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This might be a tall order. Most of the "open world" games I've found either fall down in the open world department (lots of restricted areas or nothing varied/interesting enough to make exploring fun) or fall down in the combat department (awkward, unresponsive, or annoying in some other way). Some high-profile games even manage to suffer from both these problems despite being great in other ways (I'm looking at you, Geralt).
I hoped for quite a while that the next Elder Scrolls game would keep the good parts of Skyrim (beautiful environments full of unique things to discover) and overhaul the combat into something good, but recent showings from Bethesda make me less than optimistic.
Some people praise the Dark Souls series (including Elden Ring) for both openness and combat. However, if you loved Breath of the Wild, I wonder if the Souls style would be a bit too combat-focused for your taste, leaving the world feeling cold and empty. I haven't played them enough to have a strong opinion about this; perhaps someone else can chime in.
I look forward to the suggestions you get in this thread.
Edit:
I just remembered Subnautica! I recommend this game, but there's caveat in the context of your question: The way it avoids bad combat is to give the player reason to avoid combat as much as possible.
Maybe Valheim?
Ooh, more combat= better
What platforms are the older skyrim and elder scrolls games on? I don't have the means for the switch version
Skyrim and the mainline Elder Scrolls games (Oblivion, Morrowind) can run fine on most setups these days. Skyrim: Special Edition was released in 2016, which is almost a decade ago now.
Edit: Forgot you mentioned platforms. Considering your hardware, don't play them on anything other than PC. The PS3 version of Skyrim in particular is a disaster.
Problem with them is sometimes mods are required for performance because they can be optimised terribly. There are actually some good mods which make the games play a lot better on older hardware, but it's been a while and I don't remember them.
Still, you're going to want to play mostly un-modded because too many mods will tank an older system. I personally think vanilla Skyrim can be pretty fun, so it's not a big deal, IMO.
The combat is a huge con, though. Bethesda hasn't ever really been "good" at melee combat, and have only started to improve their gunplay starting with Fallout 4.
That said, since I've brought up FO4, Fallout 3 and New Vegas should run fine on pretty much anything. Although, when I say "fine", I mainly mean "work", because optimisation is still terrible and bugfix patches might be needed.