A Public Service Announcement
*ahem*
Grinding has not been mandatory in JRPGs for over 20 years. Thank you!
Grinding has not been mandatory in JRPGs for over 20 years. Thank you!
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You realize that video games aren't supposed to be fun, they're supposed to be about doing a repetitive task for hours in order to get a reward so you can maybe have fun.
Seriously, you don't want to spend twenty hours smacking low-level enemies for tiny amounts of experience so as to level up? Where's your sense of hard work?
-pst, I don't actually play JRPG.-
Alternatively, it's the 20th anniversary of Alice getting tired of seeing patently ridiculous statements like "You have to grind to beat Final Fantasy VI!" or, heavens forbid, "You have to grind to beat Chrono Trigger!"
Even if it's not absolutely required, it certainly makes things easier in the long run.
:3
i meant 7 january 1994
When I pulled this off, I had to grind precisely once, and that was right before beating the game. This was with a deliberately sabotaged party that was never intended to be able to win in the first place. In a JRPG originally released in 1987.
Also, in my multiple Four Job Fiesta (again, a deliberately weakened party) runs of FFV, I have had to grind only in the first of those runs. And that was the first time I'd ever played FFV.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
fossilninja'd
Though I remember grinding in FFX but it was for like 20 minutes once ever.
Though also
grinding isn't bad.
I am beginning to repeat myself like an old cow
I don't exactly want to do it all that often or for very long, most of the time, but like, idk it's fine. Certainly I think allowing it is preferable to not. Many video game activities are repetitive and I don't think that's a problem.
I do basically agree that it shouldn't be mandatory for finishing the story of a game on normal difficulty or w/e though (but like, in practice it rarely is). Post-game stuff and hard modes though, idk do whatever.