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[IbizaPocholo]

From the newest iterations of classic series to brand new ones, here are our picks of the top 10 modern RPGs of all time. Here's a couple of quick notes on our rules: For the purposes of this video, we're defining "Modern" as any game released in the last 15 years. Since RPG is such a broad genre, we also made the rule to leave off anything that could be more easily described as a sub-genre, which means we're leaving off all Soulsborne games, tactical-RPGs, and action-RPGs that skew too closely to the action genre.

 

[AV]

Arbitrarily making the threshold 15 years means that WoW, VTM: Bloodlines, Fable, and KotOR 2 missed the cut-off by a year. Retarded.

 

[GymWolf]

someone can sum up?

 

[AV]

someone can sum up?

1. The Witcher 3
2. Fallout: New Vegas
3. Mass Effect 2
4. Divinity: Original Sin 2
5. Persona 5 Royal
6. Disco Elysium
7. Skyrim
8. Dragon Age Origins
9. Dragon's Dogma
10. DQ11

 

[Carna]

1. The Witcher 3
2. Fallout: New Vegas
3. Mass Effect 2
4. Divinity: Original Sin 2
5. Persona 5 Royal
6. Disco Elysium
7. Skyrim
8. Dragon Age Origins
9. Dragon's Dogma
10. DQ11

This is why I hate casual gamers

 

[GymWolf]

1. The Witcher 3
2. Fallout: New Vegas
3. Mass Effect 2
4. Divinity: Original Sin 2
5. Persona 5 Royal
6. Disco Elysium
7. Skyrim
8. Dragon Age Origins
9. Dragon's Dogma
10. DQ11

i was expecting much worse tbh.

 

[flibbertyjibbert]

'modern'
'of all time'

Pick one

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

No Siralim 3? lol okay

As a fun exercise, I listed all the games that I figured they would include based on popularity and I got most of 'em (didn't think of Divinity: OS2, Persona 5, or Disco Elysium).

Witcher 3's high accolades continues to perplex me. Is it the open world? Is it something else? Witcher 2 post-patches is the superior, leaner game.

 

[GymWolf]

elex is probably more of a pure (and better) rpg than half of that list, to bad for the shitty gameplay.

 

[LazyParrot]

Not a single From Software game?

 

[brian0057]

Mass Effect 2 (not even the first one) and Skyrim made the list but not Deus Ex?
People will call anything an RPG these days.
cough*witcher3*cough.

 

[June]

3. Mass Effect 2

Imagine putting ME2 above ME1, nevermind not even including ME1 at all. Invalid list.

 

[June]

Witcher 3's high accolades continues to perplex me. Is it the open world? Is it something else? Witcher 2 post-patches is the superior, leaner game.

Who cares about lean when you can pad your game to shit. Time spent = value and quality, after all.

You're completely right btw.

 

[VertigoOA]

Not a single From Software game?

never thought of them as rpgs... My favorite single player experiences of the last decade are from software games tho. They're better than everything on this list.

Witcher 3 definitely deserves top spot.

Dragon Age doesn't deserve to be there.

 

[ethomaz]

1. The Witcher 3
2. Fallout: New Vegas
3. Mass Effect 2
4. Divinity: Original Sin 2
5. Persona 5 Royal
6. Disco Elysium
7. Skyrim
8. Dragon Age Origins
9. Dragon's Dogma
10. DQ11

Expected a way worst list from IGN like including FFXV lol
That is alright.

 

[megatronium]

Is Fallout: New Vegas really that good? Never really looked into Divinity - now interested. Semi-surprised no Final Fantasy entries included. Glad DQ11 made the list.

 

[The Shepard]

I don't get the love for fallout new Vegas, found it boring after spending over 100 hours in fallout 3. I brought the first divinity and really don't understand the love for that either. Maybe I have bad taste.

 

[diffusionx]

Arbitrarily making the threshold 15 years means that WoW, VTM: Bloodlines, Fable, and KotOR 2 missed the cut-off by a year. Retarded.

Fifteen years marks when the Xbox 360 came out, so I don't think it is arbitrary.

The list is fine anyway. How much more do we need to talk about WoW and VTM Bloodlines.

 

[LazyParrot]

never thought of them as rpgs...

Why not? Levels, stats, skills, classes, weapons, spells... it's all there. I don't see how they can count Dragon's Dogma as an RPG, but not Dark Souls.

 

[Shifty1897]

I'm fine with this list, though I would have swapped in Deus Ex Human Revolution for Disco Elysium.

As for the Soulsborne games not being included, I agree that they're their own genre at this point, no different than a tactical RPG. The list would have been less interesting with them on there.

 

[VertigoOA]

Why not? Levels, stats, skills, classes, weapons, spells... it's all there. I don't see how they can count Dragon's Dogma as an RPG, but not Dark Souls.

every game has this now....

Bloodborne for instance is more of a Metroidvania than anything else...

 

[johntown]

never thought of them as rpgs... My favorite single player experiences of the last decade are from software games tho. They're better than everything on this list.

Witcher 3 definitely deserves top spot.

Dragon Age doesn't deserve to be there.

How are they not RPG's? The souls games are the very definition of an RPG. Just because IGN says they are not RPG's does not make it true. They are more of an RPG than Mass Effect 2 (please note I love Mass Effect 2) but it is much more of an action game than an RPG.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-playing_video_game

They seem to fit to me?

IGN just didn't want to include them because they would end up taking to the top 4 spots. Except for maybe The Witcher 3. I agree that game is a masterpiece and probably deserves the #1 spot.

 

[Coolwhhip]

The best games ever of 2020.

