Thousand year door was a GREAT game.

Originally posted by Stoney Games:

From there I found my first true RPG years later in Shining Force for the Sega Genesis. It was such a great and powerful game and I wish more modern games would recreate the feel of this gem.

I'm really much more of a fan of Shining Force II. I liked its free roam and exploration aspect.

A mechanic I think a lot of games need to think more about is what it rewards the players for doing.

I just feel like we need to reward players for clever thinking. Nothing bothers me more than the clever way to get by an obstacle giving you less rewards than brute forcing it.

If I hack a panel to gas a room full of enemy soldiers, I should get as much if not more xp than if I fought them.

Every time we reward a player badly for thinking clever, it reinforces the idea that he should just brute force the game.

When I was a kid, I played most anything. My NES collection was basically every game we could pick up from Video Warehouse (you know, back when rental places were a thing) for 5 dollars because they were getting rid of it.

I even played some RPGs. I had played the first two Wizardry games. I had played Dragon Warrior (Quest in Japan). I had played Final Fantasy.

But then that one game came out. That one game that made RPGs something special to me.

That game was Dragon Warrior 4 (Once again, Quest). Something about the way the story was told, the chapter system was great. When it was released, no game really compared story wise, and I was also a big reader.

Do you have that one game? What game made you love RPGs?