History Main / FirstTown

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':

Relatively central location for most of the start of an RPG. This can be a city or, less specifically, a small island or continent. Once the characters GetOnTheBoat, other areas may seem unusually less extensive regardless of their implied size, and the party may not spend as much time in any other location as the first, or [[TalkToEveryone talk to as many people]]. Particularly in older {{RPG}}s, the First Town is prone to being a [[{{Arcadia}} sleepy pastoral village with cute background music and lots of trees and flowers]].

If the hero lives there, this town is [[DoomedHometown a lot more endangered]].

* ''VideoGame/DiabloII'' has the Rogue Encampment. In some countries, the game's acts are nicknamed "towns", literally "first town", "second town" and so on.

* The First Town in ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'', Tristram, was in fact the only town in the game. ''[[VideoGame/{{Diablo}} Diablo II]]'' had a more conventional starting town in the Rogues' Encampment, with many other towns later after you GetOnTheBoat. ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' starts you off in Tristram again (New Tristram, to be precise, though you do get to explore the old town during the early parts of the first act) before you GetOnTheBoat.

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** Colony 9 in ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'', with a few caveats: it's a bustling metropolis instead of a sleepy town, there's overarching sidequests that will keep you coming back for half the game to turn them in, there are level 30+ monsters in the area that will effortlessly tear your rookie party a new one if you go too far off the beaten track, and despite being [[DoomedHometown raided by Mechon]] early on, the colony [[DefiedTrope only takes a beating and pulls itself together during a brief timeskip]].