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Do you feel like you are under-leveled in your RPGs?
- Thread starter sandboxgod
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I'm a completionist so I always do optional content before progressing through the main quest-line. As such, I'm never underleveled unless I specifically enter a high-level area at the beginning of the game.
Leveling has a weird psychological effect on some people. As soon as they see numbers they can raise, that becomes their top priority. The longer it takes to raise those numbers, the "grindier" it feels, even if the stuff they're doing to raise them is actually entertaining. We saw a lot of that when people complained about the "grinding" in AC: Origins and Odyssey.
To me, grinding has always meant "doing tedious stuff for the sole purpose of leveling or getting loot." If I'm having fun, I'm not grinding.
Leveling has a weird psychological effect on some people. As soon as they see numbers they can raise, that becomes their top priority. The longer it takes to raise those numbers, the "grindier" it feels, even if the stuff they're doing to raise them is actually entertaining. We saw a lot of that when people complained about the "grinding" in AC: Origins and Odyssey.
To me, grinding has always meant "doing tedious stuff for the sole purpose of leveling or getting loot." If I'm having fun, I'm not grinding.
This. I hate it, but it's not like I'm not going to do the side content.
The same thing in OP happened to me in I am Setsuna. I strolled merrily through the game until this boss came up and trashed my party effortlessly four times in a row. I look it up online and surprise!, every single video and guide recommends 10-15 levels above my current. So I grind 10 levels, and I finally stand a chance.
I play on easy difficulty and only do side quests if they are good, but I never avoid fights and look everywhere in the dungeons. Been fine so far.
I only have two ways of playing RPG's I either tower over bosses with 10-15 more levels then them. Or I am pitifully underleveld when I face off against them by like 8-9 levels. I have no idea how this keeps happening.
I totally do, I get under leveled when I'm checking out of the game and not dicking around like devs want me to.
On my first playthough no, I am always overlevelled.
I like to take my time to understand what the world is about and the people within which includes doing most of the side quests. We are talking about a RPG afterall what's the point to rush straight to the objective? For that I can play any other action game.
If the game is interesting enough for me to do a second playthough, then I would be mostly underlevelled.
I like to take my time to understand what the world is about and the people within which includes doing most of the side quests. We are talking about a RPG afterall what's the point to rush straight to the objective? For that I can play any other action game.
If the game is interesting enough for me to do a second playthough, then I would be mostly underlevelled.
I'm usually pretty overleveled because I do a ton of the optional combat and if I get to a boss that I can't beat after a few tries, I'll grind and brute force instead of coming up with a strategy because I'm stubborn.
Though some postgames I feel entirely too underleveled. Octopath and DQXI to name a few.
Though some postgames I feel entirely too underleveled. Octopath and DQXI to name a few.
Only when I do it intentionally. Mostly because I think most games are balanced so if you ignore most side quests, (if it is a game that has side quests that give exp.), the game is still very beatable, and since I normally don't ignore side quests, I'm over-leveled. If I do under-level it's solely because I want boss fights to feel challenging like when I was a kid, and when an RPG/JRPG can do that without leveling being an issue then it's a beautiful thing.
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Yeah I mostly play games in other genres. But every so often I'll buy an RPG (like Kingdom Hearts) because it offers something I can't get somewhere else. In the case of KH, I play those for the Disney/Squaresoft worlds. In the case of DQX1, I bought that one because the character designer is from Dragonball/ChronoTrigger fame
Some RPGs are right up my alley though like Zelda BoTW. But that one is like my favorite current gen RPG.
I tend to clear an area and then go back and clear it again to try and stay ahead of my levels, but just by a little bit. I hate being over leveled and would rather scrape by a fight by switching strategies.
I also don't think RPGs are very conducive to my style of play as they almost always demand grinding so I also don't play many RPG's anymore.
I also don't think RPGs are very conducive to my style of play as they almost always demand grinding so I also don't play many RPG's anymore.
If you don't run from random battles (older games) or just fight most enemies you come across, its almost impossible to be under levelled.
Do that and you can breeze through the main part of the game with little to no strategy involved. I'm not even talking about if you do sidequests along the way.
Do that and you can breeze through the main part of the game with little to no strategy involved. I'm not even talking about if you do sidequests along the way.