You could try Dragons Age : Origins - you can probably pick up a special edition pack with the second part (Awakenings) at a reasonable price. I'm also a big fan of DA 2 which is a bit more of a Marmite experience (some love it, some do not), but it's not as customisable in terms of either your character or your companions as you might like.
That should keep you going for a while
Arx Fatalis is about a decade old and available on GoG.com. A first-person RPG like Morrowind/Oblivion and in the style of the Ultima Underworld games.
I'd have to recommend Planescape: Torment.
The other suggestions are good too. I'd also add Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, also available for cheap on GOG.com (link to the left there).
- Planescape: Torment is still perhaps my favorite RPG of all time. Very story driven, many people agree that a high INT/WIS/CHA character gives the best experience.
- The Witcher 2 has been out for a few months now and many people like it even more than the original.
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is a classic Bioware RPG and kind of a bridge between Baldur's Gate and Bioware's more modern games.
- Freedom Force is a mission based superhero RPG that has a similar combat system to Baldur's Gate.
- Dragon Age: Origins is one of Bioware's more modern takes on the party-based fantasy RPG.
- If you're not scared of trying RPG/shooter hybrids then I'd recommend Mass Effect 2 and Fallout 3 from Bioware and Bethesda respectively. Both games have a system where you can pause at times and queue actions so it's not as overwhelming as an action shooter.
No game advice to offer MS...but am enjoying reading your messages. Autumn on lookout mountain will include star gazing...are there any RPG that walk fantasy and scifi line well?
We have new computer now also...x10 x10 x10 starts being much more fun.
You make me want to move my PC to the living room, and stop blocking my fireplace with my tv. And learn to use a fireplace. Then things would be downright cozy!
Make sure you check into installing Skyrim from the disk (may want to google it), otherwise Steam may require a download of gargantuan proportions.
Steam has a "play offline" ability, might want to take a little time to get familiar with that - others could bring you up to speed.
Also, once you open a PC game it's already non-returnable. Think of this as a way to be able to retrieve you're game if you ever lose your discs.
I sincerely hope you get the installation figured out so you can start the game soon! You are going to LOVE it!
Keep a fire spell handy too, the trolls don't like fire
These posts always make me smile. Please keep it up forever.
These posts always make me smile. Please keep it up forever.
I agree. I love these updates.
While in New Orleans with my daughters I saw a TV commercial for Skyrim. Wow, that is the first TV ad I've ever seen for a computer RPG.
That hadn't occurred to me; and even if it isn't, it was easy (for me, anyway) to forget, with all the other holiday season blockbuster advertising, that Skyrim isn't like all those other holiday season blockbusters. Like, no guns or corridors. It may be hyped and well-known thanks to Oblivion and Fallout 3, but it's also a crunchy simulation with roots in grand 90s CRPGs, that puts a lot of trust in the player to not need his hand held. It doesn't have glowing exclamation marks over static NPCs, and the quest givers and shopkeepers might have closed up and gone to bed and you just have to wait until morning.
It's the most streamlined and friendly Elder Scrolls game yet, but it's still a long way from what one might expect to sell to millions of people (or at least have the advertising to suggest that expectation).
I dunno, Gravey. The games industry has been bigger than the movie industry for a while now... I have friends in their teens who have Skyrim, and friends in their 50's who have it, and everyone in between has at least heard of it. The gamer demo is shifting.
I dunno, Gravey. The games industry has been bigger than the movie industry for a while now... I have friends in their teens who have Skyrim, and friends in their 50's who have it, and everyone in between has at least heard of it. The gamer demo is shifting.
Yeah, that's what I mean and was surprised that Beth's advertising has confidence in: that the non-enthusiast audience isn't just all Madden and COD.
Maybe 90s simulation gaming is coming back!
Dragon Age Origins had network ads, as did World of Warcraft (and other MMOs). I'm sure I've seen others, though not as often as Call of Modern Battlefield : Company Duty.
One shouldn't apologize for the listening of Rush, just sayin'
Great write ups MV, I hope you figure out Skyrim to read your adventures there.
Merry Christmas to you too!
Paragraphs are your friend!
I don't think upgrading the Keep's soldier's equipment is essential; when it comes time to defend the place, your NPC allies won't be as effective, but my party ended up doing the larger part of the fighting anyway.
Ouch...that sounds like something that should have been patched long ago. Sorry for that huge annoyance, but hope you'll get an equal amount of enjoyment out of the new playthrough.
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