Dragon Age: Origins (PC)
The RPG can be quantified by RPG fans as smart games for smart people. And Dragon Age is chock full of all the things that make RPGs so great. It's got lots of reading, lots of numbers, math, inventory management, loot, skills, trades, talents, abilities, a ragtag cast of colorful characters who come from disparate backgrounds but set aside their differences to save the world.
Dragon Age origins isn't about dragons at all. Sure there are a few dragons and a lot of villains like to take dragon form, but the game is not about dragons. It's really a bunch of other stuff happening in a time where dragons also exist.
What Dragon Age is though is Lord of The Rings without the One Ring or useless hobbits. You have the archdemon whatshisname (Sauron) who leads the darkspawn (orcs), a rabble of one dimensional cretins bent on whose only goals is wonton destruction. These are the most boring villains since Satan tricked Eve into eating the food that God was going to eat.
The darkspawn dig up an archdemon who is also one of the Old Gods who are asleep and who are responsible for the creation of the darkspawn. But an Old God is tainted by the darkspawn when they find him so he becomes archdemon. Also he's a dragon, but not actually a dragon because he's smarter than a regular dragon. Also none of this is explained very well and if BioWare doesn't give a fuck then neither do I. But everyone knows that if you kill the archdemon then the crisis is over and the darkspawn go away, where they don't bother anyone, except the dwarves and no one gives a fuck about dwarves because they all live underground and out of sight is out of mind.
Bad guys doing bad guy things is interesting storytelling, anything else gets in the way. What's the archdecmon's motive? No one cares because it doesn't immediately further bad guys doing bad things theme. How can barely sentient monsters like the darkspawn keep pace technologically with intelligent races like humans, elves and dwarves? This is a stupid question because bad guys are doing bad things and they need equal technology to be effective at being bad guys doing bad things. The darkspawn don't need any explanation for their one dimension existence because they're bad guys doing bad things.
Eventually the ragtag group of misfits and degenerates assembles an army, well they don't assemble it, it just kind of shows up at the end of the game. They really did a good job of outsourcing army assembly though because they suddenly have any army even though the party has been playing grab ass for like ten days fighting darkspawn one at a time. Also you turn in a few pounds of crap that you don't want which helps you equip your entire army and turn the tide of battle into your favor. Finally you fight the archdemon, which is basically like every other fight and if no one told you that you were fighting the archdemon you honestly wouldn't know. Something happens to wrap up the loose ends of the story that no one paid attention to. The End.