200 Reasons to Love PC Gaming, Part Two
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103.Planescape Torment
This RPG shows that fantasy doesn't have to mean faux medieval towns and stupid beards. It looks great with the widescreen mod: snipurl.com/e03sl
109.The cow level
Once you've killed Bael, the real point of Diablo II arrives: the secret cow level. It's you versus many, many angry bovines.
122.Bioware
For pushing story and choice harder than any other dev team in the world. They've built an empire on character development and accessible writing, and that success is deserved.
141.Fort Frolic
The maddest man in BioShock's underwater city of Rapture is Sander Cohen, a crazed theatre director who has taken up residence in Fort Frolic. There, he manipulates you into murdering his friends - all to produce a gruesome sculpture.
166.Neverwinter Nights modules
Neverwinter Nights's modding community is extraordinary. Even now, players are developing new RPG campaigns; far surpassing the main game's slightly squiffy story. You'll find BioWare's community site (nwn.bioware.com/forums) is the best place to start. We recommend Elegia Eternum, Sex & the Single Adventuress (saucy!), Twilight and Midnight, and Witch's Wake for the original Neverwinter Nights.
197.Ultima's amazing worlds
We owe the scale and ambition of games such as Fallout to the Ultima series. They showed that RPGs could do morality, epic scale, and freedom of action. For those interested in gaming's past, Ultima is still worth revisiting: you can track the early games down via your favourite abandonware site. Ultima VII is the best place to start.
