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Kasz216 on 14 February 2008
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Edouble24 said:
Kasz216 said:
Edouble24 said:
Well in that case everyones favorite RPG can't be taken seriously because it was their first RPG apparently. I see what you guys are saying but it really doesn't connect because people only apply it to FFVII. if FFVII is your favorite RPG the first thing most FFVII haters say is "it was obviously your first RPG" but they never say that about any other games.

FFVI sure has a ton of fans, as does Chrono Trigger, do all of those people have ignorant opinions because FFVI or CT were probably their first RPGs?

Everyone starts somewhere, I don't see why someones first RPG being FFVII means you can't respect their opinion if FFVII is their favorite. You all had a first RPG as well...

My first RPG was either Dragon's Quest 1 or some text based computer RPG.

Not my favorite RPG ever.

My favorite ever... is probably Earthbound. Though FF6 is close.

The best every i'd put at FF6 or Chrono Trigger.

SNES was a RPG beast. FF6 and CT weren't a lot of peoples first RPGS by the way. Check the sales. Those games were bought by RPG vets.

Well thanks for helping me prove my point.

 


Your point however is kind of shallow. I'd say a lot of people who's favorite RPG was FF4, FF6 or Robotrek were people who played that RPG first. You definitly bump up your first RPG more then it should be. It's not always best. But often is once you get to the SNES era on.

The difference between people like me who started at the NES level was that you had to love RPGS to play them.

RPGs in the NES era had no story. At all. They weren't really complete. You basically got your story in the opening text wall. "Evil rules the world, bring the light back to the orbs ye light warrior."

Then everyone you talked to gave you 1 sentence of text.  Then you grinded and explored dungeons for bosses.

"What a nice day this is." "Garland has kidnapped the princess" etc.

From the SNES era on they actually had things like in game scenes where conversations were exchanged.

Basically the genre was improved and reinvented in a way it has yet to be again from the transition of 8 bit to 16 bit.

The jump in quality was drastic, and pretty much the only jump there has been in reinventing the enire genre.

The SNES era was the era where storyline mattered. You played NES RPGs solely for the gameplay.

Old School RPGs were half of what RPGs are today.