It was 1997 I had been playing tabletop D&D and other rpgs. It all started with the Fighting Fantasy books, though. I was also playing the hobbit on my c64 lol-
I remember getting my first pc. I was playing the Diablo demo wayyyyy too much. So I bought the original 5 cd BG as soon as it hit the stores, played all the way through, it took me a month or something like that. I have played this game many , many times, but still get surprised now and then... Then I got my hands on IWD. Much rejoyce. And when HoW (the expansion for IWD) came out, and I could play in 1024, with my friend, that's all I did ... Years later I tried BG2, which I didn't enjoy so much. I played it through anyway. I then found the TUTU version of BG. It worked alright, but I got stuck in Durlags Tower because of some bug. So my BG adventure ended here, for many years. I played IWD and IWD2, until NWN came out. I remember waiting and waiting. And the disappointment : o Since then I have been waiting for someone to pick up where the IE games left. It has been a really really (way too) long wait. I have gotten used to get really disappointed when a new crpg is released ...