Random encounters in JRPGs

Originally Posted by GothicGothicness
Ahhh, that explains it…. well, there is some special dungeons which are a bit harder… so you might enjoy those!

I already chanced upon a harder boss. Not hard enough to kill us, but at least to hurt us considerably! Nice.

But the dungeons… I had to find a map online after I got completely stuck in one, going in circles forever. Honestly, I don't know if I can play much further. Between confusing dungeons and easy gameplay there's little that generates attachment to the game. I'm not saying it's a bad game, but it clashes with me personally I guess.

Originally Posted by Elel
I already chanced upon a harder boss. Not hard enough to kill us, but at least to hurt us considerably! Nice.

But the dungeons… I had to find a map online after I got completely stuck in one, going in circles forever. Honestly, I don't know if I can play much further. Between confusing dungeons and easy gameplay there's little that generates attachment to the game. I'm not saying it's a bad game, but it clashes with me personally I guess.

Hmm, I don't remember I ever had such a problems in the game… I guess I am usually good at mazes.. so that might be the reason

Originally Posted by Elel
I already chanced upon a harder boss. Not hard enough to kill us, but at least to hurt us considerably! Nice.

But the dungeons… I had to find a map online after I got completely stuck in one, going in circles forever. Honestly, I don't know if I can play much further. Between confusing dungeons and easy gameplay there's little that generates attachment to the game. I'm not saying it's a bad game, but it clashes with me personally I guess.

remember the golden rule for mazes, always turn right (or left, but always the same). Works for most game dungeons since they don't have circles.

While crawling I always keep with the left side.

joxer, I always do the same!

That dungeon, though, had two floors and you could to go from one floor to another in multiple places, so turning to the left rule didn't help out much. In Grandia dungeons are more complicated than normal, and they have circles sometimes, and this trick is often no use. To add to the grievance of two floors, there were buttons hidden as unusually colored mushrooms, and I didn't notice one of those. I thought it was a mushroom. These buttons conjured more stairs to hidden parts of the second floor. So I missed one and ended up going in circles, until I found a map online and saw that button on it.

GothicGothicness, I'm jealous of you for being good with mazes I have trouble even getting around my own city, so yeah, memorizing what is around not my forte at all!

All I will say is, stay away from Elminage Gothic and other Wizardry-style dungeon crawlers.

Stay very, very far away.

Originally Posted by Elel
joxer, I always do the same!

That dungeon, though, had two floors and you could to go from one floor to another in multiple places, so turning to the left rule didn't help out much. In Grandia dungeons are more complicated than normal, and they have circles sometimes, and this trick is often no use. To add to the grievance of two floors, there were buttons hidden as unusually colored mushrooms, and I didn't notice one of those. I thought it was a mushroom. These buttons conjured more stairs to hidden parts of the second floor. So I missed one and ended up going in circles, until I found a map online and saw that button on it.

GothicGothicness, I'm jealous of you for being good with mazes I have trouble even getting around my own city, so yeah, memorizing what is around not my forte at all!

OMG… like Joxer does not already associate console games too much with mushrooms!!…. I guess he'll be here in a moment to comment about that.

Hmm… What do mushrooms have to do with console games?

Everything.
If you have to buy a birthday present for someone obsessed with mushrooms so buys consoles instead of PC, I can't think of a better and cheaper thing than this:

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/2016-…606709050.html

Originally Posted by Elel
Hmm… What do mushrooms have to do with console games?

I'm not entirely sure, but I think it has to do with the fact that current gaming controllers have those joystick knobs that kinda look like mushrooms?

My partner and I have a nickname for Joxer - we call him "No Pools". Though Joxer is so easy to give nicknames to…"Mushrooms" could be another nickname. xD

Originally Posted by joxer
If you have to buy a birthday present for someone obsessed with mushrooms so buys consoles instead of PC, I can't think of a better and cheaper thing than this:

Sadly, the url cannot be found, and the mystery of the mushrooms persists.

Originally Posted by Aubrielle
My partner and I have a nickname for Joxer - we call him "No Pools".

Why No Pools?

URL cannot be found?! How's that possible?
Will this one help (see the title)?
http://www.dhgate.com/discount/mushr…4-on-sale.html

No pools because unlike previous three games, Sims 4 did not have pools in the release version.
EA became antiswimming company for a time, swimming was not possible even in Dragon Age 3.
Because of public outcry, EA added pools in Sims 4 later, to keep things calm it was a free update. It's not known if ME4 will have swimming integrated or not.

Oh yep that link works

Lol, so I guess you were talking a lot about pools to earn such a nickname.

Originally Posted by Elel
Oh yep that link works

Lol, so I guess you were talking a lot about pools to earn such a nickname.

He was. xD For a while, he only referred to Sims 4 as "No Pools". And he had quite strong feelings about the situation after the game's release.

Originally Posted by Fluent
All I will say is, stay away from Elminage Gothic and other Wizardry-style dungeon crawlers.

Stay very, very far away.

What, no Bard's Tale?

Originally Posted by wolfing
What, no Bard's Tale?

Haha!

Well, I was just speaking about EG specifically, which honestly, is tame in comparison to some of those older dungeon-crawlers.

Somehow I don't think Elel has any interest in busting out the graph paper and exploring long sequences in the dark with random teleporters sending you to random spots on the map.

Originally Posted by Fluent
Somehow I don't think Elel has any interest in busting out the graph paper and exploring long sequences in the dark with random teleporters sending you to random spots on the map.

I actually tried to play Eye of the Beholder once. Never finished it. I'm just bad at memorizing and keeping "a map" of the environment in my head. That might seem "casual", I know that lots of people think that compasses and maps in modern games make them casual, but I'd just get lost without a map unless the layot of the land would be very simple. It's my flaw in real life and it gets reflected in gaming. Like in Myers-Briggs test, people who tend to be like me score way too high on intuition and very low on sensing. Oh well, at least I've got a very strong intuition.

So yeah… no mazes, please! Especially not with teleporters!

Teleporters that you don't even see.

Originally Posted by Elel
I actually tried to play Eye of the Beholder once. Never finished it. I'm just bad at memorizing and keeping "a map" of the environment in my head. That might seem "casual", I know that lots of people think that compasses and maps in modern games make them casual, but I'd just get lost without a map unless the layot of the land would be very simple. It's my flaw in real life and it gets reflected in gaming. Like in Myers-Briggs test, people who tend to be like me score way too high on intuition and very low on sensing. Oh well, at least I've got a very strong intuition.

So yeah… no mazes, please! Especially not with teleporters!

Stay far away from Wizardry 6! That game was a nightmare to map out (I gave up on it). Where Eye of the Beholder at least has relatively simple maps (you did not have to worry about a lot of stairs leading to the same level, going back & forth between levels a lot and such things), in Wizardry 6 it was so bad that I had to invent a system of signs & symbols to make my maps readable, otherwise I would never have been able to fit in enough information, without making the maps huge.
Not worth the effort, I would say, unless you're some kind of mapping fanatic.

Originally Posted by Fnord
Stay far away from Wizardry 6! That game was a nightmare to map out (I gave up on it). Where Eye of the Beholder at least has relatively simple maps (you did not have to worry about a lot of stairs leading to the same level, going back & forth between levels a lot and such things), in Wizardry 6 it was so bad that I had to invent a system of signs & symbols to make my maps readable, otherwise I would never have been able to fit in enough information, without making the maps huge.
Not worth the effort, I would say, unless you're some kind of mapping fanatic.

I used to enjoy mapping, but that was 21 year old me. 46 year old me prefers automapping.