What was your first RPG?

[Onyxmeth]

Final-Fan said:

Onyxmeth said:

Pristine20 said:
final fantasy viii

I bought it because of how coll the cover looked. I thought it was a DMC-style adventure game then when battle came, I was thinking WTF? I almost returned it. It was the story that made me decide against returning it then I just got used to the battle system and JRPGs became my fav genre

Huh? Did you play FF VIII that late? Otherwise how would you have thought it was like a game that wasn't invented yet?

Playing Devil's Advocate, perhaps he thought it was an adventure game in the style he has since come to identify as DMC-like.  

But wasn't DMC the originator of the style of adventure game it was? Everything similiar(Heavenly Sword, God of War, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Blade) all came out after. What was out before DMC that was like DMC?