What is, objectively, the best RPG ever made and why?

What is, objectively, the best RPG ever made and why?

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  1. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Skyrim. I will not elaborate.

    • 3 months ago
      SERIOUS ANSWERS ONLY

      That's not even an RPG, let alone the best one.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      FPBP

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      that's not even the best elder scrolls game

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      That is not even a good game.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      I came in here just to say this. Bethesda caught lightning with that.

      The Witcher 3 and Baldur's Gate 3 can be argued.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      amazes me how many homosexuals will bite this bait every single time

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      The only RPG with actual roleplaying.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      based and truthpilled

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >no gameplay
      >no story
      >clunk shit
      >horrible immersion (which is a given with bethesdas inept devs)
      >apparently the best RPG

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Everything you said is wrong

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        For the technical means at the time Skyrim is quite impressive.

        >no immersion
        >no story
        We've all replayed it 5 times. Of course it wears off. At release it had those things.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah but only if you mod the women to be hot and have huge breasts and your character to have a giant penis and you frick the women.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      modded skyrim is objectively best yes

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      This post is wrong, but it is also extremely based thus fpbp

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      Why would you say something so controversial, and yet so brave?

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous
        • 2 months ago
          Anonymous

          Dragonborn is a great expansion.

          • 2 months ago
            Anonymous

            I've never played it
            I have never gotten more than halfway through Skyrim before getting bored

            • 2 months ago
              Anonymous

              I thought it was like an improved Skyrim, with added nostalgia for Morrowind. But if you didn't enjoy Skyrim, it probably ain't your thing either.

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                Just finished a full replay of Morrowind, going to play Oblivion (never finished that either) and Skyrim both to completion, to give a sober comparison of all three.

                Was pretty funny going back to Bloodmoon for the first time since probably 2003. "No, we have Skyrim at home"

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                I recently did a similar tour of TES games, going through the main quests, without mods. I found a lot to appreciate about each game.

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                Same. I'll always like Morrowind the best everyone always likes the one they played first the best but I am hoping to give Oblivion and Skyrim a fair shake, especially in view of Morrowind's flaws. And then I can cross both games off the list, instead of dismissing them from foggy memories.

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                Morrowind definitely has some strengths of it's own. The charm of a flawed but brilliant gem, for one. It also sort of requires more from the player, so it can at times feel more personal and engaging. Hard to explain.

  2. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Undertale

    • 3 months ago
      SERIOUS ANSWERS ONLY

      Not an RPG, barely even a game.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        That's not even an RPG, let alone the best one.

        Kys

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Shut up, namegay.

  3. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    That would be my favorite RPG.

  4. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Baldur's Gate 2, because it was perfectly balanced between fun, story and atmosphere. Golden standard of the genre, never surpassed.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      lord at all the brown

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      yea this might be the GOAT
      >no way the game i played 2 years ago is waay better!
      i wonder how people will feel about baldurs gate 3 in 20 years, only time will tell i guess but in terms of longevity that isnt only tied to nostalgia Baldurs Gate 2 probably takes the cake

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >OLD GOOD NEW BAD OLD GOOD NEW BAD
      Why do /vrpg/gays act like this? Do you hate new things because normal people like them? Are you just needlessly contrarian because society has thoroughly rejected you?

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous
        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          So, how those things even work? What is they purpose?

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Trannies stick them in their inverted dicks to prevent the wound from healing shut.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        me when i'm 15 years old and don't have an "old" to call "good" yet

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Why do /vrpg/gays act like this? Do you hate new things because normal people like them? Are you just needlessly contrarian because society has thoroughly rejected you?

        unironically because they are old and probably depressed. Being needlessly argumentative is a sign of depression. Wallowing in nostalgia is another.

        Although another part of it could be just how genuinely lazy and stupid gen Z is about learning about the past. They become hyper focused on a handful of things and dont put any effort into learning about other things. In the case of rpgs, they pick like 3 or 4 current ones, learn only about those, and just make countless threads about them and only know about them.

        Though admittedly square fans, snes fans and pc fans are almost as bad, holding up in their bunkers, acting like everything else is garbage.

        Honestly, I'd rather talk to some weirdo 50 year old that loves rpgs on the turbographix. I 100% know they have played rpgs on the snes, genny and PC as well. Maybe even gameboy, game gear, gba, ds, etc.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          >like baldur's gate 2
          >psychoanalyze the anon for not saying baldur's gate 3
          >come to the conclusion he is an old homophobic man

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Because it's objectively true. Contemporary game design is fricking garbage, hyperfocused on shoving in as much FOTM mechanics that are already outdated by the time the game releases, awful stories written by failed Hollywood screen writers who never read a novel until their first year of college and have no taste or passion, and/or hyperfocused on graphics instead of solid gameplay and fun. 20 years ago we all thought games were going to look the same BUT the memory and power of future computers would create truly massive games that could incorporate everything the devs wanted, like an Oblivion that was the size and scope of Daggerfall where you could seamlessly lock pick through windows into houses or climb walls or run a loan sharking business. Instead games mechanically have stagnated yet become bloated with nonsense and busy work and other shit mechanics.

