Which is the best rpg?

Imo, The Witcher 3. Haven't played Fallout 4 yet, but I've watched several hours of streams to decide if I buy now or not, and I'm not impressed.

Haven't even played FO4 or Witcher 3 and I can already tell you it's Witcher 3. It's just that good. Also, it's Witcher. Also, it's 'CDProjekt Red'

And I also think its kinda unfair Skyrim on that list. Skyrim is not exactly better than Witcher 3, but is huge for its time. A very important RPG game. Even tho its not much my style cause the lack of a very good story, its impossible not to recognize that.

I'd have to pick FO4 or The Witcher 3, but I don't know which to pick. First off, asking on day one isn't a good metric- both games still have content pending and most people haven't given Fallout 4 a fair enough shake to determine. That said, Skyrim was just plain disappointing and no where nearly as interesting to me as The Witcher 3, so I know which candidate I can eliminate.

For people who think that I'm hating on Skyrim and boo hoo Zed is having controversial opinions again, I will just say that Skyrim had a huge hype machine... and playing it, I was disappointed. The Witcher 3 had a huge hype machine... and playing it, I was impressed. Fallout 4 had a huge hype machine... and I'm only 9 hours in, so I don't want to judge it prematurely.

I haven't played any of those.

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witcher 3 best rpg i ever played because i actually managed to finish the entire story unlike most rpgs where i get bored halfway

I have not played Fallout 4, and I have decided to wait until some major patches are out, cause we all know how Fallout 3 turned out at release.
So until that happens, Witcher 3 ftw.

Oh come on, I went in here expecting a nice discussion on table top gaming. Instead there is a poll with 3 game I probably wouldn't include in my list of top cRPGs

Suikoden

Planescape: Torment. 'Nuff said.

Morrowind.

(yep, I'm that guy)

Among those 3 games, I've only played Skyrim.
I don't like Skyrim's battle mechanism. How do I put it... It just boring for me. The battle is kinda plain with running and cast magic from safe distance. Melee attack is not that powerful and slow.
I prefer battle mechanism like Shadow of Mordor or Assassin Creed where you can counter attack the enemy.
And the story is kind of confusing (for me) with so many confusing name.

For RPG, I prefer JRPG with turn based battle mechanism.
Final Fantasy VII & Legend of Legaia is the best RPG I played. Those 2 games have awesome story, music, and mini games.
As I play RPG for the story, FF VII and Legend of Legaia are the best I have played.
Too bad Legend of Legaia doesn't have PC version.

That list is way too short. Not sure if sg could handle full list of rpg's that could get title of "best"

I refuse to vote on any of those three.

Currently, combat wise, my vote goes to Dragon Dogma:Dark Arisen!

Among that three, one can be considered an RPG, so by process of being the only one on a list, Witcher.

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between those three, the witcher 3 hands down. Easily my GOTY,

Gothic II

How Witcher III fails to gather over 50% of the votes makes me sad

Personally my all time favourite game, not just as RPG but in general is the Witcher 3, so I will say the Witcher 3 :P

I was hyped about Fallout, but then I saw the videos before release and I stopped being interested, then when it got released I watched a lot of videos and streams and kinda got disappointed. So I have decided to wait till it is really cheap or I win it to play it, But surely I will not pay full price for it.

Skyrim I loved it when it came out and still like it a lot, but it never was top RPG in my opinion, Oblivion and Morrowind are much more higher ranked to my list

Neither, but from those, the witcher 3.

I guess I'm going against the grain here, but my favorite is definitely Skyrim. I put almost 300 hours into it, so I guess I got my money's worth and enjoyed it. Oblivion was better than Skyrim, though, and Morrowind was many times better than the later two installments.

As for the Witcher series - I could just never get into 1 or 2 for some reason, but to be fair I haven't tried 3 yet (and probably won't unless it gets a good sale). I think the reason I never really liked the Witcher is because I don't like RPGs with pre-made characters -- I prefer to make my own (appearance and all).

I'm not far into Fallout 4, and while I love it so far, I can't really say whether or not it's going to grab me as good as Skyrim did. Then again, I don't really have the time to put 300 hours into a game anymore.

Gothic 1 and 2 the legendary RPG of all times. Trash like ES or Fallout calling best RPG only childrens.

as an RPG, easy Witcher 3.

There are better RPGs out there tough.

Played all of them, W3 definitely. F4 is so-so, and skyrim is a disaster.

All they are Action RPG not pure RPG :) best is Witcher 3 :)
Best cRPG is Planscape Torment http://www.gog.com/game/planescape_torment or Baldurs Gate :)