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Side Quest, Episode 50: The 10 Best RPGs of the Last Decade (Patreon)

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The 10 Best RPGs of the Last Decade -- CLS Side Quest

I love role-playing video games like I love cheeseburgers: Endlessly, and with great passion. To celebrate, I've created a list of my 10 favorite role-playing games of the past decade, from JRPGs and SRPGs to open-world romps and tactical adventures. I'll leave the 10 Best Cheeseburgers list for another time, if that's okay with you. (Thank you to CLS’ family of Patrons for voting for this topic.) Colin's Last Stand: Side Quest is free of baked-in ads, product placement, and other obnoxious forms of advertising because of your support. Please consider subscribing to CLS' Patreon to show your support for independent content: http://www.patreon.com/colinslaststand Listen to Sacred Symbols, CLS' PlayStation podcast (also available on podcast services and here on YouTube): https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/STU5682506591 Listen to the CLS interview podcast, Colin’s Last Stand: Fireside Chats (also available on podcast services): https://soundcloud.com/colinslaststand Listen to the CLS retro podcast, Colin’s Last Stand: KnockBack (also available on podcast services): http://soundcloud.com/clsknockback Twitter: @notaxation Instagram: @clsmoriarty Facebook: /colinslaststand Colin's Last Stand is a product of Colin's Last Stand, LLC PO Box 1233 | Santa Monica, CA 90406 The videos below were used, in part, in the creation of this episode of Side Quest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWId6_Pemck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PofO32sS8s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4law8BVrBU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIzOttk6Dv4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfVYZTx6AAI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLsV46e8W1k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Xx3MdqdgM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzx96gYA8ek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk1-w5y6jtk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4txT2EicrHE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJHvReBBtu0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfHxklxMhA4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmECZm1RsN8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsu5dRJjQF4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCPR_ICguu0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrCJQJcZ_bM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d09yVJ6Ix4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR9HlHS7YMM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkZHv-9e2ro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-zs0ezaXng https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKQEFT9V2Z4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao_11GWlnf4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCxUHSJmdbQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHrskkHf958 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2aSCvUhUBc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uYouPnUETI Still imagery was acquired from a licensed Shutterstock account via the following photographers and artists: katalinks, Oleg Belov, and S_Photo.

Comments

Anonymous

Nice, can't wait to listen! Hopefully Mass Effect made the list in some form!

tejotl

Wiedźmin! Thx for the bit of love towards Polish dev Colin. This month I got my second plat in Witcher Wild Hunt (platinumed both standard and GOTY editions) with easily over 500 hours spread across 4 playthrough. Can't wait for Thronebreaker to come to consoles next week. Fun fact: Thronebreaker is actually titled Blood War in Polish because we can't really find a fitting polish name for Thronebreaker

Sean P.

Great episode! You should make a video on Mass Effect 3 and talk about how people are too hard on it :)

Jason Bolla

Very solid list. Happy to say I've played all of them.

Anthony Stewart

Awesome list I'm replaying through Witcher 3 almost 100% the main game, finished Heart of Stone, and started Blood and Wine.

Always86

New Vegas has not aged well graphically. It's a game that drove me crazy, I played on PS3 and it was a crash fest. At one point my save file corrupted and I lost about 10 hours progress to my back up. I'd never stick with it these day.

Carson Smith

Ni No Kuni and Witcher 3 are my top 2. I couldn't get through Ni No Kuni 2... it was such a shell of it's former self that I would almost rather just go back to the original.

Kevin Sullivan

I hope you do get around to Witcher 3 at some point. It is a giant game, to be sure, but a very worthwhile ride (and platinum). The expansions are incredible as well.

Ian (616Entertainment)

I know YouTube fuckery has hurt your motivation for SQ, but let me tell you, a Monday with a SQ episode is a good god damn Monday. You turned me on to the Mass Effect games back in the day (proud owner of the ME2 Plat) and Witcher 3 is a Top 3 all time for me. Gotta say I’m surprised there’s no Amalur here, but like you said, these sorts of lists change from Monday to Tuesday. Thanks for the video, have a great week!

Adam Niksch

Great list! I’m not much in to the JRPGs, but all the others you listed are fantastic games. I love the South Park games especially, as that is one of my favorite TV shows. And what more really needs to be said about the Witcher. That game is truly something special. It and Red Dead 2 (also something truly special) are probably my games of the generation so far, and I’m not sure if they’ll be topped. I was thankfully able to take my time with The Witcher and am doing the same thing with Red Dead.

Jeremy Echols

Great video, Colin. I know you've gotten frustrated with YouTube lately (which I totally get - there have been quite a few times my recommended feed shows a video from years ago, rather than one you posted earlier in the day), but I really love having a side quest to watch while I eat a meal. Love all the shows, hope your holidays are going well! (Also, can't wait to hear your Fireside Chat with my bro, Michael Steinmetz!)

