I also liked Icewind Dale. It was a fun tromp but never got the expansion packs as I played it long, long ago.
On the PC, if you like Icewind Dale, Neverwinter Nights is pretty decent. Elder Scrolls III/Morrowind also is amazing, but requires a beefy PC.
You would probably love Everquest-II, Rhia, but it really requires a beefy PC. I wouldn't attempt to play on anything less than a 2.0ghz cpu or higher, 1 gig of ram (more preferrably), broadband and a 128-256mb 3D videocard from the past year. It's rocked for the past 3 months, but I'm losing interest in it- typical horse and carrot of Sony games where the reward vs. time investment starts to strongly diminish. They hook you with fast progression and nice rewards, then this flips massively after some point and it becomes "6 hours to make a measurable progression" thing. Good way to secure more monthly subscriptions though.
For old-style RPG's, the console games are pretty hard to beat for value. You can usually find awesome console RPG's in the bargain bin for like $10 and there are no hardware concerns. PS2 has a ton of old-school style RPG's, and tons of older ones that are still good targetted at the PS1. (Star Ocean, all the Baldur's Gate series, Breath of Fire, Suikoden, Shadow Hearts, etc.etc.)
AoM- I played quite a bit but never got the expansion. I like realtime strategy games, but after Total Annihilation, all RTS's have just seemed to pale by comparison. I still play TA, but whipped through AoM and uninstalled it afterwards (much like Starcraft, Warcraft3, C&C Generals, etc.etc.)... being totally spoiled by TA. It just seems most other RTS's are all about the resource and build rush, then the Zerg pounding of the enemy with all you got for the win. In TA, you could create devastating combinations of 3-4 tier attacks (punch a hole in their defenses with small/weak fast units, accompanied by air support, then march in the slower, heavier ground units through the hole created) and there was MUCH more strategy, and less "march 40 units while madly clicking."
We (my roommate and I) played AoE for a while but that was short lived. Civilizations-II + expansion has had much longer holding value. Civi-II rocks... never been a game with so much value since Heroes of M&M hehe.
I've got Battle for Middle Earth still in the box.. been hesitating on installing it as between EQ2, Halflife2, Civi-2 and work, there already is no time for anything else! heh. Can't wait to try it though.
Too many damn games!

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