Dragon's Dogma truly captures the spirit of Dungeons & Dragons, and by extension tabletop roleplaying and dungeon crawls, in a way very few have ever approached. You can feel in every nook and cranny of this game the passion of the developer for fantastical medieval realms and adventures fighting monsters in dank caves and crumbling dungeons, and talking in faux-englishe accents and drinking beers that are mostly foam.

So detailed and thoughtful is this masterpiece that it even includes the party of characters made by people not taking it as seriously as you, the partially barren world not intended by the GM for you to visit, and an ending where everyone just gave up and wanted to do something else.