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@@juricadogan3870 I literally say ES6 is not coming, instead of a fact checker maybe start by listening to what I actually say. Oh, or did you not watch the video and just look at the timecodes? That would explain it lol. As for The Wayward Realms, there is nothing confirmed so nothing to fact check. Where did you get 26-27?
what, if it doesn't offer 3rd person, than it's simply not worth it. dude all games need 1st 3rd person and an FOV slider, it's unacceptable for any game to not have these very basic things that everyone wants in their games. i don't want to play your stupid 2D side scroller shit either or your stupid turn based shit.
Really excited for the game! I've seen a couple interviews about the vision and it seems pretty amazing. Do you guys by any chance already have someone working on the game music/ sound design?
@@jarridkamphenkel2117Oh i see! Would it be ok to send my reel? I could also do a 2 min custom inspired sample too. Perhaps you aren't still in that state but would still be a pleasure to do it for consideration!
@@carlosamado7606 we actually have Eric Heberling, original composer for Elder Scrolls Arena and Daggerfall, composing our music. As such, we don't have any current need for further music contributions, but we truly appreciate the offer nonetheless.
Hi, I'm an aspiring writer for video games, is there any advice you could give me? Like, is there a specific job I have to apply for? I don't know if there really is an actual internship or anything for writing for video games, and I'm not able to find much information about it. I'd really like to work for a company making fantasy RPG's, but I don't exactly know where to start looking.
@@reykskjar4052 Well first, I would say I don't recommend the game industry of 2023 as a career at all haha Their requirements for juniors and interns get more and more ridiculous each year. Right now they want you to have like 3-5 years of experience and released at least 1 AAA title to be a JUNIOUR anything. Like how? I would recommend finding a good indie team/start-up/profit share project. Much more creative freedom. The AAA is dominated by investors and suits right now. Currently, I am pursuing a career in software development, and if Ardenfall or Wayward really takes off, great! But I decided about halfway through college that the modern AAA gaming industry wasn't for me. So I may not be the best/most unbiased person to ask. Good luck in your journey though!
Best way to ever replace Skyrim is making an Open Source game that way we can get a massive game that is also modular, and Moddable to go up against Skyrim while being it's own thing
If you want to "kill" Skyrim, you have to create a game that offers the same freedom, but above all, a game with more than 23 years of history, and that's easier said than done. Sykrim isn't the only game in its series, as you know, it's part of something bigger, it's part of a series with a huge amount of lore, it's a series with many beloved games, etc., so if you really want to beat Skyrim, you have to offer a world that is equal to Tampriel's and equally unique.
+ modding support. + character creation. + many playable races. + large and interesting open world. + regional variation. + suitable balance between difficulty and ease. + buyable homes / other tangible things that the player can save and spend money on.
@@Seer_Of_The_WoodlandsI have an idea!! What about an Open Source game! That would allow all that to happen while being it's own thing and allow people to Spin-Off from the game to make their own Open World games
There is nothing special about The Elder Scrolls lore. It is a bunch of mediocre fantasy stuff that any 16 yo nerd could come up with. Skyrim is a success because of the freedom to play as you want, not because of the mediocre writing.
Daggerfall's procedurally generated dungeons were amazing and nothing I have played since has even remotely compared. You could get lost for literally days in those dungeons and the feeling of actual exploration was immense. I really, really wish some game, somewhere would bring this back into gameplay.
It's good when it works right, sometimes you'll get a quest specific item spawn in an impossible to get to area locking you out of being able to complete it. Yeah there are mods to fix it, but they literally replace the random generation of those dungeons to place a fixed dungeon instead on the critical quest dungeons. If they could implement a working random system like that to a future elder scrolls game and make a modern day daggerfall kind of thing it'd be pretty epic though.
Can't really say much more about it. The estimates are earliest it could release would be 2 years after Starfield, so 2025, but documents we've seen estimate it to be sometime around 2027.
Skyrim is cool because it's a "do anything you want" game. It's not ONLY about story, it's not ONLY about getting married, or ONLY about fishing, or ONLY about finding shouts, or ONLY about Imperial vs. Stormcloak, or ONLY about being a Khajiit or a Wood Elf or an Argonian, or ONLY about cooking or ONLY about becoming Thane in all 9 holds, or ONLY about being a sneaky thief and doing a no-kill run, or ONLY about Greybeards and Blades, or ONLY about collecting 200 sets of armor, or ONLY about mods and DLC, or ONLY about becoming a Vampire or a Werewolf, and sleeping in Coffins, or ONLY about having 75 companions to choose from, or ONLY about Balgruuf's weird Kids, or ONLY about getting rekt on Sleeping Tree Sap, or ONLY about doing a Bloodskaal Blade run, or any of the other hundreds of unique aspects and combination of epic views, story, choices, agency, varying stories, unmarked cool shit (SOUL TOMATOES) and all the DLC that they added to make it nostalgic for Morrowind and Oblivion... it's the fact that this one, perfect game, is ALL of the ABOVE, and pages and pages of even more, and in game books to read that are all actually pretty good fiction and immersive. OKay. Breathe.
all of that stuff yet the game is best known for people downloading it every year to play for 3 minutes lol. the immersion disappears the moment you do anything other than walking around looking at trees and mountains. the surface stuff like visuals and music is good but thats it. because of nepotism the gameplay is awful and the writing feels like it is AI, its a shallow soulless game made by a company who is only kept alive by chinese mobile games and microtransactions.
Try telling that to the Developers. Graphics isn't even in the Top 3 most important things to me in an RPG or any Game really. Good storyline and strong gameplay are far more important, but developers think they can just throw nice graphics at you and you'll forget about the rest. I get it though. You can create nice graphics by just throwing money at it and turning up at work to 'punch in on the clock. It's a guaranteed outcome if you put enough money and effort in. Where as things like gameplay and story, take genuine inspiration and inspiration is priceless.
I'd say these are Open World games as much or more than RPG games with obv. 1st person perspective combat and some story/lore or more rpg like elements. Graphics sells games but as you say rpg/story variation is often more rewarding eg Wartales is a great call-out for generating interesting decisions.
@@childofthesun32 A Dev. would understand you very well. But nowadays everything that matters is money. So we get the same (zero-risk) stuff over and over again. BUT hey! >> with better graphics
@@Trickyman26yo, Crimson Desert is definitely up there for me like top 3, def more hyped for Wayward Realms but Crimson Desert if they can pull it off looks INCREDIBLE
Vanilla Skyrim brings s lot to the table, but , for me, it’s the mods that make my go-to rpg game. A game that wants to unseat Skyrim from its throne will need to be very moddable by the community. The game designers should build the game engine with 3rd party modding in mind. If they can figure out how to make paid mods coexist with free mods while being a cut from paid mod sales, they will having a winning formula . But don’t sell horse armor since there is a stigma around it.
