I absolutely love this trope and don't think I'm alone on this. It's my favorite way to start any rpg. Examples that come to mind are
Ogre Battle
Fallout New Vegas
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon
Can people think of any other games that have this? It's kino
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Final Fantasy Tactics 2 (pretty much just another tactics ogre)
>Final Fantasy Tactics 2
No such thing, are you high or gay
He was probably referring to advance (I don't remember this being a thing) or advance 2. Either way, he is probably gay.
I vaguely remember some GBA game that starts out at a waterfall and you're asked some personality questions or something idk maybe it was a dragon quest game
DQ3 remake.
Seems to be it,
I believe that Ultima IV is the originator of this trope. It starts by asking you to choose one of two possible options for several situations, assigning your character with predisposition towards certain virtues.
Came to post this.
Same, this came to mind immediately.
It's the earliest I'm aware of. It's the most likely one to inspire the other games at least.
ultima 4 (and 3....and 7...and underworld...and online) is the originator of nearly all things rpg.
All Langrisser games
Arena, Daggerfall, and Morrowind all have an option for this.
>4 hours video
>1/12
How much padding does this game have? I'm interested.
Tactics Ogre did something similar, but it's even more obtuse.
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>dicide
Pic related.
I love this game, but the pacing being off is one of several issues with it.
Many units will reach their final promotion around level 15. Unfortunately, for most playthroughs this will usually happen about halfway through the game. Worse yet, the later maps tend to get progressively larger. This, coupled with your characters remaining more or less the same, makes the second half of the game a bit of a slog.
It's a slog, as other anon said. And if you choose to take it in a pure way (trying to roleplay the way it wants you to, and trying to work out its many secrets and subtleties without any help from GameFAQs) then you'll have to replay it a bunch of times and basically make it your spouse for at least a few years. It's like NetHack and ADOM in that respect. It's a great game, but not necessarily a good one. Sprites and music are very strong though, so you can certainly get something out of it even if you just dip your toe in.
>ADOM
Oh haha I think I just accidentally named another game that gives a personality quiz. This one does that doesn't it? I think it does.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlayerPersonalityQuiz
bringing the Game Genie to the thread like that feels unsporting somehow
Kingdom Hearts
Revenge of Cuchulainn – Chapter 2 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa
um, how about all of them? they all ask you if you want to start a new game or continue
>game gives you the option to continue even if there is nothing to continue yet
into the trash it goes
>Got a "Selfish" personality on my first playthrough.
It still hurts. Frick.
-The Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games.
-SMT games. I love how the first one starts with a dream sequence, even if it is just to name characters and assign stat points.
-System Shock 2 in a way; it makes you choose a branch in the military.
Got a "show off" personality myself.
I like how it doesn't try to treat every result with equal respect. Some personality types are simply superior, and that's pretty cool. Feels like the game is being more real with what it thinks of you instead of walking on eggshells
>Pokemon Mystery Dungeon
Recently tried this out for the first time, enjoyed the personality quiz. But then it made me a Pikachu and I'm not going to tolerate that. So I restarted and took a different randomized quiz that left me as a Cubone. I thought that was fine.
Der Langrisser did it bit I still think OG Langrisser II was overall the better experience.
Prophecy of the Shadow, a literal who Ultima clone by SSI also starts this way.