What was your first RPG?

[Girl Drink Drunk]

Although the first RPG I ever played was Super Mario RPG, I had no idea what RPG meant at the time and didnt know hwat the hell was going on in it when I rented. I don't have anything against it, and even own it, but it's a drag Mario couldnt talk. Anyways, what I considered my first true RPG was Chrono Trigger, which kept me renting it for weeks. I was blown away by the music (especially that piano midi that sounded almost exactly like piano when you fail to open one of those seals) and effects, and the story had kept me going. That New Game + feature where you could start a new game with all your stats and items from the previous game was also a plus. I'll admit that there seemed to be some flawed story and plot structure near the end, and things I wished that were explained, and I wish Chrono would talk too, but that game is still close to my heart.

[Guitar Woman]

FF4, and it made me hate the genre for the next 5 years

[Johnny Couth]

Baldurs Gate. It dominated two years of my life. What a great game.

[Girl Drink Drunk]

FF4, and it made me hate the genre for the next 5 years

I hope you aren't talking bout the one with the Dark Night, Cecil, and was called FF II when first released in the US. I actually loved the story in that better then VII. I can understand if it had to do with the random battles, insane difficulty, or plain graphics, but the story was a huge fucking leap from the previous games.

[Guitar Woman]

I hate that game I've always hated that game and I always will hate that game because it's a boring piece of shit

[ItalianStereotype]

Although the first RPG I ever played was Super Mario RPG, I had no idea what RPG meant at the time and didnt know hwat the hell was going on in it when I rented. I don't have anything against it, and even own it, but it's a drag Mario couldnt talk.

obviously that was also the first mario game you had ever played

[Girl Drink Drunk]

Ok........................Anyways, I'm not talking exactly about just your first RPG, but the RPG that first made you fall in love with the genre.


.....Also, fuck off, Stereotype. I've been playing since Super Mario World, and even had Super Mario Allstars as a kid.

[ItalianStereotype]

seeing as how mario had NEVER spoken and all

jesus, I fucking HATE having to explain this shit to you people

[Girl Drink Drunk]

DONT YOU EVER ASSUME THAT WAS MY FIRST MARIO GAME. And yes he did talk.....in the cartoons (another fact your probably assumed otherwise of was that I actually watched re-runs of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show).

[ItalianStereotype]

I don't have to assume anything. you're in, what, 7th grade?

hey, just because it says super mario 64 doesn't mean that there were 63 mario games before it.

[Emu]

FF4, and it made me love the genre for the next 5 years

[Johnny Couth]

I don't have to assume anything. you're in, what, 7th grade?

hey, just because it says super mario 64 doesn't mean that there were 63 mario games before it.

How lame is to be a Mario elitist?

[Girl Drink Drunk]

Shitty load times aside,Final Fantasy Chronicleswas awesome.

[Johnny Couth]

I was talking to italian.

AINT NO ONE KNOW MARIO BUT ME YOU ALL MARIO FRONTIN BITCHES!

[Mad Melvin]

I believe it was Hero's Quest, if that counts. It was a point & click style RPG/Adventure. I think it was made by Sierra, and it's kinda like Kings Quest. Only with RPG elements.
After that I really didn't play any RPGs, but then came the allmighty Fallout 2 and ate my soul.

[AChimp]

Zork.

It counts as an RPG in my books. >:

[Misdemonar]

Fallout 2 and ate my soul.

Akuma'RAH!

[Emu]

Zork is love <3[/code]

[Trash]

My first RPG was ultima... I think it was 2, so lets just say it was. Ultima 2 Sucked me in for a while, and then i became a RPG junkie.

[timrpgland]

Dragon Warrior

[WhiteRat]

Final Fantasy Legend for Gameboy.

[ItalianStereotype]

I am a LIFE elitist, johnny, and god help me, I'll cleanse you and your filth off of this planet.

[Fathom Zero]

Battle Hunter for the Playstation.
I refused to play RPGs for a number of years.

[Rongi]

idk

[MarioRPG]

My first RPG was Final Fantasy 3 on the SNES. I remember playing it at a friends house and he got mad cuz I didn't want to let him play.

[Johnny Couth]

I am a LIFE elitist, johnny, and god help me, I'll cleanse you and your filth off of this planet.

DUDE YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT LIFE IS. YOU KNOW BREATHING? I INVENTED BREATHING! NO ONE BREATHED BEFORE I SAID IT WAS COOL!

[ziggytrix]

http://home.flash.net/~brenfrow/dd/dd-xbox2.jpg

[ArrowX]

FF3 was the first RPG I ever played. I got it for christmas one year, and hated it then after about the second year of it collecting dust I pluged it in and started playing and couldn't stop....I never did beat it. For some reason I could never beat the Ghost Train. After that I was given Metal Warriors from a friends mom beause she deemed it too violent for her kids.

[Zomboid]

If it counts, it was Fatal Labyrinth for me.

I'd kinda rather not count that though, so I'd have to say earthbound.

[executioneer]

http://www.deigames.com/Keep.jpg

or dragon warrior if it HAS to be a video game

[Jeff The Ninja]

I cannot pick one game so here it goes

FF3 (Snes)= I never played much as a kid, and the opening music scared me, that pipe organ with the thunder freaked me out.

Thousand Arms (Playstation)= The most fucked up RPG in existence and the closest a true dating sim came to hitting the North American Shores. It was just addicting, and a fun twist on the RPG genre. The twist being that in order to obtain magic you had to date hot chicks to be able to gain charisma to be able to forge stronger weapons.

Wild Arms (Playstation)= Good lord, I love that music.

[executioneer]

I cannot pick one game so here it goes

FF3 (Snes)= I never played much as a kid, and the opening music scared me, that pipe organ with the thunder freaked me out.

Thousand Arms (Playstation)= The most fucked up RPG in existence and the closest a true dating sim came to hitting the North American Shores. It was just addicting, and a fun twist on the RPG genre. The twist being that in order to obtain magic you had to date hot chicks to be able to gain charisma to be able to forge stronger weapons.

Wild Arms (Playstation)= Good lord, I love that music.

it's supposed to be the FIRST one you played, you don't get to pick turkey

[WhiteRat]

Somewhere in my closet I still have the original FF3 strategy guide, complete with the post-it-note marking what page I was on when I last played it damn near 8 years ago.

[camacazio]

Final Fantasy Legend 3.

[Marc Summers]

Phantasy Star IV for the Genesis :lol

[Emu]

Come to think of it Final Fantasy Adventure may have been my first >: I don't remember

[Jixby Phillips]

oh, i remember it like it was yesterday

[ItalianStereotype]

johnny, whenever I make you mad, do you tousle your hair and make a pouty, mousey, myspace face before you post?

[Shifty]

FF3 was my first, the only real reason why i wanted to learn to read, to show my brother i could beat it before him. pff stupid chump. i lost :(, i didnt figure out how to read untill a year later, by that time, my brother, beat it atleast 10 times, i was angry.

[Skulhedface]

My first RPG was Final Fantasy II (or IV, if you're one of those purists). I got an SNES for Christmas around 1991 or so, and it came with Super Mario World, but my aunt was rich and felt like tossing money around so me and all my cousins also got FFII and Populous.

I played through Mario World first, then dove into FFII and never looked back. Unlike Guitar Woman >: I actually loved FFII and I remember having more than one fanboyish breakdown when I started seeing previews for FFIII in Gamepro.

This probably makes me a big fucking nerd but I lost my first girlfriend over Chrono Trigger :(

[Guitar Woman]

I could never beat the Ghost Train.
If you use a Phoenix Down on him he dies instantly.

[RaNkeri]

FF7, but there was unofficially this crappy RPG for Genesis, can't recall it's name though :/

[ziggytrix]

http://www.nintendocity.com/pictures/nes_cart_scans/Dragon_Warrior.jpg

FREE WITH YOUR SUBSCIPTION TO NINTENDO POWER!

[Guitar Woman]

I still play DW every now and then. I'm at the part where you go to the place in the south that people tell you not to go to, and I keep getting killed by warlocks with their fucking sleep spells. >:

[thebiggameover]

the first one i played was ultma: avitar. the one that made me love rpgs was dungen magic.......

[Girl Drink Drunk]

FF7, but there was unofficially this crappy RPG for Genesis, can't recall it's name though :/

Are you talking about the actually very awesome Shining Force?

[James]

Man, if Dragon Warrior was my first RPG, it would have turned me off the genre permanently. Hell, playing the roms of the series a while back almost did that anyway.

Final Fantasy Adventure was my first RPG. My brother and I somehow lost our copy of the game (I still swear it's somewhere in my grandmother's house), but I rebought it when Nintendo rereleased all their GB Final Fantasy games. I also bought FF Legend 3. I kind of wish I'd bought 1 and 2 when I had the chance. :/

[timrpgland]

FF7, but there was unofficially this crappy RPG for Genesis, can't recall it's name though

I hope you are not talking about Sorcerer's Kingdom. That game rocked :(

[Girl Drink Drunk]

Man, if Dragon Warrior was my first RPG, it would have turned me off the genre permanently.
I know what you mean. It had that plain battle interface, the overly elaborate menu (although I think FF had that too) just for pressing the action button, annoying dialog, blah blah blah. Also, the game files kept on erasing. Battery memory must of been dying.

[Guitar Woman]

Final Fantasy didn't have an action menu

[Girl Drink Drunk]

You talking about the original Final Fantasy for the NES or the remake? Wasnt quite sure if it did (I played it a few years ago on the NES) but the original FF had its own flaws.

[Guitar Woman]

I, Garland, will knock you all down!

