Baldur's Gate saved the Western computer RPG nearly 30 years ago

It's 1996. The traditional Western computer role-playing game is fading. The age of 3D graphics pushes the genre toward first-person action, into solo journeys in immersive worlds light on narrative and role-playing alike. And for those at the numbers-heavy, party-based end, the JRPG is ascendent. — Read the rest
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