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Final Fantasy 7 remake should be

Turn based RPG 39 67.24%
 
Action RPG 19 32.76%
 
Total:58

i wasnt sure when i first got into this thread, but yeah, i can agree FFX was terrible at times with bullshit random encounters, 3-5 steps and battle music starts. I still liked it, but it was a bit over done at times, i can agree with that.



 

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Yep, let's make a unique genre streamlined into something the west likes because fuck diversity. We already had an atrocity called FFXV, we don't need that again.

That said, I wouldn't mind action gameplay for the remake. It's a remake after all, they can do with it whatever they want. The original sucked anyway so it can only go up from here.



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Black Sigil: Blade of the Exiled. Great story, graphics and all, but the random encounters are way way WAY too often, like two steps- encounter.



John2290 said:
Action RPG but with elements akin to the systems found in FF online and yep, I can't replay or at least get very far into the older FF's because of the 5 steps, random battle, 5 steps, random battle, 5 more steps, another random battle with the same enemies... I mean are they really random when they are sure to pop up everytime you move on the map...

Yeah i know, 8bit 16bit and 32bit rpgs are notorious for their random encounters and baffling difficulty. FF games are pretty easy and the story and characters are usually good which is why they keep me going.

Yerm said:
well, i suppose it is true that cave areas are always the most dreaded part of pokemon games.

Those darned Zubats! 

Dango_ said:
Always stick to your source material as a remake, in my opinion.

I like turn-based when it's interesting. (Mario & Luigi, Paper Mario, Deltarune, etc.)

In most cases it works but then there are games like FF2 which already had a broken system and kept this system in it's remake and it still got flak for it. FF8 is another game which has a terrible system and should be improved upon if they ever remake it in my opinion.

ironmanDX said:
I have no problem with random encounters. Help you grind early game and if you back track and are quite overlevelled, there are items in most games that... Repel the encounters.

Yes, while some of them don't help much like the holy bottles in Tales of Phantasia

COKTOE said:

This is a difficult one for me to gauge. I can't stress enough how much I hated the random battles in FF VII. I never finished it. Sold it, and used the money from the sale to buy weed. It's absolutely the most hated example of random battles making a game suck I can reference. And it's not something I'm unfamiliar with. I found them tolerable in FF VI on the SNES. I think the difference was at least partially found in the loading times. One of the many things I loved about FF XIII ( #iloveyouall ), was the fact that battles weren't random at all. Sure, they could be forced on the player to some degree, but at least you could fight for your right to not fight.

I think that as long as the characters and story around them are interesting then random encounters can be somewhat tolerable if theyre not insane like in ToP, otherwise forced random encounters are really not neccessary in 2018.



I like pokemon but cave + zubats + dark is just not fun. It's just annoying.

Random encounters are fine for me in a game once a year, but i wouldn't play ten rpgs in a year like this any more. Currently there's no reason to make games with random encounters any more, i find this mechanic outdated.



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I think Final Fantasy 7's battle system is rather alright, and much better than the battle systems of any RPG ever made in the west. It is not without its issues: notably, the load times are a bitch. But in terms of the number of random encounters, it's far from overwhelming: it probably had fewer encounters in the whole game than 3-hours of the Octopath Traveler demo.

Although, I am all for having a more Chrono Trigger style encounter system - that would be a big improvement and bring something new and special to the game. But keep the battle system relatively as is. One brilliant thing added to deal with random battles came in FF8 with the ability to simply turn off all random encounters, that would be a nice addition for FF7; FF8 was more opened up than FF7, and it's not always fun wandering through areas with weak enemies, having the ability to turn off those battles when I wasn't moving forward in the story or collecting crafting material is part of what makes FF8 my favourite of the franchise.

