Toss in women in bikinis and i'm sold!

Tropico

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura. Its (I think) the 5th best selling game on the site right now.
I had a suspicion Deus Ex, Planescape, and Fallout were classics though and its officially been confirmed. Psychonauts is another common recommendation- on this site and irl- but I didn't know what to think of the PC version. It just strikes my as a console game (not that that's a bad thing, its just interesting to see it recommended by PC gamers).

I'm a Tomb Raider junkie. I still play 1 constantly. Those are always a safe bet, if you like action adventure. I DO NOT recommend TR for the hard corp strategy gamer.

Speaking of Far Cry, there is a Uwe classic on t.v. tonight, Bloodrayne vs the 3rd Reich.

There was walls in Far Cry ?

That's the first time I read the words "Uwe" and "classic" used in one sentence.
Funny, I used to say that about Red Faction.

Heroes of Might and Magic III
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura
Pharaoh
Alpha Centauri
The Longest Journey
The Bard's Tale
Blackwell Bundle
FTL: Faster Than Light

Yeah, Baldur's Gate would be a good example of a game that is liked because of that nostalgia - while I'm sure there are some people who still genuinely like it, even tho they have played it last year for the fist time, RPG as a genre has taken massive steps forward in the meantime. As far as I am concerned, BG has a single redeeming quality: Freedom of movement. There's a lot to explore. Everything else about the game is pretty shallow, aside from the ruleset (yes, even the 'great, diverse party NPCs' - the only diversity there is is by skills and a single line of text they repeat from time to time.) But if you'd like something more akin to modern RPGs, with great dialogue, system of choices and consequences and genuinely good and interesting story, you might try out the original Fallout. Now that has it's problems as well: In comparison with BG, the world and the story are deeper and more interesting, it deals with very interesting themes and the entire game is very ... adult for the lack of a better term, but controls are going to be hard to get used to for a modern player (combat is turn-based, so no biggie, but some people have abandoned first Fallout because of that,) and graphics, while having fantastic design, leave a lot to be desired when compared with BG.

I have only the Steam version, i don't know if it is fully patched on there.. But the game is outright unplayable in that state because of such behavior, hence my reaction. :D