What game introduced you to the genre?

[Vlajdermen]

For me it was Amalur. I just recently started getting into what this site would call actually good rpgs (Arcanum and the like). I still replay amalur every now and then for a bit of dumb fun.

 

[fobia]

Neverwinter Nights.
First PC game I ever bought.
PC or console gaming wasn't a thing where I grew up. I was 14 when my family got a PC, I saw the NWN box in a shop, bought it because I liked the eye on the front and the advertising on the back.
Since I had no exposure to gaming except my cousins old GameBoy, I thought NWN was the best thing ever.
I asked at school whether people knew other awesome games like NWN and a classmate gave me his copy of Gothic II. A game even better than NWN. That's why I kept playing mostly action RPGs (Morrowind...) til 20 something. I think I started playing the 'classics' because I found a copy of Arcanum somewhere.

 

[Incantatar]

Albion demo on some gaming magazine CD in the 90s. Never played the complete game. It's even on sale @ GOG right now, might look into it again.

 

[Tigranes]

Baldur's Gate 2. I picked it over Torment because I tried the Mortuary and Irenicus' Dungeon, and thought BG2 was the better game.

In my defense, I was a moron.

 

[Vlajdermen]

Baldur's Gate 2. I picked it over Torment because I tried the Mortuary and Irenicus' Dungeon, and thought BG2 was the better game.

In my defense, I was a moron.

Who's to say bg2 isn't a better game?

I guess it comes down to personal taste but you gotta admit this isn't a "Fallout 2 vs Fallout 4" situation.

 

[undecaf]

Wasteland, somewhere around 1990-91.

I was too young to care that it was an RPG and needed help with the language, but that was the point after which I started looking for other games like it because it was just so much fun.

 

[Lagi]

Aethra Chronicles
Exile (spiderweb)
Yendorian Tales
-- all shareware

 

[PEACH]

MM6 Mandate of Heaven

 

[Elex]

Eye of the beholder II or ultima underground can't remember who was the first.

 

[King Crispy]

Probably Temple of Apshai on TRS-80.

 

[Atlet]

I am a newbie in the genre, but

Legend of Dragoon - ps1- back in the day (marvellous game, one of the best jrpgs ever)

Baldurs Gate 1+2 for cRPGs - my favorite games. I played them when the EE's came out, so no nostalgia envolved here

 

[Snorkack]

Might&Magic 2 and Realms of Arkania 1

 

[imweasel]

Final Fantasy 1 on the NES.

 

[RPK]

Ultima 6

 

[Tom Baker's Arse]

... As a grubby university student, playing Oubliette on an IBM System/370 mainframe, circa 1977

 

[nikolokolus]

Tunnels of Doom on the Ti-99/4A

 

[RPK]

wait, does Shining Force on the SNES count?

 

[Kalin]

Excelsior Phase One: Lysandia and Quest for Glory III: Wages of War.

 

[circ]

lol Amalur.

Well kids. Jeez I don't remember. Some shit like Akalabeth or something. First RPG I actually got into was like Phantasie I or Ultima II or III.

wait, does Shining Force on the SNES count?

Pretty sure that was on Sega Genesis. A fine game too, and its sequel.

 

[DoomIhlVaria]

Legend of the Red Dragon on a local BBS.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Morrowind.

 

[Drax]

Shareware version of Realmz on my old man's PowerPC

 

[TT1]

Probably Final Fantasy I, Lunar: the Silver Star, Phantasy Star or Eye of the Beholder.

 

[eric__s]

Wizardry 1 on the NES. I learned to read by watching my dad play it. I thought the graph paper dungeon maps he'd leave around on the coffee table looked cool, and when I was finally good enough at reading, I decided to play it myself. A lot of the other earliest RPGs I played were the Gold Box games, Elder Scrolls: Arena, Shining Force 2, Phantasy Star IV, Wizardry 7 and probably some others. But Wizardry 1 on the NES was the first.

 

[Mark Richard]

Technically Dungeon Master (1988), but at that time I was much too young to wield a mouse and keyboard and settled for watching. Eye of the Beholder (1991) gave me my first real taste of the dungeoneering lifestyle. From then on no chest went unopened and no bauble went unclaimed.