M-D-Emm said:
The whole of Skyrim made me say "wow" to the dragons NPC's and towns to the landscapes and mountains Skyrim just stunning on the Pc.
Yes, to all of this. And the things that modders have done with Skyrim have absolutely blown my mind. My Skyrim today looks better than it ever has before, and there are constantly new mods going up to add replayability to the game. In addition, I'm still finding new things as I explore the game world, even a year later.
Also, the dynamic nature of Far Cry 3. I never know what's going to happen when I go to clear out an outpost, which has almost made me wish that they would repopulate, just so that I could go through and clear them out myself. I've had several outposts that have been cleared by a tiger just as I was about to start taking out guards, only to have the tiger disappear once all the guards are dead.
Finally, Red Dead Redemption. The entire game was amazing, but my replay this year really wow'ed me. I was riding through the desert when I passed another rider who suddenly dismounted and started running to the side of the road. I stopped to see what had caught his interest, and saw him standing in front of a rock. When I walked over to him myself, I noticed that his hands were near his beltline, and that there was a yellow stream running out to the rock. It blew my mind that I had put a ridiculous number of hours into this game, yet had never seen this before.