Anyone that's ever gotten
way too deep into an
rpg knows what I'm talking
about, especially one by
Squaresoft. We all know that
rpgs need
battles,
so we can get
experience points, or
mana points or 'i'm a
psycho and I've
played this game for 320 hours,
lost 2 jobs,
and
failed out of college points.'
Now that's
all well and good, but when you're doing the things that no
sane
video game player usually does, then you
really know what I'm talking about.
There are few things more annoying than
trying to complete some archaic sub-quest,
only to be drawn into some stupid battle every five steps. You're either getting
EVERY character to
level 99 (for no salient
reason, mind you), or trying to find some bit of
fluff to put on
princess foo-foo's
armor that will make her
invincible,
invulnerable, and give you the
super
special hentai ending. You sit there,
staring at the tv screen, feeling your
eyes
dry up and shrivel out of your head as you go from one
mindless battle
to another. You really get tired of it after a while, but some
deep-rooted stubbornness
won't let you quit. You just HAVE to do what you're doing, so you can say you
did everything those
twisted game developers threw at you.
You then promptly
drop your memory card while waving it in your friends' faces, and lose your saved
game.