Anyone interested in final fantasy 7, or tactics, or older snes RPGS like 4,5,6 or chrono trigger - I HIGHLY recommend checking out insanedifficulty.com . There are player made patches to these games that make them very very difficult but also way more balanced.

Final fantasy tactics is the most mature of them, and i will be very surprised if anyone can beat dorter trade city on their first go around. Even the opening battle can be lost. It is impossible to outlevel content as all battles scale with you.

First game:super mario/duck hunt for NES
First RPG:The Legend of Zelda NES but never really got into RPG's til FF3 SNES.

ye was playing games way before these were out. lol. but MGS is a superior game for sure.

Lol agree. ^ it's not one or the other if you're not 20 years old (or whatever.) The King's Quest games got me hooked. Also Fallout 1, Wing Commander and Myst

Might and Magic 3 was probably the first RPG i really liked but that was on PC.

It was FF7, on a Playstation that couldn't save. So i was doing the reactor part again and again ahaha. Then it was MGS. Back then i only had a PC so all these games were uncharted territory and blew my mind.

FF8 over both!

Colossal Cave (Adventure), one of the first text based adventures. (Plugh, xyzzy)
Later Bards Tale and Pools of Radiance.

I also remember posting to a role playing BBS on my 2400 baud. XD

total blasphemy