Baldur's Gate 3

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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)

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[+] moon_matter@kbin.social -35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

The OP isn't wrong. Turn-based combat is falling out of favour with the majority of the new generation. Final Fantasy has dropped turn-based combat for the same reasons.

For several console generations now, all character expressions can be done in real-time. Actions such as ‘press the trigger and your character will shoot a gun’ and ‘press the button and your character will swing their sword’ can now be easily expressed without going through a command system.

It’s now common for gamers younger than me to love such games. As a result, it seems that it does not make sense to go through a command prompt, such as ‘Battle’, to make a decision during a battle.

It was always a design choice born from limitations. It's not going to disappear, but it was destined to decline in use once those limitations disappeared.

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

It's a design choice born from I'm playing the game while eating, if I twitch for timing I'll spill my drink

[–] Neato@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago

No it isn't. We had action games on the NES. pitfall wasn't turn based. It's a design choice that allows greater tactical choices.

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

They were never about hardware limitations. Limitations of imagination of the designers, maybe, but we've had action games for 35 years now.

Actions such as ‘press the trigger and your character will shoot a gun’ and ‘press the button and your character will swing their sword’ can now be easily expressed without going through a command system.

And yet we can't purge ourselves of the awfulness that is quick-time events. I don't buy the argument. It's an attempt to handwave away trends without discussing real causes and effect. If the suggestion here were true, other similar mechanics, such as QTEs, would have been dead a long time ago, not be a core element of a huge number of triple-A titles.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Being confident in your answer doesn't make you right.

More than one type of game exists. It is always a creative choice. Always has been. I could go into examples, but plenty of people have already provided those.

[–] dudinax@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Fire emblem is super popular.