Record Of Lodoss War - One of my all-time favorite fantasy inspiration.

Played the Dreamcast game and it was pretty nice. Just not sure if the story is the same since I haven't seen the anime.

Anyway, fantasy for me began with the PC games Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale, which are based on D&D's Forgotten Realms universe and rules. It remains to this day as the best PC RPG I've ever played, even surpassing Diablo or any of those new RPGs today.