Spec me an RPG

Dragon Age:Origins is a masterpiece. It would be my first choice of the games you haven't played. FO:NV is also excellent.

Other than those, Kingdoms of Amalur is fairly good, but not great. Same goes for Divinity 2, it is ok but nothing special. Imagine Oblivion, but even rougher around the edges.

I wouldn't touch Two Worlds 2 tbh, it is garbage
 
I never understood why people were so mental on Oblivion. It's not a patch on Morrowind IMO and I find it painful trying to play it again now.

Don't know if that's true, Oblivion just reached much wider audience on multiplatform/big marketing push etc. I also think Morrowind is the best in the series by a country mile.
If you could somehow get Oblivion/Skyrim combat mechanics into Morrowind it would be truly great:cool:
 
I feel like the game of thrones rpg is worth a mention. Certainly no masterpiece, but I thought it was surprisingly enjoyable having picked it up for a fiver.
 
ADOM.

It's a hard roguelike RPG, but it has incredible depth. Every time you play you will experience a different story.

Sure, it's ASCII, but once you get the hang of it, you'll be sucked in big time.

Pretty hard to get started, but here's a great tutorial:

 
Cant go wrong with this:

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I wouldn't touch Two Worlds 2 tbh, it is garbage

whats wrong with two worlds two the graphics are good and gamplay ok. Voice acting is aweful if you can past that the games not too bad.

as for RPG

SKYRIM
MASS EFFECT
WICHER 1+2
SWTOR 1+2
FALL OUT and NEW VEGAS
DRAGON AGE 1+2
KINGDOMS OF AMALUR
EGO DRACONIS DEVELOPERS ADDITION
DARK SOULS

thats what i played really
 
If you liked Mass Effect then explore the more recent Bioware back catalogue (KOTOR, Dragon Age series)
If you liked Skyrim, explore the more recent Bethesda back catalogue (Fallout 3/NV, Oblivion)
 
  • Borderlands --> Borderlands 2. Very funny, the story is good but not amazing. Mostly action-focussed, it's one of those "it's an RPG because it has stats and levels" games.
  • System Shock 2 with the Rebirth and STM (Shock Texture Mod) mods. You play a cyborg soldier who wakes up from stasis to find your ship falling apart around you, the crew turned into monsters and something seriously wrong with the computer...
  • Deus Ex (the original) with the New Vision and/or HDTP texture mods to make ancient graphics more palatable. Fantastic story and 3 different endings.
  • Deux EX: Human Revolution isn't half bad either. Although the story doesn't match up to the original, not many games do.

Though it's actually an MMORPG, The Secret World is really worth a look. There's no subscription, you just buy it + the DLC like a single-player game. You don't have to do instanced dungeons or any of the expected MMO stuff, 90% of my time in that game has been spent just playing through the story. The modern-with-magic setting is fascinating, delving into legends, myths, ghost stories, secret societies, conspiracy theories and the like. It doesn't have classes so there's a lot of customization possible, but what it really nails is atmosphere. In TSW a haunted house feels like a haunted house. An abandoned soviet bunker feels like just that.

It also has some really difficult and novel puzzles.

Along the same lines (and if you can stomach a star wars game), The Old Republic has 8 classes that each have their own story line. I don't care for the whole jedi/sith theme so I played an Imperial Agent and boy, that storyline is flipping epic. The Republic Trooper's is good, being a war story that starts with you re-building a special forces squad and going after progressively bigger and more important targets and missions. The Smuggler's story line isn't what I'd call epic but it was fun to play, lots of tongue-in-cheek moments.

On the downside SWTOR claims to be free-to-play but is so restrictive that it's better to just subscribe for a month (subscribe then immediately unsubscribe), which should be plenty of time to finish one class story. It also gets a bit repetitive in the later levels, but you'll generally only notice that if you're playing a second character on the same faction.
 
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