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Then if you have the cash to spare, go for it! I can thoroughly recommend 1 and 3 as well, though you absolutely will need to mod 1 to make it playable.

You liked BG more than BG II?

Ah I like lists so here's my top 10 of best RPG's/Sandbox games. I haven't numbered them because I honestly don't know which one would be 1. It would probably be either New Vegas, Oblivion, ME2 or The Witcher 3 though.

- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
- Fallout: New Vegas
- Mass Effect 2
- The Witcher III
- Mass Effect 3
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- Golden Sun
- Sleeping Dogs
- Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

It's still a shame that I can't count Andromeda as one of those few games which hold a special place in my heart. Let's hope that there will be a new ME game in the future which does manage to capture my interests.

Andromeda Would not make my top 10. Maybe my top 100, but while it is a good game i do think it is a quality drop for Bioware in a number of ways. Pacing issues making the middle seem like a slog were the biggest for me.

Bioware would make up most of my top 10 though of personal favorites (which is different than objectively best games. Super Mario Galaxy is an objectively great game but not really my style, etc.)

Off the top of my head, unofficially, and in order as best as I can:

1.) Portal 2
2.) Mass Effect 2
3.) Dragon Age: Inquisition
4.) Uncharted 2
5.) Tomb Raider 2013
6.) Dragon Age: Origins
7.) Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
8.) Shadowrun: Dragonfall
9.) Civilization 4
10.) Super Mario Bros. 3

If you like Dark Souls 1 or 3 and played one of them at least more than 1 time you can give it a try with Dark Souls 2. Buy all 3 DLCs for the vanilla Dark Souls II that is the only great experience what Dark Souls II is about or you can simply buy the Scholar of the First Sin, that one already includes all 3 DLCs.
So i don't recommend Dark Souls II over Dark Souls 1 or 3 if this is going to be the entry in the franchise for you.

Are we looking at the same list? I see Civ VI as the representative, placing 58th. That's the wrong Civ to use, IMO

I'm more upset that Grim Fandango didn't place higher, though.

I'm not sure if I'm more stunned to see Her Story in the top 20, or to see DA:O not place at all when both BG2 and ME2 did.

Good luck, skeleton! Praise that sun.

They have a trendy list. DA:O is easily one of Bioware's best games. Arguably better than any of the Mass Effects. 

It had better combat, better AI, better pacing, a better ending and greater difficulty. The only thing Rise had going for it was expanded levels and loot.

I didn't think they addressed Lara's change after the first game well.

You know what they say, A man who never eats pork buns is never a WHOLE man!

Ah, I see. They are different lists. I was looking at the critics' list.

Strangely, Fallout 2 is flagged as being on the fans' list but not the critics' list. But it is on the critics' list.

The two lists have different organizing principles, since multiple games from one series could get on the fans' list but not the critics' list, which is how all three MET games ended up placing.

Dunno how Civ V and VI end up placing while IV doesn't. The fans actually did better at recognizing older games than the critics did, so it isn't that.

At least DA:O made the fans' list.