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Offline The Scubadude

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What game got you started on RPGs?
« on: November 28, 2003, 11:31:19 PM »
Mike already knows the answer to mine  :wink: .  I'll spare you guys the story, but the game was Breath of Fire 2.  To this day, playing that game is one of the best memories I have.  It was just so much fun!
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« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2003, 01:06:20 AM »
FInal Fantasy 6, I had let a friend borrow Mario Kart for it back in elementary school. I picked up from my friends save and had no idea what was going on, so I forced myself to learn it, and lo and behold I've been addicted ever since.

I never did get my Mario Kart back though...
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« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2003, 03:23:14 AM »
HAHA!  Great story!  Both of those are classic games.  I have to say, though, to me it will always be FF3.  I played it on SNES when it was still called FF3 and that's what I will always call it.
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« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2003, 12:27:06 AM »
Chrono Trigger.  Piggybacking off a L99 New Game+ made for an easy entrance into RPGs.  Still a great one nonetheless.  :wink:
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« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2003, 04:48:49 AM »
I fell in love with FFVIII my freshman year of high school and was completely hooked after that. ::Waits for all the FFVII fans to come at her in an angry mob::
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« Reply #5 on: December 06, 2003, 01:55:57 AM »
Although the Final Fantasy series was incredible... and Final Fantasy VII had a major part in my rpg fandom, I have to say Chrono Trigger, hands down. I remember playing it emulated on my friends computer becaues my SNES was in NY... Even emulated, it was a beautiful game...
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« Reply #6 on: December 06, 2003, 03:44:02 AM »
There was something of a magical quality to those old SNES ones, wasn't there?
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« Reply #7 on: December 07, 2003, 02:57:00 AM »
My first experience with RPG's was playing FFIII with a friend, who will remain nameless, on the SNES.  He basically threw me into the game, with no knowledge of what in the world was going on.  I apparently was playing a boss, and did something wrong.  He proceeded to turn off the game and said that I sucked, and I didn't play the game again.  I finally picked up an RPG again years later with Suikoden II and FF8, basically together, and I have been playing ever since.
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« Reply #8 on: December 07, 2003, 06:52:20 PM »
I started with FFVII, and just like Natalie, I got hooked really after FFVIII, and really really when Cloud dressed up as a woman... that was just too funny to not love. :P
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« Reply #9 on: December 08, 2003, 06:57:25 PM »
Secret of Mana, all the way. Then FFIII (or VI if you are anal).
I am not much of a powergamer. I did just beat FFX, and today bought Xenosaga though. And FFX-2 is on it's way for Christmas. I figure I bought the damn PS2, might as well use it...
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« Reply #10 on: December 08, 2003, 09:23:43 PM »
Oh yeah, I'm with you on Secret of Mana.  Great game.  Great game!  Not particularly deep, but the gameplay was great.

Also, I totally agree about FFIII.  When I played it on SNES with Mike it was FFIII, and I don't care how many times they rerelease it or how many actually came out in Japan.  It will forever be FFIII!

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« Reply #11 on: December 08, 2003, 09:31:28 PM »
:!:  definately FFIX. which then led to FFVII... VIII... V and VI, and finally X currently. Though there are more i've played, i cant remember, but i know my first was ff9.

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« Reply #12 on: February 12, 2004, 06:26:29 PM »
The Legend of Zelda! I fell in love with it! Hehe, then what forced me into LOVING RPGs was simply Final Fantasy (about after I got a playstation ... I'm still a youngin' ... you should've seen me when I was playing FFVII for the first time and was like "what do you MEAN don't attack the scorpion while its tail is up!?" loooool) ^.^
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« Reply #13 on: February 12, 2004, 09:21:02 PM »
Defenitely FF7.
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« Reply #14 on: February 13, 2004, 12:42:47 AM »
EarthBound.  Which might seem a little strange, since it actually seems like the sort of game that would turn people AWAY from RPG's.  :D  But something about its down-to-earth humor and its funky battle system/music really drew me in.  I was addicted from the first time I played it at my friend's house.

And then came FF V...I had a LOT of fond memories of that game from when I was younger, so it had a bit of an extra nostalgic/sentimental value for me.

And of course, FF VII...the newb's FF.  Materia confused me for the longest time, until I realized that it actually WAS as simple as it looked. :D  I still think it's one of the best magic systems ever created.

Super Mario RPG is also a good one to start with before getting into the more "hardcore" stuff.  Cute, easy, and above all, FUN.
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