Time Magazine proclaims the best RPG of 2015 is.....

[BasilZero]

Xenoblade Chronicles X for the WiiU!

Time : The Best RPG of 2015 Is Only Available on the Wii U


The good: Huge and beautifully realized world to explore, excellent gameplay systems work well together
 The bad: Insufficient documentation—and this is a game that could use a better manual
 Bottom line: Hands-down the best roleplaying game of 2015

Forty-six hours of your life feels like plenty to surrender to any video game. And yet if I'm reading Xenoblade Chronicles X's numbers right, I've chewed through less than half its alien other-lands, its sweeping herds of indigenous fauna (dubbed "indigens," some so enormous they blot out the sky at a hundred paces), its labyrinthine gameplay systems and its dazzling panoramas with arcing geological formations that soar above you.

That you can wander anywhere your eyeballs register is only the game's surface allure, an assimilation of the Western roleplaying genre's penchant for turning players loose in freaking ginormous spaces where who-knows-what lurks around any corner. In other games, most of those places turn out to be facile—battle zoos under a patina of storytelling. Scrape it off, and you're either fighting or looking for more stuff to fight.

There's another game that came to mind as I played Xenoblade Chronicles X, and that's Square Enix's Final Fantasy XIII, whose Gran Pulse sequences parallel Mira's free-roaming and epically weird cliff-scapes and Godzilla-sized wildlife. But Takahasi's playbook is more sublime, and in its sprawling Skyrim-scale openness, more spatially Western. That jibes with what Takahasi himself told me, that he "doesn't have very much interest in 'current' Japanese anime and games," and that the books he reads or films he watches or games he plays "are made in the West." "As a result, I've come to the realization that it's best to try and organically make the kind of things I like, or want," he says. In Xenoblade Chronicles X, we're seeing the superlative upshot of that process.

More information at the source of: Xenoblade Chronicles X Is A Great Reason To Buy A Wii U

[Cute Pikachu]

Well I would say it's no 3 this year (fallout 4 is worse from my 5 hour play time at a friend's at least compared to 3) Blood and Witch are too good.
Overall rpgs kicked assume this year.

[BasilZero]

Yep - this was a great year for RPGs overall

Fallout 4
The Witcher 3
Bloodborne
Dark Souls II Scholar of the First Sin
Final Fantasy Type-0 HD
Xenoblade Chronicles X

Next year is gonna be even bigger with

Final Fantasy XV
Kingdom Hearts 2.8
Star Ocean 5
Persona 5
The Witcher 3 Expansion

and other games :O

[Legend]

MGSV is pretty much a RPG right?

[BasilZero]

MGSV is pretty much a RPG right?

wat

[ethomaz]

I'm sure Edge will choose Bloodborne GOTY but I guess they considered it a action RPG.

[Dr. Pezus]

Lol  witcher destroys it

[Legend]

wat

Why wouldn't it be?

[BasilZero]

Why wouldn't it be?

I thought it was Action/Adventure with Stealth elements o.O

[Legend]

I thought it was Action/Adventure with Stealth elements o.O

Past games were, but MGSV is a different beast. It's open world and has tons of traditional RPG mechanics.

[BasilZero]

Past games were, but MGSV is a different beast. It's open world and has tons of traditional RPG mechanics.

Interesting - guess I'll find out in the future when I get it on PC

[Legend]

Interesting - guess I'll find out in the future when I get it on PC

You need to play it now!!!

One of the best games of all time. If it wasn't for the second half being chopped up and thinned out for budget reasons/Konami, it'd be the undisputed GOTY.

[BasilZero]

You need to play it now!!!

One of the best games of all time. If it wasn't for the second half being chopped up and thinned out for budget reasons/Konami, it'd be the undisputed GOTY.

Not yet ;o!

I still wanna play Metal Gear Legacy Collection on my PS3. Bought it few months ago.