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Depends on the game, though I generally always consider escaping unless attempting to escape is risky, ie persona 3, where your entire turn is pretty much gone, versus p4, where you wait for an opening.

I find I escape from more battles near the end of a game.

Depends on the game and where I am in it, though I used to do it all the time. I beat the first Golden Sun at level 17.

Level 17?! Yeesh, how the heck did you ever beat Saturos like that?

EDIT: And Menardi? I mean, I know you can just spam barrier Djinn all the time, but...

I generally use it a lot nowadays, whenever I don't want to bother fighting or in more extreme cases, I know I'm outmatched (e.g. those large gel-things in FFX-2 or Reaper in P3/4). Early-game, though, I never run at all. I go out of my way to grind that early.

I run in only pokemon games cause they seem to be really long, unless there is a major level difference
in final fantasy and those kind of games, I don't really hit escape.

Slain087 wrote:

Level 17?! Yeesh, how the heck did you ever beat Saturos like that?

I haven't played GS, I've tried, but never completed, from what I read, Saturos is lvl 14, he should be easy to defeat

Rarely, unless I know I was a goner if I didn't run, or sometimes when I get bored fighting the same enemy tens of times.

I hate grinding. I hate turn-based games. I hate non-interactive battles. I hate games with artificial 200 hour lengths. I hate frequent random encounters. If it weren't for the often excellent stories and catchy soundtracks, I'd avoid all "normal" RPGs like the plague.

Slain087 wrote:

Level 17?! Yeesh, how the heck did you ever beat Saturos like that?

Djinn, equipment. Unfortunately I accidentally saved over the file not long ago. If I recall, the final boss took a while. I'm thinking about trying it again for my new playthrough.

hmm it depends for me when i run from random encounters
it's only whenever i get soo annoyed

It really depends on the game. When I was playing FF3 on the DS you will need to grind at certain points in the game. Most of the time I only escape from battles when the battles are too easy (mainly when back-tracking).

Not a huge RPG junkie, but Pokémon is probably the most-fled game I've ever played, just because of the sheer quantity of the encounters, especially when going through a long area (i.e., Victory Road) so I don't run out of PP. Whose idea was it to make elixirs and ethers unbuyable, anyway?

Slain087 wrote:

Level 17?! Yeesh, how the heck did you ever beat Saturos like that?

I had to reread this line a couple of times before I realized what it meant.

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Actually, fighting every battle is for wimps.

"lol hi mr boss that i am already sufficiently leveled to defeat normally using scrub tactics hi tarunda hi rakukaja hi attack x200 hi macca leaves/me-(dia/diarama/diaharan)"

Using persona examples because it's the last game I've played.

edit: wait i forgot healing

Depends a lot on the situation. I'll flee from fights in any game, if, say, I'm just trying to get someplace and fights are slowing me down too much, or if I really need to get away else die, just getting tired of fighting, etc.

Pokémon, Paper Mario, Tales of Symphonia, anything else I can't think of right now.

The only game where I haven't frequently fled is Okami. I've only run from a few fights, and I think all but a couple of those times were accidental lol.

I escape if the battle is insignificant. If I can get something good from the battle, I'll fight it. If the monsters give good exp, I'll fight it. If I can't get anything good and I don't get enough exp to make a difference, I'm outta there. Oh, and I'll usually escape if I've just healed my party up to fight a boss or something and I want to be in peak condition.

I escape only when it's safe. I kinda like Grinding. But I get pissed off when the console turns off accidentally and I didn't saved nothing >:|

Actually... I just run off when I don't wanna waste time... or when I espect that the battle is going to take more than 2 rounds ^^' I'm not the ultimate fighter in RPG's ;p

In pokemon, my pokemon are amazingly always the correct level even though i run so much. Then again, i grind before a Gym.

In TWEWY, there are no random encounters so i kinda used the preset pins till the end of Shiki week... Of course i had a array of 1337 pins before fighting Draco Cantus. Now im striving to collect the Darklit planets.... Wait. Out of point.

Fuck random encounters, I have action replay.

Um, it depends, really. I don't usually run unless I'm too tired to fight, as in "i've played for 4 hours straight and my wrists hurt I JUST WANT TO SAVE THE GAME AND TURN THE CONSOLE OFF LET ME GET TO THE DAMN SAVE POINT". I used to run away from random encounters a lot when I was like 12, so by the end of FFVIII I was pretty much screwed :| SO I LEARNED MY LESSON.

Ivalset wrote:

Actually, fighting every battle is for wimps.

"lol hi mr boss that i am already sufficiently leveled to defeat normally using scrub tactics hi tarunda hi rakukaja hi attack x200 hi macca leaves/me-(dia/diarama/diaharan)"

Using persona examples because it's the last game I've played.

edit: wait i forgot healing

Pft.

Really, though, I rarely run, since usually, when I play an RPG, I DO play to get the most out of the battle system. If grinding helps satisfy that need, then so be it.

I used to run a lot when I was younger. Now I generally fight almost every battle, unless I'm just trying to get to a damn save point, or I have little to no health, have no items to spare, and am generally screwed. Or if it's a really week enemy.

'Course, in Pokemon, I used to avoid all the trainers I could and run from most battles. Now I fight every trainer I can for the most part, and fight all the battles unless the enemy's a wuss. Although, I've learned not to stuff 6 Pokemon in my party ASAP, and only level ones that I am going to use for the rest of the game, so I can save time grinding. 'Course, I also now generally follow a 'have Pokemon's level close to Gym Leader's highest level rule', so I ended up grinding from level 33 to 45 on 6 Poke's at Iron Island. I was like, "Okay, screw it, I want a Rapidash with Flare Blitz", so I got one.

...Course some game makers were assholes. Ex. In order to face the strongest leveled in-game enemy in Digimon Dawn(Which isn't a boss, but a wild monster...) and not use all your supplies and still die at the end, you have to grind, devolve, grind, evolve some more, repeat until your Digimon no longer sucks stat-wise. Then you realize they have bad move sets, so then you give up since you are too tired to raise even more monsters so you can DNA for good movesets, and go play Pokemon instead.

I do play some RPGs that don't have you raising monsters to fight for you. Let's see which of those I've actually finished!

-Tales of Symphonia
-Super Mario RPG

Um... Uh... Long list, huh? Yeah, I'm not exactly a grinding fan unless I like the battle system a lot... Which is rarely the case, unless it's a monster game, a Tales game, a Paper Mario game (gotta get back to where I was on my old save...), and the likes.

AKA the battle system is why I don't play most FF games.

Why don't I run in those games? Because I stop playing instead; better solution for me, because if I want a good story, I read a book.

tl;dr: I either fight almost all battles, or just stop playing the game.

hurrrr in the second Tales game you raise monsters

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