So, if you click on the Top 10 RPGs box from the front page, one of the games listed is "Lionheart". A game with a 3-star rating. Who put this list together?!? That game shouldn't even be on a "Top 10 Lesser-Known RPGs" or "Hidden Gems" list.

Someone with good taste who realises "stars" and popularity don't equal quality? Lionheart is really great, end of story.

Actually, most of that list is pretty.. not top 10 material.

Well, obviously they found this topic, and then tallied all the votes instead of the non-delivering OP.

I don't see that box.

One man's trash is another man's treasure. Personally, Lionheart is one of the games I really regret buying. I thought it was awful. QFT.

I knew going into it that the last half of the game really fell off in quality, so I was prepared. First half, I thought, was excellent. I blew through the last half to the end but still enjoyed it quite a lot overall. I can certainly understand why some people don't like it at all though.

How can you have a top 10 list of RPG's without Baldur's Gate or Planescape: Torment?

Call it "10 fun RPG's" and you've got it. Calling it the "Top 10 RPG's" and it's all kind of wrong. I don't even really consider Torchlight or the rest of the Diablo clones RPG's.

I'm quite sure I never got to the second half of the game. I think I played it maybe 6 or 8 hours before deciding that it just wasn't for me.

Nox... is pretty boring overall. It is an action game with some automatic level up which seems to affect your character's abilities very little. Even less of a RPG than e.g. Diablo (1 or 2, not sure about 3).

It is not maybe a poor game, in some ways it is even enjoyable. The most irritating thing in it is how fast your weapons and armor deteriorate, maybe even worse than The Elder Scrolls: Arena in that regard. In both games I pretty much have to keep several mint-condition weapons in the inventory just because they just keep breaking up constantly, even in a middle of a subquest. One weapon or armor won't last even one damn dungeon run.

At least the TES series fixed this for Daggerfall, as a matter of fact I don't think I have had to repair even one weapon yet. Nox 2 didn't fix it for the Nox series because there is no Nox 2 (at least I am not aware of one).

Lionheart appearing in that list would have been my least complaint. There's a glaring lack of Planescape: Torment, not even Baldur's Gate 2 is present, no Ultima VII, and they put Shadowrun Returns before Dragonfall Director's Cut. Funnily enough, no Witcher game in the top 10 either. Then again, it doesn't say "best" or "most popular RPGs" anywhere, just "top 10", and that could be anything, e.g. "Top 10 RPGs We Need to Sell More Copies of". ;)

That being said, from what I've seen of these games, I still like all of them, despite them not being my top choices.

"Various, mostly-good RPGs" doesn't sound as dramatic.

Flipping a word around might solve the issue some have. How about ‘10 Top RPGs.’

Top 10 RPGs sounds like its speaking with authority on the matter, but 10 Top RPGs uses the adjective form of ‘top’ as an alternative for ‘great’ in this context. They’re top-drawer, of good quality, etc.

It's a very weird Top 10 for sure. As others said: No Planescape Torment, no Ultima 7, no Baldurs Gate, also no Icewind Dale and Knights of the Old Republic 2 instead of the great first one?

The only thing missing to turn this list into a complete joke would be Morrowind or any other pseudo-rpg from Crapthesda :D