NOT THE SAME GRIND OVER AND OVER AGAIN

[KaldeaSahaline]

Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete

Xenogears is also amazing, though I've only played it through 2-3 times, I believe. Well, I had one file I wound up starting over at the end because Elly leaves your party and I had used her all game. >.>

Good stuff. Losing Elly always breaks my heart too, but Emeralda is basically her on steroids minus Aerods.

LSSC - I own it, and played through it, not sure how far I got, but the problem is playing it (within last 5 years) and not having the nostalgia for it it just doesn't hold up for me personally.

[TaleraRistain]

Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete

<3

One of my all-time favorites. Eternal Blue was good, too, especially the epilogue with Hiro.

[Hasrat]

but the problem is playing it (within last 5 years) and not having the nostalgia for it it just doesn't hold up for me personally.

I think this is a contributing factor for lots of games for me. I've played through Chrono Trigger, but just don't really get the hype (and, even stranger, enjoyed Chrono Cross more, but that, again, could be the nostalgia factor, having played it first/earlier).

This generation of media gets a lot of shit for being the remake generation, but damn if we don't feed into that with these sentiments.

Does kinda make me wish I had played more games when I was younger, just so I could have more I could be replaying, or expanding my tastes.

[Kewitt]

Ya sadly I'm getting mmo burn out, there a bunch of Single player games I've skipped.

[Lubu_Mykono]

How to avoid burnout? Just do the challenge log then wait for the people to spawn the NMs. lol

[Granyala]

AND I EVEN LIKE GRIND
BUT WHY DO YOU

1. punish death with exp loss?
2. punish player having different time to play that now can't play with friends?
3. punish player by making them doing the same thing over and over and over until they cry?
4. punsih player with a playstyle that even FFXI surpassed?

Do you want an honest answer here?
Because it is extremely easy and cheap to create and obviously, dangling some puny item in front of the playerbase is enough to make them lap it up like good little doggies.

There is no cheaper way to create "content" than to throw a handful of mobs onto a map and let players grind lolxp. Esp if you re-use terrain and creature assets.

Unless we actually ABANDON Eureka and refuse to do the content, they will look at their participation numbers and think that it is fun and a success.

This patch has made me look at my WoW Authenticator more and more as of late...

New addon launching in 10 hours. I know what I'll be playing.
Though I never much cared for endgame WoW since I stopped raiding HC/Mythic.

[Ilan]

It's still a braindead grind I only suffered to unlock HoH...which feels far better than PoTD, which could just be due to the 21-30 run which doesn't feel that bad.

Obviously PotD is no highend content where you have to be on your toes all the time but come on its not as mind numbing as eureka. Fate train (where most people stand around like monkeys) or smacking the same mobs over and over again until you die because you dozed off.

[Lunalepsy]

It doesn't come close to FFXI. If anything, they should go back to horizontal leveling. Such a vast world out there that's being treated like a giant lobby!