        New sucks. This is objectively provable.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Why is it the best posts that get ignored?
          >an Oblivion that was the size and scope of Daggerfall where you could seamlessly lock pick through windows into houses or climb walls or run a loan sharking business
          Frick that sounds awesome. Anyone know of any games that come close to this? The best RPG I've ever played is new vegas because it seemed (at least on the first play through) like you could literally do whatever the frick you wanted. Sure, there's probably a bunch of old CRPGs that offer more freedom, but the open world and real time combat are more my speed.
          >inb4 New Vegas? You call THAT an rpg?
          I won't even get mad or try to defend it. I genuinely want to learn of games that top it. I don't care anymore, I just want to play a good fricking game!

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Arcanum holds the crown until you start getting into genuine sandboxes like Elona and Kenshi, though most sandboxes have very specific settings with accordingly focused freedom.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              What else would you recommend from the sandbox side of the spectrum?

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          >failed Hollywood screen writers who never read a novel
          that's a huge problem btw. older games had book series as influences, modern games are like netflix. also, voice acting sucks.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >get butthurt about posting objectively good game
        >don't even post you own, just b***h
        we all know that you would post some japanese homosexualry anyway

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        You didn't play BG2

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Baldur's Gate 2, because it was perfectly balanced between fun, story and atmosphere. Golden standard of the genre, never surpassed.

        Im 30 & played BG1 into BG2 for the first time last year. I absolutely loved it. There really is no greater sense of adventure in an RPG than those two games.

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        No, you are just a homosexual. Here's your (you), troony homosexual.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Love that fight.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      yea this might be the GOAT
      >no way the game i played 2 years ago is waay better!
      i wonder how people will feel about baldurs gate 3 in 20 years, only time will tell i guess but in terms of longevity that isnt only tied to nostalgia Baldurs Gate 2 probably takes the cake

      I'm sorry newbies but /vrpg/ is a BG1 chad board

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Most of these are fricking disgusting, the chad on the left and the girl in the middle are pvre sovl tho.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        OLD GOOD NEW BAD OLD GOOD NEW BAD OLD GOOD NEW BAD OLD GOOD NEW BAD OLD GOOD NEW BAD OLD GOOD NEW BAD OLD GOOD NEW BAD OLD GOOD NEW BAD OLD GOOD NEW BAD OLD GOOD NEW BAD OLD GOOD NEW BAD OLD GOOD NEW BAD OLD GOOD NEW BAD OLD GOOD NEW BAD OLD GOOD NEW BAD OLD GOOD NEW BAD OLD GOOD NEW BAD

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          >NU GUD
          >because it is... OKAY?!!

          >*refuses to elaborate further*

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        based. low level DnD is top comfy. unironically old good new bad and hilariously gay

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      This is correct by the way.
      Baldur's Gate 2 is inarguably the best CRPG ever made, and arguably the best computer game ever made.
      It's almost perfect. The only flaw and it's a pretty minor one is that there's no foreshadowing of the Tree of Life, Suldanessellar etc (apart from a single reference by a sailor NPC in the Bridge District).
      A big part of what's so good about it is how it brings the bold characterisation, dialogue and personality of JRPGs into the WRPG genre; something that BG1 diehards need to acknowledge.

  5. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    FF8 or Fallout

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      JRPGs aren't RPGs. They're coping instruments for failed, ostracised men.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Nah Wrpgs are white cope and self insertion for dudes who want to escape to fantsy worlds instead of hearing a cool story

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Do you want to hear a cool story or play a game?

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >JRPGs aren't RPGs. They're coping instruments for failed, ostracised men.

        anon, for a long time, jrpgs were the favorite games of women.

  6. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Arcanum, because it's anti-semitic

  7. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why do these things look so lovecraftian, how do those bristles get the eggs out of the ovary?

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      They don't. The ovary spits out the egg, these bristles are basically just a funnel so the egg cell goes into the fallopian tube instead of flying off into the stomach cavity.

  8. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Final Fantasy 6, picrel had a lot to do with why.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      This guy gets it, although I think my picrel had more to do with it.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        That 13" clown dick

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      This guy gets it, although I think my picrel had more to do with it.

      Both of them were my main reasons to cherish this entry (personal best) in the series actually.

      Also gotta respect making viable opera with "voices" being hardly more than SNES *beep boops*.

  9. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Arcanum.

