I may be old compared to most people on this site, but the games that really defined a new dimension of storytelling and roleplaying were classic adventure games for DOS. Games like King's Quest, Quest for Glory, Full Throttle, Monkey Island, and others developed by Sierra-Online and Lucasarts are the backbone of progressive story lines which are found in video games today. Arena was released during the time that adventure games were the leading product on the gaming market, and a lot of adventure elements were implemented into the game in order to compete. Is anyone here old enough to remember these diamonds or am I the only one? Also, can anyone here remember roleplaying games before Morrowind? I'm just curious to see how many pc game scholars there are floating around in the forums. Just a side note: a game like 'L.A. Noire' would be considered a modern adventure game I suppose.