Thanks for the great giveaway... let's check your rules and give it a try...

1.) ok (I guess ;-))
2.) ok
3.) I am in...
4.) I still fondly remember the original "Bard's Tale" on the Commodore 64 (and later Amiga 500 - both should fit your "back in the day" requirement nicely :-)).

There is not a single part of the game that stands out as specially lovable but it was the whole experience of playing it (for hours!):
- creating and recreating the optimal party by rolling the dice dozens of times for better character values,
- running through the city to get enough experience to level up before entering the dungeons,
- finding your first mithril items and other improved armor & weapons in the sewers,
- creating maps on paper and marking scripted fights (with trapped chests!) and special locations,
- running out of dungeons to the nearest temple with poisoned party members (because you had no appropriate healing spells yet or no more spell points) before you die,
- finding still better and better items, some of them so late in the game that you hardly had time to use them,
- solving (sometimes almost impossible) riddles without the benefit of walkthroughs, cheats and no internet help available yet,
- and finally "winning" the game by killing the evil mage Mangar on the fifth level of his tower!

Of course I also enjoyed games like "Pools of Radiance", Wasteland, and later on the PC the "Eye of the Beholder trilogy", Diablo I & II (never III because of the evil online-DRM!), Wizardry 8, and many others but the first and original part of the Bard's Tale series will always have a special place in my memories!

5. & 6.) OK!

I'm in. Serpent in the Staglands has been on my wishlist for ages...

My favourite RPG of old is Baldur's Gate. Really, it's as much about the game itself as it is about the timing. I bought Baldur's Gate shortly after release for the sole reason that the developer was in Edmonton, and I live somewhat close to Edmonton - got to support the locals, right? I was 23, living on my own, and going to University. I always thought I was busy back then, but really, University left a lot of time for playing video games. Anyways, I didn't really know anything about the game, and I never played any D&D, so I really had no idea what was going on, THAC0 and Armour Class was just about meaningless, and I had no idea what the character attributes actually did. I don't remember the specifics of my first character. It was a dwarf thief . I remember getting to the Friendly Arm, and Tarnesh handing my ass to me, repeatedly. I finally gave up on my dwarf, and actually read the manual. Then I rolled a Cleric, and the sense of accomplishment when I finally defeated Tarnesh was amazing! I went on to finish the game with that Cleric.

Probably my favourite part of Baldur's Gate is the replayibility. Playing as a Mage is a very different experience from playing as a thief, or a cleric, or a fighter, etc.

Thanks for the giveaway, and the walk down memory lane!

I'm in.

My favourite RPG game from the past is Dungeon Master 2. It's an European thing I guess, the Dungeon Master was really popular here. Also neighbor Czech Republic has had huge tradition in loving old grid based dungeon crawlers.
I remember fondly the raining atmosphere of the game, the fog with the ghosts, the footsteps of monsters, haunting music. For a child it was an unique experience. Also I love the character progression system. Want your mage to get some muscle? No problem, get him to the first line and bash some skulls.
I could not finish that game in the past, because dumb child, but man, it was great nevertheless.

i wanna talk about divine divinity. İts really got humor and something different. i know its not balanced but which class do you prefer to play that has freedom to evolve an other class. Hard mode is acceptable and enjoying. well design maps and cheerish dialogs. You feel chill and wonder same time. Must play and must play an other year later.

i am in by the way

thnx for giveaway

But I liked "The Witcher 1".....


Not in, but thanks for the ga!

Hey, misteryo, have you played the game? Not much opinions about it, but it seems to be game of its own. Thanks for the giveaway and bringing attention to this title!

I don't have much memories from crpg world, because years ago the genre were out of my interest area - mostly because language barrier and lack of help/solutions available today on the Internet. I played and was fascinated by Stonekeep, M&M: Mandate of Heaven, Betrayal at Krondor, but was never able to understand the plot, fully engage and complete these games.

My real adventure with crpgs starts with Fallout (still my absolutely favorite game and one of the very few I finished more than once). In the recent 2-3 years I've finished also (for the very first time!) such classics as:
● Arcanum
● Vampire - The Masquarade: Bloodlines
● Planescape: Torment
● Legend of Grimrock
● Deus Ex
● Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos
● The Witcher I (yes, this one fits to the list too)
● Vaporum
● Shadowrun Returns

All these games (especially top 3) provided me absolutely exceptional experience and total immersion into the game's world. In case of Arcanum and Bloodlines the feeling of immersion was so strong that I've doubted the reality a few times ;) These games are actually something much more than games, really. And it's really interesting that I can play them with such an engagement today - as an adult man, but this level of entry was unavailable for me when I was a kid. It's kind of thrilling when I realize how many crpgs classics I've missed and how many of them awaits to be visited with possible the same emotions included! And there are still people creating games like Grimrock, Vaporum or perhaps also Staglands offered here - making the list even longer. Yay!

Not in! :)

I remember when I was around 10 years old, probably a bit older, when I was hooked up with the first Diablo game. Since again, I was really young back then and my level of English wasn't very high, I generally ignored the story and NPC dialogue. But man, fighting against all sorts of monsters and demons up to the deepest levels of hell never felt so good! The thrill of getting better equipment, growing stronger and getting even further in the dungeons while leaving mountains of corpses behind me was incomparable... (Apologies if I sounded a bit sadistic there. XD) It was also a pretty challenging game, especially on the later levels, I started dying more after getting to hell properly. Curiously, I only played the base game, never the expansion, for some reason. Still, those were the days...

That game looks really good so: I'm in! :D

Thanks for the chance and take one +1! :)

I am in!
I will take the opportunity to talk about Chrono Cross, a turn-based rpg that I played with a Playstation One, but never finished. Wasn't the first, but is memorable for me because it provided me a lot of fun.
Besides of some heavy-handed dialogues and Deus Ex-Machinas, it provided a battle system that was quite different for me, which was used with those like Final Fantasy. Plenty of characters to play across the history, each one with their own history and personality, modifying the game's trajectories.

Maybe I was too young, but I took some years to have courage to play Diablo. All those evil and bizarre creatures, with the dark atmosphere gave me fear.

A winner is you!

Contest closed.

I will send you your code tomorrow. Thanks for your patience.

Congratulations, Nightblair! I hope you'll enjoy SiS as much as DM2 before ;). And thanks once again for the giveaway, misteryo!

Thank you very much!