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I'm surprised that this is that much of an issue, unless you're playing on easy difficulty. On normal and higher, I've found that bosses make pretty quick work of me if I stop dodging their attacks...
Why exactly do you want to quit during the boss battles? Just because ragequitting or because you want to start over again? Or to go to another window? If it's the last one, you should be able to alt-tab away.
Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying the game so far, but if I decide I'm done playing, I don't care what their gameplay philosophy is. If I want to close the application then I get to close the application. It's my computer. End of story. I can leave a movie theatre in the middle of the movie, too, if I want to. I don't care if that's not the experience the director had in mind. He doesn't get to lock me inside the theatre until the credits roll.
Maybe it didn't bother you or anyone else, and to an extent I get that. On one hand, it's not that big an issue because so far I've only wanted to quit during a boss once, and maybe I won't ever want to again. But the fact that I can't quit the application if/when I want to rubs me totally the wrong way and feels like a pretty valid complaint to me----especially as it seems very unnecesary since they could just grey out the save/load option.
You can just Alt+F4 to close the game, y'know. It's a standard close-window/close-program keyboard shortcut in Windows and it works anytime; I've used it extensively and have had no problems with it.
I tested it again just now, in both Ys Oath and Ys Origin (I don't have Ys VI yet), and it works just fine. It also works in Ys I & II Chronicles, despite those games using a different engine.
That's the time I wanna ragequit.
Though usually it's still faster for me to run into Kishgal's numerous attacks than to close and restart the program.
That said, OP may have totally external reasons for wanting to quit the game in the middle of a boss fight -- to use some other program or to reduce CPU or RAM usage for some other reason, or because they just need to quickly get it off the screen. Regardless of the reason, Alt+F4 is the way to do it.
Also another tip:
If you're playing it full-screened, try to set the game's resolution to be the same as your screen resolution. This way, if you Alt+Tab or Alt+F4, it moves out of the way faster.
Alt+F4 will do the trick, I guess, just as kiling with task manager will do the trick, but I still think blocking the entire main menu was the wrong way to do this.
Would be nice if there were a way to bring up the "Retry/Quit" menu in the middle of the fight, though, yeah. Or at least Quit.
By the way, I just realized that I recognize you from the Croixleur Sigma discussion board, Quint. Either you're stalking me or we have equally excellent taste.
I have yet to play Croixleur Sigma further than just beating the final boss though...I wanna unlock Francesca but I'm just not fast enough and I haven't gotten around to trying again.
I don't think switching accessories like that would make any significant difference that would break or hinder the gameplay. You can make those kinds of equipment swaps in all kinds of RPGs. My suspicion is that it doesn't have as much to do with equipment as much as it has to do with not wanting to let you save/load. I don't agree with that principle, but I'm willing to let them have that if that's what they want to do, but they should have done it a different way.
This is especially frustrating considering that in YS I and YS II (chronicles+) you could just walk out of a boss battle any time you wanted. Why change it now?
"My suspicion is that it doesn't have as much to do with equipment as much as it has to do with not wanting to let you save/load"
You can not save mid-fight? I am really tired now so I might have missed something.
"You can make those kinds of equipment swaps in all kinds of RPGs."
I fail to see how that is relevant to anything. Even if it is common in other ARPG, why should it be there in every single one? Plus, comparing Ys Origin to any sort of RPG out there, real time and turn based, is not a very good idea. Equipment swapping in turn based RPGs are a good idea since you are stuck with whatever equipment you chose until set character get to do another turn. Equipment swapping in a game such as Ys Origin is not a very good idea since how are you suppose to implement downsides to an equipment piece if you are free to change it at any given time? Unless the menu does not change pause the game.
But hey, that is just pure opinion :)
"This is especially frustrating considering that in YS I and YS II (chronicles+) you could just walk out of a boss battle any time you wanted. Why change it now?"
Ys 1 & 2 is nothing like Ys Origin in terms of gameplay.
Here's all they would have to do: In boss battles, when you press the menu button, it opens the menu automatically to the "options" tab (with "exit game" on it), but doesn't give you access to equipment or save/load tab. They are greyed out.
See? Everyone gets what they want. It wasn't necessary.
I'm pretty much done arguing about it, though. I love the hell out of this game and I don't want to give the impression that I hate it just because I think they made one bad decision. It's really the only complaint that I have. Everything else is ace.