Jason Stafford

Witcher 3 is such a good game. I know in the past you said you got overwhelmed with the question marks on the map, my solution for this was to ignore them until I'd finished the quests for each region. Some of them I'd hit organically while doing the quests, but then when the region was done, I'd quickly ride from mark to mark and knock them out then move on. The question marks were rarely of any consequence, the real meat being in the main and side quests. Just a suggestion if it helps!

desperateLuck

I'm definitely an outlier on my feelings about the Witcher 3, because even though the story and world are awesome, I felt that the combat and leveling up mechanics were boring. It took forever initially to level up, and then later in the game I didn't really find any interesting perks or pieces of gear to obtain. I barely dragged myself through the entire game and then never felt any pull to try to platinum it or play the DLC. I think most modern RPGs have this issue, where its like the devs are too worried about game balance for a single-player game, and compensate by making all of the perk/ability/gear trees in their games really vanilla and underwhelming.

Joshua Chap
>>17499667

The first Witcher game was even worse with that, there was a patch about a year or 2 ago that made the 1st Witcher game controls more like the newer games so it's not as bad now, but it's still a mess and takes a while to fully understand them properly.

Joshua Chap

Southpark is something I have not watched in well over 10 years but heard a lot of good things about it and recently picked up The Stick of Truth for the Switch making it much easier for me to play on the go overall making the game for more enjoyable for me. As a RPG is simple but and rather accessible and solid game with a very well written story and characters making this game more of a timewaster for me then a lot of typical RPGs.

Justin Matkowski

Bloodborne (along with The Last of Us Remastered) was the original reason I went with a PS4, and I haven't looked back since. Definitely dive back in when you get the chance, especially for the incredible "Old Hunters DLC". The atmosphere, art direction, and gameplay make for a fair argument that it is From Software's finest. Witcher 3 is one of my favorites in quite some time, especially in how "alive" and rich that world felt in regards to its lore, politics, and player decisions that actually affected its outcomes. All told, it took me about 18 months (while still retro gaming and playing a few other titles) to complete the main game, the Witcher contracts, the side quests, and the DLC while meticulously exploring the world and crafting armor etc. Wild Hunt made most other open-world RPG's look like paper-thin dioramas, by comparison. I need to pick-up Zero Dawn; I'm thinking of grabbing that when I'm done with Red Dead 2. Definitely before 'Shadows Die Twice' drops...

LastStandMedia
>>17477656

I encouraged a horrendous bug when playing (the infamous Cowboy Hat Glitch), and it almost ruined my save.

LastStandMedia
>>17479147

I'll get there, but it does suck that I dumped like 50 hours into it, and I'll need to do that all again.

LastStandMedia
>>17481157

Glad you enjoyed the video! I'm still aiming to do 2-3 episodes a month, alongside Let's Plays. See what happens.

LastStandMedia
>>17499667

It's funny, because there have been a few games where I've felt like that (most recently Far Cry 5), where I feel like I'm leveling up and dumping skill points into shit I don't care about, because there's nothing better.

LastStandMedia
>>17500941

It's so good. And while I'm not a regular South Park viewer by any means, it's cool to go back once in a while now to watch and enjoy, like I did when I was younger.

Jason Stafford
>>17495122

I'm OCD like you, I just had to make a mental priority list for each area and the question marks were lowest on the triage since they don't really offer much outside of loot and a little xp. Haha

Gavvyn

I just don’t get JRPGs. No Skyrim?!?! Wow. You’re a bold man Colin.

Justin Matkowski
>>17504243

Whenever I hear about Horizon, I can almost sense the presence of the bell-ringing "shame" nun from Game of Thrones behind me...

Dennis Sobieski

Huh great list I agree with most of these, I thought for sure you'd go with chrono trigger or final fantasy 4.

strawhatninja

I definitely lean more toward JRPGs with Persona 5, Dragon Quest XI, and Nier Automata being some of the best ever in the genre, but I love the Mass Effect trilogy shout out. I love those games and I think they deserve so much praise.

Phil Crone

Great video Colin! One question regarding SRPG's though - have you tried The Banner Saga? Seems like one you may want to give a look.

LastStandMedia
>>17566529

I played the first one fairly extensively, but never beat it. Always wanted to get back to it, but alas.

Craig Carter

Really enjoyed the inclusion of Pokémon Heartgold/Soulsilver. Best Pokémon game(s) of all time

Christian Nava

This one should have been called "Persona Non Grata" XD All joking aside, great list!

Christian Nava
>>17692580

I know =p To be honest, I think you'd enjoy Persona 4 Golden more. That elusive Vita swan song...