| scamrock wrote: |
| Cameron wrote: |
| scamrock wrote: |
| SSNintendo wrote: |
| I'd like to see today's gamers play something like Dragon Warrior for the NES. You'll be spending quite a bit of time working your butt off for a sword and a shield. |
No way. People today bitch if they have to grind at all. No way they could play the first Dragon Warrior. Maybe, 2-4 on the NES. That is only because there is other stuff to do while grinding levels. The first one has almost nothing. There may be a few that could do it, but not many. |
I think the primary reason behind that specific example is that Dragon Warrior's battles are simply too boring. Stuff like "CAM attacks!" was never really enough for me. As games got older, however, the battles became much more entertaining and interactive (the best example being The World Ends With You, where you can level-grind for hours upon hours no end and still be completely addicted). |
I can agree with this. The thing is that when I first played Dragon Warrior, there weren't many other games to play. I can completely understand why somebody wouldn't want to play it with all of the better games available. But the game is a big reason why I always overlevel while I hear some people complain about spending any extra time at all leveling up. |
Yeah, i really think grinding should be re-introduced into mainstream RPGs.
Now everyone and their retarded sister is some magical UBERGOD and just didnt know it, and every enemy shits out gold and legendary armor.
And never again will a boss inconvenience you by not having a fucking save point right outside his door, that would make him a terrible host now wouldnt it?
The best part about the DW games was that they DIDNT give you a game over if you died, noooo that would be TOO easy. Instead they fuck over your bank account AND still make you pay to rez your team. Nothing helps temper a iron will like having to grind for days to afford the weapon you NEED to kill a boss only to lose half your fucking work about 5 minutes before youre done because some asshat monster casts Defeat and it works.
