First RPG you've ever completed by yourself?

[niKo] · 03-07-2002 4:08pm

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 · 03-07-2002 4:29pm

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 · 03-07-2002 5:21pm

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

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Asuka · 03-07-2002 5:24pm

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.

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[niKo] · 03-07-2002 7:14pm

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 · 03-07-2002 9:28pm

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 · 05-07-2002 8:54pm

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 · 07-07-2002 2:38pm

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.

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BLITZ_Molloy · 07-07-2002 7:26pm

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 · 12-07-2002 12:27am

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

Tellox · 13-07-2002 1:03am

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

Bhell · 13-07-2002 6:55pm

mystic quest on gameboy ^^

Tellox · 13-07-2002 10:22pm

jesus bhell, didnt know you came around here!

Littletinyman · 14-07-2002 12:57pm

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 · 22-07-2002 2:13am

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 · 22-07-2002 2:29am

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 · 22-07-2002 1:35pm

The hobbit on the ZX Spectrum.

RopeDrink · 22-07-2002 2:22pm

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 · 22-07-2002 2:32pm

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 · 22-07-2002 2:42pm

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:)

Shinji · 22-07-2002 3:59pm

You are in a maze of twisty corridors, all alike...

WhiteWashMan · 22-07-2002 5:46pm

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

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

DeV.

woah there partyboy......im not too far behind you

softporn on the apple 2e,
the amazing text adventure later turned into lesuiresuit larry 1

23-07-2002 10:40pm

Originally posted by 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.

Bah! I cuda really used that 10 years ago

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Legend of Zelda was my 1st completed RPG aswell. Shame the newer ones arent as challenging.

Tellox · 23-07-2002 11:11pm

I found majora's mask a nice hard game (when you dont use the stratagy guide mind you)...ahh, I can recall spending about 3 hours at that windy goron place before figuring out the lullaby makes the winds die down...

po0k · 23-07-2002 11:54pm

I on't think I've ever once completed an entire RPG.
Nearly finished the shareware version of Mordor 1.1 for win9, enjoyed Diablo for a while, never got into baldur's gate, Cadaver kept me and Mikill occupied for a good weekend back on the Amiga

Tellox · 24-07-2002 12:00am

I'll be finishing FFX pretty soon..I dont want to though...its the perfect RPG. It has the best possible characters, has a bunch of different races, some nice (but predictable twists), great lving system, Blitzball (need I say more)...fs, why couldnt they make the normal storyline 80hrs long

po0k · 24-07-2002 3:20am

Personally I can't stand Final Fantasy.
I've tried a good few times to "get into it" but it wrecks my head every time.
I can't stand the comabt system, If eel totally detatched.
Seems to be the same coloured bit's of pixie dust flying back and forth or some other "speshul effekts" which qucikly get boring after the 1st time you see em, and make you want to skip past it, especially when on a quest.

At elast Warcraft had a quick resolve feature.

25-07-2002 12:33am

'Ere Tizlox cudya give us a simple guide to blitzball? I never got into it and Im thinking I shud in case I miss out on some important items...

Tellox · 25-07-2002 1:07am

np jabba.

First off, press triangle to take off auto. Its suicide. Secondly, if you have the airship, press square next to wakka. He's a pretty good forward right.

for your team, I'd reccomend

LF: Tidus
RF: Wakka
MF: Botta
LD: Jassu
RD: Letty (I have Kyou, forgot where I got him)
GL: Keepa

Before we go on, make sure to get the Jecht Shot from the SS. Winona (at Luca). If you missed it first time around, you can get it by examining the blitzball on deck.

Now, heres a stratagy thats always worked for me.
Have botta grab the ball and head straight back to his goal. 3 of the opposing teams players usually follow. sometimes they stop before they get to you. If they dont, throw it just before you encounter them. Pass it to Tidus , and have him get right next to the goal. Dont worry bout the other 2, the Jecht Shot takes down 2 opposing players automaticly, as well as adding 5 SH. Jecht shots usually go in, unless you take it from far out, or there's a really good goalie on. This is why you should have Wakka's technique "Volley Shot" on. so if the ball is rebounded off the goal/goalie, then Wakka can surely punch it in from there.

I cant stress enough how you should mark everybody with a technique worth getting. Try get Wakka "Volley Shot" and "Sphere Shot", and try get as many people as possible using tackle slip. Note that you can only learn techniques highlighted in blue.

now, for the stats;

HP - Hitpoints : A players energy or Stamina. It slowly decreases and HP is required to do certain special attacks or moves.

SP - Speed : How fast a player moves. This affects you ability to catch and out run other players in the water.

SH - Shot Average : The ability to shoot the ball into a goal. You score if your SH is higher than the opponents CA. SH slowly goes down as friction slows it down. SH also decreases from opponents trying to block the ball.

PA - Pass Average : The ability to pass a ball. This number slowly decreases as a ball travels. The pass can only be caught if the PA is above 0 by the time it reaches the person cathcing the ball.

EN - Endurance : The ability to withstand attacks. The endurance is a defensive number. If the endurance is higher than an opponents AT, then you can break through them. Every time you break, you lose some EN.

AT - Attack : The ability to take out a person breaking. If the AT is higher than the EN, you will cause the opposing player to fumble the ball.

BL - Blocking Average : The ability to block an oncoming pass or shot. If a person chooses to pass or shoot instead of break, the SH/PA is emasured against the BL. A higher BL than the SH/PA means the player will catch the shot or pass, thereby intercepting it.

CA - Cathing Average : The Goalies' ability to block a shot. If the CA is higher than the SH, the shot is sucsessfully blocked.

Also, note that there are many abilities that can increase these stats!

Also, Wakka gets very useful once you learn Aurochs Spirit, which adds the total teams SH to Wakka's SH. Gaurunteed score if you have an overall decent team.

Hope thats helped, If not, check out www.gamefaqs.com for some guides

The Sweeper · 26-07-2002 1:07pm

First one I ever played was a really crap text based version of 'The Hobbit' on Spectrum...

("you see some pale bulbous eyes staring at you... Elrond needs food... Gloin sits down and starts singing about gold..."

/me types 'fúck off'

"I'm sorry, but I do not understand 'fúck off')

Then there was Monty Pytons Holy Grail for Spectrum...

("you see the knights that say 'NIC!'

/me types 'fúck off'

"You cheeky beggar! Fúck off yourself!" - it was a step up in the entertainment stakes)

Put me off for a loooooooooooooong time

First finished was Baldurs Gate I suppose.

First RPG you've ever completed by yourself?

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