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Which CRPG hooked you into CRPG's, and how?
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Rabidredneck
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Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades, they're the ones what sucked me in.
And I went willingly.
And I went willingly.
Major_Boobage
Scholar
ow i forget Indiana Jones and the last Crusade! thats even from the 80's!
1989. Ages ago.
1989. Ages ago.
Annie Mitsoda
Digimancy Entertainment
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Luzur
Good Sir
dont we already have such a thread from Andharia?
first CRPG ever? Pool of Radience.
first CRPG that hooked me? Might and Magic II on C64.
first CRPG ever? Pool of Radience.
first CRPG that hooked me? Might and Magic II on C64.
Liberal
Barely Literate
Diablo. I played that game literally 24 hours a day, until I beat it for the first time, after which I lost interest with it (I never replay a game).
Incidentally, fallout.
Imbecile
Arbiter
Cadaver. It was pretty shit, but there was something about it I strangely enjoyed. Not even sure it was a "proper" RPG to be honest. But it was fucking nails and led me towards other Amiga RPGs like Heimdall and Hired Guns.
Ive been a gaming addict from a very early age and im now 28.
The genre I liked the most once I got my fantastic 286 with no hardrive was graphical adventures, mostly stuff from lucasfilm and Sierra, a few strategy and actiony games as well.
My first proper rpg was the savage empire, one of the "ultima worlds" spinoff titles, basicly the ultima 6 engine and the ultima style adapted for a sort of primitive setting with....dinosaurs, and stuff. I found the savage empire different from anything I had played until that time, beyond the statistical character development and the hunt for better items I enjoyed the freedom in exploring a very vast world that was consistent and very detailed.
Then I got ultima 6 which I didnt like as much as the savage empire, ultima 7, the ultima underworlds. So these ultima games were pretty much what got me interested in western pc rpgs, although in retrospective I dont think they were that good overall, at least in the case of Ultima 7.
Fallout 1 and 2 were the ones that presented me with a world and style of play that I really enjoyed fully, Arcanum was great after loving the fallout experience. I tried both baldurs gate titles but never finished any of them because quite frankly I didnt enjoy them much, baldurs gate 2 had alot of interesting moments but also alot of cheesy stuff, also I didnt like the combat and spell system, not a big fan of ADnD for pc rpgs since.
Planescape torment I played much later, a pleasant surprise and a wonderful ride in terms of atmosphere and story, but the combat was mostly a chore, although not as irritating as baldur's gate 2.
Now my PC is too old to run the next gen stuff properly except stuff like NWN 2 on low settings ( another game I couldnt bring myself to finish). To be honest Im trying to avoid buying a new pc because I dont think I can justify spending hours upon hours playing a pc game no matter how good. I still itch for a good rpg from time to time and sometimes I fall into temptation and do a replay of a game I really liked.
The genre I liked the most once I got my fantastic 286 with no hardrive was graphical adventures, mostly stuff from lucasfilm and Sierra, a few strategy and actiony games as well.
My first proper rpg was the savage empire, one of the "ultima worlds" spinoff titles, basicly the ultima 6 engine and the ultima style adapted for a sort of primitive setting with....dinosaurs, and stuff. I found the savage empire different from anything I had played until that time, beyond the statistical character development and the hunt for better items I enjoyed the freedom in exploring a very vast world that was consistent and very detailed.
Then I got ultima 6 which I didnt like as much as the savage empire, ultima 7, the ultima underworlds. So these ultima games were pretty much what got me interested in western pc rpgs, although in retrospective I dont think they were that good overall, at least in the case of Ultima 7.
Fallout 1 and 2 were the ones that presented me with a world and style of play that I really enjoyed fully, Arcanum was great after loving the fallout experience. I tried both baldurs gate titles but never finished any of them because quite frankly I didnt enjoy them much, baldurs gate 2 had alot of interesting moments but also alot of cheesy stuff, also I didnt like the combat and spell system, not a big fan of ADnD for pc rpgs since.
Planescape torment I played much later, a pleasant surprise and a wonderful ride in terms of atmosphere and story, but the combat was mostly a chore, although not as irritating as baldur's gate 2.
