What game introduced you to the genre?

[Glop_dweller]

D&D boxed set. My first cRPG technically wasn't one (or perhaps it was one, but only technically).
It was the dungeoncrawler 'Eye of the Beholder'—the original release (great game); the same one now available on GoG.

 

[Piotrovitz]

This thing, back in 1990s potatoland.
For some reason D&D wasn't really a big thing here compared to WFRP.

First proper intro to cRPGs was Fallout 1

 

[Luckmann]

I honestly don't remember, I can't be sure. The first I can really remember was either Eye of the Beholder or Ultima.. 7? Back then, I hadn't really learned English yet, so it was all sorta lost on me, I guess, and I played with my brother.

What I do remember more vividly, however, was Diablo 1, which I played to death and exhaustion, and I remember actually getting depressed or paranoid from playing it, and I'm pretty sure I had an anxiety attack from it once. That fucking music and that fucking mood got to me, I guess. Now, just for reference, I was 10-11 at the time, and by that time I already played pretty much anything, especially if it was adventure or strategy games.

But if I need to pick one that really hooked me on "real" RPG:s and RPG narratives, I'm going to have to say Baldur's Gate. Completely blew me away at the time and it's never really let go.

 

[mbv123]

KOTOR I
I was a big Star Wars nerd as a kid and it was great to roleplay as a Jedi, own your own Millenium Falcon and waifu Bastila.
Granted, the game isn't a very good RPG in hindsight but as a baby's first RPG it was decent enough to get me into other games.

 

[StaticSpine]

Fallout 1-2. It was in 1998. Right before Fallout 2 came out. I saw screenshots in the magazine and decided to buy a CD as a birthday present for my friend. We played at his place, I loved it and wanted to buy a copy for myself. By that time Fallout 2 came out and it was sold in all the CD shops (and the original became more hard to find). So I got Fallout 2 and played the shit out of it.

 

[tindrli]

if i can remember alll started with C64

but i was too young. later with amiga 500

uuppss im just looking and i remmember those enemies as well but im seeing that it was a second part.. who knows.

Never mind it all started with Bards tale
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/930/Bards+Tale+II+-+The+Destiny+Knight,+The.html

 

[Plane Escapee]

Played Diablo and HoMM2 at my best friend's neighbour's house and Baldur's Gate and Fallout 2 in same friend's brother's basement. All within the same year, so unsure what came first. Most likely HoMM (though not an actual RPG) since we played that practically all time and I remember spending all the time I wasn't playing it drawing the castles and creatures and attempting to play the game without a computer using my crayon-drawn maps and cut-out paper heroes on horseback. Somehow it didn't actually work...

 

[UglyBastard]

Diablo 1 at a friend's house because such violent games were not allowed at home.

My PC gaming career started with LucasArts adventures like Monkey Island and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, which are reasonably close to the RPG genre I guess.

 

[Cael]

My PC gaming career started with LucasArts adventures like Monkey Island and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, which are reasonably close to the RPG genre I guess.

 

[PeachPlumage]

Fallout 1.

 

[yyuse]

morrowind, my baby

 

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[Erikolaz]

This was my first. Played it on my Amiga 500.

 

[octavius]

Damned, Faery Tale looked so good (I remember virtually drooling at screenshots in mags before I got my own Amiga) and the music was fantastic. Too bad the gameplay was rather meh.

 

[Jack Of Owls]

The very first RPG I played was Battletech for my trusty Commodore 64. Due to a game-breaking bug caused by my going somewhere I wasn't suppose to go yet, I never finished it, but it was enjoyable while it lasted. I rented it from a mail order business in the mid-west called Centsible Software in 1988-89. Two weeks later, I also rented two other cRPGs that would completely influence how I would view gaming for the rest of my life - Dragon Wars and Pools of Radiance. I played them one right after the other. I almost rage-quit DW several times but persevered with the help of the paragraphs in the manual which I used as a cheat once I disciphered the real paragraphs from the bogus. Pool of Radiance gave me no trouble. I love both those games.

 

[EldarEldrad]

My first RPG was KOTOR. Around 2005 my schoolmate gave me disk with Jedi Academy game. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to finish game before he knocked my door and take away his disk due to a lot of people who want to play this wonderful lightsaber porn slasher. So next day I went to local shop where some nerdish guy sold cracked games and films (I guess, that guy was the one who cracked and translated them because subtitles were completely unreadable and game crashed every half an hour). I didn't know name of the game, so I asked something about "you know, Star Wars, light saber, woo-woop". Of course, that guy sold me KOTOR. Despite quality, I somehow complete game. After 10 years I finally re-played original English version and didn't find any differences. Especially in subtitles.

 

[Erebus]

Champions of Krynn.

I don't remember what made me pick that game in particular (possibly the kickass cover), but it took me a while to realize how lucky I'd been and how the game had raised my expectations for the genre. My second CRPG was Bard's Tale 3, and, after a Gold Box game, it unsurprisingly felt like complete shit.

 

[Stella Brando]

 

[Aphex81]

Dark Sun blew my mind when i was a young lad. Immediately got me hooked on RPGs . 25 years later still hooked.

 

[Cael]

The sad part is that I have ALL of those titles in those EXACT covers...

And a hell of a lot more.

 

[Stella Brando]

I collected most of the Fighting Fantasy books, I'm just missing a few.

What is the one next to Nightmare Castle?

The part saying OLF ER makes me think of Lone Wolf by Joe Dever.

But Lone Wolf 2 is called Smoke on the Water, which doesnt fit the 'EN'

Any ideas?

 

[Stella Brando]

It's this:

The World of Lone Wolf 2.

 

[Cael]

I collected most of the Fighting Fantasy books, I'm just missing a few.

What is the one next to Nightmare Castle?

The part saying OLF ER makes me think of Lone Wolf by Joe Dever.

But Lone Wolf 2 is called Smoke on the Water, which doesnt fit the 'EN'

Any ideas?

World of Lone Wolf. Not Lone Wolf.

Same world, but set in the southern end of Magnamund. The hero is Greystar the wizard, a human raised by the Shianti on the Isle of Lorn. He goes on a quest to get the Moonstone and kill off the oppressor of the southern lands, some sort of witch-king given power by Naar. Agarash the Damned is involved somewhere. I forgot. It's been decades.

EDIT: Book 2 of Lone Wolf is Fire on the Water.

 

[Stella Brando]

Shit on the water, you're right.

I always assumed World of Lonewolf was some kind of Titan/Out of the Pit style guide.

I read Joe Dever's "Freeway Warrior" series, it was great.

 

[Aeschylus]

My first love.