Quote Originally Posted by Simon Appleton
I've also recently re-played Might and Magic VII, 1999. I'd like to get MM6, 1998, to work on Windows XP but it doesn't. Both games provide that classic RPG hook of continually getting experience and stuff (right up to level 100 or so), and both have enormous worlds that still feel more engaging than the curiously dead worlds of some modern RPGs such as Morrowind.
I've still got M&M8, it's the first game I bought for the PC. I had a lot of fun with that game but sadly it had a bug in it that prevented me getting beyond a certain point (hmmm...now that it occurs to me, I have a new PC and OS now...)

Yeah I love that mindless hack 'n' slash stuff. I especially liked beating up the ghouls and vampires in the wilderness area, the ranged fire is pretty powerful in that game and it's great fun letting 'em have it from afar :)

Quote Originally Posted by Simon Appleton
Lately, I've been getting a hankering to revisit Pacific General 1997, and Baldur's Gate 1, 1998. The former allows you to run Japanese bicycle infantry units from victory right from China in 1937 to the mid-West of America in 1945. The latter is like immersing yourself in a gorgeous bath of DnD goodness and staying in there for several months. I'm in need of an RPG fix and although I've had Oblivion on pre-order for months, I am sure it won't come near to rivalling BG1 when it finally comes out.
BG1 - yuck. Just thinking about that game causes me to start growing sleepy.

Although when I think about it, it's true I did enjoy it when I first started playing it, on my brother's PC. But when I took it back to my place and finally got around to installing it and getting back to where I'd been weeks before, all the thrill was gone. Completely. And it's never returned.

I still have my trusty old Amiga 1200 sitting here in a box. If I ever get it up and running again (it needs some fine soldering work done to the mobo) I'll go right back to playing Lords of the Realm II again, which hails from about 1994. The Amiga version of that game is WAY better than the PC version.