Hi everyone,
I LOVE Elder Scrolls games, so I cant wait until Skyrim comes out. Please dont try to ruin my hopes and expectations...I know it probably wont live to my expectations but dont shatter my hopes...please :). Anyway here comes the purpose of this thread. I want to cut the time until release of Skyrim by some games and you are here now to help decide indecisive person to decide...is that even word? Anyway. Basically...here is my backlog (reposted from my old backlog thread if anyone is interested its here http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/ton_of_unplayed_games_which_one_i_should_start_first/page1 ) with some new games and some games removed.

Simply two thing I need to know, what game is it best to spend the time between now and skyrim and what are you going to do between now any skyrim...also when recommending the game keep in mind that as soon as I will get hold of skyrim I will forget to sleep, eat etc. etc. (Okay maybe not that, but if you will recommend long game I will probably not finish it)

Settlers II
All Might and Magic games except IX
Heroes of Might and Magic 1,3,4
Little Big Adventure 1,2
Aquanox
Witcher 2
Two worlds
Crusader Last Remorse
Planescape torment
Star Control
Dungeon Keeper 2
Broken Sword
All PoPs except Sands of Time
Overlord 2
Overlord 1
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Metro 2033
Call of Juarez : Bound in blood
Brother in Arms series
Far Cry 2
All Quakes
All Dooms
Morrowind
Hexen series
Amnesia (for obvious reasons...)
Tom Clancy Rainbow Six : Vegas2
Serious Sam series
Darklands
Outcast
Hunted : Demon Forge
Just Cause 2
Warhammer 2 series
Burnout Paradise
Fallout series
Rayman series
Realms of Haunting
Grand theft auto episodes
Darksiders
Ball
Baldurs Gate
Original War
Psychonauts
Ultima Underworld
Total Annihilation series
Beyond good and evil
Pretty much every game from every humble bundle
Star wars battlefront 2
King Arthur Role-playing game
Total War : Shogun 2
S.T.A.L.K.E.R
Brink
Alpha Protocol
Commander Keen pack
Company of heroes
Borderlands
Dungeons of Dredmor
Half Life 1 + expansions
Red Faction Guerrila
Wolfenstein series
Stubbs
SPaZ
Saints Row 2
Mount and blade series
Titan Quest
Call of Cthulhu
Neverwinter Nights 2 : Platinum
Torchlight
Neverwinter Nights
Gothic 1,2
Beyond Divinity
Divine Divinity
Another World
Arcanum

Edit :
Forgot to mention :
Oblivion
Dead Island
Deus Ex: HR

This should keep you busy and in the Elder Scrolls' spirit.

[url=http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Arena:Files]Arena[/url]
[url=http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Files]Daggerfall[/url]

Bugger games. Just watch porn instead.

huh...you know what...that sounds like nice idea :D

Mmm. Porn.

I was about to start testing Oblivion I heavily modded few months back but I dont know...I just guess first Elder Scrolls game to play after few months is Skyrim :) but I will later check on Arena and Daggerfall (and Morrowind)

Well, I would say, since it's only 5 days away, that you don't want to spoil things for yourself, so no fantasy games or RPG's. Maybe an FPS or strategy game? Quake, maybe. You'll want it to be something you can easily put down and pick up if you don't finish it by the time Skyrim comes out, so nothing with too deep a story. Commander Keen, maybe? The id games should work, so Wolfenstein 3D, Doom 1 and 2, Commander Keen, and Quake, would be my suggestions.

Edit: Or you could go the opposite of what I'm suggesting and go for the other Elder Scrolls games (Go for Arena).

I could finally try Gothic series...or finish JC2 :)

I like the way you think, though watching it while buggering games is no really my thing. I guess I'm not that obessive about GOGs.

...can't we do both? :D

Since it's just 5 days away, starting a "new" RPG only to stop playing it halfway through to start playing Skyrim would be a bad idea.

From your list, I'd probably go with Dungeon Keeper 2 (if you can get it to work) or any other game were there's basically no story and that will be easy to get back into once you're done with Skyrim (which could take months if you end up enjoying it).

Also : can't believe you have both Torment and Ultima Underworld in your backlog. The only kind of list these games should appear in is a compilation of you favorite games of all time. Seriously.

DOOM. You could finish both DOOM and DOOM II in a day, Final DOOM another day, and DOOM 3 a day or two.

:)

That is assuming you take rare brakes.

OK, serious post on this one then. DON'T! We all know bethesda use their initial sales as beta testers. The game won't 'really' be released until about christmas, when it will be in the steam sale. There's no reason to get a game that should be a keeper and replayer, only to be soured by the first experience. Let the mugs take the pain.

Personally since I don't much time to play games I still haven't completed Broken Sword Sleeping Dragon yet which bought about 2 or 3 weeks ago on here. I would say I am only about half way through. I also might go play Battle Isle 3 again (I have them all already Battle Isle series, same applies for a lot of GoG listed games but CD versions from times past already own). Then there is many newer games I have yet to get though and other will be picking up around same time as Skyrim, from Diciples Ressurection to DEHR aswell as HOM6, Two Worlds II etc and many more.