I had to stop playing I'm sorry

[legion]

I can't play this game anymore despite it being a good game and the combat being very enjoyable. Everyone's chapters take a little over an hour to get through and for some characters their story isn't even interesting and a'lot of the characters stories sound exactly the same or slightly different from the last game.

Castti's chapter 2 winterbloom for example went on for over an hour and there was only 1 boss during the entire thing and I basically killed it instantly cause my highest level character was 47 with the other's not to far behind.

After that I went back to the town I met her and went left from there to start exploring new areas that would also lead me to places and towns I haven't been before but trying to get from one area to another is a nightmare cause it said being recommended 11 so I just ran from every encounter which happened like every 10 seconds and it felt unenjoyable and boring. I couldn't even enjoy exploring the random cave in the same area which recommended I be level 16 for the same reasons.

This is why I hoped there would be a button or something so you could turn on and off random encounters whenever you wanted and I know people are gonna say oh you shouldn't of been high level and explore high level areas while low level but with 8 different characters and a huge map this was gonna happen regardless even if you never explore and do what you want and only stick to the characters stories strictly.

It's either get your ass handed to you at the start and plow through late game or the opposite and knowing there was gonna be a'lot more low level areas that I would have to constantly run from while getting harassed by monsters across a huge ass map and long cutscenes I couldn't take it anymore.

I don't remember how I managed to get through all of the first game no problem but maybe these issues weren't obvious to me at the time but I don't know if I'll ever play them again or the third if there is gonna be a third and if they don't fix these issues. I still think it's a fun game though and I feel like the combat and exploration are the only things carrying it.

[Vahnkiljoy]

If you don't want to fight anything just run. Sucks you are stopping playing a game over something petty and just imo stupid.

[legion]

Originally posted by Vahnkiljoy:

If you don't want to fight anything just run. Sucks you are stopping playing a game over something petty and just imo stupid.

That's the problem I was running away from enemies for over 30 minutes just trying to get to new places. Does not sound fun to me and idk how it's stupid when I've just explained it.

[saideron]

Originally posted by legion:

I don't remember how I managed to get through all of the first game no problem but maybe these issues weren't obvious to me at the time but I don't know if I'll ever play them again or the third if there is gonna be a third and if they don't fix these issues. I still think it's a fun game though and I feel like the combat and exploration are the only things carrying it.

From what I've been able to gather, the difficulty is tuned to first time players from what I've seen of experiences from people who never played OP1.

Sounds like you had the same problem I did where you very easily became OP without trying too hard since you knew a lot of the previous mechanics.

I personally tried to separate out my characters and leave stuff to do for my low level guys, but I pretty much steamrolled the chapters for the last 4 and even the last secret job challenge.

Sorry it didn't work for you with this game, but I hope it was still fun while it lasted. :)

[legion]

Originally posted by saideron:

Originally posted by legion:

I don't remember how I managed to get through all of the first game no problem but maybe these issues weren't obvious to me at the time but I don't know if I'll ever play them again or the third if there is gonna be a third and if they don't fix these issues. I still think it's a fun game though and I feel like the combat and exploration are the only things carrying it.

From what I've been able to gather, the difficulty is tuned to first time players from what I've seen of experiences from people who never played OP1.

Sounds like you had the same problem I did where you very easily became OP without trying too hard since you knew a lot of the previous mechanics.

I personally tried to separate out my characters and leave stuff to do for my low level guys, but I pretty much steamrolled the chapters for the last 4 and even the last secret job challenge.

Sorry it didn't work for you with this game, but I hope it was still fun while it lasted. :)

It was very fun but yea I think your right it might of been too easy as well without me realising.

[REhorror]

Too bad so sad, see you again bro.

[Izzy]

You are doing everything wrong. You are level 47 when you should be level 15.

[legion]

Originally posted by Izzy:

You are doing everything wrong. You are level 47 when you should be level 15.

I already said in the post even if I stuck to story missions and never went off the beaten path it still would of happened and also cause of the 8 characters it would of happened eventually cause there are a ton of low level areas throughout the map so it's impossible what your saying. God I wish people would actually read my post before commenting.

[Serafie1999AD]

Level 47? I think I was around level 20-30 for my highest-level characters at that point despite fighting all the battles I ran into, and I finished everyone's Chapter 1 before starting Chapter 2.

Did you know this game has Fast Travel between towns after you've unlocked the town, so you don't have to walk the same paths multiple times in most cases?

[Melodia]

Originally posted by legion:

I already said in the post even if I stuck to story missions and never went off the beaten path it still would of happened and also cause of the 8 characters it would of happened eventually cause there are a ton of low level areas throughout the map so it's impossible what your saying. God I wish people would actually read my post before commenting.

If you went in danger level order and didn't explore there should be no way you have gotten high for Castti 2W, unless you killed like, multiple Caits and Octopuffs on top of using Bewildering Grace. Or I suppose, if you never fast traveled, I guess that could add to it.

[AlphaPHK]

Evasive Maneuvers is your friend, you can go through a huge chunk of the map without any battles.

Also you can use Vim and Vigor to automatically heal 30% of HP and MP after each battle, incredibly useful when you're just exploring, and on low level areas it makes spamming your best attacks to quickly end the battle a non-issue.

