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Lairen
01/15/21 2:54:54 PM
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FF1-10 at least but many many more.

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ThyCorndog
01/15/21 2:55:32 PM
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grinding for xp so you can one shot enemies is not strategy or fun either

I like turn based games with limited xp and encounters so what you do actually matters

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lzual
01/15/21 2:58:51 PM
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ThyCorndog posted...
grinding for xp so you can one shot enemies is not strategy or fun either

I like turn based games with limited xp and encounters so what you do actually matters

and yet peoples bitched at FF13 for not letting you grind.
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Jeff AKA Snoopy
01/15/21 3:00:20 PM
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lzual posted...
and yet peoples bitched at FF13 for not letting you grind.

People bitched about Final Fantasy XIII because it is it is inherently not a very good Final Fantasy game.

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01/15/21 3:01:01 PM
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TheSavageDragon
01/15/21 3:03:31 PM
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lzual posted...
and yet peoples bitched at FF13 for not letting you grind.

I feel like that has more to do with XIII being hell-bent on giving you no freedom whatsoever.

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Dingydang166
01/15/21 3:03:58 PM
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Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...
People bitched about Final Fantasy XIII because it is it is inherently not a very good Final Fantasy game.

To be fair people have bitched about every single FF since 7. 8 was nothing like 7 therefore BAD. 9 had a weird artstyle that made it kiddie therefore BAD. 10 had laughing scene where people misunderstand the context therefore BAD. 11 online game therefore BAD. My favorite though will always be:

FF12 comes out: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA IT'S TOO OPEN AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

FF13 comes out: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA TOO LINEAR HALLWAY SIM AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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AzurexNightmare
01/15/21 3:04:36 PM
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2021 and people don't realize these two easy to understand things

1. Any game summed up in a sentence sounds stupid.

2. People like different things for different reasons

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Lairen
01/15/21 3:05:08 PM
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Have you ever noticed thats 7 is really easy?

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AzurexNightmare
01/15/21 3:07:30 PM
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Lairen posted...
Have you ever noticed thats 7 is really easy?
Yup. I'd love these games to be harder but that's a separate issue. The game far from sucks and doesn't feel pointless.

To be honest though I'm not a fan of replaying a game that's this long unless it's been years because the real meat is the story and you basically don't forget that.

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The_Korey
01/15/21 3:07:38 PM
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Dingydang166 posted...
My favorite though will always be:

FF12 comes out: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA IT'S TOO OPEN AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

FF13 comes out: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA TOO LINEAR HALLWAY SIM AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I didn't know Too Open was a popular komplaint. lol, if SE made Final Hallway 13 just to spite such silly fans, I have to appreciate it now.

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Lairen
01/15/21 3:08:10 PM
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AzurexNightmare posted...
2021 and people don't realize these two easy to understand things

1. Any game summed up in a sentence sounds stupid.

2. People like different things for different reasons

Its more pointing out just how much time is spent walking from point A to B getting into random encounters that youll just mash a button to basic attack through.

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Lord_Wombat
01/15/21 3:11:21 PM
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Go play Darkest Dungeon.

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TheSavageDragon
01/15/21 3:15:26 PM
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The_Korey posted...
I didn't know Too Open was a popular komplaint. lol, if SE made Final Hallway 13 just to spite such silly fans, I have to appreciate it now.

It's not so much being "too open" as it was "the size of the areas brings the pacing to a crawl". And they didn't design FFXIII the way it is to spite fans. They did it in attempt to draw in the millions that solely play CoD, hence the major emphasis on flashy action.
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AzurexNightmare
01/15/21 3:17:44 PM
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Lairen posted...
Its more pointing out just how much time is spent walking from point A to B getting into random encounters that youll just mash a button to basic attack through.
I'm not going to blow your mind here but I'll tell you why I enjoyed them.

Yes you could get away with mashing x most encounters but in some locations you'll get schooled by some enemies (first time reaching the area.) and here are some other things. The music, the story as you travel, the characters if you like them, random funny dialogue during fights, cool Aeon animations, just everything. Looking for treasures, mini games, enemy capture in X, converting monsters to cards.

A lot of it can be seen as mindless but it's a time sink on purpose. It's just the way it is. Everyone knows what they're in for when they buy these.

Plus these games aren't turn based anymore so your complaints date back to the 90's and early 2000s.

Do I wish they were harder? I'm with you man. But it's not boring either. I don't replay them either though lol I prefer games like devil may cry and SMT.

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Jeff AKA Snoopy
01/15/21 3:18:23 PM
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To be fair, none of the FF games are perfect.

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Lairen
01/15/21 3:19:42 PM
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The cheats in FFVII pc port only enhance the experience.

