Right, I did. That's the problem with the game. They put the fights there, and there's no reason to participate in them so I didn't. Then they put loot around the map, but there's no reason to go find it so I didn't. They put story around the map, but there's really not much reason to go find it so I wish I hadn't.

There's really nothing in either of these games that actually feels productive to do aside from walking into the final boss room and smacking the final boss to death with a variety of funny sticks. Everything else is chores.

Just avoid the parts of the game that are fun and enjoyable because the design discourages it.

Imagine if you create an awesome combat system and then most players had to avoid it because of resource management.