You know what would be great & very interesting?
If someone made a poll or something like that for the best RPG and it would be something like this...
First it would have 2 categories: DOS & Windows.. And this could be expanded later with something like SNES/NES, Amiga etc etc...
Use mobygames or something to get a complete list of RPGs belonging to a category. Then every registered member of these forums could choose 5 games in each category that he/she likes the most. Each of those 5 games would now get 1 point. No "first choice gets 3 points" or things like that. everyone would just choose 5 games they think are the best from the list.. and each of those games would get 1 point. If you think about your favourite 5 games the differences between how good they are compared to each other is quite marginal at best. And the difficulty for the voters to decide which should come first.. which would be third.. etc.. is wasted time.
After a while we'd have a cool ranking database for the best RPGs in DOS, Windows, Etc... There have been many "Best RPG evah!" votes but comparing a 1980's amiga game to a 2006 Windows game just makes no sense whatsoever..
Another way to go might be to make to categories by year.. like.. 90-95, 96-00, etc... But the idea of categorizing the games by the platform would make way more sense in my opinion. This would also eliminate the distortion in the rankings created by the fact that younger gamers would vote only for those 2000+ windows game cause they haven't even played or heard about ultima's or might & magics.
This would be a interesting / handy / great / fun database in so many ways.
It could even help newcomers to the genre to pick out the best games.
As some of you may know.. I recently started getting into 90's dos games.
A database/rankinglist like these would've been so great.
A thing like this would not be too hard to make I believe? I would do it myself
had I the necessary skills plus I think someone from this site.. a moderator/admin shoud be involved in this.. it should be a feature.. and official feature of rpgwatch.. it would be so great.
I could help by making the list of games for DOS, Windows etc.. I'd use mobygames and those kinda sites and make a list of games for someone who could do this.
Uhh... sorry.. just a thought