My absolutely favorite RPG is Gothic 1&2! But I also like the Elder Scrolls series from Daggerfall to Skyrim.
Other RPG’s
There are many more games like Borderlands or Bioshock but in my opinion this games aren’t real RPG’s.
Diablo 3, Mount and Blade and World of Warcraft this games i loved 
… Now i tested some games Novus Inceptio and Azulgar: Beyond the Frontiers this games are verry interesting.
Now i hope for release this game Kingdom Come and Star Citizen 
I really wonder why so few people know The Dark Eye - Drakensang. Or do people know it and think it’s not good?
Can somebody please explain to me why everybody likes Dragon Age? I don’t want to offend anyone, I just don’t get it.
@topic: Ultima VII - The Black Gate
I loved the game system, I loved the world, I loved the boobs, and … I kind of lost interest somewhere along the line. It’s not a bad game, but frankly, it’s not exceptional either.
I have spent hours trying to understand that. My opinion of Dragon Age was always that it’s a game taking place in an uninspired world, telling an uninspired story, with okay combat mechanics which are way too overused (in relation to exploration and dialogue), and pretty decent writing. I could not bring myself to like the game, and boy I’ve tried so many times (my wife purchased it to me as a birthday gift so, damnit, I wanted to love it)
In the end tho, I have finially found the answer I was looking for. I should probably also add that I’m usually more concerned with story, decisionmaking, exploration and reative world in RPGs than I am with combat. At any rate, I have asked a friend who finally gave me an answer: Basically, his explanation was that Dragon Age works with one theme repeatedly and extremely well: That theme being “What are you willing to sacrifice to win a war?” He claimed that this was what made him love the game. I have no clue if it’s applicable to anybody else, and can’t either confirm nor deny it, as every time I tried to get into Dragon Age again, a bunch of wolves attacked me. And then another bunch of wolves. And a buch of zombies. Zombies. Zombies. Ah, a dialogue! Zombies. Zombies. Zombies.
(On another note, I have really, really liked Dragon Age 2. It’s not on my list of the best games evah and it did a lot of things wrong, especially those that DA 1 did right. Nonetheless, I found the story more interesting, the characters more interesting, the setting more interesting, and the combat was always quickly over, therefore bearable.)
well dragon gate had the advantage of having good marketing, and that includes payola reviews from sites with millions of visitors. i mean, lets be honest here. this is dragon age:
10/10
I could never get around to finishing DAO. It’s just an average D&D RPG with the serial numbers filed off. The best part about it is the characters (particularly Morrigan, voiced by the Raven Haired Goddess herself, Claudia Black) but the gameplay and storyline are otherwise pretty lackluster and not particularly groundbreaking.
There are many rpgs i enjoyed in the past, but lets just name a few from my early teen days. games that really did impress me and influenced my later preferences in gaming. I guess everything started with Zelda Ocarina of Time for N64. By the time then to me it felt like a fantastic fairy tale you could immerse into, like another world. This was pretty much the spark for me. After that there were just a few games for me worth mentioning.
In Fallout (1+2) i loved the fact that it was like a huge post-apocalyptic playground. Interplay created this authentic, detailed and unpleasant world, where everything was out to kill you - It was a constant live-dangering threat you where facing. And altough wandering the wastelands often ended in certain death you couldn’t stop exploring. You had the freedom to do whatever you want, but you always had to be careful and often you had to make tough decision. With Fallout 3 bethesda gave the series a worthy reboot and i spent countless hours in the streets and vicinity of devastated washington dc.
Then there was Gothic. It may havent had the best plot or story, but as with fallout it took rpgs to a new level. As far as i can tell, by the time then it had the most realistic world ever. NPC had a daily routine and there were some really nice weather effects and it even had an impressive day and night circle. I guess it was one of the first open world rpgs with 3d graphics. In the huge world there was snow, a swamp, mountains pretty much every ecosystem you could imagine, and a lot of beasts and animals. You had tree different social factions and according to your style of playing you could decide which one you follow. I had to play it a couple of times to see everything and i never grew tired of it. To me (and like most others) gothic 2 constitutes the climax of the series. Altough I did like the world of gothic 3 it had some terrible design and gameplay flawes, that made it unpleasent to play at most times.
