There will never be another RPG like Baldur's Gate II

Hatter

;_;

Counterclock

Just make an Rpg like baldur's gate.

ninjaclown

^

Hatter

Gameplay, story and character development. I haven't seen an RPG (with the possible exception of the Mass Effect series) with characters as memorable and original since Baldur's Gate II. I mean, your ranger is an insane Russian who carries around a hamster. You've got a passive-aggressive mage who insults you in sotto voce, a turnip-crazed gnome who tells you all about his cracker smuggling days, a talking sword named Lilarcor who claims he used to be a Moonblade, a wisecracking Beholder and a nymphomaniac drow who is the biggest tsundere ever. The gameplay was relatively well balanced, the story was fantastic, and the voice acting was the best I've ever heard. And it actually felt like your protagonist had character of his own, because you could choose lines like "Forsooth, methinks this is no ordinary talking chicken!" and "Ok, I've just about had my FILL of riddle asking, quest assigning, insult throwing, pun hurling, hostage taking, iron mongering, smart arsed fools, freaks, and felons that continually test my will, mettle, strength, intelligence, and most of all, patience! If you've got a straight answer ANYWHERE in that bent little head of yours, I want to hear it pretty damn quick or I'm going to take a large blunt object roughly the size of Elminster AND his hat, and stuff it lengthwise into a crevice of your being so seldom seen that even the denizens of the nine hells themselves wouldn't touch it with a twenty-foot rusty halberd! Have I MADE myself perfectly CLEAR?!"

It was awesome.

EDIT: Counterclock, I'm already working on the design document. Give me ten years, several thousand dollars of funding, a great team of programmers and a couple of voice actors/writers, and I'll give you something that might approach the glory that is BG2.

Crimson

Planescape: Torment? That was apparently better.

Hatter

... You know, I'm going to get my geek card revoked for saying this, but I didn't really enjoy Planescape: Torment. I mean, I'm playing it now, and I just don't really like it. I feel like I'm interacting in a really weird, alien novel in a setting that isn't familiar enough for me to empathize with any of the characters. Plus, everything's brown.

Besides, Planescape came out before Baldur's Gate II, so my point still stands.

inkblot

There is. It's called Dragon Age 2.

Vorpy

Play Terranigma.

Hatter

Inkblot, I hope that that was a joke. If it is, it will make your horrible, painful death slightly less horrible and painful.

Nyarly

I didn't found BG2 very impressive.

On that note, the entirety of Bioware's works, as much as I like it, is overrated anyway.

inkblot

^^ Why would it be a joke?

Come to think of it, DA2 is only the second best RPG. First place goes to Two Worlds.

GLORIOUSLeader

I thought the best RPG was Too Human. That or APB. 

IanExMachina

Too Human was a bit Too repetitive, however it was fun just need a bit more variance and work.

DarkDecapodian

What the hell is with all this Too Human and Dragon Age crap? It's obvious that the best RPG of all time is Quest 64. Pwned nubs.

(Actually, I do kind of have a soft spot for Quest 64, even if it is a bit shit)

DYRE

If nothing else, Quest 64 wasn't the worst RPG ever.  There's not really anything more positive than that that I can say about it though.

GLORIOUSLeader

Actually, now that I think about it, the best RPG is Command & Conquer 3: Red Alert.