>>1054460
That stuff is what let it last in popularity for so long. It's a combination of factors for why its famous in the first place. Dry year, lots of hype behind it in general due to people liking Oblivion and Morrowind and not noticing the Bethesda flaws in general yet, massive advertising campaign that had a viral meme associated with it (Fus Ro Dah memes), game thus being "Baby's first open world RPG" to a lot of CODniggers and other normalfags giving it a lot of good world of mouth, also being carried by the excellent world design that was fun to explore, the music, and the ES Lore being somewhat untouched and serving as a solid backdrop for nerds into that shit. Skyrim is very much lightning in a bottle and only in the past few years has sentiment turned against it as more people play more great games and better-made bethesda-style games become more renown like New Vegas and several independent projects.
>>1054470
Lots of games like this. Hell, some devs have even learned to weaponize it for marketing or at least turn the other way, like Netease with their Marvel hero shooter having devs practically doing half the work for the porn artists already with how "detailed" the models are where it counts.
I don't have many examples since one thing alone isn't enough to get me to play a game usually. Though an example does come to mind for me, Tales of Arise being easily the worst game in the series and such a piece of shit and unrecognizeable as a Tales game it really shouldn't have the brand attached at all, but for some reason Sakuraba poured his heart into the soundtrack and produced what's probably the best overall OST he's ever made and some of the better songs in his career next to his non-game compositions. He mentioned in an interview the director and higher-ups gave him free reign to do whatever for the soundtrack, in so many words, so maybe this is why, but I find it funny that such a dumpster fire of a game has such "fire" music, as the youngn's put it. Even the area themes are really good when he's usually hit-or-miss when it comes to peaceful themes. It's to a point I'll go back and listen to the soundtrack even now despite my burning hatred for the game and how many bad memories it brings up.