Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land (PS2) (2001) (Racjin)
Yet another advantage of having a new gaming PC is that you can emulate more hardware-intense console platforms such as the PlayStation 2. For a very long time, the critically acclaimed dungeon crawler Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land (2001) didn't work very well on the leading PS2 emulator (PCSX2), but with version 0.9.8 the game finally appears to run without problems.
As far as Japanese Wizardry spin-offs go, Tale of the Forsaken Land is easily among the most original and atmospheric entries. Apart from immersive dungeon exploration and turn-based combat in a fully polygonal graphics engine, ToFL also introduces additional elements to the conventional party system by having individualized recruitable party members with goals and aspirations of their own, as well as an intriguing trust/alignment system which lets the player's actions in the game have a direct effect on what the party members think of him or her.
Despite having meant to check out ToFL for quite some time now I've still not played the game much at all, but with this new convenient option to play on the PC instead of having to hook up a PS2 to my HD TV (not the greatest idea to begin with) I just might get around to it...