First RPG you've ever completed by yourself?

Tellox

Mine would be the secret of mana.
I think I was 8 at the time... at it night and day, its what got me hooked on RPG's

Second one I completed was Mystic Quest.. about the same age at the time.

(both roms can be found @ http://www.pe2000.net )

what about you lot?

KdjaCL

Zelda on Snes
Kdja

Lemming

ShadowRun on the SNES (computer)
Nightmare (the tv series game to book conversion)

CodeMonkey

Dungeon Master on the amiga500

Kairo

Pools of Radiance on the C64. That's a frightfully hard game even today...can't believe I did it when I was 10

Dont be at yourself

I have never completed an RPG. Short attention span, I guess.

Dr.Seagull

legend of zelda links awakening(gameboy)

Mr E

Ultima Underworld - The Stygian Abyss.

Loved every minute of it, and was so sick when I finished it....

- Dave.

ccindex

Legend of Zelda (NES)

Giblet

Legend of Zelda is the first one I remember the nam eof, ther was some one on the 2600, but i cant remember its name

Pugsley

Legend of Zelda links awakiening.............i think,or was it ocarina of time................

Dr.Seagull

links awakiening was on the gameboy and ocarina of time was on the n64 i think

[niKo]

Yeah, Zelda for the SNES was my first. Man, I went a whole month without food, tv, toilet or social life playing that game. Without doubt one of the best game I've ever played (which isn't saying much, but still )

SYL

Zelda and Mystic quest on the Gameboy. Also, a few Lone Wolf books and some issues of Proteus (monthly role-playing magazine). I used to love the artwork in proteus

Jim

zelda on ze snes, ah, so many hours of my life wasted tryin to kill tat giant pig [?]rpg's r my favourite games except for first person shootin' [:D ]

oeNeo

Legend of Zelda on the n64

Tellox

jesus, zelda on the snes sounds like a craicin game.

*runs off to emusanet.com

pauldeehan

Ocarina of Time on N64. I made my little brother do all the temples for me:p

astrofool

The Legend of Zelda on the Nes (not Snes :P) Still remember how to do those lost woods + mountains, up, left, up, left and then up, up, up, up, up Came on a smashing all gold cartridge as well.

My younger bro did zelda III in one sitting just to get 000 on the save game, he also did Super Metroid in under 1 hour(or was it 3 ? whichever gave u the special ending) and collected 100% of items in the same game, he's a bit mad at times

PPC

I think i completed Golden Axe Warrior on the MS but i can't remember
FFVII was one im defo i cleared.
Don't play many RPG's

Cleared Pokémon dozens of times aswell but can't remember did i have it on emu before i bought FFVII on platinum


Nearly had wonder boy but couldnt get the final armour or shoes i think it was.

Retr0gamer

I used to have a loathing for RPG's. That was until I actually played one. The first I played and beat was Shining Force 2 on the Megadrive. Ever since I've been hooked on RPG's and is the main reason I have 8 RPG's beside my TV ready to be beaten.

DapperGent

Zelda 1 on the NES. Man alive that was a brilliant game, throwing bombs everywhere to try and blow up walls and then when you eventually completed it there was a new even HARDER version with all the stuff in stupid diffcult places.

The SNES version of Zelda was one of the best games I ever played as well. Would Monkey Island 1 and 2 be classed as RPGs? Or are they adventure games? They were piss hard yokes never managed to beat Monkey Island 2 though I did manage to beat my head off the screen frequently while playing it.

DRakE

Final Fantasy8 for Playstation.

Excellent. imo

TinCool

Dungeon Master on my kick a$$ Atari ST 520 STFM

DeVore

"Adventure" on my Vic 20....

... most of you were still in your dad's underpants

DeV.

PHB

Attic attack on my ZX Spectrum.

Lemming

Originally posted by DeVore
"Adventure" on my Vic 20....

... most of you were still in your dad's underpants

DeV.

Oh christ .... me thinks I still have a vic20 tucked away somewhere

/me runs off to find it and see if he has "adventure"

Ah ... the Vic20 ... that bastion of computing on which I started my way to programming at the tender age of 9 on BASIC in-between games of "blitz" and Bongo using that 20k (yes ... 20kb) ram extension.

