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Open world games, need recommendations (beehaw.org)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Its been a while since I played botw and totk, I want to get into similar open world games with good combat systems, any recommendations?

As for platforms, I need games that aren't too intensive, my PCs are kinda weak and my consoles are a switch and an emulator that does up to GameCube/ps2

This question proves how stupid I am lol

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.