@marcio
Yeah I blame mostly Square-Enix too. Not many good games. Perhaps Lost Odyssey on X360 is there only great RPG this generation.
Well I had NES as kid, but I never got an SNES (I got Sega Genesis & Sega CD instead) so I missed out on Chrono Trigger and FFVI at that time. However, I played Chrono Trigger on PS1 and I absolutely loved it. Great story and characters. I also played FFVI on PS1, but I just couldn't get into it. I had the Anthology collection and I played it for maybe 5-8 hours and just stopped.
I'm sure there were other RPG's that I played as a kid, but I never got into the story's and more importantly never bothered to finish them. I played a Dragon Warrior RPG game on NES. Legend of Zelda on NES (if you can count that as an RPG) I played Zelda and really liked it, but I never finished it until much later during a college winter break. I'm sure if I thought some more I could come up with a couple more RPGs I played before FFVII. I believe I had a D&D game called Eye of the Beholder on Sega CD and Snatcher on Sega CD as well. A Hideo Kojima game, but it was too complicated for me to understand. haha. And there were a bunch of point and click RPGs I played on floppy disc on my first home computer - The Apple IIe. Problem is the story and gameplay in all those RPGs never captivated me and I didn't play them a lot. Mario 1,3 (NES), Contra I & Contra Super C (NES), Legend of Zelda (NES), Double Dragon 3 (NES), Sonic (Sega), Mortal Kombat (Sega), NBA Jam (Sega), Streets of Rage (Sega), Final Fight (Sega CD) and Jurassic Park on Sega CD were my favorite games to give you an idea. Mostly quick pick up and play beat em ups and Jurassic Park a point and click shooter. And I would say Zelda is more action adventure than RPG. Oh and one more game comes to mind: Zombies Ate My Neighbors (Sega). hah
But mainly I played videogames lightly back then. Mostly played sports outside with the kids on my block.
Then in high school my freshmen yr I got a Playstation 1 for the holiday and I bought FFVII based on a recommendation from a friend who told me thats the only game I need. So yes Final Fantasy VII wasn't technically my first RPG, but it certainly does feel like it. It was the first RPG I ever completed and ever truly got into. I played Final Fantasy VII and thought this is what every RPG should be like!
Oh and I'm 27 years old.
