Pretty new to the Codex, and to old school RPGs in general. I grew up on KOTOR and other Star Wars games, but I never played any "real" RPGs until recently.
I have acquired quite a collection of old school RPGs on GOG and I'm wondering where to start.
Last year I played the Baldur's Gate series for the first time and I absolutely loved it. I also played Planescape: Torment and really loved it as well.
So I am wondering which games of the following are worth playing and where to start with them:
- Eye of the Beholder trilogy
- The Pools series
- The Savage Frontier series
- Secret of the Silver Blades
- Hillsfar
- Ravenloft series
- Krynn series
- Wizardry series
- Utlima series
- Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday
I know that the Eye of the Beholder series (or at least part of it) was recreated in Neverwinter Nights and that the Pools series was recreated in NWN2. Would you recommend these interpretations vs. playing the originals?