What was your first RPG?

Glurin

Hmm. Well, if you count roguelikes, then I think my first would probably be an old DOS game I don't even recall the name of. In fact it may well have been Rogue. It's also possible that it was actually on the Commodore 64 we had at the time.

If you're thinking a little more D&D or Final Fantasy style, then I think I'd have to more or less default to Baldur's Gate. I didn't get into Final Fantasy until later. I did play a little Phantasy Star long before that, but I'm not counting it because it belonged to my cousin and we didn't visit often enough for me to really get into it.

Enteum

Final Fantasy VII on PS1

Asardes

TES3 Morrowind. I wasn't interrested in RPGs before that because they had bad isometric graphics and were quite grindy.

Ackwalan

Pool of Radiance, on a commodore 64. Unless you want to count pitfall on an Atari.

LegacyDM

Single player was Bards tale Apple II. Online multiplayer was dark castle mud on a 2400 baud modem.dialing into the local college library system to jack their telnet. Those were the days...

BlueViolet

King's Quest, Eye of the Beholder were my first. So long ago.
My first multiplayer RPG experience was Neverwinter Nights on a persistent world that I still play on today, though its only online by request now.

I had D&D back in the day when I was a kid in school, but none of my friends were really interested, so I haven't ever had the chance to play tabletop, though I wish I had.

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Ackwalan wrote: »

Pool of Radiance, on a commodore 64. Unless you want to count pitfall on an Atari.

I played that too on the C64 when I was a kid. And Below the Root.

bellanca6561n

CaineCarver wrote: »

1985 Island of Kesmai via COMPUSERVE at six bucks an hour for 300 bps lol

Same. It used the extended character set to give the appearance of graphics because CIS would not allow graphics in games on their network. They had positioned themselves as a computer network for serious professionals, you see.

That game was a Kelton Flinn and John Taylor masterpiece though. They met at UVA. Kelton was getting his doctorate in nuclear physics and made online games as a hobby using the university's computer.

He'd hoped for a career in the nuclear energy industry but then Three Mile Island happened. Thus the client/server persistent world online RPG was born.

Many firsts in that game such as group questing to acquire skills, and scrolling movement through an online game world.

One of those skills was language. When typing to strangers each would see a language neither understood until they built their language skills. The language he used that the unskilled people saw? Sanskrit. Kelton was a polymath.

Death was permanent originally. Due to the cost of putting a game on a network, people invested thousands of dollars in their characters. Thus when someone came to you aid, they were risking a lot. This made for a close community in a manner inconceivable today.

Permanent death was eventually replaced by the Underworld. If you died all your gear dropped and you went to a sort of afterlife - a separate adventure you had to undergo to return to the land of the living. And you'd better have friends with you when you perished to give you back your gear when you emerged.

A very different game for a very different time and an entirely different audience.

TheSeer

DannyLV702 wrote: »

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DannyLV702 wrote: »

What's an rpg

Role Playing Game. You know, like I'm the doctor, you're the nurse.

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Alucardo

Morrowind.. which is probably why I started playing ESO. It was because of Morrowind why I fell in love with the ES franchise.

Coatmagic

Adventure on Atari if that counts xD

Hrm... actual D&D (paper and pencil)...

Pool of Radiance on C64...

EverQuest for MMORPG.

aldriq

The Dark Heart of Uukrul, followed by the Eye of the Beholder series. Open-world in the same vein as TESO, the first one I remember was a very bad PC port of Drakkhen... Though I thought it was amazing then

Kendaric

My first cRPG was Ultima II, my first PnP RPG was D&D (the red box for those who remember it still)

hrothbern

1980 Ultima I, The First Age of Darkness.

Ultima Underworld, in 1992, was the apex of this series: it was in 3D !!!
with many riddles and amazing 3D acrobatics.

BlackguardBob

Bauldurs's Gate and then Bauldur's Gate 2 which is the best game I have ever played to this date. Bioware used to be the masters of story telling in a game and the emo really gets to you. My first ES game was Morrowind which I got free when I bought a new sound card for my PC. Been an ES fan since.

Lumenn

I'd say Rygar or Ghouls and Ghosts but those we're more side scrolling action adventure. The legend of Zelda maybe. First computer was by Sierra Quest for Glory. LOVE that game. And the fact that you can import your personal character into each new release to learn new things( and have some skills only available from previous games) was cool. 5 games and one character to grow through them all.

Chriagon

Ultima V - Warriors of Destiny (Amiga 500)

Sometimes when I look back it surprises me how the lack of technology was simply counterbalanced with imagination.

N2woR

The first RPG I could actually get into was a game called Suikoden, up til that game I tried RPGs but wasn't a fan. Suikoden was a beast as was the sequel

Yuls

Rings of Medusa. Actually more a mix of trading/strategy and a bit of RPG.

Prof_Bawbag

Pong the rpg gold deluxe, super, hyper edition.

kevlarto_ESO

Meridian59 was my first mmo/rpg also the first online game i played that had graphics, mudz before that.

Naughty_Ryder

Neverwinter Nights

dem0n1k

Gary Gygax's AD&D with dice & wotnot.

Danikat

As far as I remember it was an old DnD game called Eye of the Beholder on our 386 PC. That might well not be the first, I've been playing whatever games I could get my hands on since I was 2 and only have vague memories of a lot of them.

I had absolutely no idea what I was doing or why. I never looked at the manual so I had no idea what Str, Int, Con or Dex meant, and I was about 8 years old so I probably didn't know what constitution or dexterity meant either. I mostly learned what to do through pure trial and error. I remember gradually realising elves made better mages and half-giants made better warriors but that was about as far as my character design got. I never even came close to finishing the game.

But in spite of all that I loved it. This was around the time my parents finally decided I was old enough to read The Lord of the Rings (and insisted I should read The Hobbit first) and I started to discover the sci-fi and fantasy section in the local library, so the idea that I could actually play in these worlds too was amazing.

Oddly enough it was after that I discovered text adventures and got into those, along with other DnD games, Zelda and whatever else I could find. I didn't encounter the TES games until Morrowind came out.

Knightpanther

I'm old, I played all of the early stuff back from the 80s and onwards, but for true MMO RPG my first was a text based MUD called Wolfenburg, shortly after Everquest was released and the rest is history, that game blew me away and was possibly the only true PVE MMO game that provided any challenge.

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schroed360

Enteum wrote: »

Final Fantasy VII on PS1

Same for me.

mobicera

Hmm I believe it was probably Chrono Trigger.

Abeille

The first RPG I played was Pokémon Blue, which belonged to my older cousin, like most videogames I played when I was little. The first I owned was Pokémon Yellow, a little later. First MMO was Ragnarök Online.

aubrey.baconb16_ESO

Megatraveller, PC, 1990

Rune_Relic

Ackwalan wrote: »

Pool of Radiance, on a commodore 64. Unless you want to count pitfall on an Atari.

Ah I remember that one with the sorceress and the dragon on the front cover.
Loved crawling the dungeons.
Was that the one with the two rings....one was massively powerful but super heavy and granted instant suicide.
You needed the counterpart twin ring to be able to use the other ring.

My earliest was the handwritten ones peeked and poked in to ZX spectrum out of a magazine.
Pretty dire TBH lol.