RPGCodex looks at the RPG's of the last 10 years - from 2000 to current year of 2010 (so far).
And they even have opinions of Game Designers of what RPG's they liked best of the last decade.Michal Madej of UbiSoft (formerly w/ CD Project) really puts things in perspective of the evolution of the RPG in the last 10 years, if you ask me.
Michal Madej (The Witcher, Ubisoft Shanghai's RPG)
http://www.ubi.com
Published in 2000, Deus Ex was a forecast for the whole decade, the most influential title and an omen of incoming changes. Even excellent games that tried to stick to "the old-ways", like the remarkable Arcanum, simply went extinct.
There were, however, titles that learned the lesson - with Vampire: Bloodlines being probably the most brilliant RPG design of decade, which strongly influenced The Witcher as well.
Eventually, Mass Effect 2, a direct descendant of the aforementioned titles opened a new decade with a perfected design of the next generation of RPG experience.
