It also obviously benefited from the strong D&D base. Dragon Slayers success led to a 1985 sequel Dragon Slayer II: Xanadu, which became the best-selling PC game in Japan. Creating the characters and the customization was fun as hell.and even with the games problems, was easily worth the price for that part alone. I think a good example of a game like this, that I know got some bad press, was The Temple of Elemental Evil. So outside the obvious choices, I am looking for smaller, even independent hidden gems on steam that fit this. Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst The 2008 game Mirror’s Edge was one of those games that people either loved or hated. I also don't like games that eventually you unlock everything so one character is not that much different than another. Since the thematic material isn’t exactly groundbreaking, its ultimately going to be quality of Thuban’s AI on which the title flies or crashes, dragon pun intended. Ranking the highest-rated role-playing video games that you can play on the Sony PlayStation 4, with titles ranked. If you’re just looking at sales figures, then you could say MMORPGs are more. The second highest selling PC game of any type is, of course, WoW with a massive 14 million sales. According to wikipedia the best selling single-player RPG game is Diablo 3 with 12 million sales to date. I don't like games that leveling up and taking one path over another has very little impact on combat and your experience. 6) Best Selling Single Player RPG vs Best Selling MMORPG.
I also love when the game really diverges as you level up and you can spend countless hours stressing over paths you take in skill trees and trying to find a way to "break" the game. I still pop in Icewind Dale from time to time and spend an hour or so creating characters. I love games that can take hours trying to roll the perfect team. I guess it goes back to playing D&D as a kid, but part of my favorite thing about any RPG is the character creation (not the way they look but the stats) and the leveling up of characters.