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Arcken
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While in another thread today, I started wondering what RPGs the older gamers played that got them into the genre.
What really got me was The Final Fantasy Legend on the original Gameboy in 1990. Id played a few others on the NES, but i still consider The Final Fantasy Legend to be my "first" if you will
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Dragon Warrior for the NES.
Loved those games and really started me on the whole RPG thing as a kid.
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D&D Pools of Radiance on my Commodore 64!
For me, Final Fantasy on NES was a big deal, but before that, there was Might and Magic on my friends 486. Might and Magic got me hooked, and Final Fantasy drove the hook deeper :P. Naturally there were other games, but those two stand out in my memory.
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RPG it was back to stuff like TSR games on PC or P&P D&D, i think i even did a little FF on NES and a D&D game on Genesis, cant remeber the name. I vaguely recall an atari D&D game....
MMO was more EQ, was the first one i played. did some NWN.
This is what got me into RPGs as a kid. I'm not quite 30 yet though, just 4yrs off.
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Pen and Paper D&D(1980)ish) and I waited unti the year 2002 with the release of Neverwinter Nights until I felt that the computer gaming industry finally got the transition from PnP to PC done correctly.
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To this day I can think of very few RPGs that were harder than Dragon Warrior. Heck I cant think of many things in general that are harder than Dragon Warrior was.
Bard's Tale and Wizardry on my Amiga 1000
Zork
I would kill for a continuation of the Wizardry line, and not that garbage they tried on the PS2 either. I would list Wizardry 5: Heart of the Maelstrom as one of my favorite RPGs of all time.
Same
dragon lair in the arcades(long time ago holographic 3 d
that was supposed to be the futur !mm ya right?
Pools of Radiance for C64 was my first as well!
...but, Ultima 7 (both parts) and Elder Scrolls: Arena were probably the games I logged most time into before I started playing MUDs online, which lead to MMORPGs eventually.
For my self Final Fantasy 7 introduced me to the RPG world !! And since I loved it, stated trying RPG from all consol. and been addicted to this genre since then.
/cheer Square Soft !!!
For me it was Phantasie (I, II, and III). I played it on my Commodore 64 and Amiga. I played this in the late 1980's and it was the type of game that you pretty much had to write stuff down to remember what you are supposed to do. There was no quest log. Games today are much easier, but to be honest, I don't think I would want todays games to go that primitive hehe.
Lords of Midnight, ZX Spectrum
After that, Bards Tale I think...
Plaque Attack, Atari 800. Ok, not an rpg, but damn it was funny!
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Well, the latest descendant of Dragon's Lair, Heavy Rain, launched just a couple of months ago and got universally praised by by both reviewers and gamers, so who knows. It might still be the future of gaming.
Final Fantasy on NES, Original Zelda (name your toon Zelda to unlock the second world), Dragon Warrior NES, and as for MMO's, I never MOO'd but I did play the shit out of Legend of the Red Dragon and Exitilus on BBS'
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Not quite 30 yet but my first step into RPGs was with Fallout 2, shortly after its release, in 1998. My favorite of the series to this day.
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I played that as well on my C64. There were one or two others from the SSI D&D series that I vaguely recall playing too.
Someone else mentioned Bard's Tale which was another that I remember having and enjoying, although I have trouble remembering the particulars about that game, other than playing it quite a bit and liking it.
Ultima IV was another one I played on my C64 which I was totally addicted to. I loved the moral choices you had to make throughout the game. I still have the cloth map that came with the original game as well.
I know a few of you will laugh, but I dug up my old Fantasy General CD and manual and have been playing it in DOSBox on my PC and my Mac as well. (I downloaded the one on my Mac from www.abandonia.com).
On a somewhat related note, I'm not playing any MMO at the moment. Pretty fed up with all of them actually, and playing something like Fantasy General has been more fun for me than any MMO I've played recently.
Age: 39
First game platform: Commodre 64
First game I can recall: Sword of Fargoal
First memorable game: Ultima IV The Quest of the Avatar (still a milestone in many ways for me)
First MMO: SWG
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Ultima III on the C64 was my first RPG. Countless others since (including Final Fantasy Legend, FFL2, FF Adventure, FF1, ...)
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+1
For me as well. My Samurai was the bomb in Wizardry.
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not quite 30 yet (27), shining force 3 for the mega drive, my first and still my favourate