Skyrim

I agree with your points wholeheartedly.
Skyrim was awesome for what I've played, so much open world explorability and i love the ability to just pick a quest line and go do it.
I ended up doing the entire college of winterhold story before even like 5 main missions lol

I do wish they balanced it so all builds were just as viably as all the others though

I always end up installing too many mods, to the point where I spend more time on mods than on gameplay.

Skyrim, also thanks to the Mods, is a game that struggles to age

1. It was really the open world
2. The story and how immersive it felt

I recently got back into the game, its so good,especially combined with mods

I really enjoyed Skyrim, Always found it hard to play it fair and with no cheats or exploit but I really enjoyed it

Played it without using any cheats/tools.

Open world, freedom of action and many many mods

Skyrim was actually what i was looking for in videos games:
- Open world
- RPG
- Action

the only think i disliked in the game was all the quest bug...

Skyrim sucks, The Witcher 3 is way better