a large, fairly open world (you need to progress some in the plot to unlock some areas) that regenerates in its own way – defeat the soldiers in a region and it may get more soldiers, a different faction or fill with mutants and wild dogs. Again, lots of side quests you can do but not really focused on roleplaying. You don’t really have a lot of dialogue options much of the time and the game isn’t stat progression based.
Neither of those are anything like Skyrim or FO3 and read dead is (STILL??? Damn you Rockstar!) not available for PC.
I’d second borderlands. It definitely offers that same sense of exploration and going off the beaten path as it were, just in a more limited scope.
The original Risen might also be up your alley too (the one after that one isn’t very good).
Gothic 3 is similar to Risen and I think the most highly rated entry in the series. Again, it’s exploration and questing for various factions in an open world.
Kingdoms of Amalur, the infamous title, is still usually talked about as a decent game and it’s Skyrim-esque.
Two worlds too is essentially low-budget Skyrim. It’s a solid game, despite it’s much more modest budget.
Vampire the masquerade and Vampire the masquerade bloodlines are also two amazing, classic games full of quests and intricate areas to explore!
Divinity Original Sin is more BG and Diablo than Skyrim, but again, it’s all about the exploration and the looting of dungeons.
There’s elderscrolls online, but I’d recommend you watch some gameplay on youtube first. IT’s not quite the traditional Elderscrolls experience.
I’d also recommend the Mass Effect series, only because I like SKyrim and Fallout, and for me those games and Mass effect fall into the same spectrum of: “epic RPG” as it were. I think you’d likely enjoy the series, even if they’re not quite open world games.
The Witcher 2 looks interesting. Does it have a console like Skyrim so I can cheat if I want to? Is it also modable like Skyrim/Fallout 3 so I can find and use useful mods?
There’s no console and, unfortunately, I don’t know about any mods although there may be some out there. I’m mostly a console gamer but I got turned on to The Witcher after playing Skyrim on the PS3.
One big difference between the two is that The Witcher 2 is much more story-driven so there’s less aimless wondering around than in Skyrim (which I stalled at about 75% complete).
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That sucks. I’d rather they get it right but I’m going to have a lot of time off at the end of this year and I was really hoping to blow a lot of it on this game.
I myself did not expect anything of interest in Borderlands 1 + 2, but picked them up when they went on sale at Steam because there was to be a Telltale game based on the franchise. I actually found the games a hell of a lot of fun. You can call it ‘open world’ but really there isn’t much more to do than kill things. It’s not like you can work on your alchemy or break into shops at night. But they are definitely the most ‘free-wheeling’ games I’ve played, with a lot of humor, RPG-style leveling and Diablo-like looting. I loved them, especially the DLC for the second game that was basically a send-up of D&D.
Kingdoms of Amalur has the work of Bethesda as its closest parallel. It’s also a quite open world capable of getting you hooked into some obsessive pursuit. As surprisingly massive as the game turns out to be as you begin to realize how much to be done lies before you, it actually feels finishable, unlike Skyrim where I have no hope of getting to every quest.
If you can find a deal on Batman: Arkham City, you might want to give it a whirl. You’re confined to one city, but it feels like a massive playground in which you can dick around as much as you want. I often found myself distracted by the desire to swoop down on a group of thugs I saw just standing around.
The Dragon Age and Mass Effect games are good bets. They are open world but with a guiding hand (not as truly open as Fall out and Skyrim) and are third person rather than first person but both are fun games and similar in play to each other. Dragon Age is High Fantasy and Mass Effect is Sci Fi
Well, the OP mentioned Fallout 3 but not Fallout New Vegas, so that would be a suggestion. There are also several DLCs for both games that really add to them. Skyrim also has several DLCs to extend play if the OP hasn’t tried those.
I personally didn’t like Borderlands 1 (I haven’t played the 2nd one), but Assassins Creed IV Black Flag was good, as was Far Cry 3. And then there is Elder Scrolls Online…I’ve only played a bit of the beta, but it seems like a good place to get some of your Elder Scrolls fix while they make the next standalone game (there is a Fallout 4 in the works as well, though neither will be out this year).