  10. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Fallout NV because of the narrative freedom and player agency. And because even when they did give the Courier a background during the DLC's, they wrote it in such a way it doesn't interfere with your own RP, unless you went with something off the rails.
    Not a single game has matched it since.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      haha can't wait for Fallout 4 New Vegas to come out in like uuuuuh... 2030

  11. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    FF7
    It wasn't my first RPG or FF game, but it gave me the feels when I was 13 and nostalgia stronk.
    Also I think active ATB is the best battle system ever and just want it to come back.

  12. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    New Vegas cause of the sheer amount reactivity mechanically and narratively.
    That's the only thing that matters in the genre.

  13. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Post a real pussy

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous
  14. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Betrayal at Krondor

  15. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Dink Smallwood. No explanation needed, it speaks for itself.

  16. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Gothic 1 + 2

  17. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Role playing game.

    In Baldur's Gate 3 I have felt the most freedom to play as a certain role.

    Cyberpunk 2077 was the most immersive experience tho, I did stuff that had no effect on gameplay but felt right for the character. I felt like I was in his shoes.

    I am 30 years old and have played old Baldurs Gate games, Fallout 1, 2 and the likes. I have never had a console so never played weeb stuff like FF.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >I have never had a console so never played weeb stuff like FF.

      they release most FFs on PC, ding dong sama

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Not like I actively search for them. Years ago when I educated myself on jrpgs, I found very few that are critically lauded, suits my taste and is on PC. Chrono Trigger was one.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Cyberpunk 2077 is underrated.
      It's also only "rpg-adjacent" action adventure and not a true rpg.
      But it's underrated, at least after patches. The city is a god damn masterpiece in world/level design.
      Shame they pussied out on making a more robust rpg-system and catered more for casuals.

  18. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >What is, objectively, the best RPG ever made and why?

    there are none. You could make a perfect battle system and no one care because the world and story are horrible and unengaging. You can have a great story and the gameplay be plagued with problems. You can have a great story and gameplay and the game be hideous or cheap looking. There are very few perfect rpgs that everyone must play.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >There are very few perfect rpgs that everyone must play.
      Name one. Inb4 "final fantasy IXIXIVIIVII japshit"

  19. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    this thread is just going to be a bunch of games people played over Christmas break when they were 12

  20. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Deus Ex.

    No further comment required

  21. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Cataclysm Bright Nights

  22. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Probably NWN because it's an actual RPG and ruleset in a box with everything you need including server, client, and dungeon master client. You really can't get a better RPG than that, the rest are just story games with RPG elements or number go up games with RPG elements.

  23. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Amazing that not a single good game has been posted in this low effort thread for petty turd worlder bickering.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Post a single good game then, basement dwelling, japshit-loving Ameritard freak.
      >Inb4 Final Fantasy XIXIVIIXVIXIIVXIVIX

  24. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Black person fantasy
    The last good game was on the ps1

  25. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    contrarians will seethe but nobody has ever offered a game that that landed with a bigger splash

  26. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    The whole series
    For me personally the first one that got me hooked on it, especially with that plot twist.

  27. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Icewind Dale because I'm a contrarian prick and someone already picked BG2
    Now, OP, why did you use a brain in a uterus for this thread? Is it symbolism? Is it from your best RPG pick? Was it just to bait people like me into clicking on this thread to ask about it?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      that's just an embryo growing after fertilization moron

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Pretty sure fetuses kind of grow all at once and don't just build the entire brain, then the skull, then the neck etc etc. Either way it's still a weird choice for a thread to discuss best RPG.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Obviously it's an Intellect Devourer.

  28. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Trails of Cold Steel

  29. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Xenoblade Chronicles X.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >look at those sweet graphix maaaaan
      >best rpg ever maaaaan

  30. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Hey /x/ get in here, new symbolism dropped!

  31. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    morrowind

  32. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Wizardry 7

  33. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    mount and blade: warband

  34. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    ur mom because she puts out.

  35. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Dragon age

  36. 3 months ago
    Anonymous
  37. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Mega Man II.

  38. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    My taste

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Ultimate Edition
      >Game of the Year Edition
      >Gold Edition
      >Legendary Edition
      >Definitive Edition
      >Director's Cut
      >The Final Cut
      Just stop.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Aryan

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >mass effect
      >DAO
      >serbian rail
      >SHITrim
      >pathfinder
      >cyberpunk
      >KOTOR instead of KotOR2
      >ToEE, a game that even its own dev thinks is shit

      Those are your actual favorite games on the list. To a lesser extent, you also like Morrowind and Kingdom Come and Twitcher 3. The rest you just added to get accepted on Ganker, and you don't actually like those games.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        what do you like?

