Which CRPG hooked you into CRPG's, and how?

[Andhaira]

Which rpg was the game that hooked you into the world of computer roleplaying and how did it do it?

Discuss!!

 

[racofer]

So now andhaira says the same thing twice.

Edit: Forgot to say: Halo Wars.

 

[JarlFrank]

Diablo, by being the first RPG I played.

 

[entertainer]

The CRPG that hooked me into CRPG'S was the CRPG which hooked me into CRPG's.

 

[Jaesun]

 

[Hobo Elf]

Halo Wars

 

[Hegel]

Dragon Age.

 

[Andhaira]

Diablo, by being the first RPG I played.

HEATHEN!

Wow Jarl you are really young. You really missed out on the golden years of rpg's.Sure you can play those games later but to lpay them as they were released was an experiance in of itself. I personally can still recall firing up ultima 7 and spending the night just wandering about the streets of the first town.

 

[entertainer]

i mean wow

 

[entertainer]

DIS BE INCREDIBLE

 

[JarlFrank]

Diablo, by being the first RPG I played.

HEATHEN!

Wow Jarl you are really young. You really missed out on the golden years of rpg's.Sure you can play those games later but to lpay them as they were released was an experiance in of itself. I personally can still recall firing up ultima 7 and spending the night just wandering about the streets of the first town.

I'm 20. I just didn't play any RPGs when I was younger. Grew up with mostly adventures like Monkey Island and platformers like Commander Keen. After I played Diablo, I noticed how cool those RPGs are and got myself all the old Might and Magic and Wizardry stuff which I enjoyed a lot.

 

[Andhaira]

Ah, commander keen was cool to be sure. Dangerous Dave was better though.

 

[Major_Boobage]

HERE BE DRAGONS.

MY FIRST WAS LANDS OF LORE.

K ANDHAIRAX THX BYE

 

[Lemunde]

Exile, the predecessor to Avernum. Crappy graphics but I loved the freedom it gave me over JRPGs. It's really hard to say what it was about it that made it fun to play. There were certainly a lot of places to explore and interesting things to find. I can't remember what they were exactly. It was such a long time ago. Now days if I feel the itch to play a game like that I play Avernum 2.

I think Diablo contributed as well. But the funny thing is the first time I played it was on the Playstation.

 

[Satori (original)]

Eh, my first RPG was FF7 when I was 9 but never really got into them until I played Planescape: Torment a couple of years ago.

 

[Fyz]

Rage of Mages 2. It came as a bundle with a gaming mag back in '99.
I'm not sure about the next one, it was either MM6 or Pokemon yellow :D
I bought MM6 because I really liked HoMM 1, and I wanted to try the RPG series aswell.
Pokemon yellow was love on first sight. Turn based combat+collectibles <3

 

[Melcar]

Baldur's Gate

Had already experienced cRPGs in the past, but it wasn't until this game that I really got into the genre.

 

[thekdawg21]

Temple of Apshai - Trilogy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Apshai

That and my first introduction into stealth games was Castle Wolfenstein, the original.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Wolfenstein

 

[Darth Roxor]

Betrayal at Krondor always comes to mind when I think about "one of the first very old rpgs that I used to play a shitload of time ago".

 

[Jaesun]

Might and Magic II on the Amiga 500.

 

[Kthan75]

I got into RPGs pretty late, with Fallout 2 (i was 15 at the time). Unfortunately, to this day I still didn't get to play the games from the "golden era".

I remember doing the tutorial and I didn't understand exactly how the skills worked and why I could open the first locked door, from the first try, without a key, just by clicking "lockpick".

Ah, being young and stupid...

 

[Elwro]

Dangerous Dave was better though.

I never managed to beat that. It's amazing how as a kid you could replay a level 100 times without feeling boredom.

Did you find the secret level? :soproud:


Anyway, back on topic: Dungeon Master. It was one of the first games commercially released in Poland. I still have the floppy somewhere...

 

[Castanova]

Probably FF2... I can't really remember though because I never really thought about games in terms of genre classifications until I was older. Does Star Tropics count?

 

[Callaxes]

Lands of Lore. But what really started everything for me was Morrowind followed by Fallout 2.

 

[Andhaira]

I got into RPGs pretty late, with Fallout 2 (i was 15 at the time). Unfortunately, to this day I still didn't get to play the games from the "golden era".

Well there are 2 games you should definately play that are still VERY playable today:

-Lands of Lore (using dosbox)
-Ultima 7 (using exult. Just google it, its very simple)