RPG Battles: How do you handle them? - Page 2

Bomby · 08-06-2009, 08:42 AM

Put my emulator on turbo mode and grind.

**Galefore** · 08-06-2009, 02:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ML

With Planned encounters, I kill everyone and everything in the room.

With random encounters, I find myself getting pissed at the sheer number of them, and I run from whatever I feel is unnecessary.

This.

I ****ing hate random encounters. However, it's all a part of a genre I'm a huge fan of, so I've come to just sort of accept them over the years.

In a game like Dark Cloud, where the encounters are planned and you get to fight real-time, I'm willing to **** everyone's **** up and my weapons end-game are usually through the roof stats-wise. Adversely, in Rogue Galaxy and Star Ocean and stuff like that, the random encounters were real-time, so I didn't mind them as much either. I suppose it's just the tediousness of turn-based random encounters that annoys me.

Sim Kid · 08-06-2009, 05:16 PM

Random encounters aren't that annoying if you get lucky enough...or if the game doesn't have a really high random encounter rate.

Perhaps the worst was Breath of Fire III and Xenogears...but mostly the former. UGH. It really bothered me and I only remember fighting in like 50% of the random encounters I fought in Breath of Fire III and still being high-enough to pwn Myria.

I am nobody · 08-06-2009, 07:39 PM

I don't mind a ton of random encounters if I'm getting enough EXP to level up every 5-10 battles or if they all give me a huge amount of money/items. I start to get annoyed when the EXP system inevitably breaks and I get stuck fighting mildly difficult 1 EXP battles that drop no items or gold and are against enemies fast enough that I can't run.

**Galefore** · 08-07-2009, 01:13 PM

^^Yeah, BoF III's random encounters are ****ing ridiculous. I remember near the beginning where you have to solve that one puzzle with the tombstones, and you ran into a damned enemy every other step. I actually went to the trouble of getting the hidden treasure, so I was in there for a solid two hours of half-wasted time. D:

View Poll Results: How do you handle RPG battles?
I make sure I've wiped out every monster in the room before I move on.	14	58.33%
I'll kill every enemy that gets in my way, but I won't go out of my way to fight them.	4	16.67%
I'll battle when I can, but if things get uncertain I'll flee from battle.	1	4.17%
Avoid fights when possible, but stick it through if it happens.	5	20.83%
Run from battles every time it's possible.	0	0%
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08-06-2009, 08:42 AM	#21
Bomby You just freaking blew Joe Biden's mind! Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: WHAT?house Gender: Posts: 19,491 Thanks: 513 Thanked 1,449 Times in 849 Posts Blog Entries: 5	Put my emulator on turbo mode and grind.

08-06-2009, 05:16 PM	#23
Sim Kid Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: The state of Denial Gender: Posts: 8,884 Thanks: 80 Thanked 198 Times in 122 Posts	Random encounters aren't that annoying if you get lucky enough...or if the game doesn't have a really high random encounter rate. Perhaps the worst was Breath of Fire III and Xenogears...but mostly the former. UGH. It really bothered me and I only remember fighting in like 50% of the random encounters I fought in Breath of Fire III and still being high-enough to pwn Myria.

08-06-2009, 07:39 PM	#24
I am nobody Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Over there. Gender: Posts: 5,515 Thanks: 309 Thanked 365 Times in 242 Posts Blog Entries: 7	I don't mind a ton of random encounters if I'm getting enough EXP to level up every 5-10 battles or if they all give me a huge amount of money/items. I start to get annoyed when the EXP system inevitably breaks and I get stuck fighting mildly difficult 1 EXP battles that drop no items or gold and are against enemies fast enough that I can't run.

08-07-2009, 01:13 PM	#25
Galefore EXPLOSION GOD OF MUSIC Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Some studio somewhere Gender: Posts: 8,275 Thanks: 1,361 Thanked 826 Times in 535 Posts Blog Entries: 5	^^Yeah, BoF III's random encounters are ****ing ridiculous. I remember near the beginning where you have to solve that one puzzle with the tombstones, and you ran into a damned enemy every other step. I actually went to the trouble of getting the hidden treasure, so I was in there for a solid two hours of half-wasted time. D: