Weekend GAF: First RPGs You've Ever Played...and Enjoyed

Topher said:
Ultima IV

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Same.


Although back then I was more of an adventure game (Police Quest, Space Quest, etc...) fan than an RPG fan.
 
There were a few all around the same time, Golden Sun, Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced, Phantasy Star Online and Skies of Arcadia. Not sure which of the 4 I played first but they were all excellent and JRPG's really dominated my playtime for a bit during those years.
 
Whoa, good topic
I'm late to the party : ))

Dragonball Z in Famicom/NES
Well, well, if counted as first, this is my first RPG, and by the time, it's japanese, I only press button and amazed with the graphic, but somehow I managed to progrress far
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but If I count proper playing, this is my first RPG (i know it's not straight RPG, but SRPG or Strategy game)
This game has special place in my heart at the time, mind blowing gameplay and character designs.

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I sometimes replaying this game when I got some long time to play
....dang I need to replay this game for the X times again : ))
 
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My grandma gave me Final Fantasy and a GI Joe helicopter for my birthday when I was in 3rd grade. I remember it vividly.

Took me a while to wrap my head around an RPG since it was different from everything else I played. That said, it was far less convoluted than Simon's Quest so I was able to progress pretty far using a guide.

It wasn't until Final Fantasy II on the SNES when the series really clicked with me.
 
Final Fantasy II on the SNES which is actually Final Fantasy IV.

Never played a RPG/turn base game before so it was a new experience and ended up really enjoying it. FFIV is still my top 2 Final Fantasy game and it's the one that has the most sword and sorcery feel out of all other FF games.
 
I dont think I remember the first. If I had guess id say Secret of Mana or Breath of Fire.

I really miss the old school RPG where you had a large cast of playable characters, each with their own distinct attributes. A spoony bard with a harp, a frog that pretends to be a knight, a hunter skilled with bow and boomerang.

Basically your Suikoden or Eiyuden Chronicles type adventures are what I remember most and what I want to play today.
 
I've been a third-person adventure fan since I was a kid through my teenage years, so RPGs weren't really my thing at all. But I think Mass Effect was the game that introduced me to the genre.
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Earthbound is definitely my answer too.

My second big rpg moment was Morrowind on the Xbox. That game was from the future and an impressive port. What a memorable game.
 
Kacho Kacho my man, wanted to recommend this RPG to you.



One of my very first RPGs, also happens to be the pinnacle of OG Chinese games (before the whole market turned to MMO)

Tells a grand mythical story about a half-Asian Francia knight odyssey from Eurasia, to the Arab World, and to China.

I just can't vouch how good the English translation is, but the game is one of my fondest memories.
 
It was a Final Fantasy on the original Game Boy. I can't remember which one.

I played it a ton. It might be The Final Fantasy Legend.

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LectureMaster said:
Kacho Kacho my man, wanted to recommend this RPG to you.



One of my very first RPGs, also happens to be the pinnacle of OG Chinese games (before the whole market turned to MMO)

Tells a grand mythical story about a half-Asian Francia knight odyssey from Eurasia, to the Arab World, and to China.

I just can't vouch how good the English translation is, but the game is one of my fondest memories.
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Steam reviews say its a remake of a 1999 game. What did it release on? Was it a PC game?

The videos look very rough for a modern remake.
 
Technically my first rpg was pokemon red, but my first true rpg was fallout 2. I couldn't believe it when my friend told me about the game. Being able to be "anything", steal mechanic, persuading people, recruiting companions… Was it the first game or the second one where we were forced into marriage? I still remember the first time I saw the skill selection screen. It was an amazing game, it's still my goat, and I feel very lucky that it was my first serious rpg.
 
It's hard for me to remember what my first RPG was. Our family was too poor to afford consoles. I got a genesis when like PS1s came out? Played no RPGs on it.

Game boy: Pokemon
Nintendo 64: Maybe Quest 64?
PS1: Maybe Alundra?

It's very hard to remember what was the first.

But I know that it was PS1 games like these that made me fall in love with games and RPGs forever:
Suikoden
Suikoden 2
Grandia
Lunar silver star story complete
Chrono Cross
Legend of dragoon
Final fantasy 7,8&9
Arc the Lad Collection
Legend of Legaia
Xenogears

Just banger after banger.
 
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Fuck, I'm trying to remember, it was probably Phantasie on Atari ST.

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I tried going backwards from the game I remember, earliest i got before that one is Ishar.
 
