[General Discussion] Getting Involved With The RPG Video Game Genre For The First Time.

Back in 1988, my first was Dragon Warrior as well. My second was FF1, too.

Through the twenty years I have immensely enjoyed all Dragon Warrior games and love half of the FF games and dislike the other half for some reason or another.

I met the Shining Force series in 1994 and love it.

I consider myself a classic gamer of RPGs. I like classic ones where you have to keep grinding until you become powerful. It really makes me feel like I've earned it.

My favorites are, in no order:

FF1, 4, 7
Shining Force 3, CD
Super Mario RPG
Lunar Silver Star & Eternal Blue (SEGA CD versions)
Dragon Quest 3, 8

With pretty much 20 years of experience, my conclusion is that Final Fantasy IV is the best game of all time. I am so psyched for the DS remake.

The storyline starts out pretty powerfully and keeps you going to the very end. The ending itself is very full and complete as well. Along the way there is emotion, a coherent plot, and some fun.

The gameplay is perfectly balanced where each character is of a different class. They each have important abilities so that all 5 people in battle must work together in a smart way to win (rather than have characters that all have the same spells and are less unique). It also has some very creative bosses -- especially for 1991. You have to defeat them in different ways, such as using wall in different ways, etc.

I doubt anything will beat it anytime soon.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

For once I'm on the side of the people who hate FF8.

Blehhhhhh. Magazines? Orphanages? Draws?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I must say I didn't like the military concept in FF8 because I like medieval stuff more. I did love drawing Ultimas though

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