What were your most memorable computer RPGs? (non-mmo)

[gott_ist_tot]

Eye of the Beholder 1 & 2 *
RoA: Blade of Destiny
Planescape Torment
Wizardry 7
Rogue

(*) Can't remeber if it was pt. 1 or 2... anyway, I had this PC AT which didn't even have a hard drive. So I had to boot DOS from 5 1/4, then insert both 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 diskettes with files copied meticulously from my friends H/D and selected by trial and error, as the game exoected certain files in certain drives.

As my defense - this were the years when you were unable to buy a legal game in Poland. So called 'computer markets' were completely legal and involved setting up booths with 'pirated' soft and copying these onto your floppies for a charge.

Heh. These were the times when new Ataris with 'upper' memory hit the market. If you were not cautious, and wanted to exchange a tape, the guy would load it up, say 'naaah... tis a crappy game, won't change for it'. And then happily record the game from this 'upper memory' onto his own tape.

Good times, good times...

And the BBSes... don't even get me started.. FIDO net...

[Fomori]

ADOM (Ancient Domains of Mystery). Excellent ROGUE-like game and free. http://www.adom.de/
Temple of Elemental Evil
Eye of the Beholder (II and III)
Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall ('Bad Dog dont cast that spell')
Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Wizardy VII: Crusaders of the Dark Savant
Curse of the Azure Bonds (first DnD SSI game I played)
Ultima VI: The False Prophet

[nomaddog]

I remember playing Bard's Tale and Companions of Xanth. Loved all the SSI D&D games like Dark Sun and Fantasy Empires. Moved up to Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, Icewind Dale, Pools of Radiance, Neverwinter Nights, and Arcanum. But, my all time favorite computer game was Starflight. You assumed the role of a starship captain, exploring the universe, meeting new alien races and occasionally getting into space battles. Ah, the good ol' days!

[szaijan]

Ultima Underworld
Knights of the Old Republic
Mass Effect

[gwlech]

ADOM (Ancient Domains of Mystery). Excellent ROGUE-like game and free. http://www.adom.de/
Temple of Elemental Evil
Eye of the Beholder (II and III)
Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall ('Bad Dog dont cast that spell')
Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Wizardy VII: Crusaders of the Dark Savant
Curse of the Azure Bonds (first DnD SSI game I played)
Ultima VI: The False Prophet

Oh yes! ADOM, I loved that game, although, I was never able to complete it. It was very challenging.

[ArichValtrahn]

Wasteland. Best evar.

[Worker1179]

C64
Legacy of the Ancients
Phantasie 1 & 3
Pool of Radiance
Might & Magic II

[MeToo]

Games I enjoyed by order played:
Oregon Trail (What? :-) You made strategic decisions, managed resources and played a "role" of Farmer, Banker...)

Sentinel Worlds I - fantastic space RPG still playable on modern Windows systems.

Gold Box Series. I think I played Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades

Warriors of the Eternal Sun - Sega Genesis. Nice to have the automapper fill those grid squares in for me for a change!

My brother grew up watching me play these single player games over my shoulder and I always wanted to give him the helm to see what he would do. Now, with DDO we have the chance to play together and that's great.

What I liked about all of those was that they layed the rules out clearly and the challenge and fun were following the clues to advance along the adventure. I find the challenge of DDO rather is discovering the rules.

[Braegan]

I think the first ones I got hooked on playing were:

Legend of Blacksilver
Times of Lore
Wasteland
And man what was that one Sierra put out...Kings' Quest?

Then of course I moved on to the SSI games,

Pool of Radiance
Hillsfar
Azure Bonds

Eye of the Beholder also stands out

ahhh the old 5 1/4" floppy disk games

[Swedishchef]

Warlords for mac bk in the 80´s, got me hooked badly.

Ahh the joy of a black and white monitor

[HallowedOne]

All the Infinity engine games: Icewind Dale series for the action, Planescape: Torment for the story, and Baldur's Gate for everything

I've also spent 8 yers playing Neverwinter Nights, playing on a PW based on LOTR called Gondor vs Mordor. It was great fun and left some good friends there.

