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It sucks stereotyping people, although it's interesting seeing the origins of each race's stereotypes, though.

Nearly always hatred and xenophobia

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posting to get this locked

I think I can see the point he's trying to make. RPGs are about stats and leveling up, and when you don't have the patience to gain experience and develop your characters, you're not an RPG person.

Well, then they just wouldn't care about RPGs at all instead of caring but wanting them to be faster paced! It's not like I've never touched an RPG before, being on RPGmaker.net and using RPG Maker. I know this "RPGs aren't for you" wasn't solely directed at me, but I'll take it personally anyway as an example (not personally as in personally insulted or whatever, as I'm not).

I played FF1, and it was my first video game. I beat it too. I wouldn't have the patience to now though, Elfland/MarshCave/IceCave is a real turn off. If you gained 4x as much EXP or whatever, I wouldn't mind nearly as much and I probably would go through the whole game again, despite how simple it is.

I beat FF1, FF3 (Oh man I hated this game), FF4, FF5 (twice), FF6 (twice), FF7, FF8 (twice), FFX, and I played all the other Final Fantasies, just haven't beaten them. I beat Tales of Phantasia, Beat Star Ocean (Forced myself to, I didn't like it), Beat Chrono Trigger at least 12 times, Beat Secret of Mana like 3 times, Beat Seiken Densetsu 3 about 3 times, Beat Final Fantasy adventure many times, same with FFL2, Beat Bahamut Lagoon, Beat Nox twice, Beat Oblivion 4 times (doing most of the sidequests), Beat Legend of Mana 3 times. Beat Mario RPG twice, beat Mario and Luigi superstar saga twice. There are many others I've played, but got too bored to continue, and there's probably a bunch I'm forgetting.

I think the amount of RPGs I play outnumber everything else. I don't mind that RPGs have levels and stats and stuff. I like that. What I don't like is forcing me to stay in one area and fight the same monsters over again so I can be tough enough to fight the boss because there aren't many or any alternatives to do. If you're not on the right level, then you can't win. Obviously you can't skip every battle and expect to win, but it's rare that I want to stick around an area to level up. But give me an area of monsters that runs out when you kill them all, and that's what I'll do. I like clearing out an area. I don't like random encounters.

Only a few games like Final Fantasy 5 did that for me, since I had a goal other than "Be 2 levels higher", I had something like "10 ABP left until I learn White Magic Level 3, then I can change to Black Mage class and have some White magic skill to cast Cure2 also" as the goal, which I think is more enjoyable than: "Go up 2 levels so your stats go up, and that's it".

And again, I don't have as much free time as I did back when I was younger, so I don't want a game to take 40+ hours. I want one that's more accessible to people who not only don't have that much time, but also may need to go somewhere and have to leave in a hurry, so that's why I like save anywhere too. Quest based stuff is good, I tend to prefer that as I could just say "I'll play 2 quests and then I'll go to sleep".