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How do you feel about turn-based combat? Should more modern games adopt it, or is it best left as a thing of the past? (media.piefed.social)
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I enjoy both turn-based and action combat. I like how turn-based combat allows for some strategies without being overly complex like in most TRPG.

I was a big fan of Final Fantasy 7 OG, but I can't get into FF7 remake mainly because of the hybrid combat. I would rather have it turn-based like in the original.

Turn-based games I like:
Final Fantasy 5,6,7,9,10. Dragon Quest series, Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, Super Mario RPG

Action-based RPG I like:
Fallout 3, Mass Effect, Skyrim

How do you feel about turn-based combat? Should more modern games adopt it, or is it best left as a thing of the past?
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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can't think of any games where you control a single thing in a turn based environment for the whole game that is fun.

Rogue?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Card games and board games. Slay the Spire, Inscryption, Magic the Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh, poker, chess. Golf. Tabletop RPG's like D&D.

    It can get kind of hard to define "single thing" though. In Chess you have a ton of different pieces but can only move one per turn, while in D&D one character might get an action surge or have a familiar that gets actions. In Slay the Spire you have just one character but a handful of different cards each turn.

    I would also consider a lot of adventure games and visual novels to be mostly turn-based. Like the original version of Myst, the Ace Attorney series, Sucker for Love.

    Transistor is a kind of hybrid between real-time and turn-based, and you only control Red in that.

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