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Jeff AKA Snoopy
01/15/21 3:21:27 PM
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Also TC not mentioning FFT is a big hindrance to his argument.

Unless you purposefully break the game with Calculators, playing casually you need to pay real close attention even in random battles. Hell, especially in them at times. Fucking Chocobo's.

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AzurexNightmare
01/15/21 3:21:54 PM
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Lairen posted...
The cheats in FFVII pc port only enhance the experience.
If all you want is story, I agree.

I have a dumbass friend who hasn't beaten 7 yet (and we both played it in elementary school and are almost 30 today) because he's a fucking wussy who thinks it's too hard and can't be assed to play it.

Does he turn on cheats? Nope because he says it doesn't feel right.

And yet he bought ff7 on PS4 five years ago and only played it twice. What a fucking moron.

And this isn't someone who doesn't like the game. He likes the characters. He's just a fucking pussy.

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Lairen
01/15/21 3:22:37 PM
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Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...
Also TC not mentioning FFT is a big hindrance to his argument.

Unless you purposefully break the game with Calculators, playing casually you need to pay real close attention even in random battles. Hell, especially in them at times. Fucking Chocobo's.

Yeah if youre expecting the game to hand you a broken op character then youre right!

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Tyranthraxus
01/15/21 3:23:42 PM
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The random battles in FFT are usually harder than the story ones.

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Jeff AKA Snoopy
01/15/21 3:24:22 PM
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Lairen posted...
Yeah if youre expecting the game to hand you a broken op character then youre right!

Like at the 2/3rds point. Nobody is Cid levels of broken until that point.

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Lairen
01/15/21 3:24:49 PM
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AzurexNightmare posted...
If all you want is story, I agree.

I have a dumbass friend who hasn't beaten 7 yet (and we both played it in elementary school and are almost 30 today) because he's a fucking wussy who thinks it's too hard and can't be assed to play it.

Does he turn on cheats? Nope because he says it doesn't feel right.

And yet he bought ff7 on PS4 five years ago and only played it twice. What a fucking moron.

And this isn't someone who doesn't like the game. He likes the characters. He's just a fucking pussy.

Many many hours of 7 are walking/random encounters or text dumps. When i first played the game i played it like 12 hours straight and passed out at kalms flashback. Woke up and kept playing some hours later.

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Lairen
01/15/21 3:25:44 PM
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Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...
Like at the 2/3rds point. Nobody is Cid levels of broken until that point.

They hand you a free chocobo. Walk between 2 cities till you hatch a party of red chocobos. Sweep with them.

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ChocoboMogALT
01/15/21 3:26:12 PM
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FF2 is not "just mash attack." FF1 depends on your party. Later games have systems that could be complex, but lack difficulty to really test them. The siper bosses in 7 are a good example of how fights could force you to strategize. Spinoffs like FFRK and hard hacks exist that really stretch the limits of the ATB system.

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DepreceV2
01/15/21 3:26:22 PM
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I dont mind it. I actually enjoy it. I dont take the gameplay too serious. I play for the story and more challenging fights that require tactics. I dont mind turning my brain off during random encounters. Its what I grew up with so I guess that is what I will always like.

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Jeff AKA Snoopy
01/15/21 3:27:09 PM
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Lairen posted...
They hand you a free chocobo. Walk between 2 cities till you hatch a party of red chocobos. Sweep with them.

Again, you are looking to break the game. Every single RPG ever made can be broken if you're gonna put in time to do something like that.

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ChocoboMogALT
01/15/21 3:28:02 PM
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Lairen posted...
They hand you a free chocobo. Walk between 2 cities till you hatch a party of red chocobos. Sweep with them.
Does anything in the game direct you to try this?

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Lairen
01/15/21 3:28:22 PM
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Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...
Again, you are looking to break the game. Every single RPG ever made can be broken if you're gonna put in time to do something like that.

Like think?

Every game is hard if you dont think.

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Lairen
01/15/21 3:29:12 PM
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ChocoboMogALT posted...
Does anything in the game direct you to try this?

When you walk eggs happen....

If you think at all about this....

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DepreceV2
01/15/21 3:29:59 PM
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Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...
Again, you are looking to break the game. Every single RPG ever made can be broken if you're gonna put in time to do something like that.

This. If you dont like being able to break an RPG then you should probably either not attempt to break it or not play an RPG. If you are going into every RPG trying to out level everything and get mad that you did that, then RPGs arent for you.

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Lairen
01/15/21 3:31:33 PM
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DepreceV2 posted...
This. If you dont like being able to break an RPG then you should probably either not attempt to break it or not play an RPG. If you are going into every RPG trying to out level everything and get mad that you did that, then RPGs arent for you.