[Skulhedface]

The actual FFII, not FFIV, is starting to inspire me to break controllers. And my head. On the sharp corner.

No wonder it wasn't released in the US before Origins. I think if this was my first RPG, I'd have had to snap something in half.

You know, for posterity.

[timrpgland]

Man, if Dragon Warrior was my first RPG, it would have turned me off the genre permanently.
I know what you mean. It had that plain battle interface, the overly elaborate menu (although I think FF had that too) just for pressing the action button, annoying dialog, blah blah blah. Also, the game files kept on erasing. Battery memory must of been dying.

Dragon Warrior was classic. I don't play the original these days but as a kid it was interesting and ooooh so epic :)

Oh and sniperwulf, hold reset and then hit power :(

[Girl Drink Drunk]

nah, I still lost the data. I guess I wasnt really bred on the SUPER old Rpg's, even if it was the first. I consider myself to be an oldschool gamer, but I think that just really shows it's age (and not in a good way.

[BlueOatmeal]

I was trying to think of the name of my first RPG I played and it was Dragon Warrior. I actually had some fun in it but I got lost and got killed by a skeleton or something.

Turn based RPGs with random battles suck so godamn much.

[executioneer]

oh cripes i forgot, i would go play might and magic 2 on my cousin's apple IIgs before DW :x and questron 1 and 2, battletech: crescent hawks inception, and dragonlance

[ziggytrix]

i thought the SSI games came later than DW?

[executioneer]

before I had it, i meant

[executioneer]

i don't think i even had a NES until '89, and didn't get DW til '90, btw

[Girl Drink Drunk]

Good God you are a dinosaur.

[executioneer]

jesus, i'm a dinosaur for getting an NES in '89? what does getting a TI 99/4A in '82 make me?

[Girl Drink Drunk]

A dinosaur, but I imply that in the most respectable way possible (as in a badge of honor) :) Sorry, I didn't mean for that previous post to come off as rude as it actually sounded.

[executioneer]

so you meant it like "dinosaurs of ROCK" type of dinosaur then i guess thats ok :(

[Girl Drink Drunk]

lol. sure. Check this ad out http://www.zock.com/8-Bit/Ad_TI3.JPG
That keyboard is seriously badass. http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/ti99/ti99_1.jpg

Anyways, back on topic, has anyone gotten all the endings in Chrono Trigger?

[Supafly345]

Bard's Tale on One of those double floppy drive apples (I was too young to remember what kind it was, I just remember you needed both)

[King Hadas]

Man, if Dragon Warrior was my first RPG, it would have turned me off the genre permanently. Hell, playing the roms of the series a while back almost did that anyway.The thing about the old Dragon Warrior games was that they actually expected you to use a bit of your imagination when you played them.

[Misdemonar]

King's Quest (is it a rpg? :()

[executioneer]

it isn't :(

[executioneer]

Zork.

It counts as an RPG in my books. >:

unless you're talking about beyond zork, no >:

[thebiggameover]

FF7, but there was unofficially this crappy RPG for Genesis, can't recall it's name though :/

Are you talking about the actually very awesome Shining Force?

i bet its shining in the darkness....

[Esuohlim]

The really depressing thing is that my first RPG was probably Pokemon Red >:

[Zomboid]

Actually, there's a good chance that's mine too. Only it wasn't red, it was blue :O

[the_dudefather]

think for me it was swords and serpents (a nes dungeons and dragons style game) followed by final fantasy 7 years later

and yeah pokemon red/blue was the shit when it came out. lcould never be bothered with the sequels tho

[James]

The thing about the old Dragon Warrior games was that they actually expected you to use a bit of your imagination when you played them.

...How so? Do I imagine it's a good game or something?

I'm sure back in its day, it was considered an amazing game. But if that had been my first exposure to RPGs, I'd have been turned off RPGs forever. It's like if Turok Evolution had been your first FPS, or if Bubsy 3d had been your first platformer.

[Dr. Boogie]

Phantasy Star II.

[Supafly345]

Actually, there's a good chance that's mine too. Only it wasn't red, it was blue :OI thought you played earthbound.

[Marine]

my first rpg was Secret of Mana, wich have dominated my life ever since.

but the first RPG i played and completed was FF I for the nes :P

[CheapAlert]

bards tale, pc

[the_dudefather]

is neverwinter nights any good. thinking about giving it a go

[Emu]

NWN's single player is great, but the multiplayer's kinda shitty since nobody's on it anymore and most of the people who are are retards. :(

[the_dudefather]

can you play though the game in co-op or anyhting? that would be pretty awesome (maybe)

[Emu]

Yeah, I've played through all of the single player campaigns with my friends. The campaigns are more or less suited to co-op play, but there are a few awkward moments (Like in Hordes of the Underdark, there's one point where the game crashes if you have more than one person in it, but all that means is that you have to finish that part alone and then your teammates can rejoin after.)