Oldest RPG you can still enjoy.

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

I'll never forget my first encounter with Final Fantasy at my cousin's house, and have generally followed that series' highs and lows. Today I was playing through the first one and got so annoyed by the random encounter rate in a particular dungeon I gave up, flushing away thirty minutes of grind and not caring one whit. While everyone these days blathers on about how JRPGs need to change more to become accessible to American audiences, it's funny to me when I saw the Let's Play video of SaGa 3 for Game Boy of all things, and I still felt the guy playing was having fun from the way he talked.

While many of the old-timers of the first console RPGs might be willing to forgive an obnoxious random encounter rate- or any random encounter rate at all- and armies of recolors (or in the prior case of SaGa, just different names and better stats and attacks), in today's world what is your limit on tolerance for such repetitive mechanics? Can you still enjoy them?

 

[Marter]

I'm currently playing through both FFVI and Super Mario RPG.

I love older games, they're still fun in my opinion.

 

[Gigaguy64]

Dragon Warrior:Monsters.

I absolutely love it.

Right now im working on a Divineagon, iv got two Sky dragons and a Battle Rex.
Gonna Breed one SD with the BR for a Great Drak and then Breed it with the last SD.

Voila, a massively powerful boss killing Devinagon.
Complete with a ton of powerful moves including...

Multicut, Whitefire, HealAll, HealUsAll, Susanoo Call, and a few more.

 

[Steppin Razor]

I'm running through FFIV and Etrian Odyssey at the moment and Dragon Quest 8/FFVIII are two of my favourite games ever made. So yes, I still enjoy the JRPGs with their repetitive mechanics. I actually enjoy the grind with random battles to improve my characters.

 

[Miumaru]

Dragon Warrior:Monsters.

I absolutely love it.

Right now im working on a Divineagon, iv got two Sky dragons and a Battle Rex.
Gonna Breed one SD with the BR for a Great Drak and then Breed it with the last SD.

Voila, a massively powerful boss killing Devinagon.
Complete with a ton of powerful moves including...

Multicut, Whitefire, HealAll, HealUsAll, Susanoo Call, and a few more.

Hah, thats what I was gonna say.
My team was a Unicorn, Yeti, and MadCat. Unicorn being my healer. I completly beat the game, and then focused on breeding. Never managed to breed a GoldSlime though.

 

[octafish]

C... Con... Console? Pfft. I have played Buck Rogers and the something something for the Sega Mega Drive within the last four years, and found it somewhat enjoyable. Fallout, Baldurs Gate 2 and Planescape: Torment still get a shake down by me every now and again, currently they are installed on my netbook waiting for me to get sick of playing Freespace 2, Jagged Aliance 2, and Crimson Skies.

edit: *hands in his over 30's PC gamer licence* I... I forgot System Shock 2...

 

[mexicola]

Well I played Planescape Torment a few weeks ago so I guess that's the oldest one, but I'm not sure about the age thing. I could still play Arcanum and BG2:SoA but don't know whether those are older or younger.

 

[Uncanny Doom]

I still play Super Mario RPG and Final Fantasy VI to this day.

 

[God's Clown]

Chrono Trigger, Seiken Densetsu, Final Fantasy 4. I am not sure which one came out first, because I don't want to look, but all of those.

 

[Gigaguy64]

Dragon Warrior:Monsters.

I absolutely love it.

Right now im working on a Divineagon, iv got two Sky dragons and a Battle Rex.
Gonna Breed one SD with the BR for a Great Drak and then Breed it with the last SD.

Voila, a massively powerful boss killing Devinagon.
Complete with a ton of powerful moves including...

Multicut, Whitefire, HealAll, HealUsAll, Susanoo Call, and a few more.

Hah, thats what I was gonna say.
My team was a Unicorn, Yeti, and MadCat. Unicorn being my healer. I completly beat the game, and then focused on breeding. Never managed to breed a GoldSlime though.

I got to the Monster Master but his GoldSlime and Rainhawk completely shut me down.

Im gonna focus on a GoldSilme once i get to the Gate with the Metababbles.
Im gonna try to make it a Stat booster with skills like BigBang and All magic.
the Monsters im currently switching between are a Battle Rex, Sky DragonX2, and a Mimic.
Im hoping to use the Mimic to breed a Roguenite and if im lucky i can get a MadKnight with it being the Pedigree.
Sigh....its such a fun game with a ton of Monsters, i think ill even try to get some Boss monsters this time around.
That's gonna take a while though.

