OT: a nice RPG-ish game?

[Alneyan]

deccan said:
One word: Darklands.

Concured with. If you can find it and run it, Darklands. It will unlikely be anyone's cup of tea, but it is worth a look, and definitively more than that (it came out in 1992 if memory serves). Do not forget to patch this game though, or else you will be totemised.

Daggerfall might catch your fancy as well, if you don't mind its graphics, and its lack of variety after some time of playing. Daggerfall is closer to a love-hate game; there are worshippers of this game, and others burnt it. Ah, if only Morrowind had been just Daggerfall with an editor to add more randomness and variety... Like above, make sure you have the latest patch, which irons out almost all bugs from the game (you can still experience many crashes though, but if you are lucky, it might actually work well under XP).

Besides this, may I suggest both Ultima VII, and especially Serpent's Isle? They are easy to run on modern computers; a programme has been made for this purpose, as the games were unplayable on most computers. So, if you want to play them, be sure to download Exult there.

Lastly, I don't know if you fancy such games, but roguelikes may interest you (such as Nethack, Angband and its variants, or ADOM). Their graphics are fairly... erh... rudimentary, and the interfance can be cumbersome to learn if you hate keyboard shortcuts. There are also two graphical Versions of roguelikes, with decent graphics and a nicer interface:
- Falcon's Eye for Nethack.
- AngbandTK and ZangbandTK for Angband. I am not sure if I can post the link to these though; while they are perfectly legal, the easiest Version to use is hosted on an abandonware site, which may or may not be fine with our Moderators.

On another note, as you seem to like dialogues (Planescape Torment), may I suggest the Discworld series? These are adventure games instead, but I cannot think of any other RPG with dialogues such as Planescape.

Edit: I knew I had forgotten something. Albion. It is a somewhat old game (1996 if memory serves, so it isn't that old), and that can even run well on modern computers, with enticing graphics. Its setting is quite unique, and it could be said to be somewhat an RPG. Or, on the topic of such atmospheric games, Omikron (or The Nomad Soul as it is known in some countries) might interest you. It is a hybrid game with adventure elements, some action (thrown in at the request of Eidos, the editor) and a drop of RPG. Its main strength is its atmosphere as well, although the core of the plot feels quite cliché after a while.