In this video I'm discussing how there has been a growing downturn in turn-based RPGs over the past couple decades, at least amongst the bigger development s...
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
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.
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You can only put “are turn-based RPGs dying?” in the thumbnail if you just woke up from a 10-year coma.
This year alone we got:
Not mentioning a ton of indies probably…
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
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.
On the indy front, I picked up Terra Memoria, and it’s been interesting so far!
I want to get Dragon 8. Dunkey sold me on that shit.
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