Dragon Age: Origins
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The Witcher 3
These two would get my vote. Even as someone who isn't a fan of "retro" games (I mean bearing in mind I started gaming in the 1970s, I'm still a bit "meh" about anything more than a decade past) Oranges has stood the test of time IMHO. It's an interesting and satisfying game. Even the infamous Fade section is okay.
TW3 managed to become a sort of gold standard of RPGs for good reason IMHO. Personally I don't like being handed a pre-made protagonist to play, but if I must play one, there's plenty worse than Geralt.
Also previous Larian games: both of the DOS games if you like the general playing style of BG3 (very broadly speaking, that is: the similarities are largely superficial) and my personal favourite of the series is Divinity 2, which is not like DOS as it's third-person, mostly non-party and real-time. It's based on the same engine as Oblivion and consequently looks and plays a bit like it but it's definitely its own thing; and it's much sillier; and it crashes much less often (in fact the only time I've crashed it is from carelessly modding it, IIRC).