EDIT:I even kept my Watabou pretty powerful when i breed it.
Its supposed to be a Key monster in getting the Best Boss monster in the game.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Earthbound, on a regular basis. Super Mario RPG after that.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Super Mario RPG (I know, I know, its been said), Final Fantasy IV, FF Crystal Chronicles, Golden Sun 1 & 2 (still hoping for 3 to come out here soon) and Freelancer (if it counts).

Boy, I used the parenthesis keys a lot in this post

 

[AnimeMan127]

I'll go with Paper Mario on the N64, I just love that game so much.

 

[Miumaru]

Dragon Warrior:Monsters.

I absolutely love it.

Right now im working on a Divineagon, iv got two Sky dragons and a Battle Rex.
Gonna Breed one SD with the BR for a Great Drak and then Breed it with the last SD.

Voila, a massively powerful boss killing Devinagon.
Complete with a ton of powerful moves including...

Multicut, Whitefire, HealAll, HealUsAll, Susanoo Call, and a few more.

Hah, thats what I was gonna say.
My team was a Unicorn, Yeti, and MadCat. Unicorn being my healer. I completly beat the game, and then focused on breeding. Never managed to breed a GoldSlime though.

I got to the Monster Master but his GoldSlime and Rainhawk completely shut me down.

Im gonna focus on a GoldSilme once i get to the Gate with the Metababbles.
Im gonna try to make it a Stat booster with skills like BigBang and All magic.
the Monsters im currently switching between are a Battle Rex, Sky DragonX2, and a Mimic.
Im hoping to use the Mimic to breed a Roguenite and if im lucky i can get a MadKnight with it being the Pedigree.
Sigh....its such a fun game with a ton of Monsters, i think ill even try to get some Boss monsters this time around.
That's gonna take a while though.

After I got my dream team set up I never switched. I started all the way from Metalys, so I had to get alot and I got too many males and few females. I dont remember, but I think I got Watabou.

 

[demoman_chaos]

Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past.

 

[Gigaguy64]

Dragon Warrior:Monsters.

I absolutely love it.

Right now im working on a Divineagon, iv got two Sky dragons and a Battle Rex.
Gonna Breed one SD with the BR for a Great Drak and then Breed it with the last SD.

Voila, a massively powerful boss killing Devinagon.
Complete with a ton of powerful moves including...

Multicut, Whitefire, HealAll, HealUsAll, Susanoo Call, and a few more.

Hah, thats what I was gonna say.
My team was a Unicorn, Yeti, and MadCat. Unicorn being my healer. I completly beat the game, and then focused on breeding. Never managed to breed a GoldSlime though.

I got to the Monster Master but his GoldSlime and Rainhawk completely shut me down.

Im gonna focus on a GoldSilme once i get to the Gate with the Metababbles.
Im gonna try to make it a Stat booster with skills like BigBang and All magic.
the Monsters im currently switching between are a Battle Rex, Sky DragonX2, and a Mimic.
Im hoping to use the Mimic to breed a Roguenite and if im lucky i can get a MadKnight with it being the Pedigree.
Sigh....its such a fun game with a ton of Monsters, i think ill even try to get some Boss monsters this time around.
That's gonna take a while though.

After I got my dream team set up I never switched. I started all the way from Metalys, so I had to get alot and I got too many males and few females. I dont remember, but I think I got Watabou.

That was probbly the thing that kept me from getting a GoldSlime the first time around.
I wouldn't get the right Gender and i wouldn't have any monsters to breed that would give me a Metaly so i could Bless it and make it the Gender i wanted.
I started to get bored after making so many trips to the same Gates just to get breeding monsters.
I had a GreatDrak in my final team only because i captured a lot of Dragon Type monsters early on and had several pairs that would lead to a GreatDrak with breeding.

And Watabou was a great Monster, its a Plant type if i remember correctly, and aside from some impressive Stats it could learn the Skill StarryNight, a skill that would do a random Attack/Effect.
Anything from Instant KO of the opposing team or Raising all you team members Stats by at least 50% or Healing them of HP and Status Effects.
I think you get him at the end of the game after you beat everyone but the Monster Master and find all the Travelers Gates.

 

[Sheogoroth]

Morrowind, in fact I think Ima fire up that puppy right now. 100 hours of questline + expansions + mods = Excellence.

 

[LordMarcusX]

Nethack.

 

[Georgie_Leech]

*Points at avatar, wondering why anyone would doubt the awesomeness that is Lufia 2*