
The expansive, life-consuming open world RPG is super popular, is what I’m getting at here. Fans who have already sunk hundreds of hours into the title have double and triple-dipped, because they were simply unable to resist. It’s been ported to just about every system known to man, repackaged and re-released out the wazzoo. Since its original release back in 2011, Skyrim has been utterly unstoppable. In that sense, Skyrim is the Madonna of video games. Its predecessor, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, was a big deal, but not really big enough to be known by its subtitle alone (outside of the industry, of course). You may not have been around for Pac-Man’s original early 80s heyday, but you’ll certainly be able to pick the spherical yellow fellow out of line up.īy the same token, you don’t need to know anything about the Elder Scrolls franchise to have heard of Skyrim.

You may never have played a Super Mario game in your life, but you’ll sure know who Mario is. To become huge, fiery pop culture icons in their own right. There are some select games that just manage to transcend the genre entirely.

Skyrim, huh? Where do you even start with this one?
