Quote Originally Posted by Roto13 View Post
Random encounters are never more fun, ever. Battle systems and encounter systems are more or less separate things, so there's no excuse for them any more besides laziness.
I dunno. I'm still partial to random encounters, especially for a VII remake. You can't really take them out now. There are some things you can't do with a system that has no random encounters than a system that has them. In XII's case, their battle system didn't allow for enemy group battles, it was 3/4 on 1.

Maybe the problem isn't the random battles as much as it is that they happen too often. That can be easily fixed. They just raise the range of steps it takes to start a battle.