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Every now and then I feel the urge to play a decent PC RPG.

I never could explain this phenomenon, but it happens, and it behaves like a wave.

So my question for you guys is: what hot RPG would you start playing right now, that runs nicely on a MacBook Pro 13"? OS isn't a factor since I got XP on bootcamp.

Also, it can be 10 days old or 10 years old, I don't mind dated graphics if the game truly is a gem.

Dungeon Siege. One of my first and still one of my favorite RPGs

I'd also suggest Dragon Age: Origins, but that requires a pretty decent computer to run well.

I actually didn't like Dungeon Siege. It felt to me like a Diablo clone missing all of the good parts.

Here is my list of good PC RPGs. Although many of them come on consoles as well, they are all PC-style (either RPG or Action-RPG, not sure what you want):

1. Dragon Age: Origins (much better on PC than consoles anyway)
2. Mass Effect 1 and 2
3. Fallout 3
4. Oblivion
5. Fallout 1 and 2
6. Borderlands (not a total RPG, but enough RPG elements to count; it is an FPSRPG)
7. Diablo II
8. Sacred II

Nice list Jack! Only problem is most of those probably won't run too well on a MacBookPro

Still, those are some of the better RPGs out there

Yeah, had no idea what the specs on a Mac Book Pro is. What time frame are you looking for? Up to about 2005 or 2006 maybe?

i am currently playing Final Fantasy 6 on Super Nintendo Emulator....friggn fun!

Sacred rocks but not sure it has a Mac version.

Here are the specs on a MacBook Pro 13":

2.4GHz or 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB on-chip shared L2 cache
NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared
2GB 1066MHz DDR3 RAM

Not much of a killing machine but can run those fine oldies (Yes, 2005 - 2006 is probably an accurate time frame).

Sacred rocks but not sure it has a Mac version.

That's not a problem, I got Windows XP installed. I guess I'll give it a try.

No one mentioned Neverwinter Nights 2. Is it that bad? I played the first one only.

i enjoyed NWN2 single player

My most favoritest game of all time though is Disciples 2....No better game.

My most favoritest game of all time though is Disciples 2....No better game.

Well when you say it like that I just gotta try it

Here's a list of RPGs that I played on a PC, not in any particular order:

Fallout 1
Fallout 2
Fallout 3
Diablo
Diablo 2
Baldur's Gate 2
Icewind Dale
Final Fantasy 7
Star Wars: KotOR
Star Wars: KotOR 2
Morrowind
Oblivion
Planescape: Torment
Neverwinter Nights
Dungeon Siege

That's what I remember so far. Maybe I'm leaving out one or two.

EDIT:

I just feel the urge to say this: out of that list, the game that consumed more of my offline time than any other was definitely Fallout 2. FF7 is a close number 2.

The reason I say offline is because if we count online playing then Diablo 2 is a clear winner (by many thousands of hours), but I'm not in the mood for online playing right now. I feel I just can't compete in that scene anymore, nor do I know if I want to, and to be a mediocre online gamer, I'd rather just play single-player.

I actually played WoW for a couple of months with my friends, but when one of them rushed past my level in 24 hours when I've been playing for weeks I decided that it was no place for a casual player like me.

Fallout 1 was my favorite. I need to try 2 again.