PREXUS'S PROFILE

Ultima 7: The Black Gate
Fallout 2
Arcanum
Live a Live
Final Fantasy 6
Chrono Trigger
Diablo 2
Pokemon Red/Blue
Baldur's Gate

edit: Oh, you wanted first RPG ever played?
I think the first I ever played myself was Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, but I spent a lot of time watching my brother play the NES era RPGs (DQ and FF1 mainly)

Uh, those stats are completely relative to the scale of the stats in your game.

The numbers mean nothing, it's how they are applied that makes the difference.

A character who holds threat needs not be a tank. You could easily use a threat system along with dummy characters, like the Teddy Bear in Earthbound.

Also, who says that just because the tank dies, everyone else does too? In a typical RPG, most characters take similar amounts of damage depending on gear. Having one character use Threat Generating abilities makes it easier for the player to heal, while still outputting damage. (I'd use Protect/Shell more often in FF games, if I could ensure the person I was buffing would be getting attacked. )Now that damage is mitigated, I just have to keep him healed (and heal anyone who might take splash/all-target damage) and keep him buffed while my other characters deal damage. If he dies, it doesn't mean my other characters are significantly less viable in taking damage. I just no longer have a designated meat shield.

author=pyrodoom
Can groups of people work together in this contest?

Yes. I believe its teams of up to 10 people.

You might want to get on that, pyrodoom. There are lots of people making commercial RPG Maker games. I believe Aveyond would be up there in terms of well-knownedness. She definitely set the precedent that is for sure.

My opinion on the pricing of Games in general is that they are all over-priced. I don't buy anything unless it is at the very least 33% off, and that is if I really fucking want it.

The price of a game that I am willing to pay after that pre-requisite is entirely determined by whether or not I want it. Skyborn, for example, I would actually quite like to play. I'd be willing to pay $10~ for it, not $15. But that is because of my rule. The same rule applied to Skyrim, Kingdom's of Amalur, and Mass Effect 3.

A game like Space Pirates vs Zombies, I might be interested in trying, but it would need to be below $5 for me to consider it, and even then it might be on a whim.