PC Gamer Top RPG of all time

[Dragula]

I should probably get banned for linking PC Gamer, but this list is to hilarious to pass up. It actually contains a bit of incline.

http://www.pcgamer.com/the-best-rpgs-of-all-time-1


1. Planescape: Torment
2. Baldur’s Gate 2
3. Fallout 2
4. The Witcher 3
5. Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition
6. Mass Effect 2
7. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
8. Deus Ex
9. Ultima VII: The Black Gate
10. System Shock 2
11. Dragon Age: Origins
12. The Witcher 2
13. Fallout: New Vegas
14. Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
15. Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls
16. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
17. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2
18. Divinity: Original Sin
19. Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss
20. Pillars of Eternity
21. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
22. Gothic 2
23. Neverwinter Nights 2
24. Undertale
25. Arx Fatalis
26. Torchlight 2
27. Legend of Grimrock 2
28. Mount & Blade: Warband
29. Anachronox
30. Dungeons of Dredmor
31. South Park Stick of Truth

 

[pippin]

More older games than usual, but still the work of random.org

 

[Beastro]

I'm seeing too many 2s and 3s.

 

[Belegarsson]

South Park..

Uhm... okay, I liked The Stick of Truth, it was fun while it lasted but no way it can compare to the best RPGs of all time.

Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss
Divinity Original Sin

Mass Effect 2

I like Mass Effect as a whole series but no.

A lot of good (if not cliché) choices but also some cringey selected titles. But hey, can't expect anything more from a mainstream website. I hope they would add Underrail next year.

 

[Beastro]

Uhm... okay, I liked The Stick of Truth, it was fun while it lasted but no way it can compare to the best RPGs of all time.

I think it's there because it's the first RPG in a long while that everyone agrees is a good, solid and competent piece of work.

In an ideal world, it would be just an average game, but when the average is shit or decent hyped games with many issues, like PoE, then it stands out because it has no flaws. It's a game much like the old JRPGs it aped, like FFII and III. A Solid games without anything to complain about that delivered what you expected in the right amount: an RPG that captured the humour and spirit of the show perfectly that had varied, enjoyable gameplay and settings that wasn't too long as to make its ease annoying.

 

[Paul_cz]

It's a good list actually. Skyrim and Mass Effect lower, Gothic 2 and Bloodlines much higher, but whatever.

 

[Daedalos]

PC Gamer is actually the broest and most incline of all the game journo mags and websites.

Still shit, but it could be alot worse.

(And also missing Underrail as #1) ;9

 

[Trojan_generic]

Probably the same guys wrote the same article 3 years ago and Torment was nowhere near top...

 

[Prime Junta]

List is surprisingly good. A few well-earned somewhat surprising choices there, Arx Fatalis for example.

Ordering of list is mostly random.

 

[an Administrator]

Where is Fallout 4?

 

[Lilura]

Six popamoles in the top 10, Arcanum isn't in the top 5, Fallout isn't even on the list that is littered with non-RPGs including D3 and TL2 (which are apparently > D2).

 

[Neanderthal]

Wonder if writer actually played any of em?

 

[prodigydancer]

I was about to say there's nothing especially wrong with the list but then I saw

15. Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls

 

[PeachPlumage]

I almost thought it was the RPG Codex Top RPGs of all time looking at that list.

 

[commie]

For a mainstream thing can't really complain about it too much. Lottery in places and probably 5-6 have no place in the top 100 never mind top 30...but eh, if the plebs pick up some of these and like them it's a good thing.

No Might and Magic or SSI games is a crime but these always seem for some strange reason to be overlooked.

At least Oblivion and Fallout 3 aren't there! :monocleshatterinamazement:

 

[RuySan]

Diablo 3 and Mass Effect 2 are just wrong, but it's a pretty reasonable list, even though it's missing Might & Magic's Wizardry's, but especially Albion:D

 

[Bonerbill]

PC Gamer is actually the broest and most incline of all the game journo mags and websites.

Still shit, but it could be alot worse.

(And also missing Underrail as #1) ;9

Agreed. There one of the few sites gaming sites out there that didn't turn into a bunch of SJW mongoloids screaming about gender equality.

 

[Dragula]

Having Diablo 3 before KoTOR 2 and Vampire Bloodlines makes me cringe, though.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

The Witcher 3 might deserve a place on that list, but I'd hold off until deciding where precisely until another year or so, and especially after all the DLCs are out.

Interesting to see Anachronox and Dungeons of Dredmor there, except neither game deserves a spot. Anachronox is so lite in the (j)RPG aspects that it borderlines on being an adventure game, and Dredmor is a bloated, buggy mess.

 

[muds_animal_friend]

At a glance I'd say the oldest game on that list is Ultima 7, and so it disregards at least dozen prior years worth of CRPGs. It's like that thing felipepepe was talking about...

 

[Viata]

Torment is for PC what Ocarina of Time is for consoles, it seems.

 

[Dragula]

Also Morrowind above Skyrim.

 

[Fairfax]

Better than I expected, but still laughable.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

At a glance I'd say the oldest game on that list is Ultima 7, and so it disregards at least dozen prior years worth of CRPGs. It's like that thing felipepepe was talking about...

Ultima Underworld has it beat by one month.

 

[CryptRat]

I really hate this list.
It may be a matter of taste because I dislike a part of the games which are in this list and also in the RPG codex TOP 70 (with some Mass Effect, Kotor, NWN2, Witcher, Dragon Age even if not always the same titles, also too many pew pew), and it misses a lot of the games I prefer from the RPG Codes TOP 70 (Dark Sun: Shattered Lands, KOTC, Icewind Dale, the M&M, RoA, etc...).
In fact the number of party-based games with full party creation is ridiculously low. Arcanum is so low, Fallout 1 is not even there...To me it's an horrible list.

About South Park :

A Solid games without anything to complain about

What about level scaling? I am ok to say they are games where it's even more annoying, but it's always a bad thing.