BEST RPG games you ever played?

If you're afraid of the relatively new first person system fear not, New Vegas is more akin to Fallout 2 than 3 and 4. If you loved convincing people in Fallout 2 through skill checks you'll love New Vegas too. Besides, the game was made by the same people, since Obsidian was formed from some Black Isle developers.
You can find the Ultimate Edition on sale for just $10, which has all 4 story DLCs, which are fantastic too. Definitively one of my favourite RPGs.

Also may i suggest you Neverwinter Night 2: Mask of the Betrayer? It's another very solid choice, despite the main game being not that great.

Why do you say Fallout 3 is not for you? Did you try it or are you put off by the first person perspective or the reviews by the Bethesda bashers? I'm a fan of the first two Fallouts and Wasteland, and I really liked Fallout 3, more so than New Vegas.

I know that, but New Vegas is far less reliant on combat, since most of the time you are either exploring or talking and aside from standard enemies, lots of fights can be avoided by successfully passing skill checks. In fact, some players have managed to do completely pacifist runs, by either avoiding fights altogether or letting companions do them in your place.

As far as the crashes go... well, it's standard Obsidian fare, as neither Alpha Protocol or KOTOR2 were that much polished either. And it can be somewhat alleviated by installing some fan-made patches, fixing a lot of bugs and restoring deleted contents in the process.

It's broken beyond salvation and the shooting feels like aiming a rifle with your feet, but the RPG mechanics are groundbreaking. I'd gladly buy a remastered version with improved gameplay. It's the game that made me an Obsidian fanboy after New Vegas.

If you like Final Fantasy games, especially the old 2D ones, you should totally try IX. It's even on Steam.

do we have 1-6 on PC?
I can only see 7,8,9,10,13,15 on steam https://store.steampowered.com/sale/final-fantasy/
Google showed me 14 Online but when I clicked, it was redirected to home

I wouldn't really wait on the VII remake, there is a good chance its experience may be very different from the original game no to mention the total game is going to be a long way off from being complete. Do yourself a favor and enjoy the newest steam release of it now. I'd also personally recommend Final Fantasy X as well, it is my second favorite of the final fantasy game, just don't really bother with X-2 unless all you care about is RPG combat systems.

don't miss fft advance for the GBA, to me it's quite as astonishingly awesome as the PS one! =P (that we had to import due to region restrictions and the game never released in Europe xD)

The thing with New Vegas is that the gameplay will be almost just as clunky as in 3.

But the story, the characters, the levelling system... all have been improved. Leveling not as much, but the story is bloody top notch, I'd say. I really had fun with it. The roleplaying aspects have improved a lot as well.

As to the modding scene, there are some must-haves, like quest mods created by a single modder, a couple of weapon and armor mods and some other smaller stuff too. But you definitely won't have as many good mods like in Skyrim. For me, I just can't download random mods and see how good they are since there'll be more conflicts and more issues overall usually. Not to mention that most lesser-known mods are clunky as shit.

I enjoyed New Vegas quit a bit.. I did run into a game breaking glitch and kind of gave up on it (but I really do want to start over again and actually finish it). Aside from that its lovely game..

Woot, finally found someone that thinks like me that Mass Effect 1 was the best Mass Effect.

If you liked the original Fallout games and not 3 and 4, then you should definitely give New Vegas a try. It's the true Fallout 3. As someone already mentioned, the developers at Obsidian worked on the originals, and a lot of the ideas behind the original (canceled) Fallout 3 went into New Vegas. I wasn't too crazy about Fallout 3, but I loved New Vegas.

I missed out on classics like Planescape Torment and Baldurs Gate as I was in college at the time, but I managed to get sucked into Deus Ex. I bought PS:T and the Baldurs Gate games (the originals) on GOG. I've played them, but haven't finished either. I backed both Pillars of Eternity games and the new Torment game on Kickstaarter, but I just recently started Pillars of Eternity and I'm loving it so far. I plan to play through Pillars 1 and 2, then I don't know, probably the original Planescape: Torment and the new new Planescape game, unless Wasteland 3 comes out by then. I also backed Wasteland 2 on Kickstarter, and I played it at release and enjoyed it.

I played Divinity: Original Sin with a friend. Coop was fun, but had its flaws. I want to play it solo one day as I felt playing it coop was both good and bad. I like to play at my own pace, and sometimes I felt rushed when my friend just wanted to fight things while I was trying to have conversations and get into the story. I started D:OS 2 coop with the same friend and another, but we didn't get far before quittiing due to schedules.

Well, you have some good games left then. I also played XI but i did not really like it. Hopefully you will though. I think VII remake will be majorly different from the old one. Maybe they will not have so much in common.

I think you should go for FF VII and then VIII. Because VII Remake will be slightly different as a game design. Also nobody knows when will it come.

I never quite looked at PoE very closely, though I must admit I'm somewhat skeptical and might be a little prejudiced towards MMO and F2P. How does it hold for single player?

Yeah, Diablo and the games that came in its wake are one of those cases that aren't exactly an RPG in a traditional sense, but neither are they exactly a brawler in a traditional sense, either; it's more like a bit of several different things. The more you hybridize the game genres, the harder it becomes to classify games as belonging to specific genres. Personally, I think of game genres not as categories games may belong to, but as sets of elements they may draw from. So I totally see where you're coming from; it's a matter of where you put the emphasis.

They will probably be a deal for all 3 of them during Steam Summer Sales :)

Al-Qadim is on GOG pretty cheap
https://www.gog.com/game/alqadim_the_genies_curse

Crusader of Centy, I think only emulation or original hardware for that one.

I think that despite some obscure puzzles, Al-Qadim is a pretty enjoyable game. Was the closest to a Zelda-like game on PC in the 90s, and the story is great.

Honestly I think Underrail might be even better than the old Fallouts on some points (like worldbuilding, but I'm very partial to subterranean stuff), although it's a lot more difficult. It's both a blessing (more tactical combat, interesting debuffs etc) and a curse (you can completely mess up your build if you don't know what you're doing, while the Fallouts were a lot more permissive regarding character building).

Ah ok, well, they have the RPG tag so decided to list them, but figured they are very different than the other games listed so had the idea I didn't do it correct.
Sometimes it's hard to decide which genre a game really is because it overlaps a lot, mind explaining me what is needed to call it a real RPG game?

I remember that I played it for a very short time and somehow lost interest...not sure why :/
Maybe I have to give it a new try someday :)

yeah, they're all awesome, even the first ones are great! on steam too =)

All the people who made Guardian's Crusade still work for Tamsoft so they could do something in that vein again, they only make more sexualised games like Senran Kagura, Drive Girls, OneeChanBara, I don't think they'd be able to capture that innocent adventure kind of feeling. And Capcom's idea of a new BOF game is apparently browser based free to play mmorpg that evenyone hates.