Are RPG's getting worse every 5 years? (List your top 10 RPG's ever to help!)

I could be off base not knowing any of you, but my guess is most of us haven't played every RPG in every generation. We tend to focus on the half dozen or dozen RPGs we personally know and base our understandings of the genre during that time on these games.

For example, how could I possibly have a well nformed opinion about the 8 bit era when I missed the first Final Fantasy? And why has no one mentioned a Phantasy Star? Certainly missing that game limits your ability to judge the era.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Rei no Otaku

Maybe no one felt it worthy of making their list. I enjoyed PS2 and PS4, but I don't think they belong in my top 10 RPGs.

My point was actually that a lot of people haven't played the games, though, and hence top ten lists are very arbitrary, mine included. A game isn't like a movie that you can take out in an hour and a half, a song you can hear in three minutes, or a painting you can look at for a minute and a half. Because they are so long most people miss out on a large number of them.

There's nowhere I can't reach.