The Temple of Elemental Evil

I really wanted to love this game but the crazy lucky/unlucky streaks I kept hitting made it very unenjoyable. Get utterly wrecked, reload and use the EXACT same strategy and it's a cakewalk because of weird rolls.

The game that made todays games possible

Honestly there is the base for a great game here, but it just isn't there yet, everything it does feels half-baked and the huge number of trash mobs and slow beginning in which both your characters and the monsters miss the attacks again and again as you patiently wait for the animations to play ironically makes me wish it was RTwP instead. The late game also suffers from being really buggy and unfinished, even if it has some cool battles. I won't blame this 2003 game for being crash heavy in a modern system, but bugs like skills clearly not working as intended or some summons being so buggy its impossible to dismiss then and they are somehow immortal or even buggy quest progression are things impossible to excuse. Story-wise there is nothing that interesting either, but at least the village and environments are quite nice, would have liked to see then expanding then a bit adding more depth to then(for example you barely interact with the environment itself in this game) and adding more vendors too, there is a lot of money in the game, but very few places to use it. Maybe the fan mods fix some of these problems, but as far as the unmodded game goes I can't say it really impressed me.

A Dungeon Delving adventure with NPC's and RPG elements and all sorts of interesting characters. Very similar to Icewind Dale in a lot of ways, and you can make some very interesting moral choices and have arguments with NPC's along the way.

Even with Co8 modpack, this game is bugged, the story is bland and combat encounters are badly designed. The combat system / D&D leveling system is good... but maaan, I am buying CRPG to satisfy CRPG itch, I want quests, I want to explore the world... This game at the beginning seems promising, but then in Act 2 you see that it is completely incomplete mess without any minimal QA effort done. My advice -- don't waste your time on this game.