I guess that similar topic was here many times?
What are your TOP 5 RPG Games (or at least subgenres like ARPG) and what things you liked in them most?
Try to type no more than selected 5 best titles, and the rest you can type as honorable mentions.
Order is important (starting from the best one).

TOP 5 RPG:
1. Temple Of Elemental Evil (tactics, graphic style. full party creation, tolkien like theme, dnd rules)
2. Jagged Alliance 2 (best tactics ever, memorable party members)
3. Planescape Torment (interesting dialogues, memorable party members, universe, graphic style, dnd rules)
4. Wizardry 8 (tactics, full party creation, first person perspective immersion)
5. Baldurs Gate (portraits, tolkien like theme, dnd rules)

Honorable Mentions:
The Quest, Oblivion, Dark Messiah, Diablo, Mount And Blade

Fallout 2 (intoxicating atmosphere, fascinating world and delightfully gruesome combat)
KOTOR (Bastilla Shan and the first time you set foot on the deserts of Tatooine)
Icewind Dale 2 (intense nostalgia)
Neverwinter Nights (acts 2,3 and 4)
System Shock 2 (the audio logs)

Why not. :)

1. Dragon Age: Inquisition
2. Mass Effect 3
3. The Witcher 3
4. Dragon Age: Origins
5. Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines

Sorry Persona 4, but you're no. 6.
Eh, it really is hard to decide...I'd love to squeeze Shadow Hearts: From the New World, Covenant and Summoner 2 in there...and so many other RPG's.

I remember a thread just like this, but since that one is probably a year old already and my top 5 has changed since last time, here goes:

1. Planescape: Torment
2. Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines
3. Shadowrun: Dragonfall
4. Baldur's Gate 2
5. NWN2: Mask of the Betrayer (well, technically it wasn't among the best, but the story, characters and atmosphere drew me in more than the average RPG; probably because it was so heavily influenced by Torment)

Honorable mention:
Neverwinter Nights and Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures - not as RPGs, but as tools for fans to create their own campaigns. I've played countless of those, many rivaled or surpassed most AAA RPGs I know, and some even those listed above.

I'm never able to make one of these lists, I would have to make a new one every year given that my opinions constantly change. I just came here to say I'm playing Dragon Wars and it is amazing, easily among the darkest, most disturbing settings I've ever encountered in a fantasy RPG and the combat is good too. Definitely worth a playthrough.

literally

1- Fallout 2.
2- Planescape: Torment.
3- Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura .
4- Diablo II LoD.
5- Fallout.

- Albion (unique charming setting, interesting dungeons...on the negative side you only have limited options about your party composition and character customization, and combat can be repetitive).
- Baldur's Gate 2 (very ambitious, huge gameworld....though not without plenty of flaws; but only notice them once you've played it several times).
- Icewind Dale 1 (limited scope, all about combat against hordes of enemies...but it succeeds in what it sets out to do).
- Planescape Torment (somewhat verbose and, to be frank, pretentious...but a unique game one should at least have played once if one is interested in the genre).

Apart from that I've also played Fallout1/2 (overrated in my opinion, especially the 2nd one) and Kotor 1 (too easy)...but I'm not sure I'd recommend them unreserverdly.

Yes, Dragon Wars is really an underrated game. I have a feeling it just didn't get the advertisement it deserved. I think I may actually re-buy this game here since I like it so much.

Incidentally, the game's programmer has talked about doing a remaster of the game. That should be interesting! (Especially if the areas that were cut from the final game were re-added; I wonder if that's where the non-available spells were.)

Since the game is so non-linear, I think it would be interesting to route a speedrun of that game. It seems there are plenty of tricks you can do, like abusing Zak's Speed items or putting 10 points into Sun Magic to make Inferno powerful.

I don't like making "top n" lists, but some of my other favorite RPGs include (in no particular order):
Dragon Quest 3 and 6
Final Fantasy 5
Wizardry 8

Mount and Blade Warband
Jagged Alliance 2 (if it fits under an RPG)
Underrail- Had a blast with it.
Witcher 2
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic.

1. Skyrim
2. Final Fantasy VI
3. Persona 4
4. Morrowind
5. Kingdom Hearts 2

Shadowrun Dragonfall
Skyrim
Mass Effect
Diablo
KOTOR

1. Gothic 2 - I liked the setting, the hand-crafted environments with something to discover at almost every step, and the freedom to do almost anything.
2. Arx Fatalis - Much like Gothic 2, I like how exploration is rewarded with some secret or item to uncover, and the freedom to almost go anywhere and do anything, and the freedom to shape my characters attributes without class restrictions.
3. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines - I like the unique setting, and that playing as a different clan can mean a very different playthrough.
4. Divine Divinity - I like the setting, the characters, and the humor.
5. Gothic - I like it for a lot of the same reasons as Gothic 2, but Gothic 2 improved on this game in almost every way.

1. Knights of the old Republic, both the first and the second one.
2. Fallout NV
3. Morrowind
4. Neverwinter Nights
5. Chrono Trigger

1. The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt.
2. Planescape: Torment.
3. Pillars of Eternity.
4. Deus Ex.
5. Final Fantasy IX.