How do you play game with massive grind?

[Eric91]

I learned my lesson with FF1. But what i do now is i play while standing up. That way i feel active always. Just a way to sort of get on in a game while not feeling to sloggy. What about you?

 

[ChipNoir]

Usually I listen to podcasts or audiobooks, and the grind becomes just something to do with my hands.

 

[Joe]

Honestly I find standing up way more taxing than any kind of in-game grinding.

 

[tangerine]

I usually do something else while grinding, such as grind while watching a hockey game or a TV show or something or other.

 

[Flintlock]

I avoid grinding as much as possible, or at least, I did until I picked up my first MMO... now I often have a podcast on in the background or some live sport open on my laptop.

 

[Ami]

I have my PC screen and console screen side by side. While the console screen shows the game I'm playing, I'll either play music or watch stuff on the PC... or post on here like I am right now.

 

[Sprites]

At the moment I play a lot of FFBE, it's a huge grind fest, I generally watch something on Netflix while playing it.

 

[Teioh]

I... I play games FOR the grind. It's what I find most enjoyable about them

I usually have a system set up where I have several things I'm grinding for - levels, money, abilities etc. and I keep pen and paper to mark off how close I am to each of my goals. The only time I do something else whilst playing is when I've got another game console/device in my hands to grind on another game. Multitask grinding

 

[Cthulhu]

Some games, the grind is part of the game itself and quite enjoyable - Diablo 3 is an example of that, it's got a very enjoyable gameplay, lots of endgame content and goals, etc.

FFXIV... meh, can't be arsed anymore. As long as there's achievable goals (like you can tell you only need to do X more) then it's fine, otherwise, cba.

With Eve Online, it depends. Mining is one of those things you just turn on and can leave for a couple minutes, just alt-tab to reddit or wherever. Other activities just involve waiting for a week (PI), and then there's PvE combat; missions are a grind, but they involve shooting and paying attention, and Incursions are group activities, you need to stay focused on that - do everything right and you'll earn a hundred million / hour if not more, with barely any time to think. There's voice chat and banter involved there too, so there's that.

With the FF games, I think most don't require grinding as long as you follow along at the pace that seems to be indicated by the game (speaking mostly for the later ones, mind you, IDK how it is with FFI-VI exactly; I know I did fail at VI because I was underleveled at the time, should find the arsedness to go back to that one sometime). I did do most of the content for FFX, which probably did involve some grinding - but I had a cheat sheet there, which helped me get the exact goals I was working towards. (yes I did the 200 lightning dodges)

 

[Lulcielid]

I stop caring about them, grindding is the worst type padding for me and turns me off from touching a game for forseable future.