I have hours upon hours of Daggerfall under my belt. That has given me a high tolerance of bugs.
To this day the only bug that really affected me was the love letters bug in Torment. I had to restart Torment from the beginning because of it.
Well, If your a strategy gamer I'd suggest Icewind Dale. It has a nice story and involves a lot of strategizing.
Planescape: Torment is indeed a brilliant game. However, it might be too weird for someone new to the genre.
Have you ever noticed how console games get consistently better reviews than their PC counterparts?
Just check gamerankings.com:
http://www.gamerankings.com/itemrankings/simpleratings.asp
Why do you think this happens?
The only ones of that list I'm interested in are F.E.A.R., FF vs The Third Reich, GTA and KOTOR2. The rest are either uninteresting or are not coming out next year.
@Oerwinde: Suikoden 1 is one of the worst games I've ever played. What do you see in it?
I'm here because Obsidian is, hopefully, the successor to Black Isle Studios.
Nowadays, blocking Google is about the same thing as blocking the Internet.
Why is amnesia always brought up as a bad thing?
The point is not if the plot includes amnesia or not .It's how the amnesia plot device is used. A good example of this would be the film Memento.
In the specific case of Torment, amnesia allows you to have a deep and interesting lead character that, at the same time, you can role-play as you see fit.
And this is something I had never seen in a rpg before.
I'd say System Shock 2. I had heard it was good and I had played the first one but nothing could've prepared me for so much brilliance in a single game.
I love both.
However, FO2 killed FO for me unlike BG which I still play once in a while despite liking BG2 better. That being said Fallout's humor and setting is way better than BG's.
Torment is better than both though.
I paid full price for Torment when it first came out and I would've paid more.
It's the only game I've ever played that comes close to being Literature.