A look at the downfall of turn based battle mechanics in the Final Fantasy series and through out the larger industry. Followed with new hopes in recent releases and upcoming ones like Expedition 33

  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    You can only put “are turn-based RPGs dying?” in the thumbnail if you just woke up from a 10-year coma.

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      16 days ago

      This year alone we got:

      • Metaphor Refantazio
      • Like A Dragon Infinite Wealth
      • Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door (remake)
      • Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance (enhanced edition for all platforms)
      • Persona 3 Reload
      • Dragon Quest 3 Remake
      • Fantasian Neo Dimension

      Not mentioning a ton of indies probably…

      • ZephyrXero@lemmy.worldOP
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        16 days ago

        4 of those are remakes. And Fantasian came out in 2021, it’s just now getting ported to other platforms.

        Also Metaphor is only half-turn based, you only directly control one character.

        Like a Dragon is the only one I would actually count in such an argument

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          16 days ago

          You control a full party in Metaphor. If you only played the beginning of the prologue, the game waits for a certain story event to happen before giving you control of other characters.

      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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        16 days ago

        I had to look it up and octopath traveler 2 was last year. I’m never getting my normal sense of the passage of time back, am i