Best RPG of generation?

In this generation we have seen some great RPGs including Dragon Age: Origins, The Witcher 2, Risen, Mass Effect 1&2, Fable 2, fallout 3, Demon's Souls, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and so on so far. Please make a list of your top 5 best RPG experiences in the current generation.

I'm very fond of Dragon Age: Origins. Bioware did a fantastic job bringing the Infinity engine style of RPG to modern standards. Both of the Witcher games are also fantastic.

Tough call.

Which it gets tougher when you add to that list Skyrim, Diablo III and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.

But from that list l 'll pick Dragon Age.

I'm very fond of Dragon Age: Origins. Bioware did a fantastic job bringing the Infinity engine style of RPG to modern standards. Both of the Witcher games are also fantastic.

Phoenix534

I agree DAO for me also. But it still pales in comparison to the classics like Baldurs, Planescape, Fallout 1&2..

I agree DAO for me also. But it still pales in comparison to the classics like Baldurs, Planescape, Fallout 1&2..

bussinrounds

True, but it's the closest modern thing we have to them.

This was NOT a good generation for RPG's since Japan has been really slacking off lately and Western RPGs are still not polished enough.

But I'd say Oblivion on PC with mods and bug fixes is the best rpg this gen. Dragon Age right behind it.

I haven't tried Demon's Souls yet but i hear great things about it.

DA:O was great, as was ME1 and FO:NV. I've never played the witcher so I can't comment on it. Out of all of them I have to say I had the most fun with FO:NV though. Oblivion and FO3 had quantity (lots of stuff to do) but not quality (quite mediocre); I'm talking about vanilla of course. FO:NV had both quantity and quality.

This was NOT a good generation for RPG's since Japan has been really slacking off lately and Western RPGs are still not polished enough.

But I'd say Oblivion on PC with mods and bug fixes is the best rpg this gen. Dragon Age right behind it.

I haven't tried Demon's Souls yet but i hear great things about it.

martinX3X

Demons Souls has very good action melee combat and decent character and weapon building, other than that i thought it was pretty lacking. The smallish world resembled an action game, not an epic rpg.

DA:O was great, as was ME1 and FO:NV. I've never played the witcher so I can't comment on it. Out of all of them I have to say I had the most fun with FO:NV though. Oblivion and FO3 had quantity (lots of stuff to do) but not quality (quite mediocre); I'm talking about vanilla of course. FO:NV had both quantity and quality.

Former_Slacker

Hm I'd say Dragon Age Origins and Oblivion are my favorites this generation.

I really digged the combat of Dragon Age, I am sad there were no grand cities to explore. Great game though!
Oblivion was also great fun but I didn't enjoy the combat very much, I did like all the big towns to explore which is something I look for in every rpg.

The Witcher 2 has the most interesting story and you can barely wait for the next game to be released. I am picking up The Witcher 1 tomorrow though, I have high expections but Geralt looks ugly in TW1. The game felt too rushed further on and although many liked the decision making in this game I don't. I like my choices to be black, white and some shades of gray rather than the TW2 **** bloodblack, bloodwhite, bloodgrey. Instead of hurting your toe stumbling on a rock, you evade it and instead fall through a pitfall and impale yourself-st.yled decisions, bad for my conscience!

I used to play some p&p d&d way back in the 80's and to me the party based tactical rpgs are my favorite kinds. There is more strategy and thought involved in the combat, like a game of chess kind of.

1. Fallout: New Vegas
2. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
3. The Witcher

I haven't played many RPG's but Fallout 3 was good experience. I'm looking forward to Deus Ex: Human Revolution which has some RPG elements..

DA: Origins and the Mass Effect series are amazing, I'll go with them.

Dragon Age and the Witcher top the list for me. I will go so far as to say that DA:O is a perfect RPG from the infinity engine perspective. It may not be as deep as BG and the like, but it really just feels like a gift from Bioware. That is to say that DA is a blast from the past but looks and feels new. I have my doubts that we will see an RPG like DA (or BG, Icewind, etc) ever again as the industry has changed.

NWN2: MotB without a doubt. Everything else pales in comparison.

I've also enjoyed both Witcher games, Fallout: New Vegas, and Risen. DA:O, despite its many flaws, was okay too. Yes, it was nowhere near BG or BG2 quality (spiritual successor? Yeah, right.) but it was still pretty fun for a single play-through.

Other than those, I haven't really cared for many other modern RPGs. These past few years have not been kind to the genre.

NWN2: MotB without a doubt. Everything else pales in comparison.

I've also enjoyed both Witcher games, Fallout: New Vegas, and Risen. DA:O, despite its many flaws, was okay too. Yes, it was nowhere near BG or BG2 quality (spiritual successor? Yeah, right.) but it was still pretty fun for a single play-through.

Other than those, I haven't really cared for many other modern RPGs. These past few years have not been kind to the genre.

-wildflower-

I have to say one thing about MoTB is I never understood epic level campaigns... At level 20 and beyond your more or less a demigod.. But campaigns like MoTB you suddenly MAGICALLY get wisked away into a land where it seems like every oen and their moms are super powerful now.

IMO

1. Mass Effect

2. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

3. The Witcher 2

it was nowhere near BG or BG2 quality (spiritual successor? Yeah, right.) -wildflower-

I second that.

My list:
- Fallout New Vegas
- NWN2
- The Witcher
- Drakensang
- Risen

I haven't played The Witcher 2 yet.

Witcher 2