Welcome to Dungeon Planet
Welcome to Dungeon Planet ! This site covers mostly RPG Games and that all started with Baldur’s Gate, the trend setting, award winning game from an innovative company called Bioware. It was a great game, though could be very hard for some people. Since then, Bioware have come out with some outstanding games and although this site mostly concentrates on the games Bioware produce we will cover others too
Personal
I’m an older gamer (but not too old! 
) and as a kid growing up computers for home use were just starting to take off, I still even remember being so excited looking through a catalogue because my pops said he would treat me to my first computer I got a Silver 16k Texas Instruments Computer, it had a cartridge system for pre-made games (I can only remember having one cartridge, a Text based Pirate RPG where you start off in your flat and you find a magical book where you use the words yo ho ho to go to some magical pirate island or something 
), I never did finish I don’t think but I had great fun with it for years (not just the game ).
My Personal History of Gaming
Then my brother got a Spectrum Computer (which was an incredible hit here in the UK) and that was it, kids were getting hit by the computer bug everywhere, first he got the 16k, then the 48k and then on to the stomping 128k which for some reason didn’t do so well, my 2 favourite games of all time though on the Spectrum was The Alchemist and Head Over Heels and I still go mushy over . I managed to get hold of a new 32k Acorn Electron, it was a cheaper compromise than the then de facto school computer which was the BBC Micro Computer (I remember one TV show that was on regularly live got hacked while they demonstrated something or other in front of millions of kids and teachers, the hacker movement had begun already in the UK with earnest I’m a technophobe nowadays though lol ) Then a storm, well, there were many fad storms in computing then but some classics still echo into the present such as the David Braben’s Elite. It was as good as it was frustrating, spending a few hours gaming only to crash in the incredibly difficult process of docking in the only place you could save your game, the space station in each system and Thargoids that could appear from Witchspace any time to hand you your yellow hide as you hyperspaced out of a difficult battle!
Moving into the 90′s
The 90′s would be a great time for gaming, by this time we had an Amiga 1200 which had built in custom chips for sound and graphics it was an incredible machine! Games like Flashback and Another World enticed us, frustrated us and killed us many a time (If you want to see how nasty Another World could be check out the Another World Death Scenes at Youtube as a starting point ) And of course David Braben’s Elite was back! Though it pretty much killed itself trying to reinvent itself in ways the fans did NOT want and then Gremlin (A PC publisher that was having financial difficulties brought out the last version too quick and that killed the franchise 
)
The PC Era Arrives
PC’s arrived not soon after, at first they were chunky and limited but someone must have seen potential in them because the Amiga died a miserable death and soon PC’s were popping up everywhere you looked. My first pc was little more than an ugly and chunkier version of an Amiga 1200 I had, without all the cool tricks and good looks but my 2nd PC much later would blow me away! It was sleek, small and sexy and oh so powerful! (A 486 DX66 2 or something like that ) Games like Star Wars: Dark Forces, Doom, Heretic were appearing everywhere thick and thin and that was it, the PC was here to stay
The Naughties
The Naughties, as I hear the UK press call them (The years between 2000 and 2009), brought something quite else, I read a review of a game that could be difficult but incredible at the same time, Baldur’s Gate had arrived! (for me at least, the game had been released a year or two earlier). Of course, I loved other games too, like Syndicate Wars (The first one was great too ), Dungeon Keeper, X- Beyond the Frontier and many more but Baldur’s Gate had a dramatic effect on me, maybe it echoed back to more innocent times of Yo Ho Ho (see above ) gaming and being able to run forever without stopping by the pub for a breather lol but it just blew me away and I discovered Black Isle Studios and then Bioware.
Bioware
I really love Bioware as anyone can love a company (thirsty for more but worried about their future and ability to provide what I love) I love RPG’s but especially the RPG’s that Bioware create, of course they’re never perfect but they have the ability to provide an environment for a gamer which raises their sense of immersion and suspension of disbelief to unheard of levels, you can really feel for many of the characters they create and the stories are great even if they do resort to a few tricks to do it (Please, no more amnesia story lines!)
In the Now
Bioware have proven themselves to gamers but with the company being bought by the publishing giant, EA and with EA’s sketchy past on DRM technology and forcing that technology on honest gamers most fans are wary of what is to come but looking forward to what both of this potentially incredible partnership can accomplish together