I played Mass Effect trilogy when it came out in 2021 and oh boy, I truly felt like a Kid playing it on a Saturday morning. The game is incredible, immersive and it just keeps you going back for more. Definitely deserved a spot on this list 👍

Instead of the Fallout 4 next gen upgrade, I wish we were getting a New Vegas and Oblivion remaster.

I want to add to this list. The Darksiders franchise is honestly a hidden gem. They're primarily hack n slash, but they have RPG elements as well. Darksiders: Genesis being a twin stick top down shooter really freshens things up as well.

I just want to add the Yakuza Franchise because i recently fallen in love with it

Don't skip Kindom Come Deliverance. It's one of tte best and overlooked RPGs of its generation. Hoping for a PS5 port before the sequel.

Finally Midnight Suns is getting love. If you're a real fan of Marvel comic books, you'll at least appreciate this game. I absolutely LOVE the card gameplay, the characters, the world building, the story. It's one of the few games I tried to 100% and really hope we get a sequel.

planescape torment's "unbroken circle of zerthimon" is an example of flawless writing, in any medium.

Dragon Age Origins should be on this list for SURE for people who never played it. I've beaten it multiple times on console and I'm thinking about giving it another go on PC as well.

I'm so glad you added Wasteland 3! I played the heck out of that game and it's so underrated.

Not in the RPG theme, but I went back to my GOG library and (re)played some truly Good Old Games, like Syberia, The Dig, Broken Sword(s), Myst... I'm not even 40 and I feel old! :)

Very first one! YAAAY am deep into a Tale of Two Wastelands (and heavily modded besides!) playthrough as we speak, almost 200 hours in or maybe over :) As always wonderful list, Gameranx :)

It's gonna be nice jumping back into the PS5 upgrade of Fallout 4, April 25th! If only we could get a F3 and New Vegas remaster.

I've replayed mass effect trilogy so many times back in the days, I loved all the amazing characters, their interactions, love, and of course Tali best girl, and Jack right behind her because of her romance is really satisfying

Love your guys channel ❤

Yeah Mass Effect 1-3 will forever have a place in my heart as I played them on the 360 when they released way back and truly immersed into them and enjoyed them so much. Then , older, i got the trilogy to replay back in 2022 and i got to relieve those days but on the PS5. I also, have been playing FO76 since launch and yeah, the beginning year or two, was BAD on glitches, errors, issues and even boring due to no human NPCs just robots to talk to or visit. Now, in 2024, though there's still some bugs and blue screens time to time, it's a really fun game and far better than how it began, as you said

It great you mentioned Blue Dragon at the end. Going back through the game myself right now. Another honorable mention too would have heen Lost Odyssey another great rpg to visit as well.

Might I suggest the hit game Persona 5? And the series that it was inspired by Shin Magami Tensei! We are getting a brand new ip from Atlus called Metaphor Refantazio this year, and! We re getting a re release of Shin Magami Tensei V called Vengeance. And it is cool as hell. They’re adding 80 hours of content you’re getting 2 games in 1!

I only played Skyrim once and I’m now replaying it in the year 2024 lol. And you know what. It’s fun. It’s got a good gameplay loop. And the courier running towards me is the scariest thing I’ve seen in a while

Now that we're on the subject of revisiting old games, I'd like to play the Mercenary games again. Especially the first one with the playing card boss system. I miss that.

Midnight Suns is a great shout, such an underrated game.

Revisiting Fallout New Vegas plus watching the Fallout TV show has been an amazing experience!!

Modding New Vegas was probably the most fun I’ve had playing video games. I definitely recommend it!

Always a great day when gameranx post notis hit my phone

YES Mass Effect here! I can cosplay Miranda happy next week now haha

0:21 Fallout: New Vegas 1:54 Marvel's Midnight Suns 2:45 Bloodborne 4:36 South Park: The Stick of Truth 6:27 Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 7:38 Dragon Quest XI 8:41 Mass Effect Legendary Edition 10:08 Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition 10:54 Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana 11:53 Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire 12:54 Bonus: Wasteland 3 & Blue Dragon

So glad you gave a shout out to Planescape Torment. One of my fav games of all time. The story and character development is amazing. It’s an exceptional implementation of optional party members that you can also choose to deep dive into their back stories and make a meaningful connection with.

