Gameranx's Top 16 Best PC RPGs of All Time
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5. Fallout
As we wrote in our previous list of best post-apocalyptic games, Fallout is the "big enchilada" of the whole genre. With six titles to its credit, and 5 of them actually good (we're discounting Fallout Tactics), it shows us the future as the 1950s imagined it and that we all did in fact drop the bomb.
The role-playing game series is not just about survival, but being able to move forward as a society. To rebuild in the aftermath of total annihilation, in the face of power hungry group, in the face of the repercussion of an unconscionable corporation, in the face of being lied to, in the face of running out of supplies. In the face of all this, you choose who you will be.
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1. Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
Released in the Golden Age of PC Gaming at the end of the 1990s, Baldur's Gate 2 was everything that its predecessor had been. Only better streamlined and bigger. Baldur's Gate 2 was set in the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons setting of the Forgotten Realms, your basic run of the mill mom and pop fantasy with dwarves and elves, but stood out for the sheer size and the extremely high quality of its production. Baldur's Gate 2 featured a plethora of voiced characters, an incredible number of big and small questlines to follow and a game world and overall narrative structure that should be highly influential for tons and tons of other roleplaying games in the following years.
After Baldur's Gate 2 it took years until the PC gaming environment returned to similar heights again. Released in the year 2000 it came at the peak of PC gaming, just before the release of the Xbox generation of consoles that would change the face of gaming forever.
