Baldur's Gate or The Elder Scrolls IV

[Treebiter]

As mentioned, BG1+2 are the kings of CRPG goodness alongside PS:Torment and Falllout 1+2. If you require some 3D then Morrowind is the way to go IMO. Oblivion is awful in comparison. It's souless and bland, though many will disagree.

 

[Tefal]

Fallout 2

 

[BobbyBBB]

BG

 

[bhavv]

thanks (and neil) but seems intimidating and unnecessary for me.
I only want to run through it quickly to get the main story line.

BG + Quickly dont go together.

The mods in Neils link bring the first game up to the second games engine, without that its quite a painful eyesore playing through the first game in its vanilla state.

 

[Rack]

BG + Quickly dont go together.

The mods in Neils link bring the first game up to the second games engine, without that its quite a painful eyesore playing through the first game in its vanilla state.

I haven't played that particular mod but the one I did played was nuch in the same vein of bringing BG to BG2 standards and you really do need something like that. Tutu is a bit of a swine to install and originally that was way worse but from what I hear now it's got much better in that regard.

And yeah, BG is not a quick game, I always play it at 2x speed (you can change this quite simply in the configuration) and it still takes dozens of hours.

 

[Neil79]

thanks (and neil) but seems intimidating and unnecessary for me.
I only want to run through it quickly to get the main story line.

If you struggle with the difficulty and length of time needed to install my instructive list(isn't that hard really) you shouldn't be playing BG1 or BG 2