skeletonbow: I love old old-school RPGs in their original state but when I look at the games in this series they give me a feeling like the graphics were drawn by the developer's children and rendered using Borland BGI graphics circa 1993 BC++3.1 or something. There's another series like that which might be available on GOG IIRC too that is similar in that respect.

Do these games have fantastic gameplay that the graphical element is just ignored by fans or something? I admit that I too do that with some games myself, but it's something that is more opportunistic for me like I already own the game somehow and I try it out and play with it for a while and the game is fun so I may roll my eyes at crappy graphics but play it anyway. But if I didn't own such a game I'd be hard pressed to want to buy it, because even though good graphics are not the end all be all of a game, especially if it has terrible game play, graphics/visuals are still important to me and generally make my first impression.

So I'm curious both about that, and also what attracts people to this game series in terms of gameplay and other non-visual aspects because it seems there is a lot of people out there that go nuts for this game series and other similar ones. It's entirely possible whatever people love about them I might too if I were to try it out, but I just can't get easily over the poor visuals.

(looking to the post above mine, I think Niggles mention of Avernum and Eschalon were the other series that I was vaguely thinking of above)