Top 10 best-selling role-playing games of all time (P.2)

Role-playing games always have a strange attraction to gamers…

There are many reasons why gamers love the role-playing genre so much. For example, it has a large map to explore for a lifetime, diverse and challenging missions, in-depth and highly customizable characters, a plot with many emotions and choices… Because Therefore, role-playing games often live very long, even though they have been released for many years, there are still people looking to buy them. To find out the most prominent faces over the years, please refer to the top 10 best-selling role-playing games of all time.

Capcom

2018

At least 16.8 million copies

Monster Hunter: World is one of Capcom’s successful and best-selling role-playing games. This part of the game shows us more action and slashing scenes because Monster Hunter: World focuses mainly on hunting monsters rather than following the plot. In addition, gamers also love this game because of the vividness, making you feel like hunting real monsters like in action movies about monsters. At the same time, the challenges, variety, difficulty level, combat system and crafting mechanism make players want to conquer.

Monster Hunter: World has become the best-selling role-playing game in Capcom’s history with 5 million copies sold in just 3 days of release. Monster Hunter: World also helped boost PlayStation 4 sales, breaking sales records at its PC release with the Iceborne DLC reaching over 7 million gamers.

CD Projekt RED

2015

At least 28 million copies

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a masterpiece that has created a new standard for how to build side quest lines as well as create an open world. In the game, you will play the role of a chivalrous demon hunter who kills girls Geralt on the way to find his lover and adopted daughter. Every step of your exploration in the game is extremely interesting, the game will draw a whole world full of interesting and mysterious things.

Each character has a very unique charm. From the demon hunter Geralt to the strong-willed young woman Ciri; Yennefer was arrogant and elusive, but behind her black cloak was a fragile soul. The more you play, the more attractive you will find this game. In fact, after completing the main plot, you still have dozens of other things to do and explore, and this is also the reason why The Witcher 3 becomes a game worth playing. In addition, the scenery in this game is also very rich and eye-catching, if you are bored, riding a horse to go sightseeing is not a bad idea.

Blizzard Entertainment

2012

At least 30 million copies (as of 2015, including the Reaper of Souls DLC)

Diablo is a legendary series already. Despite making fans wait for 12 long years, plus the mandatory network connection, controversial loot system, and different gameplay motifs compared to previous installments, Diablo III is still hunted. It was very popular and sold more than 30 million copies. Only on the first day of release, this role-playing game sold very well with 3.5 million copies taken home.

In the years that followed, the developer put a lot of effort and time into tweaking and fixing Diablo III, and listening to input from the fan community. Besides, this hit game was also ported to PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and later there was an expansion of Reaper of Souls. Partly thanks to the popularity of the console, sales of Diablo III have reached such an impressive milestone. Let’s wait and see if season 4 can break this record or not.

Bethesda Softworks

2011

At least 30 million (in 2016)

Although looking back now, Skyrim has many of those shortcomings, but this does not change the fact that Skyrim is still one of the most popular and best-selling role-playing games of all time. For many gamers, Skyrim has given them a vast world with lots of things to explore, in addition to extremely diverse and rich storylines and anecdotes.

The game’s map is full of mysteries for you to have a lifetime of adventure, mysterious ruins, creatures that you can use to sharpen your weapons, NPC characters for you to freely pick up. … And don’t forget the most interesting factor is that Skyrim also has dragons for you to fight. At the same time, Skyrim is also very warmly received by the modder community, creating countless different mods to improve the gamer’s experience. Perhaps this is also one of the main reasons why Skyrim sells like hot cakes.

Nintendo

1996

At least 47.5 million copies (including 31 million copies of Blue and Red, 14 million copies of Yellow, the rest are re-releases on Wii, Wii U, 3DS)

At first glance, this seems to be just a simple Game Boy game for you to collect and train unique animals, then use it to defeat your opponent and win the championship. Yet Pokémon Red / Blue / Yellow has become the best-selling RPG of all time. Although it was only around the mid-90s, it already had a multiplayer mode where you could trade Pokémon and solo with each other.

Pokémon Red and Blue got off to a hugely successful start, spawning a billion-dollar game series. In particular, this game is selling well in Japan and the US. In 2009, the Pokémon series became the highest-selling opening game on the Game Boy, and also the best-selling role-playing game in history (over 31 million copies at the time). Although we have not had the opportunity to experience these classic Pokémon parts, with today’s versions and extremely unique gameplay, it is not too difficult to understand why in the past Pokémon Red / Blue / Yellow shined brightly. radiant like that.

According to GVN360

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