My first foray into RPGs ever? Â Wizardry: Â Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
Old scroll dungeon scrolling game, wherein you assemble a party of adventurers to get to the bottom of a many leveled maze. Â Stats were randomly generated with point assignments, precious artifacts like the Cuisinart Blade, and terrible foes like Vorpal Bunnies. Â I can still play this for hours on the emulator, and still do have some of the recently revived games my Playstation.
This is what got me hooked on exploring, killing monsters, and "leveling up". Â This was my gateway drug into Might and Magic II when I finally got my Sega Genesis.
My first story RPG on console? Â Shining Force II
Tactical RPG, but I was blown away there actual STORY and CHARACTERS. Â It's not a deep game by any means, but dang ... I rented this one over and over and over again. Â Found all the secret characters and the fairy battle. Â But I didn't keep playing for stuff, I kept playing for story, to answer "What happens next!?" Â Funny thing, it's kinda the red-headed step child of the Shining Series as I sadly discovered later, and really couldn't play the others as this one set my expectations on the series.
This game always has a special place in my heart for being my first story RPG. Â Its the game that eventually brought me to Final Fantasy and many, many others.
These were the games I could get lost in and would love to experience for the first time again.
Old scroll dungeon scrolling game, wherein you assemble a party of adventurers to get to the bottom of a many leveled maze. Â Stats were randomly generated with point assignments, precious artifacts like the Cuisinart Blade, and terrible foes like Vorpal Bunnies. Â I can still play this for hours on the emulator, and still do have some of the recently revived games my Playstation.
This is what got me hooked on exploring, killing monsters, and "leveling up". Â This was my gateway drug into Might and Magic II when I finally got my Sega Genesis.
My first story RPG on console? Â Shining Force II
Tactical RPG, but I was blown away there actual STORY and CHARACTERS. Â It's not a deep game by any means, but dang ... I rented this one over and over and over again. Â Found all the secret characters and the fairy battle. Â But I didn't keep playing for stuff, I kept playing for story, to answer "What happens next!?" Â Funny thing, it's kinda the red-headed step child of the Shining Series as I sadly discovered later, and really couldn't play the others as this one set my expectations on the series.
This game always has a special place in my heart for being my first story RPG. Â Its the game that eventually brought me to Final Fantasy and many, many others.
These were the games I could get lost in and would love to experience for the first time again.