I loved playing Final Fantasy VIII as well because of its plot and the challenging fighting system. It had this very cinematic presentation that makes it one of my favorites.
Nowadays, i take most pleasure in games that challenge me, with an appealing presentation and a clever story. Therefore an ideal game for me would be a mix of the witcher, dark souls and skyrim. The Witcher because of its very mature storyline, darksouls for the challenge and skyrim because of the detailed, living and breathing world.
Looking forward to the new witcher game as well, since i read all of sapkowskis books (both the witcher series and the “narrenturm”-series), played the witcher 1+2 several times and followed the developement of the game since the first pictures for the first game were released in 2004.
Sure i played a lot of other rpgs during the past 15 years, also some of the old classics (games like shining force or secret of mana are great by the way), but the aforemention had the most impact on me i guess. Its like watching hero turtles or he-man for example, if you watch them 10 or 20 years later, i brings up nostalgia sure, but it wont affect you the same way it did when you watched them the first time you where little.
I love an immersive RPG with lots of story and based on the reviews that is Dragon Age: Origins. However, I just couldn’t get through it. I can’t put my finger on what exactly didn’t strike me the right way; maybe it was the way the story was structured. Maybe someday I’ll pick it back up and try to finish through to see how the story evolves but I would have to join you in not understanding why it’s considered the gold standard in RPGs.
My favourite RPG games are Witcher 1, 2, Deus Ex 1 and Human Revolution, Mass Effect (1, 2 and 3),Now I’m looking forward to Kingdom Come, Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077.My favourite game is Mafia 1 and just behind is L.A. Noire 
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Mass Effect series hands down followed by persona 4 golden and tales of symphonia. Mass effect because of the choices and how grand the entire game made you feel with that awesome universe and characters. I like persona for some of the same reasons as mass effect it was such a fun journey all the way through. Lastly tales of symphonia because it was the first rpg I really got into that I thought wow this is a lot of fun, I am enjoying the story and I get to smash monsters along the way.
My personnal favorites: Ultima 6, Ultima 5
After these, there were lots and lots of great games, but none were as good as the Ultima’s mentioned.
The reason?
It is like first love, you just never forget the first best gaming experiences.
My fav. RPG’s are:
The Witcher series
Darksouls
Divinity
Drakensang
Gothic
Dragon age origins
(not in order)
I suspect our answers will date us…
Like Vacnez, the first name that lept to mind was Ultima… then I stalled trying to pick a favourite. I-IV on my C64, V-IX on PC. I am the only person I know to have beaten all 10 Ultimas (counting VII part 2 as a separate game), and only beat U9 after the patch and even then just blew through it in a hurry… that game was ruined by EA, rushed out when unready to hit a deadline over the objections of Garriott and the devs. Believe it or not, I STILL hold a grudge against EA for the whole Origin thing. They killed my favorite dev house. Back in the day, Origin had just about the best batting average in the business. They were so over the top good, they are, to this day, the only company I would buy a game from just because it had their logo on the box. I didn’t need a review, I didn’t need a demo, I didn’t need word of mouth (and pre internet it was not actually easy to get these things anyway). If the box described an interesting game and I saw that Origin logo… sold. Even taking such monumentally stupid leaps of faith… you know how many times Origin screwed me? Let me down? Just once. Ultima IX, and as you know… I fully blame EA, not Origin. So I can say… Origin never let me down. Never disappointed. I could make blind purchases on faith… and get a GREAT game.
So favorite RPGs… whew… Ultima… but which? I am going with;
I The first Ultima and my first real RPG on my C64. What was someone saying about your first love…
V the first I played on PC instead of Commodore. It took the morality and immersive mechanic from IV and just blew it up, perfected it. Get this, so important was this game to me in my youth, that to this very day, I remember the numbers you had to type to play the song ‘stones’ on British’s harpsichord to open a secret passage. I am not googling this, I simply never forgot it… 6789878767653 I am going to forward the argument that if you remember some stupid detail like that from a game over a quarter century later… that game had an impact on you. Years later I worked out that little melody on guitar.
