Hey peeps, I'm a part-timer gamer (pretty much don't touch them until the winds grow cold and the leaves drop off the trees) and get very out of touch with even slightly relatively new games. I'm a real stickler for my favourite classics, which I think I may have now officially played to death - BG (jnc EE), BG2, NWN1+ & 2 plus mods, Dungeon Keeper, Planescape...

Downloaded Vampires Masquerade, not sure if it's gonna do it for me. Also downloading Dragon Age: Origins+ with an array of mods, I have done one play through, so I'm up for it again. Didn't like DA:2 and my laptop can't run 3 which definitely makes me sad.

My current ideas are -
Pillars of Eternity: I downloaded it once and after a couple hours I deleted it, SO cheesy. But I could be convinced that it's better then it seems at first?
Tides of Numenera: Downloaded it, played for like a hour, just didn't click with it. Am I mistaken?
Divinity Original Sin 2: Never played it, mildly interested...

Any other ideas? I'm more in the role-playing then anything else. I like strong characters, romances if they aren't painful which they usually are, good dialogue options, either a flexible main character or character creation (ok unless the character is just so awesome I don't care) - And I prefer fantasy usuallly but open to sci-fi stuff too.

For something a little different, but which might actually satisfy you, you could check out Undertale. Here's what the game offers:

* There are some choices to make, most notably how violent you are. The game is famous for being beatable without killing anything, but there's also a special route if you decide to kill everything.

* There are some strong characters; notably, each boss has its own personality (there's one that's a mother, for example). There's also characters you can date, if you're interested in something resembling romance.

* There's plenty of dialogue in the game. If you do things differently, you get different dialog. One of the combat commands is "act", where you can perform different actions (depending on the enemy and the situation), and each time you do so, you get some more dialog text. It would take many playthroughs to see all the dialog the game has to offer. Also, some of the dialog is actually pretty silly.

* There's no character creation, but one interesting aspect of the main character is that they're non-binary; the character's gender is ambiguous enough that players have used both male and female names for them, and the few pronoun references to them use singular they.

* The setting is rather hard to categorize.

Dragon's dogma if your laptop can run it. You won't be disappointed.