Khynareth

Zelda, but I can't remember which one... That's a long time ago...
Ouah... Am I old now? I can't be, I'm still playing

LoGiE

Hmm...let me see ,legend of zelda: links awakening. A classic which i still have a shot at every now and again to try to get all the sea shells

Kalina

"Wizards & Warriors 3" on the NES. It was a class game, I'd love to play it again but sold the console and games a long time ago unfortunately.

Asuka

Final Fantasy VII... and I was hooked forever.

A

[niKo]

Final Fantasy VII...man, I played that so much I actually mastered the Knights of Round materia in order to beat that massive green underwater boss. The other red boss was easier though I thought...didn't need mastered materia at all... Great game

stevoslice

Super Hydlide on the megadrive

Bet ya never heard of that one b4,

Finished FFVII in under 45 hours first time playin it,
Beat the ultimate Weapon but didn't bother to try and beat the other two,

Got far enough on FFVIII but i just stopped playin it in the end.

Asuka

Originally posted by [niKo]
Final Fantasy VII...man, I played that so much I actually mastered the Knights of Round materia in order to beat that massive green underwater boss. The other red boss was easier though I thought...didn't need mastered materia at all... Great game

You mastered KOTR to beat Emerald Weapon?? Why? I mastered KOTR eventually, but only to get a second master summon. Its much MUCH MUCH MUCH easier just to master the Mime materia... plus, you dont have to pay MP for the second casting

As for Ruby weapon, hes only easy if you know how to do it - ie go into the battle with two character dead and then use status magic (Hades) and phoenix to bring your character back

A

Asuka

Final VIII - happened to me as well. Got to the end, and didnt finish it for a couple of years. Finished it a few months ago, and the end CG is really good, well worth seeing.

A

[niKo]

I see what you mean Asuka, but I combined the KOTR with MP Plus materia in order to get 9,999 damage for every single hit; 13 hits making just under 130,000 points of damage. Mime was more powerful but each hit only made about 7-8,000; or about 100,000 damage hits (which, when mimed, makes about 200,000 altogether ). My main reason for mastering KOTR however, was to send all of my mastered red materia to that old guy's observatory in that tribal place (can't remember now), in order to get the Master Materia which allowed me to cast the KOTR an infinite number of times (assuming you had enough MP). I wanted to get Master Materia for all the different types of materia available (red, green and yellow. You couldn't get blue). However, I didn't realise that upon beating Emerald Weapon, you were actually given the Master Materias as your prize! All that time wasted!

Pugsley

Originally posted by Retr0gamer
I used to have a loathing for RPG's. That was until I actually played one. The first I played and beat was Shining Force 2 on the Megadrive.

Thanks for refreching my memory retr0
The 1st RPG i finished was shining force 1 on the megadrive (it ROCKED!! best battle system ive EVER seen) so you can remove my previous statement saying zelda, and can you tell me where i can get a working shining force2? ive always wanted to finish that, hope it's as good as the 1st......

Digi_Tilmitt

Originally posted by [niKo]
I see what you mean Asuka, but I combined the KOTR with MP Plus materia in order to get 9,999 damage for every single hit; 13 hits making just under 130,000 points of damage. Mime was more powerful but each hit only made about 7-8,000; or about 100,000 damage hits (which, when mimed, makes about 200,000 altogether ). My main reason for mastering KOTR however, was to send all of my mastered red materia to that old guy's observatory in that tribal place (can't remember now), in order to get the Master Materia which allowed me to cast the KOTR an infinite number of times (assuming you had enough MP). I wanted to get Master Materia for all the different types of materia available (red, green and yellow. You couldn't get blue). However, I didn't realise that upon beating Emerald Weapon, you were actually given the Master Materias as your prize! All that time wasted!

I mastered Knights of the Round twice! I have 3 Master magics, 3 master summons and 3 master commands! All in 78 hours in my lastest game, which is like my 7th time playing the whole way through.

Asuka

Hehe. I got 3 master magics and 3 master commands, but only two master summons - i had achieved absolutely EVERYTHING there was to achieve at that stage, and i couldnt be ar$ed spending a few extra hours to master all my summon magic again for no particular reason Besides, with my chosen equipment, i didnt have room for ALL the stuff i wanted (ultimate weapons on everyone = 8 slots each, but ziedrich armor on everyone = no slots at all (best armor in the game, can only be got by stealing from the turks)). On the other hand, i did spend a few hours wandering around the world morphing monsters to get my hands on a whole pile of sources to max out my stats, so another while mastering my summons couldnt have been that bad.

