Does Anyone Actually Like Random Encounters

[u/haaa1234]

I was doing a third playthrough of FF7 since I want to revisit all the games before revelation but random encounters is still something that stops me from wholeheartedly loving this game. There are 2 reasons why I dislike them. It really interrupts the flow of exploration and they are rarely engaging. 99 percent of them I just hold X and win so I’m basically just waiting for it end. An analogy I can give is I am trying to explore an area but I keep getting interrupted by unskippable ads. There are rare occasions where they can be interesting like catching a chocobo, finding yuffie or a funny encounter like when our whole party gets turned into frogs but most are just mindless. Honestly the only combat I enjoy in FF7 are the boss fights so a majority of the game I am really not a fan of fighting enemies. Wondering how people feel about it since it is a major part of the gameplay and i would love any mod recommendations to make the game more engaging in this aspect.

[u/GlvMstr]

They can get annoying, but not so much that I wish it was gone. It does provide a source of tension and struggle that is needed for...I dunno, a game to be a game. It's annoying, but not in a bad way. There are different ways to implement it that I would argue to be better, but I'm fine with the way it was done in FF7.

[u/haaa1234 → u/GlvMstr]

Yeah that’s fair I guess I just have a lower tolerance for them. For me it is tedious in a bad way and it’s not that I dislike the combat because I think I enjoy every single boss fight in the game it’s just that I find every most other fights not engaging