Farming (Video Games)

[Andy]

"Farming" in video games is when the player has to repeatedly do some task or action in order to achieve something, such as a higher skill level. Mainly this is found in RPGs with all the battles and levelling up.

Are you in favor or opposed to farming? On one hand, it is repetitive and time-wasting. On the other, it lets anyone with enough time on their hands progress in a game, regardless of skill or talent (like Runescape), so basically everyone will become a pro eventually.

Yea or nay?

[GeorgeMichael]

I love Final Fantasy for "Farming" so Yay for me :)

on the other hand I hate Oblivion... it's just not as nice looking, or involving in the storyline, or awesome.



(Yeah, take that, Shadow :P )

[ScottyMcGee]

I go both ways.



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Not like THAT!

But seriously now, I don't mind farming or not.

[GeorgeMichael]

I go both ways.


Yeah... ... that quote looks worse after the caption on the other picture :P

[Shaun]

I'm not sure this is really even a question of debate. My only complaint with a lot of RPG farming is that the worlds are too small for the number of people playing. What ends up happening is you go to the same spots over and over and over because there isn't enough to do for all the skill levels. I played a game a while back called Dark Age of Camelot and there are three realms in it, each different, but it takes forever to level up no matter which character type from the realms you are. True, they've expanded the world now, but initially you were in one of the three realms, and most of the time you went to the same three or four places to level up. If you got lucky you could get a group together and go into these deserty/swamp/wastelands areas, which most people didn't go to, but mostly you just went to the same spots. When it takes days, if not months to go from level 45 to level 46...it gets very old and boring.
There needs to be more in these games than just running around and farming. There need to be new quests created all the time so people don't get bored of it, and the quests that come with the game need to be interesting and challenging. I did quests in that game and mostly they were just stupid "go find this guy and kill him" things. That gets older after about the third time...

[Shadow]

If I was opposed to farming, why would I be playing WoW?

[seikoXchan]

Personally, I find it troublesome. However, how else are you going to level up? "Farming" seems the only way, so I guess I'm fine with it.


I go both ways.
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Not like THAT!
Yeah... ... that quote looks worse after the caption on the other picture :P
Bwahaha. I love myself now. :crazy:

[Imelda]

I'm currently playing too much Spellforce: Order of Dawn. You don't level up much, but when you do it's because you've completed tasks and defeated maps. It's pretty challenging because you need strategy more than anything else to win. Sure, you have to have your minions chop down an awful lot of trees and mine a lot of stones, but mostly your brainpower is directed to 'how the heck do I stop these 15 strong ogre dudes from wiping my camp out with only one archer tower, a ranger, and me? It's fun. :p

I have no idea what I was trying to say with that ...

[mrfusspot]

I have no problem with most farming. Most of the time when I come across a farmer (in an MMO) they are farming something I don't need to kill anyway. And I'm one of those people that doesn't kill something unless I need to.
My only complaint with a lot of RPG farming is that the worlds are too small for the number of people playing. What ends up happening is you go to the same spots over and over and over because there isn't enough to do for all the skill levels. I played a game a while back called Dark Age of Camelot and there are three realms in it, each different, but it takes forever to level up no matter which character type from the realms you are.
Your complaint was with DAoC farming. In WoW, or most of the new MMO's, the world is large enough that there are only a very few amount of times you actually have to be in the same area with a lot of other people. Most of the time, you can talk to a buddy of the exact same level who is leveling on the other continent.
And DAoC did make leveling more troublesome in general. Less experience gained per kill and the fact that you lose XP when you die.

And I've begun to think that the "farming" I'm thinking of is not the same farming every one else here thinks of.

[Lykaios]

Hehe, has anyone here played a game called Harvest Moon?

Hehe, literal RP farming, with cows and ducks thrown in. :P

[GeorgeMichael]

:D

I thought Andy was talking about HM at first too :P

[Lykaios]

I loved that game, I had it on GBC and DS, the Game Cube version sucked though, I can't remember much about it. :)

I got married, had a kid, blew up a mine, built a house on the island and found all the harvest sprites on DS. :D

. . . Hehe, Harvest Moon rocked.