Skyrim is just a great foundation for so many different playstyles and play concepts outside of the main storyline, thanks to mods (and partly thanks to the general setting and atmosphere of the game). And that variability is why it's kept me coming back for so long. I played the main storyline once, and I've been playing it in all sorts of different ways ever since. In many ways, vanilla Skyrim isn't even very good! Without mods, I probably would have gotten maybe 30 hours out of it. Thanks to mods, I'm over 1000 hours. I certainly hope another game (or more than one, ideally) will find a way to provide the same type of experience as Skyrim. But I will admit, it feels like a bit of a 'perfect storm' situation to me. For a true successor to Skyrim, we might have to wait for Elder Scrolls VI. Zach, as always, thanks for your incredible "upcoming games" videos, they are very very appreciated!!
I remember when skyrim came out. My birthday was the 6. Before i buy the game, because i know Bethesda, i wanted to try the game before i buy. So i pirated the game the same night. It was cracked a couple hours after it was released. It was a Friday night. I Made an orc. Fighter with a shield and a mace. The fact that i could chain decapitate people, the more damage i did, the more a decapitation was proccing. It was so op and ridoculous. The wcaling peoblem was immediatly obvious. It took the fun away from the game. The loot was lack lusting. And i remember seeing hiw the quest were split. Main quest, and all the aide quest in each zone. I decided to focus on the main quest and keep the side quest for my other playthru. I started to play friday night. Decided to pull an all nighter. The next day i was at the last quest. I really sisnt want to ruin the universe fot me. Games are like a book. When i finish them, i stop aying them. I cant enjoy them anynore. I was so dissappinted in the shortness of the game. The story is so oblivious. It eas lackluster. And the gameplay. I could run circles around my ennemy while swinging my sword. I qctually leveled my healing spell by standing in the fire in the herbalist shop in white run. The more i stayed in the fire, the more i was getting xp. So stupid. I remember being so happy i didnt buy the game. At first i was feeling baf. But after a couple of hours, it was gone. I had bought a computer just to comeback to gaming again. And skyrim was the reason for it. My dissapointment was abysmal. I waited until the legendary edition came out. I did the dlc. It was cool. I wanted to give the game another chance. All the had was still there so i rushed the story. In the same after noon i was done. I tried again after 10 uears in 2021 to mod the game. It still is lackluster. You can put perfume and a coat of paint to a turd but it will always remain and smell like a turd. And with Starfield...i am convinced bethesda is completely bankrupt as a game designer. I will never buy a nethesda game again. Sadly. But i have to say. After all that. Putting some visual mods, and then roam skyrim, with that music??? Still one of my favorite memory in gaming. Weirdly enough. I think its the promise. The immersion. The escapism.
@@lacrimosa9020 nahhh... unless it will have a robust modding community, it will be forgotten in less than a year... it is 2023 and more than 20k people still play skyrim across all platforms..
@@lacrimosa9020 I hope you're right, but I'll believe it when I see it. Same attitude for any not yet released game, including Elder Scrolls VI. Bethesda lost me with Starfield. As for "games coming in 2024" - Elder Scrolls VI is also estimated more around 2028 than 2024, so no idea why it's on this video other than clicks.
Honestly even though it's really old now, I think everyone should give Morrowind a try. I would also recommend getting a mod that updates it. I def wanna try these games as well. My first dungeon crawler was Fatal Labyrinth. Then Diablo 1. I love them so much. It's pretty amazing that Repo Man is becoming a game. Looking forward to that one. If you wanna know more about Repo Man watch the musical, not the lame movie that came out after.
I've been wanting to get into Morrowind, but I want mods to make it feel modern and they seem pretty intimidating. Do you have a recommendation where to start with easy modding of Morrowind?
Repo dev here. The game's not based on the movie, any of the movies actually ("Repo Man", "Repo Men", "Repo: The Genetic Opera"). But it's kinda close to Morrowind in places!
Skyrim has this… thing. This magical feeling that you WANT to live there and feel attached to the world. History and nostalgia is also a very huge reason Skyrim is the king of Open world RPG’s.
I love your enunciation, and ability to get me hyped for games. Games that I otherwise might not have tried. I am excited for a few of these, but Am trying to temper my expectations. Cheers
If a RPG wants to rival Skyrim, they need to be able to give me first and third person, exactly like Skyrim does! I am not saying there may be Games like Skyrim, but to nail it for me, it also has to have the feature I just mentioned! Edit: I actually have the most hopes for wayward realms, because I loved daggerfall and I also liked the procedual generation, even when it was far from perfect!
Thanks for the Video. "Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2" - Cautious , yeah me too ... i heard a lot about the troubled development , for a time it wasnt even clear if this was abandoned or not. - But i loved the first game and i love Vampire stuff , so i will keep my eyes on this regardless. "Tainted Grail - The Fall of Avalon" - Looks like exactly my type of game , tho im not a person to support a studio via early access and i dont want to be an active helper when it comes to debugging or testing. But i will keep my eye on this one too.
Lol One does not simply Kill Skyrim! You will basically have to give us everything Skyrim did and do it better. Good luck with that. It’s so beautiful and so immersive that it makes you want to live there for real. That game is still great after 12 years! 12 years! That game is so great that people spend countless hours just wandering or exploring the wilds, not even doing missions, chilling in one of their houses reading books and cooking dinner. I’m not saying it can’t be done but you got your work cut out for you. Nobody has made one yet. I’ll play new games for a couple of months tops, but when I get bored with it , like I always do. Guess what game goes right back in the Xbox. Every time it feels like coming home. I wish whoever wants to replace Skyrim the best of luck. That would be one hell of a game.
I wish more of these dungeon crawling games would incorporate at least some sections in the overworld. The beauty of Skyrim was seeing the stunning vistas after you've drudged through dark and damp dungeons. The contrast intensified both.
The only true Skyrim killer for me will be Skyblivion. And after that, Skywind. Just those two. 🥰 Would love to see Fable II remastered and ported to (and optimized for) PC, but that will never see the light of day, because Microsoft seems hell bent never to give customers what they're asking for.
Some of these games apparently try to take on Skyrim by... looking almost exactly LIKE Skyrim. 'Return to Nangrim' looks as if they picked all the assets from Skyrim, shuffled them and improved the lighting somewhat. If you had told me that it's a Skyrim mod I would have believed you immediately; the rocks with the snow on it, the animals, even the clouds surrounding the mountains look exactly the same.
9:40 What is the obsession with fishing minigames these days? I suppose it works in a game like Stardew Valley but I don't like games like Stardew Valley. Nothing says Grand Adventure like standing in one place for hours staring at water. I like fishing in real life but it's not the experience I'm looking for in a game. "Well, I could be saving the world or fighting dragons but I think I'll just stand around and wave a stick at water today."
People just really like fishing lol. It's easy to implement into any game, doesn't take much work or thought, and a good number of people like the option to go fishing so might as well throw it in I guess.
