Tea Service - Albert Anker

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Picture by Grunkhead. No weekly links because I was swamped this week, and it is the first warm week we've had this year.
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If you like exploration games, there's really nothing better than this. The world is hand modelled so well that wandering around finding things and levelling provides many times more hours of fun than most open-world games provide at all. The main story is the best written of any game I know of, and there are so many good side quests and factions that I don't think I got to the main story for a few dozen hours on my first playthrough.
If you haven't played this already I strongly recommend it. It makes every other open-world game and RPG look poor by comparison. Even the quite good sequels (Oblivion, Skyrim) aren't much compared to this.