Best western RPG of the 00's?

[Turio]

Deus Ex is it counts.
If not VtM: Bloodlines or Morrowind but they both have so many flaws I'm not sure I'd be comfortable aying they were the "best" anything.

All the other RPGs I've played from that decade were largely rubbish.

Ever played Deus Ex lately? It's combat system was not anywhere near flawless too.

 

[Bobbovski]

Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. It's awesome and everything a computer RPG should be.

Runner up: Deus ex, Baldurs gate 2

 

[Axolotl]

Deus Ex is it counts.
If not VtM: Bloodlines or Morrowind but they both have so many flaws I'm not sure I'd be comfortable aying they were the "best" anything.

All the other RPGs I've played from that decade were largely rubbish.

Ever played Deus Ex lately? It's combat system was not anywhere near flawless too.

While not exactly Flawless (there's a serious imbalance in the augs) I think it's better than any other FPSRPG system I've played. It handles the conflict between player skill and character skill well, if you are untrained with a gun you won't be effective with it but you can still use it. It encourages a more tactical approach than other similar games.

Say for example you have a shotgun and are untrained with it, you'll die in a straigt up fire fight but if you ambush an enemy at point blank they die, contrast with say Fallout 3 where skill determines damage instead of acuracy and you can shoot a guy point blank in the head with a shotgun and they'll be almost unhurt. This mean if you're using a weapon you're uskilled with in Deus Ex you have to use it more creatively whereas in Fallout 3 you simply have to use it more.

 

[Hawgh]

The Witcher. This is mostly because it diverted quite a bit in tone from my previous RPG favourites(Neverwinter Nights, Morrowind and to a lessr degree Bloodlines).
Dragon Age and New Vegas are also up there, but there's a certain lack of...spark for those two.

 

[Ubermetalhed]

KoToR. It won me over. After being hesitant to play it due to all the hype I finally sat down with it...for hours and hours. It was fantastic, shame the sequel had so many flaws.

Also I'm a JRPG fan so I like my battles turnbased but KotoR was enough of a middle ground for me to enjoy it, so yeah definitely my favourite western RPG of the last 10 years.

 

[CoL0sS]

1. Baldurs Gate 2
2. Morrowind
3. Dragon Age
4. Fallout 3
5. KOTOR
Honorable mentions: Temple of Elemental evil, Vampire: The Masquerade-Bloodlines, Oblivion, Neverwinter Nights, The Witcher, probably Mass Effect series and I guess I'd have to mention WoW