#31 The Elder Scrolls 5, Skyrim
This was the first game I played of the modern open world games and also the last one of the genre that I liked. I had a shack near a mountain with a friendly dog where I collected books. Each time I got heavy and could no longer run fast I found my way back there and emptied any new books that I had found. Watching that pile of books that I never read, just collected gave me a strange feeling of wounder for just how much content the game held.
Today I have come to the realization that I prefer more linear games. Even if I have tried multiple other games where you can go around and explore, taking on so much side-quests that I forget what the main objective is, no other game was fun to me the same way Skyrim was. I have seen no reason to return to the game in ten years, but I did spend a couple of hundred hours collecting books and riding horses up steep mountains. And that counts for something.
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