VII This was a quantum leap ahead in graphics and sound. I’ll never forget the Gaurdian’s head coming out of my monitor… ‘Avatar! Know that Britantia has entered into a new age of enlightenment…’ (Seriously, why do I remember all this stuff so clearly???)
OK, non-Ultima RPGs that I loved…
KOTOR. The first one. I heard the second one is great with some patch… I played it as released and hated that buggy mess. There were obvious plot holes where it was clear content was hacked out to hit a deadline… freakin’ EA workin their magic again… (I really do despise EA btw) In a way, KOTOR 2 was funny. Bioware/KOTOR2 was Origin/Ultima IX all over again. And with EA reprising their role as cartoon villain. But the first one was, to me, a masterpiece. I honestly thought the plot to it, the big reveal of Revan’s identity etc. would have made a better Star Wars film than 2 of the 3 prequels at least. I am not joking. I’d rather watch a film about Darth Revan than see Whinakin Skywalker talk about hating sand in Ep 2… uhg… what a stinker that was… poor George, he NEVER should have surrounded himself with ‘yes men’. I am sure everyone around him was ‘Jar Jar is wonderful idea Mr. Lucas’. Lucas needed a real friend like Steven Speilberg to step up with some harsh truth George needed to hear and say ‘dude, you’re blowing it. Jar Jar sucks… are you serious man!?’ But I digress… Bioware did some great work back in the day. And then EA came along…
Now, that said… there are things I hate about the Bioware RPGs, even the good ones. Plenty to love, but these games are NOT perfect. For one, I hate the confining maps. Really? That 4 inch tall gutter is a barrier I can’t step over huh? To me it makes the whole game feel like Disneyland. No, I don’t mean the happiest place on earth. I mean fake. Fake rocks, fake castles, fake cartoon characters. It’s not that hard at the Disney parks to peak around the corner and see behind the facade, see how they faked it. That is how Bioware games feel to me… the environments are just a big facade that only looks good because I am not allowed to move off of the track they have me on… This applies to Mass Effect, Jade Empire etc. Games I like. Just pointing to this as a reason they are not perfect. Great, here we are on the Citidel, the most massive city in the known universe… and we have like… SIX locations we can visit… all of which tied DIRECTLY to the main plot line. So the Citadel never felt like a city, you could explore or wander around. You travel to fixed set pieces that only exist to advance the plot of the game. So Bioware games tend to have great stories, great characters that pull you in… but they also tend to railroad you on linear plots, small restrictive maps… Oh sure, fly to any planet you want… but there actually IS a logical order to do them in. Their games are a bit too much like a theme park. But at their best, these great engaging stories that pull you in. I pride myself on seeing plot twists coming. 6th Sense?!? COME ON!!! It was obvious!!! Man, but that scene where they reveal Revan’s true identity to you… I just didn’t see it coming. They got me. I remember after that cut scene… my mind was blown. I watched the cut scene. Sat there for a moment in stunned silence. Stood up and walked away. I was so blown away by that, I couldn’t even play it right after that reveal.
So yeah, KOTOR goes on my list
But for the dead opposite of what irks me about Bioware games… We have Bethesda. Elder Scrolls… I go all the way back to ES1: Arena. Daggerfall was amazing, that map was massive by TODAY’S standards. Seriously. But for my pick in this series… I am going with Morrowind. ES3. It was the opposite of a bioware game. Welcome to Morrowind, now go do something.What do you do? Well, what would you LIKE to do… so much detail, so much immersion, such a massive world… endless side quests… my favorite Morrowind example;
I was swimming off the western shore, not far, some ruins on shore and submerged. For some reason I was swimming under water… looking for submerged chests or something probably, those were common in that game. But as I approached this submerged statue… it started talking to me. Now, to be clear. This has nothing to do with the main quest line. No one gave me this quest. I had to stumble into it by swimming past a submerged statue while underwater. The quest? The statue was a shrine to some forgotten Deadric lord. He wants a new statue in a new location to be remembered… he will reward me if I do this for him. This begins a quest of… heavy research. Seriously, the first thing you had to do was find books on this forgotten dead god and sculpture. Not all of these books were easy to find. It took some time. Then you have to find a sculptor that the Daedric lord would approve of… I