The 26 Best RPGs at GamePro

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A member of staff over at GamePro has satisfied the desire to list 26 RPGs in ascending order of awesomeness, though there may be some argument with anyone who rates Diablo 2 above BG2:SoA (nabbing the #18 spot) and Planescape: Torment (with a relatively respectable #22 rating). Here's a small snippet of what they have to say about BG2:

In 1998, Bioware set the RPG world ablaze with its AD&D based dungeon romp, Baldur's Gate. For some companies, that would be cause enough to feed their audience a long line of rehashed sequels for decades to come, but not for Bioware. Just two years later, they managed to refine the experience in every possible way with Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn. Telling a tale far too expansive to summarize or spoil here, BG 2 sees you and your fellow heroes from the first title waylaid, sacked and imprisoned for the purpose of a mad mage's torturous experiments - and that's just where the game begins. Bioware's trademark real time turn based combat, later made famous in Knights of the Old Republic and the more FPS-centric Mass Effect, finds its roots here in the BG series, as you can let your party members carry on as their AI defines or tap the space bar to pause the action and issue more specific orders. All in all, Baldur's Gate 2 is a must have title in every serious PC RPG player's collection.

Here you can start at the bottom and work your way up to the #1 top spot, not entirely unfairly going to Final Fantasy 7.

 

a pokemon rpg rated a better rpg game than BG2 and planescape torment... WOW. Seems to me that the blokes who made this list, are bigtime fans of anime stuff.

 

Did anyone else think Final Fantasy XII had terrible gameplay?
Super Mario RGP worth $100-$300? I still haven't found the last flour point.
Baldur's Gate should have been alot higher on the list.

 

That list is pretty awful. Deus Ex is a great game, no doubt, but a better RPG than Torment? What...? And let's not even go into Pokemon. Not to mention the guy clearly didn't do his research - Ultima X was going to be an MMORPG with no connection whatsoever to the story of Ultima IX, which ended the series pretty definitively (never mind the game was one of the worst entries in the series).

 

That's a strange list. Really, Pokeman? My 6 year old likes it, but better than PST or BG2? Thanks, but no thanks.

 

Incomplete and unfair list. Where is Icewind dale & Baldur´s gate I?
I see a lot of preference for FF & new series.

And... why Diablo II is a better RpG that BG????????

 

Batrayal at Krondor, Morrowind, and the might and magic games, are missing as well. Seeing how the list looks though, I suspect that whoever made that list, wern`t even born when those games I mentioned, came out.

 

That's just another crappy list which is not worth reading (I'm sorry I did browse through their listing). No offence Urithrand (I know you're only doing your job as a News Editor) and you pointed out the Diablo 2 thing yourself.

People get really confused between RPGs and action games, that's embarrassing to say the least. IMO the BG series qualifies as an RPG but Diablo is more of an action game. On the surface one could argue that they are similar but at least in BG you get to make choices. In Diablo 1 and 2 you only get to choose between items and spells. That's not an RPG in my books.

 

heres a thought what if they added the item system from diablo to a game like baldurs gate and icewinddale. as for the list its an ok one but comeone we all know which games where better then which and the news editor sure needs to get their head in the game

 

Consolepeople? How can you rate Fallout 3 at the fifth place. It is to new.

 

Legend of Zelda is now an RPG. And the second best ever made.

That is all.

 

I had a feeling that list would spark a debate

 

But seriously, how could they forget Duke Nukem 3D, the best RPG of them all?
And Fallout 3 is definitely better than the originals, what with their bad graphics and all.
I also love seeing my Pikachus ranked better than that boring Torment.

Yes that's sarcasm.

 

What a farce!