10 Favorite RPGs
I'm not someone who has played an unhealthy amount of RPGs in my life, but I am someone who has always admired the genre. And on rare occassions (extremely rare nowadays), an RPG is so good that it completely sucks me in for days on end. Now, my definition of what an RPG is may be slightly different than others, but one of the basic ways in which I look to see if a game is in fact a role-playing game is to see whether the character(s) is/are leveling up. Therefore, Zelda games are NOT RPGs. Pokemon games are NOT RPGs (not for that reason, for some other reason). But games like Mass Effect, KOTOR, Dragon Age ARE. Oh, and one more thing on that note: for some reason, I have never been able to really get into "western RPGs." That is, RPGs that deviate from the traidional fantasy combat method in favor of some weird third-person thing or something. Although I did include one exception.
As always, I have limited the selection to one game per franchise.