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What Was Your First RPG (PC or Console)?
AlBQuirky
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I was reminiscing a bit today and thought back to the first RPG I ever played. It was Crystalis on the NES. What was yours? I did do some Zelda, but Crsytalis was the game my ex-wife and I played for hours on end.
When I finally got my first PC (commodore 64) Phantasie
and Bards Tale were my major time consumers.
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse.- FARGIN_WAR
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Does kings quest count? If not, I think it was dragon warrior.
I'd say King's Quest counts, even though it is classified as an "Adventure game."
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse.- FARGIN_WAR
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(Final Fantasy 6)
If we're counting King's Quest then it was my first, if not then it was Pool of Radiance. I think I might still have the box/disks for Pool still stashed away somewhere.
Zelda was my first console rpg.
Atari 2600, Adventure
Wikipedia link
http://www.speedtest.net/result/7300033012
Zork was my first RPG. I was too busy role playing outside to play games inside or at arcades wasting time.
I played Advanced D&D on Atari since I played a little table top.
Final Fantasy 1 for NES (which was really 2) US side .. first console RPG
played it too.
I remember the King's Quest series myself (right, they were Adventure games).
But I'd say my first RPG was 'Darklands' by Microprose. Buggy as an Alaskan swamp, and that was in the days you had to get patches on floppy disks by snail mail. But still, I had a lot of fun with it. And I'd say that Darklands was the game that got me interested in the RPG genre.
Well if we are counting those than my first was Advanced Dungeon and Dragons for the Intellivision.
These may not count but they are the things that eventually led me to what I believe does.
The progression went like this....
Raiders of the lost Ark (Atari 2600)
Rogue (PC) Which put the bug into me to eventually get my own PC.
Adventures of Zelda (Nintendo)
The Hobbit (Commodore 64)
I really didn't consider these to be role playing games though as much as adventure games based on role playing game theories.
Curse of the Azure Bonds was the first game that I considered to be a real role playing game.
Edited: Totally forgot about Kings Bounty. It was before everything else.
Quest for glory 4 - Shadows of Darkness.
Baldur's Gate and Fallout series came after.
"Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted.
Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world."
Hans Margolius
dragon warrior for me, as far as RPG's on video games go.
Talk about remembering things. I remember trying to play Zork, and Ultima and being utterly and completely lost!
Pure awesomeness that you even remembered that game. I played that also but had forgotten until I saw your link.
Guess my 1st adventure ever is an Atari 2600 console one as well. Only one that pops to mind is Raiders of the Lost Arc, but I'm pretty sure I've played 2600-RPGs before that...
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The original Wizardry when I was about 8. You had to make your own maps. My level 3 map went on for about 6 pages of graph paper all taped together. A big spawling mess before my dad, a computer engineer, reached level three and discovered the level was full of teleports. So it still fit into a 30 by 30 grid. (I forget the actual level dimensions). After that I just used his maps.
But Ultima 2 and on was all me. I do vaguely remember that 'Adventure' game though.
If you are holding out for the perfect game, the only game you play will be the waiting one.
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse.- FARGIN_WAR
Tir Na Nog and Avalon for me, on the spectrum. Also remember playing most of the Level 9 games for ages, especially Return to Eden and The Worm in Paradise!
Shortly moved on to The Bards Tale, Bloodwych and Lords of Midnight and that was me hooked!