I always wished 2 or more companies would come together to create a very huge game that you can play a massive story and have 100 hours or whatever to play the main story and its all good but if you're done with that or if you just like multiplayer you can jump into the multiplayer mode and play or play multiplayer co-op story mode with a party of 4 to explore the world. With all the help though they could help make sure the world is packed with everything to make it feel real and not too empty. With ssds in consoles and in most pcs now days they should start making games with less hills and mountains so we can go to the plains area in a certain game and have a massive plauns area and some flat lands, not completely the whole game but have a variation of terrain. We never see really big open flat lands and it would be cool to see across it and see a town or anything far off since the ssd helps load better these days. I think it would be cool.
Although it kind of makes sense about companies combining to make a better game, it doesn't quite work out like that. Imagine if SimCity and Cities Skylines combined to make a city builder. You'd just get a worse Cities Skylines. At a certain size, so much money is involved that investors are the ones pulling all the strings and the game has to be completely overmonetised to make back that money.
Monomyth seems like a more inspiration towards Arx Fatalis. Look up what that is. The bread baking system in it and how hands down it is is definitely from Arx Fatalis and I love it.
Yeah if I'm expecting an early access release I'd list it too. Monomyth just entered early access this month, 93% positive on Steam. Other games continuing in early access at 80+% positive. Caliph is also a released game and the Avowed delay was highly unexpected because Microsoft was pushing that month for it pretty hard, but of course that happens all the time. Also keep in mind, just because a game releases doesn't mean it's not effectively early access. No Man's Sky and Cyberpunk 2077 were early access games, they just weren't honest about it. Other times early access games feel more finished than released games. The label is just an indicator.
I got suckered into the wrong "Tainted Grail" title - tried to pick this one up and ended up with "Conquest" which is some kind of D&D style 3rd person title with turn based card selection combat, a style I don't like at all. I had no idea there were two titles and that it was a "series" - and these are entirely different games allegedly in the same universe. It's not high enough a profile series to be obvious (like the Fallout series) so I got suckered in to the wrong title. Watch out people if you want a FPS RPG, Conquest is NOT this.
@@GamerZakh nah I bought it from a key seller so it was only a few pounds but I've never seen a company do that before, not concurrently releasing like that anyway
Man, that's a shame because Fall of Avalon is great. I stopped playing it though because it's still in early access and ever so often they delete people's saves when an update releases. Not only do I not want to have to play through the same content multiple times but I don't want to spend hundreds of hours investing into a character only to have it wiped from existence. I'm just going to wait until the game is completed before I play it again. I kinda wish I had waited before playing it.
@@ClellBiggs oooh - OOOOH - you just saved me from an AWFUL lot of pain and suffering, I am very much in your debt... This is a MAJOR bugbear of mine - GSC did this with the initial STALKER releases and it was perhaps the biggest single fault with the series (it's still my all time favourite game series though). I read a deep-dive thread on this a while back when someone had a crack at a save game converter - it wasn't anywhere near as hard to do as presumed, they just couldn't be arsed at the time (this is on a 1.x production release title too, even for minor patch upgrades). Seven Days to Die seems to have somewhat managed this by marking saves as out of date though theirs is more complicated as it contains immense changes to the map (nature of the game). But yeah, this would have shat me to tears - thanks for letting me know!
I'm looking forward to "The Wayward Realms". I've been watching them for years, and I like where they are going. I doubt it will be a 2024 game, though.
One thing I think that is tricky for a lot of RPG’s in that genre (outside of I’d say Baldurs gate and a few others) is gameplay wise a lot of RPG’s dump on Skyrim and that’s fine it’s going to show it’s age but it’s reallly the world and lore within itself that to this day people are still doing deep dives and podcast discussions on, so it kind of just has this allure to it where you want to keep building off of it or find more.
Obsidian doesn't really make open world games in the same way that Bethesda does. I don't consider invisible walls in the middle of the map as open world.
Daggerfall Unity is one of my top favorite games ever. Lunacid looks cool, and while I was originally put off by the free asset designs of Bloodlines, that game looks like some real effort has gone into it, so I'll be giving it a look. Also, Ardenfall feels like a modern Morrowind in many ways to me. Are any of these "skyrim killers"? Nah, not really. To me, Skyrim has achieved a sort of distinction. No game can replace it or really compete with it, since it is a 10 year old game. Instead, games can be like it.
I find this so frustrating, because I think Skyrim is shit. I mean, if I could play it in co-op with my roleplaying friend, then I'm sure it'd be the finest gaming experience of my life. In solo though, I find it boring and goofy as fuck. I'm just entirely out of the loop and not the demographic anymore. I'm too old, because everyone seems to fucking love Skyrim lol.
Thank you for this video! I love fp rpgs, especially ones with a medieval, low magic aesthetic. About half of these I didn't know about, so they've been added to my wishlist, and one is out now that I'll be purchasing. But Skyrim, that puppy stays on my PC, along with its endless modiverse.
Gothic remake should be on here as well :D its my nr 1 game for me atm, likewise as Avowed tho. I am currently slogging threw Pillars 1 (Find the combat boring), but the world, characters and story is fun!
Today The Outer Worlds is looked at as a "Childs first First Person Shooter". The 2nd game needs to be more gritty, more adult, less cartoonish and way larger.
I'm looking forward to Wayward Realms. I'm imagining it's going to be similar to Oblivion, but with a bigger map and with a lot of mods baked directly into the game.
I knew about Avowed and onwards down the list, but most of the games before that no idea. And some of them look really interesting, many of them I have put on my evergrowing wishlist. Also I think it was Lunacid, it looks to be out now and available to buy, still though as interesting as some of these are. They still don't appear to come close to Skyrim, it just has something a formula that not many other games, have been able to figure out.
Glad you found some new ones! And yeah Lunacid had a surprise launch. The schedule was into 2024 and they hadn't had a patch since April, then suddenly for Halloween they said "1.0 release!", but then had 3 hotfixes and then 3 more patches back-to-back haha, so basically it's still in development.
If you haven’t already I recommend downloading the Enderal: Forgotten Stories total conversion mod for Skyrim. I think it’s on Steam. It’s a whole different game made by Skyrim modders. Dark and beautiful, blew my sox off.
About Lunacid; you getting tossed into an Abyss where others have gone before; that has more vibes of an Ultima Underworld vibe, and bloody hell, that's a good thing if it really is inspired by Ultima Underworld.
If wayward realms allows me to pick up/steal every little item like Skyrim does and jam it all in the drawers and cupboards of a house I buy or build, I’ll be happy. I don’t know why the insane pack ratting is such a draw for me, but there’s nothing quite like murdering your way through a random hole filled with bandits, only to by chance discover a hidden passageway leading to an ancient, buried castle filled with magical loot, goblins and monsters, setting up a little camp inside, stealing everything that isn’t nailed down, from armor and weapons to cheese wheels and strange looking rocks, solving a puzzle and then lugging it all back to your camp/house, dumping everything on the ground, organizing it all, reading one of the random books you just stole and then leveling up so you can either sneak better or learn to turn into a giant monster centipede. Then stealing a sword from the town blacksmith, failing, getting sent to prison, escaping, returning to slaughter the blacksmith that caught you and becoming the new blacksmith “after the previous one skipped town in the middle of the night”. Yeah, I want a new FPRPG bad
Yeah I've continued to see games with demos have higher review scores. Especially niche looking indie games where many would normally buy and dislike it, having a demo means those who don't like it never buy it and so never review it. Saves the buyer from wasting money and the game gets reviewed better.
