Hmmm, I remember playing the first three and thinking, "oh goody! I get to kill field mobs to lvl up so that I can kill dungeon mobs to get to some random npc at the end of the dungeon, and then rinse, lather, and repeat until the last person ends up being the lame final boss. Whoopie!" I tried to convince myself I was playing for the story, but not even that can keep me interested. The sad thing is it took me 3 games to come to this realization. XD