Alter Sack
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So what was your first RPG?
Was it love on first sight and established your lifelong infatuation with RPGs? Or was it a disappointment?
I started out my gaming career with a C64 at the end of the 80s. But despite having two boxes of floppy discs (all originals naturally) there was no real RPG among them. So it seems like my friends weren't keen on RPGs or simply too young to hold them in high regard
(I mean what do you expect from 10 year old little shits?).
The only game I owned (I even bought it with my meager pocket money as part of a compilation) that had some rpg elements was
Rings of medusa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_of_Medusa
But I was totally in over my head, didn't know what to do and got my ass handed to me relatively quick.
Nevertheless the game had a certain charm and I fondly remember the manual which included an extensive background story.
My first real RPG was eye of the beholder II after I got my first PC bought with my communion money (a 386 DX40, man pcs were expensive back then).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_the_Beholder_II:_The_Legend_of_Darkmoon
It must have been 1991 or 92. I fell for the box art and bought it immediately at my local electronics store. The problem was that it was completely in english and I greatly overestimated my english language skills. Well, I only began learning english that year.
So I was again in over my head and didn't advance far in the game. It was a bit frustrating.
It was six years later that I finally really got into rpgs with fallout. It was the first rpg that I played through from start to finsih.
I somehow regret that I never got hold of a rpg in my own language in my younger years. I think that is the main reason that I can't really get into older games like the gold box games . I somehow can't get accustomed to the UI without mouse support.
Was it love on first sight and established your lifelong infatuation with RPGs? Or was it a disappointment?
I started out my gaming career with a C64 at the end of the 80s. But despite having two boxes of floppy discs (all originals naturally) there was no real RPG among them. So it seems like my friends weren't keen on RPGs or simply too young to hold them in high regard
(I mean what do you expect from 10 year old little shits?).
The only game I owned (I even bought it with my meager pocket money as part of a compilation) that had some rpg elements was
Rings of medusa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_of_Medusa
But I was totally in over my head, didn't know what to do and got my ass handed to me relatively quick.
Nevertheless the game had a certain charm and I fondly remember the manual which included an extensive background story.
My first real RPG was eye of the beholder II after I got my first PC bought with my communion money (a 386 DX40, man pcs were expensive back then).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_the_Beholder_II:_The_Legend_of_Darkmoon
It must have been 1991 or 92. I fell for the box art and bought it immediately at my local electronics store. The problem was that it was completely in english and I greatly overestimated my english language skills. Well, I only began learning english that year.
So I was again in over my head and didn't advance far in the game. It was a bit frustrating.
It was six years later that I finally really got into rpgs with fallout. It was the first rpg that I played through from start to finsih.
I somehow regret that I never got hold of a rpg in my own language in my younger years. I think that is the main reason that I can't really get into older games like the gold box games . I somehow can't get accustomed to the UI without mouse support.
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