I don't feel stuck playing Skyrim at all. My passion for it is much stronger now than ever. Modding Skyrim is way easier now, and much more fun for me than ever before. I stopped buying/playing first person games in 2011. Not even Cyberpunk appealed to me, because it didn't have a 3rd person option. The only thing that would rival Skyrim at this point for me is a modded ES6. I am anticipating MS Flight Simulator 2024's release though.
I'm not sure any of these will get close to Skyrim, but Avowed might be similar enough to be a good option. People are mad it doesn't look like the original teaser from years ago, but the only thing I care about is that it's made by Obsidian. Out of all the MS acquisitions, Obsidian will end up their best purchase. The company is reliable, consistent & has proven they can juggle multiple quality projects, with a good track record of releases. This is their recent track record: *Tyranny (2016) - 80% (Metacritic) *Pillars of Eternity 2 (2018) - 88% *The Outer Worlds (2019) - 85% *Grounded (2022) - 83% *Pentiment (2022) - 88% So at worst, I'm confident it'll at least be a very "good" game, even if it's nowhere close to GOTY quality.
Honestly...if someone just did a remake of Daggerfall with a decent engine and some modernization I would be more than happy to spend the next Decade with that...🤷♂️
@@LordReginaldMeowmont Thanks for pointing that out. I hadn't heard of that Game yet and will look into it. The few screenshots I saw on Steam seem to look very...old school...in terms of Graphics, but I will see what other material I can find on it
After Starfield showed us all the cracks in BGS work (gameplay, dialogue, lore, player agency, hell even basic RPG elements) I don't expect a game with obvious cracks I only expect an abyss instead
I feel from watching a lot of these that these games are missing the feel, physics, and oomph behind their movements. I don't get that wiplash some others do when the character models textures and details are 10x better than everything around them, but if the animations and sounds don't match, it feels off. I should feel like I just pulled a heavy axe off my back, pulled back a heavy bow, or I've just ran through a crowded environment, not *hand slides on the screen with items*.
And neither should they try to, imo. Kingdom come deliverance 1 for example, absolutely magnificent RPG (i can not wait for the sequel at the end of the year), but in no way even remotely close to challenging Skyrim, since they are a totally different subgenre, both thematically and gameplay wise, and therefore not comparable, in my opinion.
Love first person, can't touch third person personally but would love if some of the games have the option to switch like Skyrim does..... so we please everyone!
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Most of the games in this video are not even near to 2024 release. Might need a factchecker. Wayward Realms and ES6 are not coming until 2026-2027.
@@juricadogan3870 I literally say ES6 is not coming, instead of a fact checker maybe start by listening to what I actually say. Oh, or did you not watch the video and just look at the timecodes? That would explain it lol. As for The Wayward Realms, there is nothing confirmed so nothing to fact check. Where did you get 26-27?
what, if it doesn't offer 3rd person, than it's simply not worth it.
dude all games need 1st 3rd person and an FOV slider, it's unacceptable for any game to not have these very basic things that everyone wants in their games.
i don't want to play your stupid 2D side scroller shit either or your stupid turn based shit.
Your so damn good at finding all the gems out there. really appreciate it!
@@5226-p1e You may enjoy my 3rd person RPG list.
I am a writer on Wayward Realms and the Lead Narrative on Ardenfall. Thanks for the exposure! Both projects are being actively worked on [:
Really excited for the game! I've seen a couple interviews about the vision and it seems pretty amazing.
Do you guys by any chance already have someone working on the game music/ sound design?
@@jarridkamphenkel2117Oh i see! Would it be ok to send my reel? I could also do a 2 min custom inspired sample too. Perhaps you aren't still in that state but would still be a pleasure to do it for consideration!
@@carlosamado7606 we actually have Eric Heberling, original composer for Elder Scrolls Arena and Daggerfall, composing our music. As such, we don't have any current need for further music contributions, but we truly appreciate the offer nonetheless.
Hi, I'm an aspiring writer for video games, is there any advice you could give me? Like, is there a specific job I have to apply for? I don't know if there really is an actual internship or anything for writing for video games, and I'm not able to find much information about it. I'd really like to work for a company making fantasy RPG's, but I don't exactly know where to start looking.
@@reykskjar4052 Well first, I would say I don't recommend the game industry of 2023 as a career at all haha Their requirements for juniors and interns get more and more ridiculous each year. Right now they want you to have like 3-5 years of experience and released at least 1 AAA title to be a JUNIOUR anything. Like how?
I would recommend finding a good indie team/start-up/profit share project. Much more creative freedom. The AAA is dominated by investors and suits right now. Currently, I am pursuing a career in software development, and if Ardenfall or Wayward really takes off, great! But I decided about halfway through college that the modern AAA gaming industry wasn't for me. So I may not be the best/most unbiased person to ask. Good luck in your journey though!
One does not simply "abandon" Skyrim...
Indeed. Not sold at all on any of these titles nor impressed. It will be a huge game to beat!
Best way to ever replace Skyrim is making an Open Source game that way we can get a massive game that is also modular, and Moddable to go up against Skyrim while being it's own thing
It’s true and now that the mod store (creations) have updated and changed I got sucked back in 😂
I agree
We need a real vampires RPG game like Skyrim Skyrim still holds number one there's no other game come close to it
"Until we actually see real Elder Scrolls VI gameplay, I would recommend you forget about it."
Best advice I've heard in a long time.
Yeah that's why a lot of people still prefer to play Skyrim while waiting for the release of EDVI.
Elder scrolls 6 will be a mess and even more dumbed down than skyrim is..
Luckily we are getting wayward realms.
If you want to "kill" Skyrim, you have to create a game that offers the same freedom, but above all, a game with more than 23 years of history, and that's easier said than done. Sykrim isn't the only game in its series, as you know, it's part of something bigger, it's part of a series with a huge amount of lore, it's a series with many beloved games, etc., so if you really want to beat Skyrim, you have to offer a world that is equal to Tampriel's and equally unique.
+ modding support. + character creation. + many playable races. + large and interesting open world. + regional variation. + suitable balance between difficulty and ease. + buyable homes / other tangible things that the player can save and spend money on.
Few games do all of these things, and even fewer on the same scale.
Lore. Enough said.
@@Seer_Of_The_WoodlandsI have an idea!!
What about an Open Source game!
That would allow all that to happen while being it's own thing and allow people to Spin-Off from the game to make their own Open World games
There is nothing special about The Elder Scrolls lore. It is a bunch of mediocre fantasy stuff that any 16 yo nerd could come up with. Skyrim is a success because of the freedom to play as you want, not because of the mediocre writing.