 

[Simpkin92]

Agree with Witcher 3. Favorite RPG of all time for me.

 

[LazyParrot]

every game has this now....

You know that's not true.

Bloodborne for instance is more of a Metroidvania than anything else...

How would you define an RPG, then? Or more specifically, what do you think those games lack that prevents them from counting as RPGs?

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

I adored ME2, I just finished up a week ago or so, put 150 hours into it. Gonna play P5 Royal after FF7R.

Witcher 3 might be my game of the gen.

 

[CatLady]

Is Fallout: New Vegas really that good? Never really looked into Divinity - now interested. Semi-surprised no Final Fantasy entries included. Glad DQ11 made the list.

In my opinion NO. I much prefer FO3 to FO:NV. In fact I much prefer it to TW3 and would put it at#1.

 

[Tesseract]

Is Fallout: New Vegas really that good? Never really looked into Divinity - now interested. Semi-surprised no Final Fantasy entries included. Glad DQ11 made the list.

yes, vegas is far and away the best of the newer lot

 

[Birdo]

Skyrim is way too low. It's one of the most popular single-player RPGs of all time.

Mass Effect 2 above it?

 

[Metnut]

Not a bad list.

Surprised to see the Mass Effect 2 hate. Was a really good game that I played the heck out of.

 

[brian0057]

Not a bad list.

Surprised to see the Mass Effect 2 hate. Was a really good game that I played the heck out of.

Mass Effect 2 is a good game, but it sucks as an RPG.
On a scale from 1 to Daggerfall, the second Mass Effect ranks as a Gears of War.

 

[Humdinger]

I don't get the love for fallout new Vegas, found it boring after spending over 100 hours in fallout 3. I brought the first divinity and really don't understand the love for that either. Maybe I have bad taste.

Same. I wouldn't attribute it to "bad taste," though. RPG is a weird genre, which attracts some odd people (including me). You know, you can get a group of people who like first-person shooters together, and they will more or less agree on what the great games in the genre are. Same for racing games, sports games, platformers, and many other genres. Not so for RPGs. Although you can find some degree of consensus, there is a drastic range of variability in opinion. With RPGs, preferences are very individualistic.

 

[anthraticus]

Skyrim is way too low. It's one of the most popular single-player RPGs of all time.

I know it's lol GN, so it's gonna be that anyway, but I thought theoretically, that this was a list of the top modern RPGs......not most popular.

 

[Lionel Richie]

Not a bad list at all considering it's normie bait.

 

[Birdo]

Thought this was a list of the top modern RPGs......not most popular.

Popularity is often a result of quality.

Except for Fortnite and Fidget Spinners.

 

[anthraticus]

Popularity is often a result of quality.

Except for Fortnite and Fidget Spinners.

And McDonalds and tons of music and movies and games....

Popularity is just something that appeals to a very wide amount of people.

 

[Fake]

1. The Witcher 3
2. Fallout: New Vegas
3. Mass Effect 2
4. Divinity: Original Sin 2
5. Persona 5 Royal
6. Disco Elysium
7. Skyrim
8. Dragon Age Origins
9. Dragon's Dogma
10. DQ11

Not so bad.

 

[xiseerht]

So happy Dragon's Dogma is on the list

 

[hunthunt]

'modern'
'of all time'

Pick one

Im glad im not the only one that catched that immediately.

hilarious

 

[Danjin44]

Both DQXI and Persona 5 Royal on that list, I'm happy.

 

[Fuz]

i was expecting much worse tbh.

Yeah, same. It's not that bad of a list.

 

[Mega Caprison]

This is why I hate casual gamers

Curious about your top 10,care to share?

My only complaint no Soulsborn game in it

 

[SantaC]

1. The Witcher 3
2. Fallout: New Vegas
3. Mass Effect 2
4. Divinity: Original Sin 2
5. Persona 5 Royal
6. Disco Elysium
7. Skyrim
8. Dragon Age Origins
9. Dragon's Dogma
10. DQ11

What a shit list.

Where are the Falcom rpgs?!

YS8 should be top5.

 

[Saber]

I was expecting way worse. It's not as bad, but theres aways room for improvement.

Skyrim is way too low. It's one of the most popular single-player RPGs of all time.

Most popular for all the wrong reasons I guess. Can't say that would be enought reason to score higher.

 

[vaibhavpisal]

Imagine putting ME2 above ME1, nevermind not even including ME1 at all. Invalid list.

Yeah, first mass effect was so good on pc. 2 and 3 were mostly shooters with combat abilities.

 

[anthraticus]

No order... starting with 2010, otherwise I'd have Knights of the Chalice (2009) in here, no doubt.

UnderRail
Age of Decadence/Dungeon Rats
Grimoire Heralds of the Winged Exemplar
Dark Souls
Pathfinder: Kingmaker (turn based mod)
Shadowrun: Dragonfall
Fallout: New Vegas
Kingdom Come Deliverance
Neo Scavenger
Disco Elysium

 

[Lux R7]

i bet they don't even know about the existence of Inquisitor.
that said, including DD and excluding souls doesn't make sense to me because they are the same genre (third person arpgs)

 

[BigBooper]

Is Fallout: New Vegas really that good? Never really looked into Divinity - now interested. Semi-surprised no Final Fantasy entries included. Glad DQ11 made the list.

I've tried repeatedly and can not get into Divinity OS2. It's one of those games that feels more like playing a spreadsheet than a game.

 

[Vawn]

Weird title.

What's next? The top 10 shooters from the last 5 years of ALL-TIME?

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

Am I a fool for liking DA:I as much, maybe even more, than DA:O?