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Probably Zork. We all had floppy discs with Zork on it and brought it in to the computer lab at school. Played it during breaks. My first which I owned was Wizardry on the IBM. Played that thing constantly and made maps of most levels on graph paper.
 
I'm wondering how people in here can remember stuff like that.

Started my gaming with c64 as a 5 year old boogie eater with my dad I have no clue what the names of the games were
 
Mengy said:
I'm probably showing my age, but my first RPG was Adventure on the Atari 2600, though its not what is typically known as an RPG today:

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My first "true" RPG would probably have been Bards Tale I on the C64:

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Adventure blew my mind back in the day. That's the type of game I wanted from then on. Haunted House was also very awesome as well for its time.
Adventure probably not a true RPG as you have stated, but I would gather it's the first 2600 game to probably have a definitive ending. You could actually complete the game instead of just endless levels and waves. I assume it was out before Pitfall.
 
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Dragon Warrior on the Nes.

Phantasy Star SMS got me hooked on the idea of RPG's for life.

Probably Final Fantasy 4 (Snes) started the snowball effect, as RPG's started to become more prominent on consoles by that point.

Morrowind on Xbox and the First Fallout (PC of course) made me realize how vastly different computer RPG's are to console ones.
 
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Skyrim for me

It was the first RPG I've played, and I've enjoyed it a lot.

I hadn't play any RPG games prior to that, mostly because I didn't know English enough to understand them, so I preferred action adventure games or simpler multiplayer games for a long time. Because of that, I wasn't interested in the genre. But the dragon stuff pulled me in and actually pushed me to learn the language more. Benefits of being a PC gamer, I would constantly alt-tab to look up the words I didn't know. And there were plenty. That game helped me build a solid foundation for my grammar and vocabulary. Although Skyrim itself wasn't enough to fully pull me into the genre. I did enjoy Fallout 3 some years later, but I just didn't care about the others. Later on, Divinity Original Sin and Divinity Original Sin 2 pulled me in completely (I'd say Divinity Original Sin excels much better as an RPG game than Skyrim but I simply like the concept, gameplay, story and lore in Skyrim more)

I don't like JRPG games, though. I did finish Final Fantasy XV, but I remember nothing about it. I should try some more but they just don't pull me in.
 
Deerock71 said:
Skies of Arcadia on the Dreamcast is the first one I've ever enjoyed. Got it on the GameCube, too.
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Skies of Arcadia is a hell of a first RPG. To this day its still one of my all time favorite RPG's I've ever played, I'd personally rank it just below Chrono Trigger.
 
Final Fantasy Adventure / Mystic Quest on the Game Boy.

I love that game to bits. It felt like it had no business running on the OG GB. It felt way bigger than it was. And that music is eternal.
Fun fact: my next action JRPG was Secret of Mana. It took me a while to figure out that it was actually a sequel to FFA, despite the very different western name,

I also played Faxanadu way earlier than FFA, but I guess the heavy action / platforming component of that game disqualifies it as a "true" RPG, even if it has towns and money and Exp and leveling up.

My first turn-based JRPG was probably FF7. I can't remember any previous one. The genre was almost completely unrepresented for in Europe on Nintendo systems.
 
Humdinger said:
Morrowind, 2001, on the original Xbox. It chugged like hell and looked like crap, but I loved it. :messenger_grinning: It opened my eyes to how immersive a game could be. All that I'd played prior to that had been shooters and platformers - fun enough, but nothing compared to the hundreds of hours I spent in that game.

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I remember playing this on Xbox and actually losing an important quest item in the open world. That was kind of nuts to me. You could bork your entire game just by being careless. Something that would never happen in a console RPG. Thankfully I had a save a few hours back and was able to recover.
 
Humdinger said:
Morrowind, 2001, on the original Xbox. It chugged like hell and looked like crap, but I loved it. :messenger_grinning: It opened my eyes to how immersive a game could be. All that I'd played prior to that had been shooters and platformers - fun enough, but nothing compared to the hundreds of hours I spent in that game.

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Last good ES game.
 
DenchDeckard said:
Does Zelda count?

If not it would probably be something like secret of mana or mystic quest. Maybe final Fantasy.
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back in my day, zelda is considered as rpg. if yes, my first rpg will be zelda
although technically lotta people won't recognize it as rpg, but back before, rpg is when you are playing medieval or fantasy games in my locale : ))
welp, as I grew, i understand why many people not considered it as RPG, because when people heard RPG mostly turnbased (before ARPG or action games infused with rpg element is widely played two decade ago)
by today standard, almost everything has rpg element now
 
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