Killing stuff for XP

[mousme]

I am mildly appalled that I seem to already have used "I kill it and take its stuff!" as a title for a previous LJ entry. Only mildly.

The New!Shiny! aspect of the PS2 has worn off, luckily for my sleep pattern, but I am still having a lot of fun with it. However, the railroading goes against my RPG-trained heart. I am slowly but surely learning that it's okay to run in circles, waiting for critters to attack you so that you can go up a level before getting to the next big scene. The thing is, it feels wrong to me to kill critters simply for the XP and the treasure they always seem to have secreted about themselves, no matter their size. Gaming is about adventure and story, not about XP!

Oh well. I comfort myself with the notion that, since I have no control over where the story goes, it's okay for me to kill things in order to see what happens next. Otherwise, my characters get their asses handed to them by the Big Bad Bosses who crop up every so often.

What I would really like to know, though, is where all the Level 3 Sphere Locks are hiding. I have Level 1 spheres, Level 2 spheres, and Level 4 spheres, but have been unable to find Level 3 spheres, which means I am stuck and unable to level up in certain ways. I am irked, but not incurably so. I just have to find ways around it.

I am off to kill more stuff. I have seven sphere-point-things to go before I can properly beat Yunalesca, and these characters aren't going to level up by themselves. :D

Comments

Railroading

[ladyiolanthe.livejournal.com]

I hear you! I couldn't finish FFX because the railroading was aggravating me so much. I up and sold it. Happily, FFXII has no railroading at all, and I think the storyline is interesting enough (others feel differently). :)

If you don't mind cutesy game sprites, FFIX was one of the best Final Fantasy games ever. I loved every minute of it. PS2s are backwards-compatible so you can run PS1 games on them.

Enjoy the rest of FFX! I haven't played FFX-2 myself but I know lots of people have really enjoyed it.

[dizietsma.livejournal.com]

Using the highly dubious and empirical Milne scale, Final Fantasy 7 was the best of them. The scale goes from 0 to 100 and indicates how much I played it before I gave up with the futility of running in circles waiting for fights. FF7 I actually managed to finish.

[talyesin.livejournal.com]

No no no no no no no.

ROLE PLAYING is about adventure and story, VIDEO GAMING is about XP!!! (And occasionally GP.)

Sheesh, get it right!

[maleagant.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the plot is pretty linear at first... but wait a while and you'll have the whole world to explore. If you need tips on getting the Celestial Weapons, let me know. :)