Poll of the Day > Turn-based combat.... Will it survive ?

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Sadly no. Games journalism has been doing a hate parade against turn based combat ever since GTA: San Andreas and Halo 2.

The day Dragon Quest adopts the full action system, that day the turn-based combat will die.

The day Dragon Quest adopts the full action system, that day the turn-based combat will die.

I didn't know it was in trouble. There seems to be a new turn based game released every week. Of varying quality.
I'm currently playing this
https://store.steampowered.com/app/269190/Edge_Of_Eternity/

I think that few of them become big super popular games anymore.

Like octopath was the first time in a long time I remember seeing a turn based game so hyped and talked about outside pokemon

Sadly no. Games journalism has been doing a hate parade against turn based combat ever since GTA: San Andreas and Halo 2.

I think that's just because they don't have 200 million dollar marketing budgets.

I think it's because most people want a visual spectale that turn based usually doesn't provide. At this point pokemon is only popular cause it's pokemon

No definitely not.
All the most popular games are not visual spectacles. The only games that are are the ones pushed by AAA developers and by their marketing departments so they make good trailers.

what

Where were you early last year where every games journalist was crying for Pokemon games to never be turn based again after PLA's release?

Where were you early last year where every games journalist was crying for Pokemon games to never be turn based again after PLA's release?

The day Dragon Quest adopts the full action system, that day the turn-based combat will die.

Idk what you mean. Action combat is way more visually pleasing than turm based. Unless the combat just sucks

visual pleasing?

I mean trailers.
And turn based games make great trailers, since they contain long ridiculous animations that can be clipped into trailers that hide all the turn based bits.
I recall Xcom 2 did exactly that with their trailer, watching the first one you wouldn't know it was turn based.

But moving past trailers. Turn based nearly always produces flashier effects because again time stops during these effects. In FF7 they blow holes in the plant, blow up a star. In LoD your thrown into space and dropped on the planet. Going more recent (and funny) Neptune teams up and literally blows up the planet, then says "don't worry, this is just an animation".

No, turn based is significantly flashier than action. Action combat like elden ring is slow and boring and dark and dull in comparison.

It's more visually pleasing cause it looks more like a real fight and not people taking turns to whack each other over the head.

Wasn't the game still kinda turn based?

But moving past trailers. Turn based nearly always produces flashier effects because again time stops during these effects. In FF7 they blow holes in the planet, blow up a star. In LoD your thrown into space and dropped on the planet. Going more recent (and funny) Neptune teams up and literally blows up the planet, then says "don't worry, this is just an animation".

The day Dragon Quest adopts the full action system, that day the turn-based combat will die.

It doesn't matter.
It was basically an open world action RPG by today's standards.
Also it sold poorly despite (worse than LGPE) every games journalist claiming it was the best shit since sliced bread.

Cinematic stuff like that tends not to be as satisfying as something that actually lines up with what you're doing, though. It's cool to watch, but you're basically just pushing play on a short movie when you trigger attacks like that, which doesn't give as much sense of actually being involved in the battle. It can also get really repetitive when they're animations that happen frequently, hence animations usually get turned off or skipped for games like Disgaea where you're using these 30-second animations literally thousands of times.

I've never heard anyone bring up this concern at all.