Funny enough, already revisited most of these games already. Great vid

Space 1889 was awesome when I was a kid. You will need dosbox or something like it to run it on modern OS's though as it is a DOS game.

Elden Ring and Fallout 4 are my favorites

Oh wow didn't think you'd mention blue dragon. That and lost oddessy are hidden gems.

I love the Mass Effect Trilogy , it's one of the a few RPGs that try to finish completely and enjoy every moments of it!!!(except collecting different elements in large quantity)

So glad you mentioned 'Blue Dragon' that game was unreal! I absolutely loved it as well as 'lost odyssey', around that 2007/08 period ♥️

I keep hoping they will release a Next Gen Bundle for Fallout 3 and NV. At least we're getting Fallout 4 Next Gen in less than two weeks!

I've recently started playing Marvel's Midnight Suns like a few weeks ago and I love it. The game is my first strategy game in over a decade as well so, the fact that it's Marvel is what keeps me interested. Love learning about the characters and seeing the action happen.

I loved Dragon Quest and played it completely. I don't know if it's a version thing or so, but after the initial credits, you can play the story from a slightly different viewpoint. It's great and nearly as long as the first part. I think I played Mass Effect from start to finish three times. The Legendary Edition last time, and I have to say the DLCs make the games even better. Planescape is on the list of games I have to replay, if I find the time. It's a terrific game.

Bloodborne is one of the rare games where it's impossible to overrate it. One of the best of all time, sheer perfection. As a perpetual quitter of turn-based JRPGs, Dragon Quest 11 was the first one I actually managed to finish. Fantastic game.

19:30 - I'm not from the US, but isn't Nevada (and New Vegas) to the east of California, not the west?

Man, midnight suns is the greatest game no one played. Thanks for adding it to a video!

Ys VIII was the first entry I played and I'll hold it as special to me. Ys IX is a ton of fun if you like that sort of Marvel open world style of traversing I played all the games I can have on PSN (VIII, IX, Celceta, Origin) hope I can find a way to get more

Dude I wish New Vegas was the game getting the update. Won’t complain about getting a reason to hit Fallout 4 but NV would hit so hard

It’s been mentioned on this channel a few times, but cyberpunk is one of my favorite games now that it’s been overhauled since launch. Excellent story, fun gameplay, and achievement hunting in it was a lot of fun. Definitely recommend

Midnight Suns was a surprise. I did not expect to love it and the card drawing thing took a bit to get used to , but wow, the game is fantastic from start to finish

Jade Empire and Sudeki on the originals Xbox were cracking RPG' s. Also the Fable trilogy on the 360 and the Witcher 2 were bangers worth giving another go.

I'm waiting for Ghost of Tsushima to release for PC on May 16th.

Mass Effect is super worth it. I was in camp "Angry about the third one", and gotta say the DLCs really fixed 90% of what I was salty about.

It's good to go back and play older games. Thanks for the list.

I am pleasantly surprised that Ys VIII was so high up the list. I've been a fan of the Ys series for over a decade, but have played the games since the 90s. Yes, the series is that old, but really didn't get into the series until after they started redoing the games, starting with the remake of Ys III, as Ys: Oath of Felghana. YS VIII is definitely a strong entry in the franchise and, given the non-linear continuity of the games, takes place between Ys IV and Ys VI. The storytelling was extremely good, the battle system was a refinement of the remake of Ys IV known as Memories of Celceta, and the game shows the strength of the soundtrack. A fair number of remixes of many classic tracks, which are done frequently in the series but retuned slightly to fit the game, and some absolute bangers in the more original ones. I also agree with the Mass Effect Trilogy, I loved that series. And I really need to play the Legendary Edition to go through that again. It is space opera at its finest, with a large cast, a solid story that makes a lot of sense in the context of the lore, the science is internally consistent and is largely based off of actual existing science and theories (with the required handwave for FTL travel and communications, granted). The story is fairly simple at the start, but grows more complex as it progresses (though remaining internally consistent throughout).

