If you were introduced to RPGs with Skyrim and the Witcher 3 then you'll likely not appreciate these games. To be honest, I'll never play these games again, but for their time they were amazing. Graphics based PC games were in their infancy with 8bit color and sound. RPGs before these were text based games like Zork where everything was left up to the imagination. These games were considered amazing when first published because they actually had graphics. What a novelty! Each new game incrementally improved as PC software and hardware improved. More colors were being used, still frame graphics were replaced with graphics simulating movement, computer speaker sounds were replaced with music and voice acting accompaniment. The old games were left in the dust. I remember thinking early on, if gaming programmers ever figure out how to let the character control a sword on screen it would be amazing. When we got there I remember thinking, if only they could make games look more like movies. Cut scenes filled the gap for a while, then we got games like Oblivion, Skyrim, and the Witcher series. It's amazing how far we've come since the 1980s in computer gaming. One can only wonder where games will go from here.
