3rd February 2003, 5:26 PM
I dunno, from what I've played of PC style RPGs, I have to say that I find that battle system VERY dull. In general it's just a "who can click on the enemy until it's dead the fastest" thing. Now maybe I just haven't played the right ones, but it's just very dull to just find an enemy, click on it over and over again, and find some more, just to click on them over and over again until they stop moving. When you finally get magic, it adds something, but not much. Then the only added element is "walk over there to cast a cure or status spell, then go back and click until it's dead again". As such, I'm not a fan of those types of RPGs. I just don't see any skill involved.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)