All games that are a part of a series count as one. My top five:

  1. Dark Souls
  2. Elder Scrolls series
  3. Mount and Blade series
  4. Fallout series
  5. Fable series (excluding Fable 3, haven't played it yet.)

Edit: they don't have to be PC games.
Edit #2: Shit I completely forgot about Animal Crossing, that game is the shit, even if Nook is an old, miserly bastard. I'm bumping off Fable for it.

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1.Gothic 2
2.Gothic
3.SW:KOTOR 2
4.The Last Remnant
5.Sacred

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FFVII, FFVIII, FFIX, FFX, Kingdom Hearts. oh and Fable. Witcher 2 seems great, haven't had much time to play it yet.

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  1. Planescape: Torment (so much imagination went into the game and its story (and the whole planescape setting)!)
  2. TES3: Morrowind (unique setting and story, and the greatest feeling of freedom I had in an RPG)
  3. Might & Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven (huge world, technologically awesome at the time)
  4. Gothic II (great sense of immersion, interesting story)
  5. Diablo II (if that counts as an RPG; tons of loot, random maps for high replayability, great for co-op)
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Something is not right.
You can't love both Morrowind and Gothic 2 at the same time! It's like unsalted and salted food ;)

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Heh. :-) Each of them has something it does better than the other one. But yeah, they're quite different, and if I had to choose just one of them, it would be Morrowind. (By the way, I do like both salted and unsalted food, depends on a particular meal. ;-))

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  1. arx fatalis
  2. Mount and blade(manly for mods)
  3. Fallout 3
  4. Morrowind
  5. Zelda series (only reason its last is because its not really an rpg)
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  1. Skies of Arcadia Legends
  2. Paper Mario
  3. Final Fantasy IX
  4. EarthBound
  5. Final Fantasy X

Though this is just off the top of my head. Might be missing something.

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In no real order:
Elder Scrolls series
Fallout Series (from 1 to New Vegas)
Sanitarium
Baldur's Gate series
Can't decide between FF7 or Chrono Trigger/Cross

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1.Fallout (All)
2.The Elder Scrolls (All)
3.
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I can't really decide on 5, let alone order them , so i'll just name something that hasn't been mentioned yet.

Golden Sun(1 and 2) for the Gameboy Advance!

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Here we go, my top 5!

  1. Baldur's Gate saga (so much love <3 ).
  2. Planetscape Torment.
  3. TES 3: Morrowind.
  4. Neverwinter Nights saga.
  5. Fallout 2.

There are to many others rpg that I love (Kotor, Mass Effect, DA, TW, etc) but... I only can pick five >_<

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  1. Call of Duty
  2. The Sims
  3. Secret of Magic Crystals
  4. Train Simulator
  5. Minesweeper

EDIT: forgot Fortix

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CHOOO! --> Chaotic Evil train.

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  1. Final Fantasy 6
  2. Fallout 3/NV
  3. TES Franchise
  4. Mass Effect 2
  5. Chrono Cross
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  1. Fallout 1,2, haven't played new Fallouts yet
  2. Planescape Torment
  3. Witcher 1, haven't played the second one yet :)
  4. Oblivion
  5. Mass Effect 1,2

I'm not sure about the order. I like all of them, they are all different.

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  1. Fallout series.
  2. Arcanum.
  3. Dragon Age series.
  4. Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
  5. Dungeon Siege series.
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Fallout, Mount and Blade, System Shock,Baldurs Gate, Knights of the old republic (in all cases all of them)

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BORDERLANDS.

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Planescape:Torment.
Fallout 1 & 2.
Baldur's Gate trilogy.
Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines.
Arcanum.

In no particular order except for PST which is always #1.

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  • 1 Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

  • 2 Dragon Age: Origins

  • 3 Deus Ex

  • 4 The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind

  • 5 Fallout 3

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I've noticed that many avoided Final Fantasy VII like the plague. Why? The story was great, the characters had depth, it was the first game in the FF franchise to introduce us with 3D animations and the convenient main-character-amnesia didn't feel all that overused back in 1998.

