The Witcher Enhanced Edition Director's Cut (2007)

The Witcher has many virtues and the sentence "arguably one of the best RPGs ever made" summarizes it. When I first played this I hated it for its buggy first version, but then Enhanced Edition came and I could finally taste it fully. It's a real modern RPG, with choices that matter, a well-realized world, great characters, great graphics and sound. It's very unique too, with its intriguing combat, cool alchemy system, solid novel-like story and main character (much cooler towards the end than pictured on the overview above), *real* dark fantasy world with a vivid Middle Ages tone (unlike the much publicized dark fantasy from Dragon Age), entertaining dialogs and people, knights, princes, bad guys, everything. So I can't think of a reason why hardcore RPG fans wouldn't like this game. In its final version, bugs and performance issues were pretty much blown away. Finally I'd like to add I could barely believe when I saw this here because it's not the kind of game you get for ten bucks, it's hardly an old game, very polished, not dated at all, worth more than that.