Is it just me or have the old RPG's become really boring? I remember back in the day when I played NWN and Morrowind and they were my favorite games. I could play them for hours on end, I recently started playing them again and my god were they boring. I almost got through the whole Morrowind Main Quest but there were only a few moment's in the entire game that were fun this time playing it. The same with NWN. I think I've gotten spoiled by the newer games out there, I really can't see what I thought were so great about the games back then. It really bugs me that i can't play these games again and enjoy them. Am I the only one who feels this way?

Yes.

Probably the novelty wore off, but you're looking at the wrong things! It's not just the plot twists and surprises you enjoy in RPG's, it's the fact that you have freedom to do whatever you like in the game, make any type of character, go any place, join any faction etc. . .

So you probably just need to play with a different mind-set. If you're on PC, try adding mods, it'll turn the game into something completely different, if that's what you're looking for!

Games like Morrowind are timeless. Heck, I'm probably gonna get my grand-kids a copy for their 13th birthdays, and they're probably gonna love it way more that CoD 67: Super-Futuristic Warfare!

I still enjoy Morrowind to the fullest. Hell, I've started playing Shin Megami Tensei 2, a really old RPG with so few animations and screens that it might as well be a text-based RPG, yet I still love it. However, I'm a huge fan of SMT, and I'll never stop loving Morrowind, so how I feel about the game or series it's in is a big part of it.

And you tell me who could possibly play Chrono Trigger now and not think it's one of the best 16-bit games they've ever played.

Familiarity breeds boredom. Regardless how much you like a game if you play it for a long time you're going to get bored.

Thing is, it was like 7 years ago I played these games, so it was sort of like playing a new game. I've played Mass Effect and other newer RPG's like three times over and I'm still not bored.

To pick a recent example, last time I played Morrowind a couple of months back I really couldn't get back into it; it just seemed to be lacking some of its former sparkle. Which is a shame, really. Even as recently as maybe three years or so ago it still had a lot of life left in it but it really feels like it's showing its age now. I admit that I generally have trouble getting back into games I enjoyed years ago, however.

Of course I may have just been in a strop when I tried playing it, which is just as likely.

There is some truth to that, but I believe Morrowind is a shining exception to that rule, largely in thanks to mods. The game can be improved and altered so drastically by its gigantic mod database that it makes it one of those games that will never get old. At least for me. :shrug:

I only played/finished the first Fallout a couple of months ago, and I enjoyed it a lot. :shrug:

It comes and goes.

When I crave some good old games, Shin Megami Tensei is always Shin Megami Tensei.

I tried NWN2 for a couple hours, but that was on my old laptop.

Is there any sort of resource for installing older games like NWN, BG, Daggerfall, Arena, etc on win7 64-bit?

Are these games on Steam?

If you still have the discs then those game all work fine on Win 7. Either by themselves, with a fan-patch, or using DOSbox.

Even after the countless hours I poured into games like Morrowind and Baldur's Gate 2, after a few months I usually want to play again (especially Morrowind). I don't feel that older rpg's get boring, unless the gameplay and user interface became overly dated over the years.

May I suggest, new RPG's?

Well it depends on the game. It may seem contradictory, but I can't really "get" into Morrowind any more but SW:KotOR is still as awesome and fun as it was the day I bought it (contradictory because KotOR is not open-world unlike Morrowind and it could be argued that its gameplay is significantly more "linear" than Morrowind's). Mass Effect still doesn't count as a "properly" old game although it's getting close to being one, but I can say with certainty that it will be a very long time until I am not able to get into that game any more and until it loses the appeal and the fun for me, which I can't say for e.g. Oblivion. This ended up sounding like it was meant to bash Bethesda and brag about BioWare, but I'm just telling it as it is. Bethesda's games were definitely much more awesome for me during the first year of owning them than BioWare's games, but as time passes BioWare's games seem to lose the appeal much slower than Bethesda's games do. It's quite interesting, really, given that Bethesda's games are much more easily moddable and hence have a much greater supply of user-made mods available.

Some of them (such as NWN and BG) are available on Good Old Games, and have been tweaked to ensure compatibility with WinXP, Vista, and Win7 (both 32 and 64-bit versions). Obviously not a universal solution as it's limited to whatever games they have in their catalog, but for the games they do have it's a very painless way to revisit old classics without having to spend time messing around to get them to work on modern systems.

I don't get bored of games old or new very easily simply due to my system of switching up my games every few weeks.

The only old RPG I've played is Fallout a few months ago. It's not bad, I guess, but I think I like the ideas more than the execution. People who think the new Fallouts should be isometric and turn-based are imbeciles, the games were built like that because huge 3D worlds weren't possible at the time, not because having the camera magically hover half a mile away from your character is somehow a great aid to gameplay and immersion.

For games which were made for DOS (like Arena and Daggerfall), there's http://www.dosbox.com/ which, AFAIK, works on Windows 7.

I'm pretty sure Neverwinter Nights works on Windows 7 for most people, but googling seems to indicate that some people do have issues.

Baldur's Gate also apparently works well on Windows 7, but if it doesn't work for you and if you own Baldur's Gate 2 as well, you can try using http://www.usoutpost31.com/easytutu/.

I like some of the ye oldie rpg---mostly due to the nostra, stories, the characters and music.

I find they get even better with time. I'm about to start a new Dragon Quest VIII pkaythrough and I want to check out Rogue Galaxy.

I'm going to agree with this. I can't play Oblivion, anymore, no matter how hard I try for the (sort of) newer games, for example. In contrast, I also can't play my old favorite of Baldur's Gate II, anymore... not even after all the time I spent not playing it. Play a game too much, and it seems you can never truly get back to being interested in it... or at least that's how it seems, in my case.

I find that letting enough time pass between playthroughs from the beginning helps. For example, after I finished my first playthrough of DA:O I didn't play it for over a year (playing other games in the meantime) so when I started my second playthrough, although I still pretty much remembered the story in general I had forgotten so many details that it was still interesting. Being able to have a completely different kind of character helped as well.

Honestly OP, I'd say it's probably just your type of personality that doesn't allow you to enjoy older games, even if it's been a long time since you've played them last. I know my best friend tends to not enjoy any of the games we used to love when we were younger(with a few exceptions), and several other people I know(not so much friends as acquaintances) are the same way. I on the other hand(and a few other friends) have no problem enjoying old games. I still enjoy playing my original NES games, and if I had a working gameboy, I'd bust out Pokemon Blue or Yellow in a heartbeat. It's all down to the type of person you are really. Nothing bad about it, just who you are ^^

Edit: Ya know, thinking about this a bit more, I've found one connection among me and my other friends who enjoy playing older games. We all don't mind, or even ENJOY grinding in video games. None of us have a problem staying in one area for hours until we are strong enough to wipe out anything in our path for a while, then doing it all over again. On the other hand, my best friend, and the others mentioned, are not grinders in any sort of way. If they have to do something repetitively for any extended period of time they get irritated and annoyed and just quit playing. Not sure if that applies to you, but if it does, it would certainly make sense to me, and reinforce the idea that it just boils down to personality type.

I was feeling like that a little bit, and then I installed 150+ mods and it's like a whole new game for me.