Highly depends on the game. In the past when most games had random encounters, I didn't mind them. In some games I would spend hour upon hour running around in circles so I could get an encounter and level up, especially FF games where I'm usually the most obsessed at getting level 99 on all characters.
Nowadays random encounters are used alot less, I don't mind this either. Especially now with stuff like combo-counters and mob-counters.











