Why so? Just cause it doesn't say "Level 5 Warrior" doesn't mean it's not an RPG.
Though the one mark against them is that Zelda games are incredibly linear, with no real player choice or dialogue options. In that sense they are just like Call of Duty.
Dragon Warrior 1 on nes. Yes I'm old.
..and still one of the best ever.
Why so? Just cause it doesn't say "Level 5 Warrior" doesn't mean it's not an RPG.
Though the one mark against them is that Zelda games are incredibly linear, with no real player choice or dialogue options. In that sense they are just like Call of Duty.
Temple of Apshai and Gateway to Apshai were my first. Far, far, far older than NES/SNES/etc.
Ooh... I thought for sure it was going to Ultima3 for me on the Atari 800. But, it very well might have been Temple of Apshai...
Once I played Alternate Reality on the Atari and Commodore, I was hooked for life.
One of the FF SNES games, probably FF4. For PC it was the original Diablo.