Fallout 2 was fantastic. I still have some screenies of some fun parts of the game - I remember you could meet up a Ghoul who offered to play some "Tragic" with you, and also had a fun joke about a severed head in hell...

And on the new generation, The Witcher. One of the most amazing games I've ever played.

[Gypsy_Mouse]

After Adventure on the Atari 2600, my first fantasy game was Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession. I remember hearing the bone golems for the first time and almost falling off my chair. They still give me the willies.

Stone Prophet and Menzoberranzan followed.

I loved the Gabriel Knight series, though the second "The Beast Within" wasn't as good since it used live actors which meant no Tim Curry as Gabriel.

Baldur's Gate 1&2 are probably still my all time favorites.

IWD, KotOR and NWN are right up there, too.


Of the newer games, The Witcher is very good, but I haven't finished it.
Torchlight was lots of fun and if you like Diablo style games (which I usually don't), I'd recommend it.

And right now Baldur's Gate is possibly being pushed from its pedestal by Dragon Age: Origins. But it's BioWare, what's not to like?

[Elmaster_Thay]

Adventure on the Atari 2600 was the first for me... but it wasn't a computer game, so it doesn't count.

The best was Elder Scrolls 2, Daggerfall. I got a demo on a cd with an old and long gone magazine (Computer Gaming World). It was a massive demo for the time, taking nearly a full cd.
I explored this massive world, leveled my mage character all the way to the cap, and explored every dungeon (there were several thousand), purchased a lot of horses, houses, mantions and boats. Looted every merchant on every city, and basically spent the next two years playing the demo 6 hours a day, 7 days a week.
By the time I finished it, Elder Scrolls 2 was long gone and Elder Scrolls 3, Morrowind was out... At least Bethesda learned to make smaller demos of their games!
Great game, and they were giving it out for free on the Bethesda website last time I checked.

[BlackSteel]

Planescape Torment all the way. Playing a melee character was lackluster, but a playthru with a caster was fun, but better yet was playing thru as a noncombatant, high charisma and intelligence, and just beat almost all the encounters thru dialogue.

nothing like convincing the ladies to jump your bone when you look like a rotting corpse.

diablo 1 and 2 were also very addictive, mind numbingly so.

[PopeJual]

I just replayed Might and Magic 6 recently. In MM6, you hold down shift to run.

Now I keep shield blocking in the marketplace on my characters that don't yet have a Pendant of Time.

[English_Warrior]

Was I the only person who really loved Dungeon Siege and Dungeon Siege II?....

Other than that the usual list:

Baldurs Gate
Knights of the old Republic
Morrowind
The Witcher
Oblivion
Mass Effect
NWN


And a few other not so famous:
Two Worlds
Titan Quest

[boldarblood]

Here is a list of RPG's I have really enjoyed over the years, some new, some old.

Wasteland
Fallout 1 and 2
Arcanum
all the old SSI series
Might and Magic early ones
Wizardry, all of them
Ultima 1-7
Shining Force for Sega Genesis
Secret of Mana for SNES
dark heart of uukrul
Temple of Elemental Evil
Bard Tale
Eye of the Beholder
Vampire Bloodlines
Darlands
Infinity Games (Baldurs Gate, Icewind Dale, Planescape Torment)
Arx Fatalis
System Shock 1 and 2
Dungeons and Dragons: warriors of the eternal sun - sega genesis


For co-op games with friends
NWN
NWN2
Sacred 1 and 2
Dungeon Siege 1 and 2

[Helios_Stoneheart]

I remember spending a lot of my college days and nights playing my favorite rpgs AD&D Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession and the follow up Ravenloft: Stone Prophet (which also made it my favorite realm to play PnP in, or at least elements of it in our adventures). Those i found in the bargain bin at a electronics boutique in a dual pack for $10. Lands of Lore was a lot of fun too. Baldur's Gate I &II followed by Neverwinter Nights. The best thing about Neverwinter was the variety of modules you could download, especially the ones that took place in Ravenloft.

[Chris79]

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards

It made me the lech I am today

[Salsa]

Wizardry I