Diablo an rpg lol.... Diablo is an hack and slash... calling diablo rpg is like calling league of legends a decent game with a wonderful community.Diablo II demo which I borrowed from a school friend. Then Oblivion came out and blew my fucking mind (I was 8-9 and had never seen anything like it). Then bought Morrowind, NWN and Arcanum few weeks later.
I have a lot of fun memories with Daggerfall. My friends David, Timmy and I would all play it together when we were 8, but we were too scared to actually go to dungeons, so we'd spend most of our time committing crimes in the cities. We played it more like Grand Theft Auto than how you're probably supposed to play it. I still remember our first character, too, Xashar. He got inflicted with lycanthropy somehow and his hitpoints went down to 4 permanently. I also remember how we'd run out of the room screaming whenever we heard King Lysandus shout, "VENGEANCE" or a skeleton cackling. Good times.The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
The sheer scope of the world and the endless serpentine dungeons set a benchmark against which I compared RPGs for a long time. Being too young, I didn't see the hollowness behind the procedural generation applied on such scale. At that time I thought large-scale immersive simulations would soon follow as a logical next step. The closest I ever got to that feeling of wonder again in games was when I played Ultima Online and those first few months of Star Wars Galaxies, before they butchered it.
The follies of youth.