Planescape: Torment

Another great role-playing game from Interplay. You are The Nameless One and you have just woken up on a bunk inside the local mortuary, without remembering who you are or how you got there. A hovering skull comes forth to greet you and you are told that you have a lot of information tattooed on your back that might be able to help you.

One big difference between Planescape: Torment and Baldur's Gate is that talking with people rather than fighting can most often solve the problems in this game. Many different dialogue choices can be made and they are highly affected by who your character is. If you have high intelligence you'll get additional and more interesting dialogues than a strong and dumb fighter, who has to use brutal force more often to get what he wants.

One warning though: Planescape: Torment is not a game which I can recommend to people who don't like to read all the information there is about things and/or is not so good with the English language - the game is more like an interactive book than a straightforward game were everything can be solved with violence.