The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, Image Source: CD PROJEKT RED
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If you are a fan of the Witcher 3, or if you are curious about the world of the Witcher before the Netflix adaptation of the book series comes out, you could do worse than to take a glance at the Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. Charged with regicide, you are freed pretty quickly and set off in search of the real killer.įrom then, you must navigate the complex political and war-torn landscape of the World. You are still a Witcher, obviously, and, amusingly, like Skyrim, you start the game as a prisoner. In the Witcher 2, you again take on the role of Geralt of Rivia. This game is also primarily played in an over-the-shoulder third-person perspective. The game’s graphics were also improved a great deal, making the world more immersive.
Combat, in particular, showed a marked improvement and was much more fluid and easy to navigate than the first Witcher game. It improved in almost every aspect of the Witcher and is still one of my favorite games to date. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, Image Source: CD PROJEKT REDįour years after the release of The Witcher, CD Projekt RED released The Witcher 2. You will often be pulled into political problems with nobles and nations vying for your aid to help them obtain their goals. It seems, however, that the world is not content to simply allow you to travel around killing beasts and demons. Geralt is a witcher, which is a genetically mutated human, gifted with enhanced strength and powers in order to become a superior monster slayer. In the Witcher, as with the other games, you take on the role of Geralt of Rivia. It should be noted that the Witcher is not a first-person game, but you can play it in an over-the-shoulder third-person mode, that is somewhat similar. That said you would be doing yourself a grave disservice by skipping out on the game that really brought the world of the Witcher into a more mainstream light. It was painful at times, combat was not particularly fluid, and sometimes it was easy to lose track of what you were supposed to do. I won’t deny that the first Witcher game was a little rough around the edges. The Witcher, Image Source: CD PROJEKT RED Now that we have gotten those two obvious entries out of the way, we will move into some other Fantasy Action Role-playing Games. Also Oblivion had perhaps one of the best expansion/dlc areas I have ever experienced, The Shivering Isles. This is unsurprising due to the fact that Bethesda games always seem to have a similar array of bugs in every game they build in the Gamebryo (or Creation) game engine, but you just get used to it. It did, however, suffer from a lot of bugs and glitches initially.
Oblivion, having been released four years after Morrowind, saw a marked improvement in graphics and had quality of life improvements that made it more playable, in my opinion, than Morrowind. Along the way you will encounter factions to join, quests to perform, and many enemies to kill. Much like its predecessor you are a recently freed convict who is actually the savior of the world and it is your job to go forth into the world and solve everyone’s problems. Oblivion follows in the footsteps of Morrowind as a free-form first-person action role-playing game.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Image Source: Bethesda If you were looking for a game like Skyrim, you should look no farther than the game that really set the tone for the fourth and fifth entries into the Elder Scrolls series. You could simply explore the world at your whim and the free-form design of the game put very few barriers in place to prevent you from doing anything you wanted. There was, of course, a story to follow and quests to perform, but you didn’t have to do that. Morrowind was very different.Īfter being released into the world as a newly freed convict, it was up to you to decide your path. While games like Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale, or Diablo threw you headlong into an epic adventure, it was pretty clear that, despite the ability to branch away from the main story in a limited sense, the game had a goal in mind for you. Released when I was a mere boy of 15 or so, Morrowind was my first real journey into a truly open-world experience. the one that most, if not all, hardcore fans of the franchise consider to be the best of the series. The first entry in our list of games like Skyrim is, quite unsurprisingly, Morrowind, a.k.a. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Image Source: Bethesda