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Having never played Planescape: Torment (the blasphemy!), my vote would go for either:
The Eye of the Beholder (have a soft spot for this series)
Baldur’s Gate (PC series)
You really really should just to immerse yourself in the meticulous writing style.
The 2D graphics have stood the test of time much better than the PC Baldur’s Gate series as well. What strikes you the most is how much of a difference putting more points into certain stats (like charisma or wisdom) can make. The immortal amnesiac you play can talk his way out of fights or have insights that open up new avenues of dialogue.
And the game isn’t too long either. The whole story is centred on a single question: what can change the nature of a man? Pretty profound tbh, especially when you discover who your original incarnation was and why he sought to become immortal.
I wish people would make more games like this. Let’s see what Neverwinter Nights 2 has to offer…
Yeah… it’s one of those games on my “list.” Only problem is that my list of games I need to play is about 50-60 games long… about 40 of which I actually own and haven’t played 
You play the Mega CD version ? , I got it just for the Yuzo soundtrack which is worth getting the game alone for.
Forgive my Ignorance , but what makes a game Dungeon and Dragons game ?. I can remember wanting the Dungeon and Dragon game for my Intellivsion , thinking it was based onthe cartoon :anjou_embarassed:
I am thinking it could be the basic rules applied from the pen and paper board games. And of course some addded plot.
Now, I am kinda surprised no one has mentioned D&D: Warriors of the Eternal Sun for SEGA Genesis. I just downloaded it like 4 days ago and have been playing it a lot. Its got a great intro and the plot is not bad at all. I especailly like the combat outside and in dungeons. Its definately an awesome game for its time. You all should check it out. Its pretty deep once you get to understand how its plays. Definately a hidden classic for Genesis if I do say so myself.
A D&D game is any game that uses the D&D license…
As for Eye of the Beholder, played it on PC, I’m afraid.
I only briefly played Warriors of the Eternal Sun and remembered thinking it was a Ultima 6 clone, and didn’t play it much after that. Suppose I should have … but I only briefly played it at a friend’s house and didn’t own it. Ah well.
As far as action spinoff types go I think D&D Heroes is a little underrated. I would call it the best pure Gauntlet style experience since the actual original Gauntlet, not so plodding as BD: Dark Aliiance, not so “serious” as something like Diablo 2, PSO or Champions of Norath. A real beat-em-up sensibility to the action, yet with meaningful choices at level up.
I was really hoping to see the rumored (planned?) online sequel… 
I got to admit it, the more I play D&D:WotES the more I fall in love with it. 
Heretic: You really thought so? I felt that the original BG:DA was paced much better and the gameplay balance was better as well. I never really felt like anything was really rewarding in Heroes. It was good enough to keep my attention to the end, but it felt like “another BG:DA clone” (in quotes because BG:DA is just a Diablo clone, anyway).
I will say I got more enjoyment out of Dark Alliance Abadd, take what I said absolutely literal. As something that four drunk people could pick up, having never played it before, and have a complete blast with for 3 or 4 hours… Heroes is the best update to the exact ‘zone’ Gauntlet defined, including all the Gauntlet updates. The character balance was also inspired, they made the right skill choices and took exactly the right liberties for the game as it turned out. The actual play tempo of each character is distinct, with all having 2 or 3 equally viable and divergent specialisation paths.
That’s pretty much what I meant. And although I almost adore BD:DA, admittedly for the eye candy factor as much as anything, (and the certain exacting polish that Ezra Dreisbach’s exacting influence seems to instill) it still manages to stretch the “grind” almost to the breaking point by the end. Oh yeah, and I really tried to play it a few times with a friend, but losing track of players was a constant so it was only fun solo in the end.
My favorite of all time was AD&D - Dragonlance: The Dark Queen of Krynn, one of the later goldbox games from SSI. They broke several second edition rules to make things work, but they threw just about anything and everything at you towards the end of the game, and it was great. As much as I love Shining Force 3, the tactical battles involved make Shining Force 3 look like child’s play. The game as a whole was just well-designed and very creative, and I probably should replay it some time…
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You really really should just to immerse yourself in the meticulous writing style.
The 2D graphics have stood the test of time much better than the PC Baldur’s Gate series as well. What strikes you the most is how much of a difference putting more points into certain stats (like charisma or wisdom) can make. The immortal amnesiac you play can talk his way out of fights or have insights that open up new avenues of dialogue.
And the game isn’t too long either. The whole story is centred on a single question: what can change the nature of a man? Pretty profound tbh, especially when you discover who your original incarnation was and why he sought to become immortal.[/quote]
Everything GD said is spot on. Whereas games like BG2 are compulsive, you’d never mistake the dialogue in them for anything other than a computer game or low budget film. The Planescape creators obviously had a story they wanted to tell and just used the D&D setting as a backdrop to set it.
The combat’s fairly simplistic (and the spells aren’t implemented very well), but you’re playing a graphic novel, not a dungeon crawler. The music is also wonderful, still possibly the second greatest RPG soundtrack I’ve heard after PDS.
I’m kinda biased, though - Planescape is my favourite game ever. But then, that’s because I think it’s the best game ever made
It’s also got a pretty recognisable cast, including,
Mitch Pileggi (Skinner from X-Files)
Sheena Easton (a fairly well known Scottish pop singer)
John de Lancie (Q from Star Trek)
Rob Paulsen (Raphael from the Turtles cartoon and Pinky from Pinky and the Brain)
Dan Castellaneta (Homer Simpson)
My all time favoutire D&D game? Shadow over Mystara of course! 
You could argue it not accurate and all that, but at the end of the day it’s the one that I’ve had the most fun with. It’s also a great game to use as a starting point - people can get interested in paladins, gnolls and Magic Missile without ever going near a d20 
I still don’t know how to know if a game is a D&D game or not.
D&D is a pen and paper RPG rule set and setting. A D&D PC game has licenced the rules and/or possibly a certain official campaign setting (Forgotten Realms for example) and transferred it in PC game format. It will most definitely at the very least announce it somewhere on the box as you don’t buy popular licences to keep it a secret.
Anyway, my favorite would be Baldur’s Gate II+SoA as far as the overall game quality goes, but I think that The Temple of Elemental Evil was the most succesful in capturing the feel of the pen&paper RPG. Minus the multi player…
Dark Alliance and Capcom’s Dungeons and Dragons arcade games,Tower of doom and Shadow Of Mysteria.
Knights of the Old Republic… What? It uses WotC’s D20 SW RPG rules, which is basically D&D: Star Wars edition.
If it has to be in the Forgotten Realms per se… well, I’ll side with Baldur’s Gate, although Icewind Dale is nice if you want something incredibly straightforward. (High on orc killing, low on actual roleplaying)
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Oh, and D&D != D20 rules. Although they use the same systems, just because a game is a D20 game, doesn’t mean it’s a D&D game.
And Tower of Doom ftw!!!1! 
How does Icewind Dale’s combat compare to BG2’s and Diablo 2’s (singleplayer)? I was thinking about getting the IWD1/2 double pack for my more narcissistic powergamery moods.
But I found the combat in BG2 a bit too fiddly, and I recently read a PCGamer review of the pack comparing it unfavourably to Diablo 2.