The best RPGs of all time

PCgamer:

"The role-playing game is the cornerstone of PC gaming. Long before shooters or real-time strategy, the earliest PC developers replicated their tabletop RPGs on the PC, building sprawling adventures filled with orcs and wizards and foul dungeons. Those early games slowly built on their tabletop origins, and RPGs eventually became so popular, their elements spread to other genres. Here are our favorites: the RPGs we’d tell anyone to play right now."

[ic3fir3]

1-dark souls 1
2- star wars kotor 1
3-mass effect 2
4- oblivion
5- Skyrim
6- Jade empire
7- dark souls 2
8- Bloodborne
9- kotor 2
10- Dragon age

[sullynathan]

I can clearly tell you only play rpgs from a handful of devs and refuse to broaden your horizons.

[ic3fir3]

lol i play more, i play all good games, but the top 10 is my favorite

[NukaCola]

For a list of just western role playing games, I'm shocked by a lack of Borderlands.

[sullynathan]

Borderlands is not an rpg.

[NukaCola]

How is it not? It's a character developing, story driven game, with a skill based on a tree. It has quests and challenges that provide currency, experience, and points used to further your characters' attributes at your own discretion. The game is loot based which takes a liking mostly to Diablo. It is in fact an RPG without a doubt.

[sullynathan]

I hope that's not your definition of rpg. Borderlands is a loot-based fps. Man, even action games would be rpgs then by your criteria. Did you even read the article?

[aquaticDonut]

Damn. I seriously need to play planescape torment, but that style of RPG has never really appealed to me.

[sullynathan]

Start from current top down or isometric rpgs whether 3d or 2d and work your way backwards. Trust me, it is easier.

Divinity Original Sin is a good one to start with.

[sullynathan]

Can't take this list seriously when a game that released this year made it into the top 5. You guys even say that the list is based on whats most fun now, that automatically means that this list will be incredibly biased towards very new games. Are you going to make a new "best rpg of all time" every year? doubtful.

Also hard to take it seriously when Skyrim is above Gothic 2 and Witcher 2 is over new vegas especially when Witcher 1 was a better rpg than Witcher 2. You guys rank dungeon crawlers like Diablo 3 and Grimrock too high but i can see why.

[susanto1228]

Kotor 1
Dragon age 1
Morrowind
Oblivion
Kotor 2

Mass Effect 1 was alright also.

[Iberius]

Morrowind & Dragon Age: Origins

[Yui_Suzumiya]

1.Fallout 3
2.Deus Ex: Human Revolution
3.Mass Effect 3
4.Final Fantasy VIII
5.Dragon Age: Inquisition
6.Mass Effect 2
7.Fallout 4
8.Dragon Age II
9.Borderlands
10.The Witcher III: Wild Hunt

[SegaGamer]

What a boring list, far too many western RPG's.

[Relientk77]

Final Fantasy 8, 9, 10
Grandia 2
Brave Fencer Musashi
Skies of Arcadia
Tactics Ogre
Legend of Dragoon
Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King
Ni no Kuni
Final Fantasy Tactics
Diablo 2
The Witcher 3

[Senjee]

NO CHRONO TRIGGER??

[Kyosuke_Sanada]

I think they are focusing on on RPGs for the PC.