I also don't think it comes anywhere near too much reading, I haven't come across any Final Fantasy game that has. The only game I think I ever came across where I felt "too much reading" was a complaint is in Breath of Fire 3, just before the final boss, where there's this huge expository text dump that might have been as long as a chapter from Lord of the Rings right before the final battle =D

I also didn't think FF7 was too linear, like most RPGs of its era it was a fairly balanced game with a linear story, but tons of freedom to go around and do other things along the way. The more strictly linear RPGs came about on PS2 and PS3 (FFX, Xenosaga, and FF13 all felt kind of on-the-rails). Skies of Arcadia, glad you mentioned it, it's a balanced-style RPG that I really enjoyed... and perhaps the first fully 3D RPG that did that formula correctly. It's one of the reasons why Dreamcast was my most played home console of its generation. Xenoblade Chronicles was the first game to really take that balanced-style 3D RPG to the next level - FF12 had the right idea, but half-baked implementation: it's almost like you had a brilliant designer who had a genius vision, halfway implemented it, before Square kicked him off the project and have some unimaginative bum come in to wrap up the project without fully realizing its potential... Luckily we have Tetsuya Takahashi to come along and successfully put the whole thing together.


Anyway, I'm rambling (as I tend to do)

For Final Fantasy 7, I want tweaks and additions to the existing game. Not fundamentally changing the whole f***ing genre of the game! I think making it an action game will make it into a much more shallow experience than the original game and I, as a fan, don't appreciate such nonsense.

Last edited by Jumpin - on 19 November 2018

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Jumpin said:

One brilliant thing added to deal with random battles came in FF86 with the ability to simply turn off all random encounters, that would be a nice addition for FF7

Fixed. For FF7 all the have to do is to buff the Enemy Away materia so it completely blocks random encounters intead of decreasing the rate by 87.5%.

OT: Wizardry IV.

Rogue Galaxy deserves a special mention because it has random encounters inside towns.



Player2 said:
Jumpin said:

One brilliant thing added to deal with random battles came in FF86 with the ability to simply turn off all random encounters, that would be a nice addition for FF7

Fixed. For FF7 all the have to do is to buff the Enemy Away materia so it completely blocks random encounters intead of decreasing the rate by 87.5%.

OT: Wizardry IV.

Rogue Galaxy deserves a special mention because it has random encounters inside towns.

While it is true what you said, you're not fixing my post. There are a few major differences that make those implementations which make them nothing like how I want to see it done.

FF6, you can only have the battles turned off by equipping the Moogle Charm; that's a hidden item found near the end of the game, and it can only be equipped by Mog -- so even in the few remaining late-game locations, such as Kefka's Tower and Phoenix Cave, you won't be able to use it.

FF7, The Enemy Away Materia takes a tremendous amount of work to get (Very few players ever get it). Even if you do happen to get it, you have to stack multiple master-level materias to get up to 87.5%. It's a case of the medicine being worse than the disease.

Whilst the No Encounter option in FF8 is available near the beginning of the game with no special effort needing to be made, and is free to use regardless of who's in your party - or if you are using multiple teams. This is the sort of implementation I'd prefer to see done in FF7 if they stick with random encounters instead of a Chrono Trigger-style encounter system. Especially if they open the game up a little more and put in a lot of side stuff.

Last edited by Jumpin - on 19 November 2018

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Honestly, I really enjoy classic RPG's with very high random encounter rates as long as level grinding my characters enables them to beat bosses later with relative ease. What I can't stand is spending hours level grinding through a dungeon only to get to a boss where there is some kind of special trick or tactic that needs to be discovered that requires your party to die a few times before you can actually beat the boss regardless of your level. The reward for level grinding should be the ability to easily beat bosses, otherwise there is really no point.

 

I think westerners generally don't enjoy old-school RPG's with high encounter rates because we can't understand the concept of utilizing game time (as opposed to  playing skill) as our resource in games.  There is a lot of reward (and in my experience, a lot less frustration) in investing time (ie. by levelling up) as the means to defeat a game's enemies as opposed to your own skills as a gamer.  There is something very satisfying about watching your over-powered party lay waste to a difficult boss especially when it was your time spent strengthening them.

Last edited by Illusion - on 19 November 2018

I use to like Turn Based RPGs when i was playing Pokemon Blue, Golden Sun and FF7. I feel as i got older that genre seems less appealing to me now. Its just not as fun as i use to remember