good skill system and the background. it must be updated fast...and if the roles are beautiful not too lovely..will be better!

Baldurs gate was my first RPG computer game

i played Pen and paper for a short time before that and have only just got back into it (i'm the suicidal one)

as for MMO's.  my first was SWG (before it went crap) i got a total of 2 week of play out of that before the NGE hit ().  then it was onto WoW (it seemed like a good idea at the time) then (15 months later) i moved from game to game...never really settling down into 1

I guess I got started with CRPGs technically before PnP RPGs.

Two CRPGs stick out in my mind - Phantasie and sldo the Bards Tale (the old one - not the new one which just shares a name...).  Played them both on the Commodore 64.

While the bards tale had prettier graphics, I found Phantasie had a better sandbox feel to adventuring.  Plus I just enjoyed watching the little characters in my party jump up and down to swing an axe.  And of course they'd all jump up and down when the battle was won.  :)

Some older kids in the neighborhood turned me on to PnP RPGs with a cool little title called Top Secret.  The rules were kind of complicated, but it made a good primer before I found DnD.

The rest is history.

i like cool games! PK is a quite important part of a game. and i like PK most in gaming~~!!

I hate to admit it but Runescape was one of the rpg's that got me started the other one was Thang it was my first real mmorpg

I am currently playing Tales of Pirates though

Lands of Lore was amazing! Got me totally into the rpg-gaming.

Originally posted by Astralglide

Which games got you started role-playing? Was it a video game first or pen and paper/ table top? Do you still play them today? I'll start (this is just for curiosity's sake).

As far as solo CRPGs go, System Shock 1 was my first love - still IMHO the greatest s-f roleplaying game ever made (relative to its time), closely followed by System Shock 2 and Deus Ex.  From there I discovered Iliked rpg-ing and got into the Baldur's Gate series, then NWN and KOTOR.  (Haven't tried Mass Effect yet, but I'm sure it's made to the same high standard though.)  The Fallout series is also great CRPG-ing.

As far as live roleplaying in an MMO, City of Heroes is a very easy game to rp in, at least during combat, because you don't have to think through the filter of mediaeval or romantic language - you can just talk normally, and the superhero quips and wisecracks flow thick and fast in CoX missions.

I've also played in persistent worlds in NWN2, and the experience of rp-ing in a PW in a GM-led game in NWN2 has to be experienced to be believed - it's incredibly immersive to find the game world comeing alive around you and responding intelligently to your party's actions.

good lovely 3D games..excellent skill system will be the most attractive..i like a game mostly due to its skill system..

my first mmorpg was runescape it was cool for a yeur but now its (****) <--- just i dont like the game now.

then i looked for more games and you dont believe me i found them and it where 39 mmorpgames i downloaded them all and made around 100 acount and played them all, my computer was so slow that you can wait 5minutes on one single click then after a year i deleted them all and played some runescape then a frend told me a supercool massive multiplayer online ruleplaying game : Rose online ( the Ruff-Rose version) it was free and it was so so so cool i have played years and years and still i play it its the greatest game on the hole planet. it haves: really good community and graphics,pvp,clans(including The clan battle ground  , ClanField , Clanfaction , Clan events ) and lots more.

at the moment it scores a 7.94 and here's a link if you are interested (i dont know if i can type here in this reply a website?)  http://www.ruff-rose.com/downloads  and  check before you download the "Rose online fan trailer'' on http://www.youtube.com for more info

Diablo I > Diablo II > Diablo II Expansion > Runescape > World of Warcraft > LOTRO > No game currently

i like war games! good scenery and beautiful skill impact are my favor points. if it has a  not bad upgrade system. i will like more~~

red alert 1 got me started on computer games.. then diablo 1 got me started on mmo's i played diablo 2 and warcraft 3 forever trying plenty of f2p games, runescape kept my attention for a long time, and conquer online did too, i played Flyff for a while, i played wow first as a druid like 3 or 4 years ago then quit then came back as a hunter and hit 60 then quit then came back and got a dif hunter to 70 then quit and came back for a war and some alts but year red alert 1, def got me started, ive played almost every game on the mmorpg.com list

i like some lovely games. the style and the role..their body is just 1:1 ..so lovely..such as hello kitty!! hahah

i like games such as SOL..which seems ancient ~i like its style..this kind of games i always like much..

I think the first "serious" game I played was Warcraft 2... played it on my brothers computer, it was Awesome at the time hehe..

D&D for me. The Ultima games and the original Bard's Tale.

i like peaceful games..without baleful PKs...without terrible words..without some other low-diathesis players..however it's impossible..i know..game companies are for money ...so - - my game will never exist..

It would have been Shining Force from the Sega Genesis long ago. Then after that, I think I played almost every rpg on the old school systems =P

Archlord for me and pac man lol

a NES games, mario 3 and those.
first "real" mmorpg game was SWG CU.