I recently made my laptop "spiffy" and I was wondering if anyone had a suggestion for a PC RPG. I have Dungeon Siege 2 and don't play it. I got sick of Elder Scrolls Oblivion. I have played Diablo II and Baldur's Gate previous and enjoyed those. Some of my favorite games for PC have been : Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, Arcanum, Might and Magic, Baldur's Gate II. I also played Icewind Dale, that was ok, I enjoyed Planescape Torment but got stuck in a dungeon or basement pretty early in the game and was unable to get very far in it.

I looked at some reviews for a game called The Witcher. The game seems interesting, but people with top of the line computers have very slow load times, saved game deletion, and random crashes. Has anyone played that, or heard of any issues?

I'm not into the online RPGs, strictly one player. I am playing Summoner 2 now for PS2 and enjoying that. I can't wait for The Force Unleashed, and some of the games coming out on PS3

Let me know if you have any suggestions. My laptop has 1GB of ram and 1.4Ghz processing speed, that's all I remember.

I really like RPGs but the ones I really love are the original ones like:

Dungeons and Dragons (SSI) Many Various ones were released.
Wizardry (Sir-Tech)
Ultima 1-8 (Origin Systems)
Future Magic: Sentinel Worlds 1 (Electronic Arts)
Starflight 1 & 2
Wasteland

Since most of those were 80s-90s games they lack a lot of the graphics from RPGs nowadays but have much more content and original "role-playing" than the games now. They are true RPGs.
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The problem with some old games is that you can't play them on XP. I also can't handle horrible graphics, it ruins it for me. I actually started to play Wizardry, 8 I believe, I couldn't stay interested. I'll check out the website thanks

Doom 3? I really enjoyed that the most and for a while, before I discovered MMOs. Though it's more A FPS - not much role playing to it.

Nowadays I play LOTRO all the time, and Tabula Rasa on occasion. But those are online.

FPS aren't really my thing. Speaking of LOTR though, I really enjoyed the 1 player RPG they came out with a few years ago. Is LOTRO a strategy type of game or a typical RPG. I'm not very good at games where you control armies. Is the online part free, or do you have to pay a subscription?

I guess it's fairly typical RPG, except that, of course, it's LORD OF THE RINGS! If that floats your boat. The graphics are absolutely awesome if you have a rig and a connection that can support them.

Primarily quest-based advancement, but they do have a good range of crafting. PvP is limited to an isolated zone where you can play an evil monster character (either of two kinds of Orc, or Weaver or Warg) or bring in your upper level "good" character that you levelled up in the PvE zones. Took them a while to get a proper balance of solo versus group quests, but now it's really quite good. Groups are usually up to 6 players, but for one rather hard-core zone it's 12-man, and for a couple of raiding zones it's 24 man. Raids in the PvP zone are up to 24-man, and sometimes you'll have more than one full raid group involved in taking a keep (which is when the lag becomes horrendous).

Buying the game isn't too bad since many places have it on sale, but then there is a monthly subscription. I've been playing since the closed beta testing phase, so when the game went "live" I got a special deal as a "Founder". I passed over the lifetime subscription option and pay a discounted $9.99 a month (it's normally $14.99 a month). I'm an Officer in a fairly modest-sized guild (which are called "Kinships" in LOTRO) of about 32 members. It has been the top-rated MMO for quite some time now, depending on whose rankings you follow.

Sounds fun. FFXI was completely group based. If you wanted any experience at all you had to be in a party, and parties take a long time to form. I heard WoW was really easy to level in by yourself, but then you get uber people that monopolize the game and make me never want to play. I'm out of the MMORPGs, I don't want to pay the monthly fee. I also don't like having commitments to camp a mob for such and such time or go sky farming for 8 hours ever night to be able to get a foot armor I want. I like 1 player really, so the online thing detracts. I guess that is why I liked Guild Wars for a bit and Diablo, because you can play 1 player It's also FREE Thanks for the information though

LOTRO definitely has plenty of choices available. You can group as much or as little as you want, though if you totally avoid grouping you'll have to really work on your crafting or amass wealth via grinding, crafting and playing the Auction Hall to buy the best of the top level crafted gear.

One thing they did to avoid much of the trouble with WoW was to isolate the PvP to a single zone. They've also made an intentional effort to try to make sure that the best rewards are not reserved exclusively for hard-core raiders, though of course debate rages about how successful they have been and what more they ought to do. The hard-core types don't like the fact that the rewards they get for hours of raiding may be equalled over time by someone who doesn't have hours to devote to a single sitting and may not have the most 1337 skillz.

Camping mobs is possible but not mandatory, and the overall atmosphere can be greatly affected by one's choice of kinship. There are hard core raiders and there are lots and lots of "casual-friendly" groups. Some who make an art form of RP, some who never role-play, and others who have a variety of styles. Not that you need to join a kinship at all, either. There are lots of pick-up groups (PUGs) formed all of the time. I dare say a good half of all groups I join (when I do join groups) are PUGs.

But paying every month is a bit of a drag. I usually only join groups on weekends, so for the most part I may as well be playing a single-player game.