Random encounters
Video game concept
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games
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A random encounter is a feature commonly used in various role-playing games whereby combat encounters with enemies at random, usually without the enemy being physically detected beforehand.
Notable people involved: Nobuo Uematsu, Koichi Nakamura, Yuji Horii, Jason Linhart and Bill Sloan
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Preset encounters commonly coexist with random ones. General enemies are random. Bosses and minibosses are set.
This is mostly for the kind of encounters that appear out of nowhere, usually when traveling on the world map.
Especially common in old console RPGs.
More modern games have these cleverly guised by spawning the encounter just outside your visibility radius or behind other visual blocks, making them almost seem scripted or part of some grand simulation.
Especially common in old console RPGs.
More modern games have these cleverly guised by spawning the encounter just outside your visibility radius or behind other visual blocks, making them almost seem scripted or part of some grand simulation.
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Encounters, Randomized content
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Game genre
Eastern RPG-JRPG
Games by year
The first Random encounters video game was released on August 1979.
SSI, Enix, Starcraft and Paradox Interactive published most of these games.