What was your first RPG?

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zegh8578 said:
Aw, cool, fun newer generations, gaming w their parents

My dad was "opposed" to video games, "too violent" (massive eyeroll), he DID let me play with plastelina though, that "promoted creativity". I would go as far, sometimes, as to not only make little clay people, but make cavities inside them, and organs, and then use kitchen knives to gut them and spill their intestines all over. Sometimes I even poured red water paint over them. He knew, and let me "look, how creative!":roll:
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My dad was also opposed to video games (back where I came from, video games didn't exist!), but not because he thinks they're violent, he just thinks they soften the mind and make people dumb. He's a lot easier nowadays but still, the old New Soviet man never really dies and I still get sad, knowing looks whenever he sees me play New Vegas. He doesn't have any problems with strategy games, especially Paradox ones.
 
Dr Fallout said:
he just thinks they soften the mind and make people dumb.
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Oh, that too

Dr Fallout said:
He's a lot easier nowadays but still, the old New Soviet man never really dies and I still get sad, knowing looks whenever he sees me play New Vegas. He doesn't have any problems with strategy games, especially Paradox ones.
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and that - although he will never actually admit it :D

I think they are just from a time when video game started and ended at "pong", and the idea of video games that actually tickle the mind, where you read - hell, even learn, is very difficult for them to imagine. He would rather me watch a stupid movie, than play an intricate video game, because he thinks the latter would give me virtually nothing.
But yeah, he does seem fascinated - although trying to hide it - with Paradox games, for example.
 
The information age... It has ruined the bar bet, and the puzzle game; for at the slightest difficult challenge (or uncertainty) most seem to think nothing of searching out the solution online rather than solve it themselves.

That's why I wish more games would be designed with this in mind, and things like static passwords, or fixed puzzle solutions be generated differently on every new game started*, and perhaps even some changed level layouts... Such that a walkthrough cannot hold the exact solution to anyone else's session of the game.
*It's not always that easy to implement though. I made a mod with a slider puzzle in it, and I had planned to have the shuffle be 100% random per new character... until I found out that about half of the possible tile shuffles are said to be [physically] impossible to solve.
 
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zegh8578 said:
Oh, that too
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He hates shooters and considers RPGs to just be less shooty shooters (hmm, I wonder why?), which is why he's tolerable of older CRPGs, you know Fallout and the like. It's harder to consider something dumb or shooty when it's turn based, isometric and involves heavy reading.
zegh8578 said:
and that - although he will never actually admit it :D

I think they are just from a time when video game started and ended at "pong", and the idea of video games that actually tickle the mind, where you read - hell, even learn, is very difficult for them to imagine. He would rather me watch a stupid movie, than play an intricate video game, because he thinks the latter would give me virtually nothing.
But yeah, he does seem fascinated - although trying to hide it - with Paradox games, for example.
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Same here, though about the stupid movie part... he always wants me to watch old Soviet movies which are actually quite intelligent and funny. But you know, they got nothing on the non-stop action we have nowadays.

I think it's because strategy games naturally challenge your mind, which is why they're considered good or at least forgivable. Controlling a nation through world war 2 (I always play the USSR when playing Darkest Hour in his vicinity. He actually shows interest and has nothing to complain about western bias) seems a lot better than shooting (usually Russian) munchkins.
 
Dragon Quest IX if it counts, and later Fallout: New Vegas. Didn't even know what was Fallout, it was just a pretty box for 3$ in liquidation (figures how succesful FNV was in Spain)
 
Speaking of Final Fantasy I am going back to replay that whole series maybe starting mostly at 3...Wish me luck.
 
TorontRayne said:
Speaking of Final Fantasy I am going back to replay that whole series maybe starting mostly at 3...Wish me luck.
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Good Luck!
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I think it was Fallout 3.. But then again a gold fish probably has better memory than me.
 
Baldurs Gate 2 was mine, I think? Either that or ... no it was BG2. My absolutely first PC game however, was either Age of Empires 1 or Command & Conquer 1. Can't quite remember it anymore ...
 
Fallout 2, default character with 7AP, battle against wanamingos in Great wanamingo mine with Vic's pipe rifle was epic

(I use ladder, down, shot, up, reload, healing, down... :D )
 
First RPG I remember is KotOR 1, neighbour got it from a rental store and we played it all night. Later on I got the game myself and played it so much. KotOR 2 then went on to be one of my most favourite games ever.
 
Final Fantasy 9. I still remember picking it out from all the other games as a little kid with my parents in Toys 'R' Us. Good times...

Never beat the final boss though so that sucks.
 
Icewind Dale. A friend of mine brought it over. I could never get past the tombs west of the big-tree city, but man did I enjoy it.
 
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