Daggerfall's procedurally generated dungeons were amazing and nothing I have played since has even remotely compared. You could get lost for literally days in those dungeons and the feeling of actual exploration was immense. I really, really wish some game, somewhere would bring this back into gameplay.
It's good when it works right, sometimes you'll get a quest specific item spawn in an impossible to get to area locking you out of being able to complete it. Yeah there are mods to fix it, but they literally replace the random generation of those dungeons to place a fixed dungeon instead on the critical quest dungeons. If they could implement a working random system like that to a future elder scrolls game and make a modern day daggerfall kind of thing it'd be pretty epic though.
These are probably the memories of a child. Most games are good when you have a big imagination and tons of free time
He just showed u wayward
About The Elder Scrolls VI: "I would recommend you forget about it."
This video kind of had a happy vibe going until that statement.
Can't really say much more about it. The estimates are earliest it could release would be 2 years after Starfield, so 2025, but documents we've seen estimate it to be sometime around 2027.
@@GamerZakh All true, but it's still depressing. LOL
I have to agree. I saw 2028, maybe. So yeah...forget about it.
Thanks for the mention, we hope to do you all proud 😁
Im one of the writers of Wayward Realms, just wanted to say thank you for the exposure, we appreciate it greatly.
Good for you
I’m really looking forward to the complete game release. It seems like a game I’ve been looking for.
Skyrim is cool because it's a "do anything you want" game. It's not ONLY about story, it's not ONLY about getting married, or ONLY about fishing, or ONLY about finding shouts, or ONLY about Imperial vs. Stormcloak, or ONLY about being a Khajiit or a Wood Elf or an Argonian, or ONLY about cooking or ONLY about becoming Thane in all 9 holds, or ONLY about being a sneaky thief and doing a no-kill run, or ONLY about Greybeards and Blades, or ONLY about collecting 200 sets of armor, or ONLY about mods and DLC, or ONLY about becoming a Vampire or a Werewolf, and sleeping in Coffins, or ONLY about having 75 companions to choose from, or ONLY about Balgruuf's weird Kids, or ONLY about getting rekt on Sleeping Tree Sap, or ONLY about doing a Bloodskaal Blade run, or any of the other hundreds of unique aspects and combination of epic views, story, choices, agency, varying stories, unmarked cool shit (SOUL TOMATOES) and all the DLC that they added to make it nostalgic for Morrowind and Oblivion... it's the fact that this one, perfect game, is ALL of the ABOVE, and pages and pages of even more, and in game books to read that are all actually pretty good fiction and immersive. OKay. Breathe.
all of that stuff yet the game is best known for people downloading it every year to play for 3 minutes lol. the immersion disappears the moment you do anything other than walking around looking at trees and mountains. the surface stuff like visuals and music is good but thats it. because of nepotism the gameplay is awful and the writing feels like it is AI, its a shallow soulless game made by a company who is only kept alive by chinese mobile games and microtransactions.
For me, the only Skyrim killer is Morrowind 🤷
This is the correct answer
Oblivion
Oblivion
Morrowind remake now!
Oblivion
For me good rpg is not about being beautiful 1-st person game, but about being something deep, atmospheric and solid like Gothic or Wartales.
Try telling that to the Developers. Graphics isn't even in the Top 3 most important things to me in an RPG or any Game really. Good storyline and strong gameplay are far more important, but developers think they can just throw nice graphics at you and you'll forget about the rest.
I get it though. You can create nice graphics by just throwing money at it and turning up at work to 'punch in on the clock. It's a guaranteed outcome if you put enough money and effort in.
Where as things like gameplay and story, take genuine inspiration and inspiration is priceless.
I'd say these are Open World games as much or more than RPG games with obv. 1st person perspective combat and some story/lore or more rpg like elements. Graphics sells games but as you say rpg/story variation is often more rewarding eg Wartales is a great call-out for generating interesting decisions.
@@childofthesun32
A Dev. would understand you very well.
But nowadays everything that matters is money.
So we get the same (zero-risk) stuff over and over again.
BUT hey! >> with better graphics
The Wayward Realms is easily my most anticipated RPG period.
I’m yeah, anticipate it will be a long time before it is finished.
The Wayward Realms is my second most anticipated RPG. On the first place - there is Crimson Desert, hands down.
@@Trickyman26yo, Crimson Desert is definitely up there for me like top 3, def more hyped for Wayward Realms but Crimson Desert if they can pull it off looks INCREDIBLE
I bet 10 bucks they don't put enough work into the music. The real reason skyrim is soo good.
Vanilla Skyrim brings s lot to the table, but , for me, it’s the mods that make my go-to rpg game.
A game that wants to unseat Skyrim from its throne will need to be very moddable by the community.
The game designers should build the game engine with 3rd party modding in mind.
If they can figure out how to make paid mods coexist with free mods while being a cut from paid mod sales, they will having a winning formula .
But don’t sell horse armor since there is a stigma around it.
Skyrim is just a great foundation for so many different playstyles and play concepts outside of the main storyline, thanks to mods (and partly thanks to the general setting and atmosphere of the game). And that variability is why it's kept me coming back for so long. I played the main storyline once, and I've been playing it in all sorts of different ways ever since.
In many ways, vanilla Skyrim isn't even very good! Without mods, I probably would have gotten maybe 30 hours out of it. Thanks to mods, I'm over 1000 hours.
I certainly hope another game (or more than one, ideally) will find a way to provide the same type of experience as Skyrim. But I will admit, it feels like a bit of a 'perfect storm' situation to me. For a true successor to Skyrim, we might have to wait for Elder Scrolls VI.
Zach, as always, thanks for your incredible "upcoming games" videos, they are very very appreciated!!
Avowed is coming to kill skyrim 😎
I remember when skyrim came out. My birthday was the 6. Before i buy the game, because i know Bethesda, i wanted to try the game before i buy. So i pirated the game the same night. It was cracked a couple hours after it was released. It was a Friday night. I Made an orc. Fighter with a shield and a mace.
The fact that i could chain decapitate people, the more damage i did, the more a decapitation was proccing. It was so op and ridoculous. The wcaling peoblem was immediatly obvious. It took the fun away from the game. The loot was lack lusting.
And i remember seeing hiw the quest were split. Main quest, and all the aide quest in each zone. I decided to focus on the main quest and keep the side quest for my other playthru. I started to play friday night. Decided to pull an all nighter. The next day i was at the last quest. I really sisnt want to ruin the universe fot me. Games are like a book. When i finish them, i stop aying them. I cant enjoy them anynore. I was so dissappinted in the shortness of the game. The story is so oblivious. It eas lackluster. And the gameplay.
I could run circles around my ennemy while swinging my sword.