Now my PC is too old to run the next gen stuff properly except stuff like NWN 2 on low settings ( another game I couldnt bring myself to finish). To be honest Im trying to avoid buying a new pc because I dont think I can justify spending hours upon hours playing a pc game no matter how good. I still itch for a good rpg from time to time and sometimes I fall into temptation and do a replay of a game I really liked.
San Francisco, 1997.
7pm.
A breathing mask made of steel stared menacingly from the box I was clutching in my arms.
My journey into the darkness of Downtown was a troubled one.The natives would've called it a fetch quest with nary a second thought. Yet my ST was only 3, my AG was 1, and my speech skills, 3 years out of Russia, were below average. Needless to say, a poorly chosen random encounter could've led my journey far astray.
Yet there I was, hearing not the strangers in the bus around me, not the creaking of the walls and hissing of doors, but only the music in my head. The music of victory. For I have succeeded in my quest, and from that point on, my life would never be the same.
7pm.
A breathing mask made of steel stared menacingly from the box I was clutching in my arms.
My journey into the darkness of Downtown was a troubled one.The natives would've called it a fetch quest with nary a second thought. Yet my ST was only 3, my AG was 1, and my speech skills, 3 years out of Russia, were below average. Needless to say, a poorly chosen random encounter could've led my journey far astray.
Yet there I was, hearing not the strangers in the bus around me, not the creaking of the walls and hissing of doors, but only the music in my head. The music of victory. For I have succeeded in my quest, and from that point on, my life would never be the same.
Fenril said:
Aww :D
PrzeSzkoda
Augur
Fallout 1, bitches. I'm such a young upstart. Have been playing games for over 7 years before I got it, though.
Hobo Elf
Arcane
OKay, serious answer now. My first cRPG was Betrayal at Krondor, but what really and finally sucked me in was Morrowind. I wasn't that keen on cRPGs prior to that. I had played the usual Fallout 1 & 2 and infinity engine games, but they didn't suck me in to the genre.
Captain Rufus
Augur
Ultima 1 back in early 1988. Had just gotten a Commodore 64 for Christmas and a little booklet that came with the computer had tons of full color pages of various games, applications, and hardware doodads for the machine.
For some reason Ultima's tile graphics appealed to me, and first chance I had to buy a computer game at B Dalton's Software Ect (now Gamestop and utterly unrecognizable as the same store chain..) I was gonna get an Ultima.
U1 was the cheapest of the available titles, and since it was the first one, what better place to start?
It then got me into fantasy novels, tabletop gaming, and basically cemented me being a massive not gettin any nerd.
For some reason Ultima's tile graphics appealed to me, and first chance I had to buy a computer game at B Dalton's Software Ect (now Gamestop and utterly unrecognizable as the same store chain..) I was gonna get an Ultima.
U1 was the cheapest of the available titles, and since it was the first one, what better place to start?
It then got me into fantasy novels, tabletop gaming, and basically cemented me being a massive not gettin any nerd.
I also played some early Wizardry, Ultima games and most of the AD & D Gold Box titles.
Can't say any ONE in particular hooked me. I'm in my late 30s so I was playing ANY kind of game in the early days of PC and console gaming whether it was an RPG, text adventure, space combat, action game, etc. Gods bless Sierra, Microprose and SSL.
I will say I took a long break from long PC gaming sometime in the mid 90s and didn't come back until 2001 or so and the first game that got me back into it was Fallout. Then I went out and picked up IWD, BG, PS:T and it felt like the old days when I was gaming into the wee hours of the night.
Can't say any ONE in particular hooked me. I'm in my late 30s so I was playing ANY kind of game in the early days of PC and console gaming whether it was an RPG, text adventure, space combat, action game, etc. Gods bless Sierra, Microprose and SSL.
I will say I took a long break from long PC gaming sometime in the mid 90s and didn't come back until 2001 or so and the first game that got me back into it was Fallout. Then I went out and picked up IWD, BG, PS:T and it felt like the old days when I was gaming into the wee hours of the night.
The Ninth Circle
Scholar
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Diablo brought me in, Morrowind made me stay and Planescape made me believe..
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