Strategy is not for rpgs? I AM playing them wrong....

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DepreceV2
01/15/21 3:32:07 PM
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Lairen posted...
When you walk eggs happen....

If you think at all about this....

RPGs arent for you bro. Every RPG I can think of I can make extremely easy by grinding. However, I dont do that because constantly grinding isnt fun and steamrolling the game after that isnt fun. Go play Action-Adventure games or something.

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Jeff AKA Snoopy
01/15/21 3:32:27 PM
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DepreceV2 posted...
This. If you dont like being able to break an RPG then you should probably either not attempt to break it or not play an RPG. If you are going into every RPG trying to out level everything and get mad that you did that, then RPGs arent for you.

Look at the most popular RPG's ever and all of them can be broken. How is it any different from something like Dark Souls?

RPG - This fight is hard. I'm gonna spend 2 hours grinding levels to make it statistically easier.

Dark Souls - This fight is hard. I'm gonna spend 2 hours fighting it over and over again grinding my own experience until I can beat it.

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DepreceV2
01/15/21 3:33:31 PM
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Lairen posted...
Strategy is not for rpgs? I AM playing them wrong....

You need to impose self discipline to not grind the game out until it is super easy. If you cant do that then its not for you

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Lairen
01/15/21 3:34:08 PM
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DepreceV2 posted...
RPGs arent for you bro. Every RPG I can think of I can make extremely easy by grinding. However, I dont do that because constantly grinding isnt fun and steamrolling the game after that isnt fun. Go play Action-Adventure games or something.

Ive not even listed grinding yet....

I was mistaken in thinking rpgs were hard though.

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Lairen
01/15/21 3:35:18 PM
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DepreceV2 posted...
You need to impose self discipline to not grind the game out until it is super easy. If you cant do that then its not for you

Its weird cause everyone insists im grinding. I guess theyre so easy anyone can grind.

Real eye opener here....

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DepreceV2
01/15/21 3:36:00 PM
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Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...
Look at the most popular RPG's ever and all of them can be broken. How is it any different from something like Dark Souls?

RPG - This fight is hard. I'm gonna spend 2 hours grinding levels to make it statistically easier.

Dark Souls - This fight is hard. I'm gonna spend 2 hours fighting it over and over again grinding my own experience until I can beat it.

The difference is you are grinding mechanics in Dark Souls. In an RPG you are grinding stats


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DepreceV2
01/15/21 3:36:45 PM
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Lairen posted...
Its weird cause everyone insists im grinding. I guess theyre so easy anyone can grind.

Real eye opener here....

You mean anyone can make them very easy if they grind.

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Jeff AKA Snoopy
01/15/21 3:37:00 PM
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DepreceV2 posted...
The difference is you are grinding mechanics in Dark Souls. In an RPG you are grinding stats

It is still 2 hours spent to clear a hurdle. To suggest one is inherently "better" than the other is ridiculous.

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Lairen
01/15/21 3:37:35 PM
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It makes me think of Muh Dry Breads pokemon challenges. They sound hard but they boil down to him grinding till he can beat the game.

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DepreceV2
01/15/21 3:37:49 PM
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Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...
It is still 2 hours spent to clear a hurdle. To suggest one is inherently "better" than the other is ridiculous.

Im never said one is better. Im saying they are different

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DepreceV2
01/15/21 3:39:17 PM
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Lairen posted...
It makes me think of Muh Dry Breads pokemon challenges. They sound hard but they boil down to him grinding till he can beat the game.

All Pokmon challenges come down to grinding and luck unless the challenge has a level cap

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Lairen
01/15/21 3:40:06 PM
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DepreceV2 posted...
All Pokmon challenges come down to grinding and luck unless the challenge has a level cap

Life is just grinding till you can beat it.

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DepreceV2
01/15/21 3:41:59 PM
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Lairen posted...
Life is just grinding till you can beat it.

That... is pretty true actually. Grind until you win and enjoy the win or you run out of time before you win

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silver_stoner
01/15/21 4:07:08 PM
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There are plenty of rpgs that will not be easy if you just mash attack.

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Trumble
01/15/21 4:18:38 PM
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Final Fantasy 8 Requiem Mod.

You can thank me later. ;)

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MisterPengy
01/15/21 4:37:57 PM
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10 takes it a step farther by every random battle basically being turn-based rock, paper, scissors where you get to go first.

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Payzmaykr
01/15/21 4:43:36 PM
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The Legend of Dragoon
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Jeff AKA Snoopy
01/15/21 4:44:37 PM
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Payzmaykr posted...
The Legend of Dragoon

I guess Paper Mario games too. If you don't play their rhythm based combat properly you are boned

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