Since Midnight Suns have shown up on PS Plus that's the only game I have been playing madly, and no other game could actually keep me this hooked since Ghost of Tsushima lol, I'm glad I found this gem that I'm loving gaming again.

New Vegas will never die.

When talking about dragon quest id love to see a dreagon quest builders III. I didnt get to play the first one but i played two and it was so much fun. Having npcs farm, build, fight, and all the other things they do is probably on of my most favorite things in town builders/rpgs/survival games

I literally just started this up again yesterday! Now I’m seeing this video! Woo!!!

Glad Ys 8 got mentioned. Absolutely brilliant game

More to the…east. I’m so sorry but I had to.

Ive been enjoying midnight suns, the combat gets suprisingly deep after you play for a while and its always giving your new characters, abilities and enemies. Its been added to the PlayStation+ catalog so you can play for free if you have that

I want and need more of these videos. This is exactly what i was looking for. Already bought Marvel Midnight suns right now and thinking about Vampire the Masquerade already.

Is college football 2025 an RPG 💀😂

Witcher 3

I just started playing SmallLand it's a fun survival 👍

I actually like the story of midnight suns. But I'm a fan of the comics. This game is underrated. I got the legendary edition for $24 bucks.

spoiler: new fallout show is great

Following the Fallout tv series, def gonna revisit some old fallout games.

Midnight Suns os a big suprise for me. Though a dumbdown Xcom version it still hits great with RPG elements. Superhero genre, Turn Base RPG strategy with environmens. Also you can personalize your Superhero builds to what you want (Captian America still goat tank).

I'm working through Ys Memories of Celceta, Ys VIII, and Ys IX right now. I want to finally knock them out before Nordics hits, which should be later this year. I love this series and they just keep evolving the games and making them better and better.

Just bought the Dead Space remake and gonna check out Days Gone... When I'm not playing Helldivers 2.

I'm playing elden ring again to prepare for june

Mass Effect Legendary Trilogy is SO GOOD. Starting a third playthrough on Steamdeck - that ME1 fight music in this video got me wanting to pick it up right now. But THIS time I stop ME3 right after the Citadel DLC.

YS VIII, on top of being a very good game has one of the best early OST ever, Sunshine Coastline's theme is magnificent.

I'm playing Marvel's Midnight suns right now. The writing can be quite 'how do you do fellow kids?' cringe at times but overall it's a pretty good game.

The fallout show is superb!

I just recently completed Mass Effect Legendary Edition (with the Pinnacle Station mod installed to have everything in the series working), it goes up there with only a few other games that are very good.

I got the Mass Effect Trilogy on ps plus last year. And boy I can’t believe I’ve missed out on this masterpiece of a trilogy for all this time. Amazing world building, great story and characters. I can’t wait to see what else they got instore for this series in the near future.

The dragon quest team being "reshuffled" means DEI invasion

Where's everybody at 😂

Dragon Quest XI is one of my favourite games. The look, the music, the humour. Just such a good game. Having said that the Mass Effect trilogy is top tier.

I am glad you included new vegas. Just mod the shat out of new vegas, 72 mods all enhancing the vanilla features with a few texture mods. No major overhaul. Loving it more than any game I have played these past 2 - 3 years.

soulslike games are just hard games that some people think make them great. Regardless what you upgrade or do you'll get hit once and die. These type of games become a job rather than a game.

No matter what the topic is, your lists always have at least one ”soulslike” game. Maybe leave those out sometimes?

I would suggest Tales of Arise if you never played it when it came out. That game had one of the best cast of characters in any RPG, and the world was just stunning to explore.

