Great game. BUT.

Play this. without any mods. to understand fully what is wrong with game publishers and a gaming community as a whole. Just to educate yourself. And to learn just how great an RPG can be on what seems like dated 3D graphics.

This game was released in a rush and was left in buggy state. because at that time the publisher wanted it out faster. Because money. And the developers did their best to wrap the game up and get ready for release. Except it wasnt ready.

(As example - I have seen some walking animations to be missing. And some of the abilities didnt work properly for me. But that was my experience.
You need mods and a holy water sprayed all over your PC to make it at least slightly better. But then again - those mods sometimes add things which break the game's balance a bit. like fire axe lying somewhere that was added - thats a buff for you which wasnt supposed to be in the game, but whatever. So pick your poison. )

15 years later or so this game gained more and more popularity. Because plenty of other RPGs sucked. And this game was still great. Even with all the bugs and dated graphics. Think: any NPC in this game has more character and writing in it than any person in elder scroll oblivion / skyrim. All of them are just walking toasters there. Nothing more.
And NOW that the game gained more popularity and more positive reviews the price was raised to 20 euros. F*** you!!!!!


Now Steam saying I have 3 days left (as windows 7 is being dropped) to finish all my backlog - this game included. As Steam Client will no longer run.
Do I really need to buy a brand new PC and new windows OS to play a game from 20 years ago? No.
Will the game play less buggy? Absolutely not. Actually it may add even more lags. Which will be left for the community to fix. Again. As it always was.
Why this happened? Because the steam uses chrome engine. Why? Because it was cheaper than writing their own engine from scratch. + steam has DRM in it so now I'm screwed (as the games wont run without the steam client).

Somehow I feel like 20 years later still being screwed over. Happy new year to you too Gaben.