Timothy Cain is a relatively famous developer, who was for example involved in Fallout, Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines, Pillars of Eternity, and The Outer Worlds.
He recently also became a Youtuber, where he talks about game programming and development, and he just made a video about the five most influental roleplaying games of the 21th century:
The list is:
Quote
World of Warcraft + Accessible = More Fun
Elden Ring + Hard = More Fun (Opposite to WoW)
Skyrim + Exploration + Art, Level Design
Fallout: New Vegas + Extended Storylines of the original two Games + Humor (Dialogues, environmental storytelling, situations) + Real Choices, not black and white, significant consequences
Baldurs Gate 3 + Character customization; different characters get wildly different stories + Bouns: disproved Pseudoexperts; neither Turn based nor Pure D&D is dea
Runner Ups:
Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines + Great, atmospheric storytelling, characters, dialogue (in which Cain wasnt involved) - Not included because Cain was involved in the development
Half-Life 2 + Primarily a Shooter, but also everything else, with great story etc - Not a RPG
Vampire: Survivors + Does very much with very little - Not a RPG
I find this list quite interesting.
I have played VtMB and BG3 and both games are very much at the top of my favorite games of all times list.
I dont really see myself ever playing any of these other games though, for various reasons.
