/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3922187

Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 are great places to start. It's got a great mix of combat mechanics and story, and the rules of D&D are implemented in a very well-realized way. The games are huge RPGs by themselves, but taking your character through the whole journey is one of the most satisfying and incredible things in RPG history.

The other infinity engine games are pretty great, but Planescape leans much more towards an adventure game with the huge amounts of dialogue and story. Icewind Dale is the opposite, focusing on tactical combat over almost everything else.

The gold box games are awesome, but use very old D&D rules. What I really love about them is how you can have absurdly huge battles, and high-level characters are unstoppable. By the end of Pools of Radiance you will easily be one-shotting dragons and taking out huge swaths of enemies with fireballs.

Eye of the Beholder 1 and 2 are some of the absolute finest dungeon crawls of the era.

Also check out the Capcom beat-em-ups that were licensed from D&D. Grab a couple friends and you're guaranteed an afternoon of fun.