The OP said that he doesn't have a DS anymore.Jack and Calumon said:POKEMON
WHY HAS NO-ONE SAID POKEMON YET!
It even features the perfect balance of balancing levels of your Pokémon, similar to balancing stats in any other RPG!
Pokémon is perfect, get 'im hooked.
Calumon: ...Yeah I guess it's okay...
I'd recommend one of the Rune Factory titles (probably Frontier) instead of Harvest Moon. It's got all the same farming/girl-wooing that Harvest Moon does, but also has dungeon crawling. It would be a better introduction to RPGs whilst still having the good ol' Harvest Moon guts.surg3n said:I would suggest Harvest Moon. Harvest Moon was one of my sons favorite games when he was 8, I think that is down to the continuing purpose - it's not like you have to defeat bosses, you have to produce good vegetables and fruit, look after cows, be a little farmer and get married, have kids. It might seem a bit tame, but really it's a very challenging game under the surface.
Ah, damn ninjas! I came here to suggest it myself. But yeah, Costume Quest is amazing and fun. It's like it's designed to be "baby's first RPG". Basically, the premise is that a kid goes trick or treating with his sibling but also monsters have come out on Halloween to steal candy. And they steal the kid's sister, so the kid must find costumes, which give him special powers and friends (party members) to fight the monsters and take back the candy. And the sibling.tehroc said:Costume Quest
I have heard about that series. How does it blend the two gameplays together and how well does it do it?Jerram Fahey said:I'd recommend one of the Rune Factory titles (probably Frontier) instead of Harvest Moon. It's got all the same farming/girl-wooing that Harvest Moon does, but also has dungeon crawling. It would be a better introduction to RPGs whilst still having the good ol' Harvest Moon guts.
I've only played the Wii titles (Rune Factory Frontier and Rune Factory Oceans) and didn't get terribly far into either of them (~10 hours with each, if that), but they seem to blend the two ok. The farming is a bit more confusing in Oceans - I played for hours before figuring it out - but you can choose how much time/energy you want to spend pursuing farming or dungeon crawling. It's pretty basic/generic stuff, at least initially, and it often feels more like grinding than actual "fun" (but what Harvest Moon game doesn't, amirite?). I think the main selling point is that you get a "Cheap Hoe" amongst your starter equipment. Gave me a good giggle.M0rp43vs said:I'll have to chime in with Harvest Moon as well. Friends of mineral town was and still is my favourite PS1 games and is one of the few PS1 games I still play today. Taught me about commerce, that farming is really easy, bribery being the best way to make friends and taught me to go into nature and scavenge when I'm low on cash and food. That and throwing stuff into rivers and waterfalls will cause Kappas and Goddesses to appear before you.
If not, as long as you think his eyes can take the early 2000's graphical assault, try Morrowind. It has a hell of a lot of inertia but in my opinion, it's way more addicting than either of the later two titles. And it does work on kids(I got into the game when I was 12 and got my little brother addicted to the elder's scrolls games at age 9 thanks to the game)
Another good series is the Monster Rancher series. It's a bit pokemon, cute monsters with deadly powers, mixed with Rocky, with the whole training angle and the fact that the later fights will leave you broken, destroyed but alive( like the end of the first movie) and will require several training montages to even come close to beating(like every other movie in the series)
And if that fails, try some SNES era RPG's
I have heard about that series. How does it blend the two gameplays together and how well does it do it?Jerram Fahey said:I'd recommend one of the Rune Factory titles (probably Frontier) instead of Harvest Moon. It's got all the same farming/girl-wooing that Harvest Moon does, but also has dungeon crawling. It would be a better introduction to RPGs whilst still having the good ol' Harvest Moon guts.