Great list. i had a blast on marvels midnight sun

3 views in 1 minute give up bro

Funny enough, I been playing more of Mass Effect 1 recently. Brought it back in 2014 digitally and played beginning of it. I was on a long, LOOONG hiatus of returning to Mass Effect save. Started playing it in 2022, and 2023. I recently completed Mass Effect for the first time. Surprised there was a second playthrough, as well as being a 24 hour long game. At the same time, have started playing Legendary Edition on Game Pass Ultimate than just the original. Gotta try out Pinnacle Station and Bring Down the Sky DLC as well. I remember having an eye on Blue Dragon on the Xbox Live Marketplace back in the Xbox 360 days. Did get it few months back. It's a good RPG. Though could imagine its more impressive back then as a early 3 disk game for the Xbox 360, like with FF7 for PSOne. Still got that to get through, and DLCs to get for it.

I like that you put Blue Dragon on the list. Its an all time classic, but its sad that it was never ported to windows.

Super niche but shout-out Enchanted Arms. Old turn based strategy JRPG that was a 360 launch title made by FromSoftware. Love that game

Midnight Suns is an absolute Gem. a very pleasant surprise so far❤🎉

It’s such a feel good when Gameranx hearts back haha❤ love you all over there.

Im playing Mass Effect trilogy now. I only ever played ME3 some time in 2015 or so, so actually playing trough all 3 games feels awesome

Amazing list to remember👍

Jade Empire needs more recognition one of the single greatest RPG experiences I've personally ever had

Lost Odyssey is still a fun one too… almost 20 years old now but it’s great.

Honestly a great list! I will accept Blue Dragon as a bonus entry, but Lost Odyssey HAS to make the next video!

I finally caught a fresh video🔥🙏🏿

Finished FF7: Rebirth last week and it has me wanting to replay the original. Will be picking up the Persona 3 remake after

1:54 I played a decent bit of Midnight Suns when it was newer, but didn't progress the story too far. I thought I would only enjoy the combat aspect, and then suddenly I found myself enjoying the cheesy interactions between characters and exploring around the manor between missions. You try to get approval with different characters, I guess there's maybe even a bit of romance aspect? Different characters respond differently to certain messages and gifts. Selecting outfits and stuff like that too. It became like Marvel meets X-Com, meets The Sims. 😅

Never played the fall out games but loved the show, I might have to check them out

Morrowind is always a good time to return to. Especially with OpenMW making it so accessible on modern hardware.

another reason I'd wanna revisit New Vegas is also rip Matthew Perry (who voiced Benny) passed away a couple months ago. Not his best work but he loved that game and it's sad we lost such a great actor and videogame enthusiast

I would like to add Bravely Default to the list. Over the years it has become one my favorites and most surprisingly fun experiences I ever had with an JRPG. Mechanically, it's a Final Fantasy with Job System (like 3 and 5) with a twist thanks to the Brave and Default commands that let you stack turns and spend them to take action multiple times in a single turn, making the battles a lot more strategic. Characters are charming and plot is so over the top. Granted, some parts can become a chore because it feels like you've done the same thing over and over at that point, but the true final boss and ending make it completely wort it. Also, the music is just so, so epic and amazing, composed by REVO and performed by Link Horizon is still one of my most played OST in my play lists ever, the final boss theme is bonkers! It is one of the best Final Fantasy games not actually called Final Fantasy. Bravely Second sequel is ok, but did not live up to the expectations set by the first game and Bravely Default 2 is a completely different world, and even when it is still not as good as the first game, it is a improvement over Bravely Second, it also has REVO back as composer.

I literally just bought fallout new Vegas on a steam sale, I’m gonna play it for the first time after work today!

Coming back to the Mass Effect trilogy after nearly a decade. Finished Borderlands 1-3 and Bioshock 1&2 over the past year and a half. Next is the Arkham series and I'm keen to try Fallout: NV as I've never played it. Really enjoying older games that I didn't appreciate nearly enough at the time. I ate too well in my teens and twenties, now in my mid-30s I'm truly savouring the gems.

"10 RPGs To Get Back to in 2024" The title is a little wonky haha. Great video regardless!