Here, kill yourself.
It might be a personal thing, but I get a huge kick out of accessing a new area and finding a shop with interesting items. Conversely, opening a new area and finding out the shops sell the same generic crap is a massive downer. Shopping can often be an important ingredient of a solid RPG-experience.
The shopkeeper is a zombie, and his promo-actions each time you finish an area are just hillarious.
Also, the shop in Paper Sorcerer is pure delight:
The shopkeeper is a zombie, and his promo-actions each time you finish an area are just hillarious.
The whole action of Paper Sorcerer happens within a book, so it's pretty close. :DI wish there was a merchant hidden away in the depths of a library somewhere
For this reason, I really like the shops in Might and Magic 6 - 8 - even at higher levels, it was worth visiting the shops.
What game is that from?
Come on, this merchant had the hook up.
Quest For Glory 3.What game is that from?
Come on, this merchant had the hook up.
The Dwarven Caves in Shining Force 2. Its a JRPG and perhaps not even technically a shop but its the best thing ever, so fuck the police.
The shop itself is hidden and you have to pay attention to find it. In it you can convert Mithril ore to special weapons. The mithril ore themselves are hidden items spread throughout the game and you have to search really well to find them. Hopefully you have found enough to equip the whole force with awesome mithril weapons cause they are by far the most potent weapons in the game. Even better, the smith generates the weapons randomly from a certain set of possibilities, meaning that you always get a different weapon, which might these days piss me off (fucking save scumming) but back in the day was part of the adventure itself (what will he give me this time!?). Very fond memories of the feeling of collecting all these hidden ore throughout and then before the last few epic endgame battles find the secret dwarven hideout and spend some time there to equip your guys with super awesome weapons of annihilation.
Greatest RPG shop? Probably Steam. GoG as a close second.