Remember, BG wasn't just a fine RPG - it pretty much saved the genre in the west when it came out. People believed the whole genre was on its way out with adventure games before BG arrived.
This just hit me with a big wave of nostalgia. I can remember the visceral excitement I felt while the CDs were installing (I can even smell the plastic upon opening the box and hear the sound of those old disks whirring away in the CD drive while watching the Windows '98 installer with agonizing impatience). I can remember putting my hand on top of my head and actually feeling hair... Oh, my long, lost hair, those were the days.
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Remember, BG wasn't just a fine RPG - it pretty much saved the genre in the west when it came out. People believed the whole genre was on its way out with adventure games before BG arrived.