Roleplaying games are some of the best video game experiences available to players today. They uniquely utilize the medium in a way that other venues for entertainment simply cannot match. Few other mediums, save for maybe books, let people become so uniquely immersed in a world that parallels their own in some ways, but is utterly alien to it in others. And here lies the rub for the best RPGs of recent years, and indeed all time. They might be some incredibly distant departures from the world that players know - but there always needs to be a mirror held up to that which is familiar.