Good topic, although I didn't have problems with darkness.
I agree with the notice about BG2, most monsters spoke before attacking. In Diablo there was no interaction what-so-ever (except 50 kb of text spoken by some jerk in town), in DD there was more of dialogue still we want more <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />.

Revenant... I loved it when I started playing, with all the martial arts, blocks, dodges. I uninstalled it when it came to caves level 5.
HandEFood, try Arcanum with Fallout 2, it's from the same developpers:
Troika was formed by the 3 keymembers from the original team.

Very good tread, in my opinion.