I started at the beginning of the beginning, Wizardry - Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.
My journey took me through many, many games, some good (Ultima I-IV, Gold Box games, Bard's Tale, Eye of the Beholder, Dungeonmaster), some terrible (Wizardry 3 & 4, Pool of Radiance - Ruins of Myth Drannor) and most not memorably good or bad at all. The BG series is still the best of the best IMHO!
Edit: Notice you needed a whole 64K of memory to play Wizardry!
I bought (well, had my parents buy me) BG+ToSC after reading a review in some magazine. That was way before I had internet at home, so I was exploring it completely blind for years.
I remember my first reaction when I started playing BG2 later. "My fighter can be LEVEL NINE!?"
BG2 is one of a handful of games I've preordered and paid for collector's editions for, back in 2000.
I played BG1 back in 1998, but on my sister's BF of the time's computer. By 2000 I had my own computer for BG2 and other games. I'm not sure when I got BG1, way later, probably like 2008 or so. I always preferred 2 because I didn't get the story of 1 until I was older.
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(btw, - oh, the memories of these old threads. I STILL REMEMBER THEM!)
My journey took me through many, many games, some good (Ultima I-IV, Gold Box games, Bard's Tale, Eye of the Beholder, Dungeonmaster), some terrible (Wizardry 3 & 4, Pool of Radiance - Ruins of Myth Drannor) and most not memorably good or bad at all. The BG series is still the best of the best IMHO!
Edit: Notice you needed a whole 64K of memory to play Wizardry!
I remember my first reaction when I started playing BG2 later. "My fighter can be LEVEL NINE!?"
I played BG1 back in 1998, but on my sister's BF of the time's computer. By 2000 I had my own computer for BG2 and other games. I'm not sure when I got BG1, way later, probably like 2008 or so. I always preferred 2 because I didn't get the story of 1 until I was older.
I never finished BG1 until it was an EE version.