Anyway my list:

  1. Deus Ex 1 and Human Revolution
  2. System Shock 1 and 2
  3. Final Fantasy VII and IX (I haven't completed VI, VIII and X: I don't have the time to grind anymore)
  4. Dragon Age: Origins (ending isn't all that memorable, though)
  5. Ultima Underworld, Stonekeep (and most probably Legend of Grimrock, but I haven't played it yet)
  6. Diablo 1 and 2 (mostly because of the gameplay; the story is pretty much a no-brainer for RPG standards)

Honorable mentions (which I haven't played but watched Let's Play footage of and would love to play):

  • Grandia 2
  • Anachronox (which I must play eventually)
  • Arx Fatalis
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If you compare these 15 year old games to like Fallout/DA:O they are just terrible.

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Deus Ex, System Shock 2 and FFVI are still very good

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Agreed about the first two. I'd like to continue playing FFVI damn it -__-

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I liked FFVI better than FFVII actually. Mostly 'cause of Kefka :P

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Do you mean Fallout 3?

I consider it to be an excellent sandbox game, but the ending just sucks the big one.

Also, I forgot about Dragon Age: Origin and added it (even though, again, the ending wasn't as memorable as some of the "15 year old games" I remember)

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Who cares about the End? RPGs are about the way to get there.DA:O has great choices that really make a huge difference.

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Who cares about the end? More people that you might believe.

An RPG is, first and foremost, a story. Depending on how well developed the story is, the player gets transported into a world. Without a proper closure, all you've experienced in this world falls flat and the illusion is broken; the empathy is lost.

The journey is important of course but, like any good story, the end ties everything neatly together; leaving you with a sense of completeness and a moral to think about. That's where the art of storytelling lies, in my opinion.

Anyway, to each their own.

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All parts of an RPG are important: beginning (setup), middle (journey), end. All are essential parts to any story and must be considered equally important. Without a good setup, you don't know where the hell you are or what's the meaning to anything. Without a good journey, you're spent with lots of fluff in the middle that is pointless. Without a good ending, you don't have closure, if you will, and the story feels incomplete, so where is the ending, then?

Also, $FaPiL, Grandia II is ridiculously fun, as I remember it from years and years ago. If you've ever got the time to play Final Fantasy X, please do, it is a damn lovely game. One of my favorites, by far. If you haven't heard of or played the Golden Sun series (first two on GBA, third on DS), you're missing out.

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Agreed. Apparently Andarus is of a different opinion.

Might be the cause of this new generation of sandbox-RPGs: Procedurally generated quests are more important than hand-crafted stories to some, I guess.

EDIT: Heard of the Golden Sun series, but my portable games stopped with the gameboy color. Unfortunately you can't have everything in life ;)

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That is why I prefer JRPGs or those reminiscent of them. Although, it seems that it's all about WRPGs these days with no plans to move back to the days of JRPG. Guess there isn't enough interest. I enjoy turn-based, but it's all about action RPGs.

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I hope JRPGs count, too :P
Btw: Series arent single games. :P

1.) Final Fantasy VII
2.) Baldurs Gate II
3.) Final Fantasy VIII
4.) Secret of Mana
5.) Dragon Age: Origins

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Finally someone else who appreciated FFVII. high five

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  1. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
  2. Diablo 2
  3. Mass Effect 2
  4. Pokemon (2 gen)
  5. -
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Witcher 2, Fallout 2, Knights of the Old Republick 2, Neverwinter Nights, Final Fantasy VI.

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bg
nwn
kotor
dao
witcher

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lol play fable 3 and it will DROP right off your list

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dota2

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Final fantasy VIII
Suikoden 2
Fallout 3
Skyrim
Dead islans

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