The first turn based strategy game i ever played. And it trapped me forever. Anyone else played Shining Force series?
Yes! Shining Force was the game back in the day! Me and my three siblings played it and Shining Force II to death. Never got a chance to play the direct sequel to the first (it was on Sega CD) or Shining Force III (Sega Saturn). If I ever have time to do anything again, I'll play them via emulator.
I play Shining Force 3 on an emulator from time to time. Still trying to finish the CD 1 of 3. Configuring Sega Saturn emulators is a real pain.
Final Fantasy Tactics was another great one (the only game I ever bought 3 times). I really wanted to play the Disgaea games, but I had an X-Box at the time and moved on from consoles afterwards.
I have downladed a Game Boy Advance emulator on my phone, just to play FF Tactics Advance & Shining Force . Both of them excellent games. If you liked Shining Froce, you should try the remake that was made for GBA, they added new characters (appears the daughter of king Ramladu), differente abilities and spells, and improved the lore overall.
Shining Force was my first real game on my first console so yeah I played it and Shining Force 2. I've played shining force 3 (cd 1 and 2 I don' recall having plaed the third) thanks to a highschool friend who lent me his saturn =) It's not a tactical but a dungeon rpg but you can also try Shining in the Darkness. It's the rpg game that began the Shining series. Also you could try Shining Force Feather on DS but it's japanese only...and they changed the gameplay.
First tbs I ever played was Warsong for the Sega Genesis. and while im at it first rts: Warcraft 1 first rpg: nethack first fps: doom first 2d fighter: samurai showdown first mmo: everquest 1 hmm, this thread has reminded me that I was born before the internet. so lets gets oldschool boardgaming first strategy game: chess first fantasy game: Dark Tower / dungeon / talisman / wizards quest first wargame: risk / axis and allies / btoadsides and boarding parties / ronan first battle simulation game: tank battle / carrier strike / chopper command first pencil n paper rpg: dungeons and dragons (the real kind) first table top miniatures wargame: silent death (yeah it had a 'board' but it was nothing more than a big hex grid and i did model painting so I think of it as tabletop)
I wasn't a big fighter fan, but Samurai Showdown was great. Dibs on Tam Tam! I think they actually made an RPG version that never made it to the states...
In my case it was Tactics ogre: the knight of lodis, that I played on a GBA emulator, FF tactics took a lot of it, but I like the set of rules and the class system of TO better.