And lastly, you could just change up your strats just for the lower level areas you know?
Like, I tend to steal, collect and capture a lot more while fighting weak monsters, I also take my time to find new weaknesses either by just attacking, or using analyze.

Or the easiest solution, start over and DON'T overlevel yourself as if you're doing the Genocide Route in Undertale :V

[saideron]

Originally posted by Melodia:

Originally posted by legion:

I already said in the post even if I stuck to story missions and never went off the beaten path it still would of happened and also cause of the 8 characters it would of happened eventually cause there are a ton of low level areas throughout the map so it's impossible what your saying. God I wish people would actually read my post before commenting.

If you went in danger level order and didn't explore there should be no way you have gotten high for Castti 2W, unless you killed like, multiple Caits and Octopuffs on top of using Bewildering Grace. Or I suppose, if you never fast traveled, I guess that could add to it.

Nah, it's so easy to overlevel if you're familiar with the mechanics. I was 70 by the time I finished all the stories on my first 4 characters and that's with only doing dungeons on the Eastern Continent and leaving everything on the Western Continent for my B-Team.

[legion]

I'll provide more context. After castti's chapter 2 winterbloom she was the 6th party member I'd uncovered around that time with only a few of the other party members in my party chapter twos done and others not done.

For why people think I'm overleveled it's because I fought high level bosses early. For example throne's chapter 2 boss with the father I tried doing 10 levels under but as it became hard I grinded till I reached next level then tried again and if not repeat the process until I could kill him and I did under 30.

Other high level bosses I remember doing are the bird in that clocktower the thing in the graveyard where you have to be like level 40 sorry can't really remember the boss and the mammoth in the cave where you have to be like level 46.

All these bosses I did almost 10 levels under what the game recommended but like I said even if I never explored or did these bosses this outcome would of happened naturally due to needing to be low level areas throughout the map for the 8 characters so no matter which character or area I left till last it was gonna happen eventually regardless of character or area due to the game being open world. It's impossible to avoid and yes I used fast travel.

[YuukiRito]

I can understand how you're feeling - I decided to note things I liked in the game, things I'm on the fence about, and things I didn't like. Turns out, there was a lot more aspects of the game I did like, some being improvements and some new things that were cool.

I agree, getting through a chapter might take a while, and I have experienced game burnout by doing too much in too little, so I've been playing the game slowly, doing a story when I start and doing other random things, so I have some kind of objective. Now I did have a couple of obsession days where I NEEDED to get this done, one being a farming related thingg, and the other was BEATING THE GAME. I took some time to optimize my peeps and didn't stop till I finished.

With the random encounters, it can be irksome, especially when running around low lvls and you're getting bogged down. There is a support skill that does cut down on this, which is called "Evasive Manuevers" and there is an equipment that gives you more encounters called "Allure Ribbon", PLEASE don't mix them up XD

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We all have a reason to play or not play and if you aren't enjoying it yourself, no harm in stopping and picking up something else. It happens, take care.

[AlphaPHK]

Originally posted by legion:

For why people think I'm overleveled it's because I fought high level bosses early. For example throne's chapter 2 boss with the father I tried doing 10 levels under but as it became hard I grinded till I reached next level then tried again and if not repeat the process until I could kill him and I did under 30

What- so you played the game your way, and now started complaining that the game have low level areas like... of course it does! lol
If fact, I think you should thank the game for letting you challange high level areas even on low levels, I've played RPGs where it went like "you should be this level to proceed! nyeeeh~"

Very Few RPGs makes random encounters scale with you, but then people start complaining that random encounters are pointless, and you're better just skipping battles anyway.

I think the main problem here is that you found the story not interesting, which is very understandable. I doubt someone would just stop playing because "I'm too strong and now everything dies in 1 hit" as if that's not literally how every RPG works, you get strong, you do one slap and stuff dies, rinse and repeat :T

[legion]

Originally posted by AlphaPHK:

Originally posted by legion:

For why people think I'm overleveled it's because I fought high level bosses early. For example throne's chapter 2 boss with the father I tried doing 10 levels under but as it became hard I grinded till I reached next level then tried again and if not repeat the process until I could kill him and I did under 30

What- so you played the game your way, and now started complaining that the game have low level areas like... of course it does! lol
If fact, I think you should thank the game for letting you challange high level areas even on low levels, I've played RPGs where it went like "you should be this level to proceed! nyeeeh~"

Very Few RPGs makes random encounters scale with you, but then people start complaining that random encounters are pointless, and you're better just skipping battles anyway.

I think the main problem here is that you found the story not interesting, which is very understandable. I doubt someone would just stop playing because "I'm too strong and now everything dies in 1 hit" as if that's not literally how every RPG works, you get strong, you do one slap and stuff dies, rinse and repeat :T

Again nobody reads what I post. I said I was sick of 1 hour chapters going on forever and I also said I liked the combat and even if I never did what I did I would have to run away or fight low level areas across the entire map due to the open world nature of the game it's impossible to avoid so no I'm thanking the game for nothing but wasting my time and it should of had level scaling like the first. In rps that are not open world if I go back to a low level area for whatever reason this isn't an issue for me because I'm choosing to go back or not and obviously I'll already know there's gonna be low level enemies.