Mar 23, 2008, 08:40 PM
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For me it would definitely be Might & Magic II. The only RPG I had seen played before was Dragon Warrior I, and I rented a NES when I stayed at my grandparent's one day and borrowed a friend's copy of FF I. Other than that, that was all the RPG exposure I had had at the time.
I wanted to buy a game for my Apple IIgs, and there were very few games to be had as it was a dieing platform (stupid Apple computer!). Well, M&M II was out around that time, and I could have picked that up, or some sort of Dragon Wars game that was also an RPG, and a few others. I picked up M&M II and spent about 600 hours on it over the course of 3 years. Yeah, my funds & also Apple IIgs games were both sparse around that time period. I found it to be just such an excellent game. It had such a fleshed-out setting. I mean, your characters grew old and died if you did not rejuvenate them, and to do so you had to nab a boat ride to a secret resort isle where they would vacation and grow young again. There's too much to mention here, but needless to say this is still one of the most fully realized worlds in all RPG-dom. This series is definitely my favorite RPG series, even above the FF series although I've really enjoyed that series also. So, I would say I rolled the dice and got lucky on that purchase...
I would say another series I got lucky on was Shadow Hearts. I actually bought I and II before I had played either of them. I had heard this game had a cult following of sorts, and the subject matter really intrigued me, so I went ahead and gave the first game a shot. Wow, best storyline I had seen since maybe Planescape or Fallout. I enjoyed the story almost as much as that of FF6 actually.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
"We are all the sum of our tears. Too little, and the ground is not fertile and nothing can grow there. Too much – the best of us is washed away…" - G'Kar
Last edited by speculative; Mar 23, 2008 at 08:43 PM.
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