A

BLITZ_Molloy

I remember Super Hydlide.. I only rented it though so didn't get to finish it.

First RPG i finished was some sort of tilebased thing on the C64. I was 7 or 8 so you'll excuse me if I can't remember. :-)

First one I can remember was either Shining in The Darkness or Sword of Vermillion on the MD. The MD hadn't as many RPGs as the SNES but gosh were the difficult. Landstalker pretty much broke me down. I still wake up screaming thinking about the last castle in that one.

Arboration

FFVII - Ahh.. Great game.
I thought Ruby was harder than Emerald..

Tellox

emerald had that move that took off 9999 from every party member... which I found quite...frustrating.

Bhell

mystic quest on gameboy ^^

Tellox

jesus bhell, didnt know you came around here!

Littletinyman

Final Fantasy VII for me aswell. I enjoyed it because it had a brilliant storyline, likeable characters and enjoyable gameplay. Not because you can spend twenty hours levelling up to beat the weapons and get master materia, you absolute NERD Adam!! Worse still is the stats thing, getting the power/luck/speed sources etc that put your stats up by ONE until you reach 255 or whatever? Euuughh!

Digi_Tilmitt

Originally posted by Tizlox
emerald had that move that took off 9999 from every party member... which I found quite...frustrating.

I remember battling emerald for ages then he used that...........i thought maybe if i used mBarrier or something it might help but i don't think it does so you have to use final attack with phonix or life. Or just come back with about 7 master summons and Knights of the round the thing to death.

PS: Member when that weapon got shot in the head with the junon cannon!? That rocked, i think it was called crystal weapon and the one that attacked midgar was called diamond weapon.

stormkeeper

A little known RPG called Dink Smallwood was the first RPG I remember completeing

Luckily for me, you can make addons for it also, so the game lasts longer (the game still continues, even after you completed the main objective... see if you can get the kickass secret weapon )

It's been freeware for a while now, so it can't hurt to try it out

it's at: www.rtsoft.com

that also has a few dmods also. Be warned that the game itself is around 25MB, so make sure you've got something else to do while you wait

Dustaz

The hobbit on the ZX Spectrum.

RopeDrink

It was called "Adventure" for the Spectrum.
Good old text based RPG's...
Thats what got me into them in a biggish way. The fact that when I first started playing games, and they were all made of text, meant that when a new trend called "Graphics" came into play you always went "Wow, cool mad yay nice wan ta thx gg!"

You will not beat the good old text RPG's. There is still a game to this very day for the Spectrum that Im trying to get my grubby hands on (I have the tape upstairs in the attic but I cant find the damn thing) and the name escapes me. Was a text / graphics RPG where you played some Cloaked Warrior / Elf or something trapped in a forest. You selected a rake of abilities, a weapon and items before you go along the multi pathed RPG world, meeting little perils all over the shop, getting into fights and the likes... I WANT IT, AND I WANT IT NOW - But it's more than likely no-one will know what it is.

As for other RPG's, FFVII, FFVIII, Legend Of Zelda, MegaMan (Loads of them, and yes they were RPG's), Knightmare on the C64 (2 Versions) and the Amiga Version (Was really ****ing scary - at the time at least)

I have so many C64 / Speccy RPG's it's not funny, and the fact they are all text based means it's even LESS Funny, but they are classics none-the-less

NeoSlicerZ

Originally posted by Digi_Tilmitt


I remember battling emerald for ages then he used that...........i thought maybe if i used mBarrier or something it might help but i don't think it does so you have to use final attack with phonix or life. Or just come back with about 7 master summons and Knights of the round the thing to death.

PS: Member when that weapon got shot in the head with the junon cannon!? That rocked, i think it was called crystal weapon and the one that attacked midgar was called diamond weapon.

Gah, The 9,999 attack, managed to get damaged down to 8,300 or so with Shield and MBarrier , Got shield with the master materia somehow when i mastered them .

Dustaz

Originally posted by RopeDrink
It was called "Adventure" for the Spectrum.
Good old text based RPG's...

You are in a room.
> look
You are in a room.
>north
You cannot go that way.
>South
You cannot go that way.
>Examine Room
There is no room here to examine
>west
You cannot go that way
>east
You cannot go that way
>recall
I do not understand that.
>inv
Your inventory contains:
nothing
>up
You cannot go that way
>down
You cannot go that way
>****OFF
I do not understand that



Ah the joys:)