Ok, the Top 10 with descriptions:
10. Dragon Age: Origins + Awakening expansion (PC also on 360 & PS3)
A spiritiual successor to Baldurs Gate, 5 years in the making and includes a unique twist with 6 different Origin stories. The Origin stories vary in quality, but all offer extra insight into a deep fantasy world full of political intrigue, racial tensions and fear of magic (which goes on to form a core component of Dragon Age II). The Awakening expansion was fairly good, although not quite as entertaining as the main game. Unfortunately, the sequel (Dragon Age II) was pretty poor, should have really been marketed as a spin-off and actually helps to highlight everything the makes this game great.
The story is your basic modern fantasy fare; Tolkien-like but much darker (characters would frequently get covered in masses of blood to the point of looking like Kratos). However, what it lacks in narrative orginality it makes up for in old-school tactical gameplay and a mix of interesting party characters ranging from the sterotypical (Alistair) to the downright bizzare (Morrigan, Zevran). The Origin stories were an especially ambitious route to take with some rather unique twists for each one. Very few games are quite as ambitious as Dragon Age Origins and fewer still manage to implement such ambition into such a brilliant package. A great RPG from Bioware and probably the best pure RPG of the last decade. I really hope Dragon Age 3 takes more from this than Dragon Age 2.