I qctually leveled my healing spell by standing in the fire in the herbalist shop in white run. The more i stayed in the fire, the more i was getting xp. So stupid. I remember being so happy i didnt buy the game. At first i was feeling baf. But after a couple of hours, it was gone.
I had bought a computer just to comeback to gaming again. And skyrim was the reason for it. My dissapointment was abysmal. I waited until the legendary edition came out. I did the dlc. It was cool. I wanted to give the game another chance. All the had was still there so i rushed the story. In the same after noon i was done.
I tried again after 10 uears in 2021 to mod the game.
It still is lackluster.
You can put perfume and a coat of paint to a turd but it will always remain and smell like a turd.
And with Starfield...i am convinced bethesda is completely bankrupt as a game designer.
I will never buy a nethesda game again. Sadly.
But i have to say.
After all that. Putting some visual mods, and then roam skyrim, with that music???
Still one of my favorite memory in gaming.
Weirdly enough.
I think its the promise. The immersion. The escapism.
@@lacrimosa9020 nahhh... unless it will have a robust modding community, it will be forgotten in less than a year... it is 2023 and more than 20k people still play skyrim across all platforms..
@@lacrimosa9020 I hope you're right, but I'll believe it when I see it. Same attitude for any not yet released game, including Elder Scrolls VI. Bethesda lost me with Starfield. As for "games coming in 2024" - Elder Scrolls VI is also estimated more around 2028 than 2024, so no idea why it's on this video other than clicks.
Morrowind babes
you cant abandon Skyrim, you can embrace new without getting rid of the old
What made skyrim great was the modding community. These up and coming games would do well to remember that. Vanilla skyrim ok but not great.
Honestly even though it's really old now, I think everyone should give Morrowind a try. I would also recommend getting a mod that updates it. I def wanna try these games as well. My first dungeon crawler was Fatal Labyrinth. Then Diablo 1. I love them so much. It's pretty amazing that Repo Man is becoming a game. Looking forward to that one. If you wanna know more about Repo Man watch the musical, not the lame movie that came out after.
I've been wanting to get into Morrowind, but I want mods to make it feel modern and they seem pretty intimidating. Do you have a recommendation where to start with easy modding of Morrowind?
Morrowind was the first proper RPG I ever played, so many good memories playing that game
@@alexjp123 I do love it.
Repo dev here. The game's not based on the movie, any of the movies actually ("Repo Man", "Repo Men", "Repo: The Genetic Opera"). But it's kinda close to Morrowind in places!
Note to game developers, just give me an updated Skrim-esque first person high fantasy adventure and a world to explore and take my money.
Skyrim has this… thing.
This magical feeling that you WANT to live there and feel attached to the world. History and nostalgia is also a very huge reason Skyrim is the king of Open world RPG’s.
Meh, there’s also one thing why we love skyrim, that’s because you can play it in 1st and 3rd person perspective
"Abandon Skyrim?" HERESEY!!!! Never abandon skyrim!
I love your enunciation, and ability to get me hyped for games. Games that I otherwise might not have tried. I am excited for a few of these, but Am trying to temper my expectations. Cheers
If the lighting is good, I don't mind low polly. Valheim is a good example of this. Thanks, I added some of these to my wish list.
If a RPG wants to rival Skyrim, they need to be able to give me first and third person, exactly like Skyrim does! I am not saying there may be Games like Skyrim, but to nail it for me, it also has to have the feature I just mentioned!
Edit: I actually have the most hopes for wayward realms, because I loved daggerfall and I also liked the procedual generation, even when it was far from perfect!
Agree
There are only 2 games that could rival Skyrim, Skywind and Skyblivion
Thanks for the Video.
"Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2"
- Cautious , yeah me too ... i heard a lot about the troubled development , for a time it wasnt even clear if this was abandoned or not.
- But i loved the first game and i love Vampire stuff , so i will keep my eyes on this regardless.
"Tainted Grail - The Fall of Avalon"
- Looks like exactly my type of game , tho im not a person to support a studio via early access and i dont want to be an active helper when it comes to debugging or testing. But i will keep my eye on this one too.
Lol One does not simply Kill Skyrim! You will basically have to give us everything Skyrim did and do it better. Good luck with that. It’s so beautiful and so immersive that it makes you want to live there for real. That game is still great after 12 years! 12 years! That game is so great that people spend countless hours just wandering or exploring the wilds, not even doing missions, chilling in one of their houses reading books and cooking dinner. I’m not saying it can’t be done but you got your work cut out for you. Nobody has made one yet. I’ll play new games for a couple of months tops, but when I get bored with it , like I always do. Guess what game goes right back in the Xbox. Every time it feels like coming home. I wish whoever wants to replace Skyrim the best of luck. That would be one hell of a game.
Morrowind kills Skyrim with a flick of thumb, no contest.
I wish more of these dungeon crawling games would incorporate at least some sections in the overworld. The beauty of Skyrim was seeing the stunning vistas after you've drudged through dark and damp dungeons. The contrast intensified both.
The only true Skyrim killer for me will be Skyblivion. And after that, Skywind. Just those two. 🥰
Would love to see Fable II remastered and ported to (and optimized for) PC, but that will never see the light of day, because Microsoft seems hell bent never to give customers what they're asking for.
I just started playing Monomyth a few days ago and it is amazing. It’s an old school feel with updated visuals.
Naah Skyrim is like a good old friend... We'll always go back to Skyrim. ❤❤❤ For Sovengard!
Some of these games apparently try to take on Skyrim by... looking almost exactly LIKE Skyrim. 'Return to Nangrim' looks as if they picked all the assets from Skyrim, shuffled them and improved the lighting somewhat. If you had told me that it's a Skyrim mod I would have believed you immediately; the rocks with the snow on it, the animals, even the clouds surrounding the mountains look exactly the same.
9:40 What is the obsession with fishing minigames these days? I suppose it works in a game like Stardew Valley but I don't like games like Stardew Valley. Nothing says Grand Adventure like standing in one place for hours staring at water. I like fishing in real life but it's not the experience I'm looking for in a game. "Well, I could be saving the world or fighting dragons but I think I'll just stand around and wave a stick at water today."
People just really like fishing lol. It's easy to implement into any game, doesn't take much work or thought, and a good number of people like the option to go fishing so might as well throw it in I guess.
thanks for the video, can tell you're an actual gamer, appreciate you.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Once again you forced me to open steam and add a bunch of games to the wishlist :D
It's what I do lol, glad you found some new ones
I always wished 2 or more companies would come together to create a very huge game that you can play a massive story and have 100 hours or whatever to play the main story and its all good but if you're done with that or if you just like multiplayer you can jump into the multiplayer mode and play or play multiplayer co-op story mode with a party of 4 to explore the world. With all the help though they could help make sure the world is packed with everything to make it feel real and not too empty. With ssds in consoles and in most pcs now days they should start making games with less hills and mountains so we can go to the plains area in a certain game and have a massive plauns area and some flat lands, not completely the whole game but have a variation of terrain. We never see really big open flat lands and it would be cool to see across it and see a town or anything far off since the ssd helps load better these days. I think it would be cool.
