"Lady killer" wasn't until F3. F2 had "Sex appeal" which gave you a higher disposition on the other sex but a lower on the same as the char. Quite helpful for a female char. In F1 there are hardly any differences between playing a male and a female char. F2 has quite a few, which are 95% only flavour (but funny and awesome).

OK.. you lost me on this one.

Must have missed that particular comparison.

..and I'll end my comments here... sorry to the OP for peeing all over her thread. PS:T just does that to me.

@OP.. Yeah get NWN, it's still much loved and well played.. the amount of modding, alteration and customisation is frankly ridiculous and some of the best modders in the community are female, but don't bother with the original campaign.

Okay, that's good. I was about to warn you that there are prostitutes in the original campaign for Neverwinter Nights if that offends you. But interacting with them is optional as far as I remember, and one of them is male as well.

A week 1/2 after my birthday (March 4th) I go home on a five day weekend, and then spring break the week after. I'll try to remember and contact you around then. I really do want to enjoy these games, but I need some more practice with the interface too. Third attempt was when I figured out how to initiate combat myself rather than being spotted by a rat, and after that was figuring out how to see item descriptions. And yes OP, Fallout 1 is that hard. Newbies can play, but newbies will die.... like me...... a bunch. That's what the forum and gamefaqs is for though.

Maybe I'm getting old, but Fallout one isn't really hard. It is a lot more easy and forgiving than F2 and especially Arcanum. Just tag Small Arms and Speech, select gifted as trait, ignore charisma and you're golden.

Games to get:
-Baldur's Gate 1 & 2: The main hero's first traveling companion is a pretty strong female character and so is a companion you get early in the first game that leads you through the second game. For best results buy both Baldur's Gate games (which happen to be buy 1 get 1 free at the moment like the rest of these recommendations). Since I'm a Baldur's Gate 2 fanboy I have to tell you to get these first :P.

-Torment: Fallen From Grace is probably the most iconic female character in an RPG for me. This also happens to have the best story in an RPG, period.

-Neverwinter Nights: The main campaign has a strong female but the whole thing is forgettable. What you want here is the mods, odds are if you like a certain kind of campaign you can find hundreds fan-made ones. Quality varies but there are some real gems. You will find this community is generally more tolerant since the average age is much higher and the trolls tend to get every post of theirs down-voted until they leave.

Oh yea and a little advice for Planescape: When creating character, max out your intelligence, wisdom and throw the rest into charisma. You'll be spending most of your time in conversations anyway and this way, you won't miss the best bits.

The dead woman?

To be fair, cover art and in-game graphics don't necessarily match. There are even games where the in-game graphics are pretty tame, but someone in marketing thought that they needed a half-naked girl on the cover to get attention - The Elder Scrolls: Arena is a popular example. Definitely.

I've heard that F2 was much easier (I haven't downloaded it yet). F1, first vault I went into, needed a rope and had no clue where to get one. Tried to get back to town, wound up pinned between three radscorpions, and was level 1 despite killing everything up to the rope I didn't have. I think I did have the small arms perk too (I loved the hunting rifle in Fallout 3 plus assault shotgun for indoors). There's also an issue in understanding the controls and interface, including the map and travel, at least for me. I have beaten Fallout 3 a few times though, haven't gotten around to finishing up New Vegas, but yes, Fallout 1 is a challenge against almost all other games I've played, old and new. Hopefully once I've got the interface figured out and can avoid the damn scorpions I'll do fine for a couple hours.

OK.. REALLY my last comment here. (I smell a new thread).

Yes, the dead woman... I would break every taboo in the book for her. She is the single most sympathetic and tragic character I've ever come across.... game, book, movie or otherwise.

On the other hand, you WILL be playing a strong female. I mean, you can pack a fucking chest in your inventory. How much stronger can you get?

You should execute your sources, they're not worth a damn. Also, you can get rope... Aaaah yeah, PM me when you start playing again, we've got a lot to discuss.

Hehe, welcome to the GoG forum, where maturity actually exists. Well, some what given the recent events and threads.

Anyway, I suggest PS:T, and arcanum. Nicely detailed characters in that one. :)

Fallout 3, even though I liked it somewhat, has hardly any connection to the original Fallouts. And I'm not only talking about the obvious changes in gameplay. F1 has no level scaling of any kind, nor has it the "every approch can work" or has "failsafe switches" (eg. there is a time limit, you can throw away quest items, you can screw up big time in character builds and you can easily make an "unwinnable save" e.g. radiation poisoning). You have to play F1 (and 2) with a lot more "awereness" than most modern games. While it isn't that oldschool that you have to use the "ask about" option, you still have to carefully check your surroundings and dialogues. To enter the wastelands, you must be prepared. Ammo, meds, tools. You won't find the object needed for the puzzle conveniently in the next room.

Fallout 3, for better and worse, is somewhat the "Oblivion with guns" everybody called it. F:NV is the proper Fallout 3 imo and a very good game.

And I'm pretty sure the first merchant has a rope...

Sadly none of the games makes the most out of it, they could go far deeper into the subject. But the fact that they have designed non-equal societies does add a lot to the believability of the settings.

And I would actually recommend the Witcher as well. The collecting sex cards was silly (and I actually found it a bit insulting against me as a man as well, it just felt like a very shallow way of creating a controversy, but why would I go out of my way to gather some silly cards showing naked or half naked women?). The game has several strong female characters, and it also takes a very mature look on racism, religious intolerance and differences in social class). I know several women (my sister included) who love the game.