Haha wow, you mentioned so many good games yourself. I've always wanted to play Skyrim but i was just too afraid i would get too addicted on it and i wouldn't have any time left for something else. It's just such a big game... To be honest every game you called out is a good game. You should stay away from games like ARK tho, i've seen it happen many times that someone would be building for 3 weeks and then the admins would just either wipe them or shut down the server. As you say, to play that you need to be on officials or semi private servers.
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I admit it the first couple of weeks on Skyrim I couldn't stay off of it. ARK for me has been they have been adding new expansions and just as I get leveled up enough to start doing something then a new world comes in. I really like Aberration, I had to turn the shaking of since it was driving me nuts. It's beautifully done. And yeah if you're on the main servers it's too frustrating. Our server isn't too bad we only have 3 mods running so not much lag 2x xp, 5x gather and taming is upped a little too. Enough to progress pretty quickly but not too quickly. I've been to wrapped up in Skyrim lately. It's much more laid back and ALOT less farming LOL.