I saw you mentioned Arcanum, and how you are hoping to get into it.
Lemme just say this, Arcanum is one of the true gems in the genre, truely. Underrated and underappreciated, it's story and characters pack a devastatingly awesome punch!
Maybe you won't like it's turnbased combat, but you can always switch it to real-time, always played it like that and it never bugged me. Otherwise it's mostly played like Fallout (turnbased) :)
Enjoy.
I will second this. it really is one of the last great games of that era. I know when i bought it when it was NEW i was slightly dispointed as it starts a bit slow (but really, what RPG doesnt) and i gave up on it. I cam back to it a few years later and pushed throuhg the boring part and there is a real gem after it. I know i picked it up on GOG and plan to revisit it sometime after my M&M craze dies down.
I saw you mentioned Arcanum, and how you are hoping to get into it.
Lemme just say this, Arcanum is one of the true gems in the genre, truely. Underrated and underappreciated, it's story and characters pack a devastatingly awesome punch!
Maybe you won't like it's turnbased combat, but you can always switch it to real-time, always played it like that and it never bugged me. Otherwise it's mostly played like Fallout (turnbased) :)
Enjoy.
I will second this. it really is one of the last great games of that era. I know when i bought it when it was NEW i was slightly dispointed as it starts a bit slow (but really, what RPG doesnt) and i gave up on it. I cam back to it a few years later and pushed throuhg the boring part and there is a real gem after it. I know i picked it up on GOG and plan to revisit it sometime after my M&M craze dies down.