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Planescape: Torment
          Fallout
          Fallout 2
          Arcanum
          Fallout New Vegas
          Bloodlines
          Kotor 2
          M&M VII
          BG 2
          Gothic 2

          Top 10 RPGs, correct order.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Planescape: Torment
            Not an RPG.
            >Kotor 2
            Not an RPG.
            >M&M VII
            Not an RPG.
            >BG 2
            Not an RPG.
            >Gothic 2
            Not an RPG.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              No one cares about the opinion of a BioDrone+Bethestard. You aren't even human.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                A swing and a miss. Try again next time, cuckarpigger.

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yes please tell me what are my favorite games. lol

        • 2 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Yes please tell me what are my favorite games

  39. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Uterus Quest

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >not found on igdb

  40. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Neverwinter Nights
    It is a toolbox of an rpg able to be molded into whatever you want if you have the right skills, and comes with built in multiplayer so you can share your creation with others easily.

  41. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >lust provoking image

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >irrelevant bait argument

  42. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    i love how people are so eager for their shitty little hack-and-slash to be an "rpg". they're not rpgs. i don't care how you define them. i don't care if you could technically roleplay any game. you're playing an action game that happens to have level-ups and character progression. if combat is not a matter of entering commands, it is not an rpg. frick you, you're basically gamer girls desperate for validation. once more, frick you

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Define RPGs, exactly. And give examples.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        i pretty much did. indirect command of your character you could say. making strategic choices in turns (i guess real-time battle would still qualify). not a fricking action game. final fantasy, earthbound, shin megami tensei... i shouldn't have to give examples

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      I love how every discussion about what constitutes an RPG devolves into nerds pitching autistic b***hfits at each other for liking what they don't like.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >spotted the newfriend:

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          bro I've been here all summer. There's lulz to be had watching all the melt-downs that occur on a daily basis in basically every thread on vrpg that you don't always get in other blue boards

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            >all the melt-downs that occur on a daily basis in basically every thread on vrpg that you don't always get in other blue boards
            You clearly haven't lurked enough on the other Ganker-adjacent boards then.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              meh, it's just not the same when its a bunch of edgy gays arguing over which fighting game franchise is the gayest. It's much funnier when it's DnD nerds and weeaboos screeching at each other over the lamest shit, like watching tards fight

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        like whatever garbage you want, just don't call 50-IQ click-em-ups RPGs

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        You'd think to find in-depth discussion about RPGs themselves here. Instead it's this endless meaningless shitflinging.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Sifu is more an RPG for having two endings to choose than half of the games posted here

  43. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Probably Baldur's Gate 3 unironically.

  44. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Not objective ofc but I like Morrowind, Vvardenfell is easily the most fun tes environment

  45. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    #CHALLENGE

    Try to watch this in full without seething, chuddies.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >recent thing good!
      How does this subhuman get so many views

  46. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Who here wants to define what an RPG is to her?

  47. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    >
    i can't reply normally and must resort to passive-aggressive responses

  48. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    For like a pure RPG? Probably FF VI.
    But personally think the best RPGS are immersive sims like Ultima Underworld, Arx Fatalis, Thief, Deus Ex, etc etc.

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      >For like a pure RPG? Probably FF VI.
      when will we get a FF VII style remake??

  49. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    This. All baldurs gates are shit.
    Fight me.

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      Shame game got gutted by wizards if the coast and plot was very meh.

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        Tactical turn based D&D is much more fun than Baldurs gate combat system.

        Set piece battles are what made TOEE good.
        Just my opinion, call me a homosexual.

        • 2 months ago
          Anonymous

          I personally much prefer turn-based over RTWP as well. However, when was the last time you played ToEE? I've played it, and the OG Baldur's Gates within the last year, and ToEE has, uh, aged very poorly.

          • 2 months ago
            Anonymous

            Did you mod it with co8 and temple+?

            • 2 months ago
              Anonymous

              co8 yes, temple+ no. I didn't like co8, and by the time I figured out what I wanted was temple+ and not co8, I was in too far and didn't want to restart

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                Know that feeling anon.
                Sunk so many hours into each play through only to stop start again and try to find tune my character creations and builds.
                Must be my autistic OCD homosexualry.

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yup, I get bad restartitis and always replay the opening shit several times until I'm satisfied with my build/choices/whatever. Eventually, I get far enough along that I'm like "frick it, I'm too far to restart". Buy the ticket, take the ride.

          • 2 months ago
            Anonymous

            Also same. Played both within the year.

  50. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    Arcanum because it taught me about the gn*mes.

  51. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    Sell me on Final Fantasy 6. I hated 7.

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's even worse.

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      Depends why you hated ff7. I played 6 after 7 and liked it, but I liked 7. 6 is the peak of the SNES era, they pushed the console to the greatest graphics, sounds, and music it was capable of.

  52. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    What does vegana have to do with best RPG?

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      You gotta roleplay to get it

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        t. moron who doesn't know what roleplaying is (in roleplaying games)

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