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deja@celticbear.com (LRW) wrote in message news:<3a1d1813.0311061317.17ae8699@posting.google.com>...

> So, what's some recommended RPG's out there? Say, last 5 years?
> I'm looking for something like "Morrowind" but maybe a little more
> traditional pseudo-Medieval/D&D-esque.

You want Gothic 2. A somewhat similar but much better game than
Morrowind. Gothic 1 is said to be good too, but suffers from so poor
controls I haven't been able to stomach playing it.
Traditional (extremely so) but not similar to Morrowind are Baldurs
Gate 2. I can't recommend BG1 - I hated that dreary slugfest with its
infinite numbers of infinitely dull random encounters. There's also
Temple of Elemental Evil, which is a faithful (but buggy) recreation
of an early eighties pen-and-paper RPG dungeoncrawl, so if that's your
thing...
 
Far less traditional is Planescape: Torment, which simply is the best
cRPG ever made, but if you're an experienced cRPG'er it takes some
getting used to e.g. that there's no point in powergaming, and that
points are better spent on WIS, CHA and INT than on STR and DEX.

> Or, hardcore sci-fi.

Non-fantasy RPG's are, unfortunately, few and far between. Fallout 2
is a post-apocalyptic game, and quite decent.