Well - that was basically Baldurs Gate. It came with a graphics card, I think ? Without addon, back then.
I didnt liked BG too much. The final battle for example, oh boy. I was so happy when I found out that you could win by just flooding the place with summons from wands. And indeed that did the trick. They later "fixed" this "bug". Also I wanted to play Bard, and boy turned that out to be a poor choice.
BG2 was the breakthrough though. The levels got higher and the magic system turned out to be a lot more complex and interesting. And trying to optimize my Sorcerer spelllist was such an interesting challenge. I think I must have played through BG2 as a sorcerer at least half a douzen times, total.
Ever since I tried to find another BG2, but it never occured. It still has an unique charm, a charm BG3 doesnt have, even if BG3 is a great game in its own right.
NWN2 for example was a boring game. I really hated how the races looked. Only humans looked tolerable. I didnt liked any of the party NPCs much either, they are boring. The "romance" you could get with that elven lady was literally ONE DIALOGUE. Compared to what you get with Aerie in BG2 (the only one I ever really romanced in BG2), thats just so bad. All in all I only played this game once, as a human Rogue(4)/Fighter(16) with Intelligence 14 and fully able to handle traps and locks. I took the Rogue levels just so I wouldnt have to party with that annoying Tiefling all. The. Friggin. Time.
My favorite piece of NWN2 was actually the second expansion Storm of Zehir. It contained interesting trade and crafting options. Ultimately I never played it more than once either though.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic had the good storywriting from Bioware, but nowhere near the depth. The game was in most places really easy and turned even more easy when I found the optimal build, with which even the final battle isnt much of a challenge. Still, thanks to the writing, I must have played this game like a douzen times or so in total.
Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines was probably my second favorite game after BG2, but its completely different. You play only one character, and its a vampire, and it plays in modern times. Still, it has awesome art, especially also the speakers, and it has four very different vampire clans to play (Malkavian, Nosferatu, Gangrel, Tremere), while the remaining three play sort of the same (Toreador, Brujah, Ventrue).
A really awful, but in some aspects great game was The Temple of Elemental Evil. It had the best combat I ever saw in any game. Really challenging, up to about character level five. After that it was less interesting. I hated this game in every other regard though. Like, the party NPCs you could pick up had gross stats and stole from you. Thats why I only played a five people party. You could have up to eight people in party, but only five of them selfmade. And the interface. How often did I want to move a character to a place and instead they started looting a character, losing the action. I didnt want to loot anything, I wanted them to be in the right position. Boy did I hate the poor interface. And the bugs of course. Yikes.
I never finished Planescape: Torment. Thats the one game that just had too much dialogue. I also didnt really liked I was forcefed a character.
After that there wasnt really going on much with roleplaying games for a very long time. And since thats my favorite kind of game, well, that was really bad. I did have some fun with No Man's Sky though. Even if thats not a roleplaying game.
By the way I tried Fallout but I really didnt like it. I was forced to do a dungeon and, well, I died. And that was that. I had trouble motivating me to play this in the first place, too, because I just find the whole setting so depressing.
I also tried Gothic and really hated it with a passion. The world was also depressing, you couldnt create your own character, the lore was horribly uninspired, stereotypical and boring, the class choices have been very limited, the first game IIRC had no women at all and the later parts would also not have great female characters, and finally of course bugs would be rampant. My least favorite roleplaying game of all times.
