The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall

If you're okay with dying several times in the beginning, you can experience one of the most engrossing RPGs ever... Just, don't play the original, play the Unity remake.

The novelty of this game is in its scale but I do think it sacrifices a lot to do this resulting in cookie cutter quests and the towns being ubiquitous in their design and layout. The gameplay is largely a bunch of obnoxious stat checks and exploits and I don't think there's much in the way of making its utility interesting in spite of how complex its character building is. The RNG dungeons can often be goddamn TEDIOUS too. But in spite all that, it's a cool enough novelty I can't totally hate.

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall (1996) perfectly embodies Baudrillard’s "desert of the real." By procedurally generating a landmass the size of Great Britain, it birthed a hyperreal world of uncanny scale. Its map doesn't represent a territory; its code is the territory. Towns and labyrinthine dungeons were conjured by math, not human design. In its overwhelming algorithmic emptiness, Daggerfall prefigured our modern era of infinite, procedurally generated content. - Full Review