found some Orc who was a stone mason… Then you have to find a suitable location for the monument. That took some time. Once I found it, I had to the hire the Orc and a team of workers to build it. using the books I had acquired as a guide for it’s design. It took a few months of game time. Every time I went back to the worksite, the monument was in a further state of completion. Eventually it was finished and the Daedra gave me a rather kickass sword that made the rest of the game soooo much easier… It was this huge convoluted side quest that most people playing that game probably never even found. That kind of detail, depth and immersion blew me away. Loved Morrowind (Also loved Oblivion and Skyrim… ESO… um… not so much, but they can probably bank on me showing up for ES VI whenever that happens)
And now a bit more obscure of one… one that I think is something of a spiritual ancestor to KC: D
Darklands. This was the original ‘dungeons but no dragons’ medieval RPG. It DID have demons and magic and what not… but not like fantasy RPGs. It was set in Germany and the ‘magic system’ wasn’t what actually worked, but what people BELIEVED worked back then. So you couldn’t throw fireballs in combat, but you could pray to a saint to get healed. Or buy a potion from an alchemist… Beyond that, it was basically a 3/4 iso view turn based combat… really the predecessor to Baldur’s Gate for that style of party combat (Go for the EYES Boo!!). But it was also a bit like Elder Scrolls in that it was wide open to go where you wanted to do whatever you wanted. You could just keep playing that game it seemed. And when I first heard about KC: D it reminded me a bit of Darklands from over 20 years ago…
Those are my picks… at least my picks today… ask me again in a week, and I might name some different ones.
My personal favorite games are, in no particular order:
Pinstripe - Thomas Brush (my personal favorite’s favorite haha)
Transformice - Atelier 801
TES:V Skyrim - Bethesda
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Rollercoaster Tycoon 2(and openRTC, a modified version with cheats ect.) - EA Games maybe??
Spore - EA + Maxis Entertainment (EA was the publisher if I remember)
The Last Guardian - Team Ico
Ori and The Blind Forest - Microsoft + Moon Studios
Roblox - Roblox Team(?) I like Roblox because of the creativity and generally polite players that usually help the clueless(like me haha) Plus it can educate kids how to use Lua and variables + the like.
I’ve played all Ultimas as well but not beaten all of them, that I must confess. I got ahold of some kind of Ultima Collection DVD with all games on it. By that time the first Ultimas was too “un-advanced” for me to play so I got bored quickly. 
Ultima IX is the worst Ultima of all times. Oh, and I used to like Ultima Underworld 1 & 2 also. Not sure if I ever beat number 2 due to computer crash.
Ultima VII P1 & P2 will always hold a special place in my heart as well as the song Stones. 
Except for that, Fallout 1 & 2 and Mass Effect series and the Witcher games.
And now, KCD of course.
Easily Baldurs Gate series for me and then Icewind Dale series. I just loved the party based isometric gameplay and the rich worlds.
I love Dark Souls series but I struggle to feel they are anything more then an action game although some people feel they are the greatest RPGs due to their hidden history.
Ultima 7 P1 & 2, Ultima Underworld P1 & 2, Dungeon Master 1 & 2, Elder Scrolls Arena and Skyrim, Eye ot Beholder 1 & 2. Except Skyrim those were old DOS games, i played many more that time but cant remember all, good old times.
Just started the new Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Hackers Memory. And despite the overly long name, its just as good as the previous one.
These are some of the few games ill buy day one, as a sign of support and because im a huge digimon fan/digimon games have been killing it the last few years.
Also try to start Gravity Rush 2 since it finally hit the sales with a hefty cut in price. Should be playing Xenoblade 2 21 prive casino but I’m having too much fun with my new surround sound kit, friggin love it (when I finally got it working after almost two days of tinkering with it).
Then going to try to play some Halo:MCC,also later in the day Mortal Kombat XL.
Gothic is by far the best RPG ever made and even the best game in general. The Gothic series, especially the first two games of the trilogy are the ultimative paradigm of professional game design. All games from Piranha Bytes are the best of their genre, also the Risen series and ELEX. But the top of all is Gothic. You can forget all RPGs compared to Gothic 1 & 2. Believe me, it’s the only RPG that you can really call a masterpiece. There will never be a game like Gothic. The german original.