Although it kind of makes sense about companies combining to make a better game, it doesn't quite work out like that. Imagine if SimCity and Cities Skylines combined to make a city builder. You'd just get a worse Cities Skylines. At a certain size, so much money is involved that investors are the ones pulling all the strings and the game has to be completely overmonetised to make back that money.
Monomyth seems like a more inspiration towards Arx Fatalis. Look up what that is. The bread baking system in it and how hands down it is is definitely from Arx Fatalis and I love it.
Thanks for the cover. May your beard grow forever! ⛏🍻⚒🏔
Lunacid (and Daggerfall Unity) is the only one of these that released this year. lol
Some of them did release into early access, though.
Yeah if I'm expecting an early access release I'd list it too. Monomyth just entered early access this month, 93% positive on Steam. Other games continuing in early access at 80+% positive. Caliph is also a released game and the Avowed delay was highly unexpected because Microsoft was pushing that month for it pretty hard, but of course that happens all the time. Also keep in mind, just because a game releases doesn't mean it's not effectively early access. No Man's Sky and Cyberpunk 2077 were early access games, they just weren't honest about it. Other times early access games feel more finished than released games. The label is just an indicator.
Cant wait for Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 tbh :D
If they confirm its existence I'll list it haha
@@GamerZakhlist it
@@Blackmorshu I did. They announced it for 2024 but then quite quickly delayed it to 2025 anyway, so it's not a 2024 game either way now.
Bloodlines 2 and Tainted Grail are on my radar, as well as The Elder Scrolls VI, obviously.
I got suckered into the wrong "Tainted Grail" title - tried to pick this one up and ended up with "Conquest" which is some kind of D&D style 3rd person title with turn based card selection combat, a style I don't like at all.
I had no idea there were two titles and that it was a "series" - and these are entirely different games allegedly in the same universe. It's not high enough a profile series to be obvious (like the Fallout series) so I got suckered in to the wrong title.
Watch out people if you want a FPS RPG, Conquest is NOT this.
Ah that sucks, hope you managed to get a refund.
@@GamerZakh nah I bought it from a key seller so it was only a few pounds but I've never seen a company do that before, not concurrently releasing like that anyway
Man, that's a shame because Fall of Avalon is great. I stopped playing it though because it's still in early access and ever so often they delete people's saves when an update releases. Not only do I not want to have to play through the same content multiple times but I don't want to spend hundreds of hours investing into a character only to have it wiped from existence. I'm just going to wait until the game is completed before I play it again. I kinda wish I had waited before playing it.
@@ClellBiggs oooh - OOOOH - you just saved me from an AWFUL lot of pain and suffering, I am very much in your debt...
This is a MAJOR bugbear of mine - GSC did this with the initial STALKER releases and it was perhaps the biggest single fault with the series (it's still my all time favourite game series though). I read a deep-dive thread on this a while back when someone had a crack at a save game converter - it wasn't anywhere near as hard to do as presumed, they just couldn't be arsed at the time (this is on a 1.x production release title too, even for minor patch upgrades).
Seven Days to Die seems to have somewhat managed this by marking saves as out of date though theirs is more complicated as it contains immense changes to the map (nature of the game).
But yeah, this would have shat me to tears - thanks for letting me know!
Nothing can "kill" skyrim. It's a classic
You could buy no major developer will due to cost and probably not enough pay out since most teenagers are into shit like fornite.
I'm looking forward to "The Wayward Realms". I've been watching them for years, and I like where they are going. I doubt it will be a 2024 game, though.
One thing I think that is tricky for a lot of RPG’s in that genre (outside of I’d say Baldurs gate and a few others) is gameplay wise a lot of RPG’s dump on Skyrim and that’s fine it’s going to show it’s age but it’s reallly the world and lore within itself that to this day people are still doing deep dives and podcast discussions on, so it kind of just has this allure to it where you want to keep building off of it or find more.
Obsidian doesn't really make open world games in the same way that Bethesda does. I don't consider invisible walls in the middle of the map as open world.
After playing Starfield, I'm not as excited for the next Elder Scrolls game. All fingers crossed for Avowed.
Skyrim isn't just a 1st person game though and part of what makes it enjoyable is the option of 3rd or 1st person view.
@@zacharyhill2124 Yeah it's just primarily designed for 1st person. Like many primarily 3rd person games have a 1st person mode too.
Daggerfall Unity is one of my top favorite games ever. Lunacid looks cool, and while I was originally put off by the free asset designs of Bloodlines, that game looks like some real effort has gone into it, so I'll be giving it a look.
Also, Ardenfall feels like a modern Morrowind in many ways to me.
Are any of these "skyrim killers"? Nah, not really. To me, Skyrim has achieved a sort of distinction. No game can replace it or really compete with it, since it is a 10 year old game. Instead, games can be like it.
I find this so frustrating, because I think Skyrim is shit.
I mean, if I could play it in co-op with my roleplaying friend, then I'm sure it'd be the finest gaming experience of my life.
In solo though, I find it boring and goofy as fuck.
I'm just entirely out of the loop and not the demographic anymore. I'm too old, because everyone seems to fucking love Skyrim lol.
@@childofthesun32they are working on a mod for coop Skyrim. I think its Skyrim with friends or something.
It works…sorta
The only skyrim killer will be a game that can be modded, Bethesdas greatest move was to allow skyrim to be modded this alone keeps gamers hooked
Thank you for this video! I love fp rpgs, especially ones with a medieval, low magic aesthetic. About half of these I didn't know about, so they've been added to my wishlist, and one is out now that I'll be purchasing. But Skyrim, that puppy stays on my PC, along with its endless modiverse.
I found most of these, but thanks for turning me on to ardenfall and the bloodlines. i'll be looking into those. cheers.
skyrim will never be forgotten because the wait for elder scrolls 6 gave birth to nolvus and the ultima....great video by the way
There's also a one man dev game called Gedonia. The dev stresses open world fantasy and has baked modding into the game from the start.
Thanks for the post awesome stuff
Gothic remake should be on here as well :D its my nr 1 game for me atm, likewise as Avowed tho. I am currently slogging threw Pillars 1 (Find the combat boring), but the world, characters and story is fun!
I got Gothic on my 3rd person RPG list don't worry.
Of all the lists you make, RPGs are just my favorite.
Been waiting on Bloodlines 2 for like 50 years
Today The Outer Worlds is looked at as a "Childs first First Person Shooter". The 2nd game needs to be more gritty, more adult, less cartoonish and way larger.
This was a video I was looking for before it was even made. But only Zach would know what a REAL skyrim-killer should look like!
The islands of the caliph reminds me of might and magic on sega. I loved watching my dad play it!
I'm looking forward to Wayward Realms. I'm imagining it's going to be similar to Oblivion, but with a bigger map and with a lot of mods baked directly into the game.
