responsible for teaching millions around the world exactly why low level d&d combat is bad, and thus advancing humanity's overall awareness of rpg mechanics tremendously.

in a lot of ways it's really impressive as a translation of a forgotten realms campaign experience into videogame form. in a lot of other ways, it's a forgotten realms campaign and therefore sucks the big ass

fascinating as a document of the origin of trends that would define the next two decades or more of wrpgs. otherwise probably still a fun adventure and a nice big fantasy world to explore on a first playthrough... but i'm so far away from my first playthrough at this point that i can't imagine what it would be like to start this today