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emilie autumn on 27 July 2009
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atma998 said:
Words Of Wisdom said:
atma998 said:
Crashdown77 said:
SHMUPGurus said:
People love grinding, really? o_O

I know, it's nonsense on the face of it, but I really do. It's how we did it back in the day. Play the original Dragon Quest (NES), you kill a slime (+1 xp), then red slimes (+1 xp) , OOOOOOHHHH a scorpion (Whew! Almost killed me, +5 xp) 2 hours later. . . LEVEL 3! And we friggin' loved it! It's an incredible sense of accomplishment for something so mind numbing, but there it is.

QFT!

Those were the days. That's why I love the DQ franchise so much.

And then after killing a bunch of them and leveling up you realize you can kill twice as many before going back to town to heal.  Then you check the Priest and he's like "Only 47 experience points to go before WoW can level up."  Which then psyched you to go kill even more...

I can't figure out why it was so addictive back then... but it was.


Hell, even the Metal Slime wasnt so lucrative in term of xp in the original Dragon Quest.

and cursing the tv because you passed the wrong bridge and got killed by a dark night, and your money got halfed and theres no magic armar for you, well back to killing goldman(6EXP and 100gold.)