1. Deus Ex (thanks to its 1st title only, still waiting for a totally worthy successor, reviews made me skip the 2nd and I'm still not persuaded by what I read about the latest)
2. Thief (even the flawed 3rd chapter didn't disappoint me, and I expect the 4th to be enjoyable enough if played stealthily, although I still expect the 2nd to remain the absolute best of the series for now)
3. Gothic (great 1st and maybe even better 2nd game, I read the 3rd, that's still in my backlog, isn't as good, but the first two raised the series ranking enough to grant it a place in my list anyway)
4. Fallout
5. The Elder Scrolls (great, but I tend to get lost midway whenever I have to suspend playing games so vast and free-roaming with many subquests that I want to finish before the main one, when I resume I end up being quite clueless about what doing next... I love vast sandbox and free-roaming games, but they have this dowwnside, maybe it also depends on in-game journals not particularly good at recording at which point the player left each quest and subquest, either telling too little or too much without pointing out enough the essential things, and they almost always have quite primitive indexing systems)
Waiting to insert The Witcher in the list, but I want to at least finish Gothic 2 before starting this series, as from what I read I consider TW also a sort of heir of the best Gothic titles.