I knew about Avowed and onwards down the list, but most of the games before that no idea. And some of them look really interesting, many of them I have put on my evergrowing wishlist. Also I think it was Lunacid, it looks to be out now and available to buy, still though as interesting as some of these are. They still don't appear to come close to Skyrim, it just has something a formula that not many other games, have been able to figure out.
Glad you found some new ones! And yeah Lunacid had a surprise launch. The schedule was into 2024 and they hadn't had a patch since April, then suddenly for Halloween they said "1.0 release!", but then had 3 hotfixes and then 3 more patches back-to-back haha, so basically it's still in development.
Hopefully Wayward Realms will have dialogue options beyond:
1) Yes
2) Also Yes
3) Maybe
4) OK
Check out the short Alpha gameplay trailer. Looks like there are as many options as Daggerfall.
If you haven’t already I recommend downloading the Enderal: Forgotten Stories total conversion mod for Skyrim. I think it’s on Steam. It’s a whole different game made by Skyrim modders. Dark and beautiful, blew my sox off.
monomyth is more similar to an old game called arx fatalis, great game
I just started a new charecter in skyrim after not playing for a while, So some new rpgs would be a breath of fresh air .
I love your content. Thank you for this great list!
Thanks! I'm glad you're enjoying them.
Added some of your games to my steams wishlist good list btw looking forward to some an bought that last game was only 9.99
Glad you found some new ones!
Lunacid was so insanely fun, the only problem the powercreep. Can't wait for a Lunacid dlc, would buy again!
About Lunacid; you getting tossed into an Abyss where others have gone before; that has more vibes of an Ultima Underworld vibe, and bloody hell, that's a good thing if it really is inspired by Ultima Underworld.
Thanks for this list! My steam wishlist is now huge
Glad you found some new ones!
Lunacid was my game of the year for 2023, it was awesome.
thanks finally, 3rd person really takes away the depth, and immersion
Glad you enjoyed it! I thought it would be useful to split the RPG games way more specifically.
I just want an open world, first person, fantasy RPG that has visible damage on enemies.
Daggerfall Unity is son my radar I hope it will get 3d enemy models
If wayward realms allows me to pick up/steal every little item like Skyrim does and jam it all in the drawers and cupboards of a house I buy or build, I’ll be happy. I don’t know why the insane pack ratting is such a draw for me, but there’s nothing quite like murdering your way through a random hole filled with bandits, only to by chance discover a hidden passageway leading to an ancient, buried castle filled with magical loot, goblins and monsters, setting up a little camp inside, stealing everything that isn’t nailed down, from armor and weapons to cheese wheels and strange looking rocks, solving a puzzle and then lugging it all back to your camp/house, dumping everything on the ground, organizing it all, reading one of the random books you just stole and then leveling up so you can either sneak better or learn to turn into a giant monster centipede. Then stealing a sword from the town blacksmith, failing, getting sent to prison, escaping, returning to slaughter the blacksmith that caught you and becoming the new blacksmith “after the previous one skipped town in the middle of the night”. Yeah, I want a new FPRPG bad
That was a good point about demos. I have started to see more and more of them, too. Hopefully it leads to less errors on releases!
Yeah I've continued to see games with demos have higher review scores. Especially niche looking indie games where many would normally buy and dislike it, having a demo means those who don't like it never buy it and so never review it. Saves the buyer from wasting money and the game gets reviewed better.
@@GamerZakh 🙌☀️
I don't feel stuck playing Skyrim at all. My passion for it is much stronger now than ever. Modding Skyrim is way easier now, and much more fun for me than ever before. I stopped buying/playing first person games in 2011. Not even Cyberpunk appealed to me, because it didn't have a 3rd person option. The only thing that would rival Skyrim at this point for me is a modded ES6. I am anticipating MS Flight Simulator 2024's release though.
I'm not sure any of these will get close to Skyrim, but Avowed might be similar enough to be a good option.
People are mad it doesn't look like the original teaser from years ago, but the only thing I care about is that it's made by Obsidian. Out of all the MS acquisitions, Obsidian will end up their best purchase.
The company is reliable, consistent & has proven they can juggle multiple quality projects, with a good track record of releases. This is their recent track record:
*Tyranny (2016) - 80% (Metacritic)
*Pillars of Eternity 2 (2018) - 88%
*The Outer Worlds (2019) - 85%
*Grounded (2022) - 83%
*Pentiment (2022) - 88%
So at worst, I'm confident it'll at least be a very "good" game, even if it's nowhere close to GOTY quality.
Not too big on survival games, but if Return to Nangrim is as good as it looks then it will simply add to the immersion.
Skyblivion and skywind are definitely skyrim killers when they come out.
I started playing oblivion again with some awesome mods
Oblivion does have a certain charm to it
Honestly...if someone just did a remake of Daggerfall with a decent engine and some modernization I would be more than happy to spend the next Decade with that...🤷♂️
Wayward Realms has you covered, bro. Same creators.
@@LordReginaldMeowmont
Thanks for pointing that out. I hadn't heard of that Game yet and will look into it. The few screenshots I saw on Steam seem to look very...old school...in terms of Graphics, but I will see what other material I can find on it
(Thunderous Voice) THIS IS HERESY!
VTMB2 being developed by The Chinese Room is...concerning.
You've got ESO's delivery down pat
ESO the creator?
Yes!! This is my first time watching one of your videos and I think you sound a lot like ESO. 😊
@@claudettebenoit4056 Haha I'm not sure what ESO's background is. Pretty cool though.
What a nice overview of interesting games. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Interesting list, thanks!
Glad you liked it!
Tainted Grail is very fun! One of my only real complaints is that the story cut off when it was getting really good lol
After Starfield showed us all the cracks in BGS work (gameplay, dialogue, lore, player agency, hell even basic RPG elements) I don't expect a game with obvious cracks I only expect an abyss instead
I feel from watching a lot of these that these games are missing the feel, physics, and oomph behind their movements. I don't get that wiplash some others do when the character models textures and details are 10x better than everything around them, but if the animations and sounds don't match, it feels off. I should feel like I just pulled a heavy axe off my back, pulled back a heavy bow, or I've just ran through a crowded environment, not *hand slides on the screen with items*.
If the Wayward Realms is even half of what they have said they want to make it could still end up being one of the best RPGs released in a long time.
tbh, the only competitors to skyrim is the various skyrim mod projects xD other games are nice but they'll never "replace" skyrim
And neither should they try to, imo. Kingdom come deliverance 1 for example, absolutely magnificent RPG (i can not wait for the sequel at the end of the year), but in no way even remotely close to challenging Skyrim, since they are a totally different subgenre, both thematically and gameplay wise, and therefore not comparable, in my opinion.
Despite all the fancy sword fights and melee battles, one case why Skyrim is so popular: most people play as a stealth archer!
Regards
Wayward Realms TINY HORSE!!!
Great video!
Love first person, can't touch third person personally but would love if some of the games have the option to switch like Skyrim does..... so we please everyone!