Poll: Turn Based or Realtime! FIGHT!

[JemJar]

Like choosing whether you want to play turn based or tactical based. Fps or 3rd person. D-pad or analog sticks. I am still waiting for a game that gives me those options.

Loads of game have offered first or third person. Off the top of my head I'm pretty sure UT3 does. And plenty of games offer you d-pad control if you want to use it, just that not a lot still has a simple enough control system with the exception of beat-em-ups and football games and some driving games.

Meanwhile, back on topic turn-based allows a level of complexity which wouldn't be playable in real-time - which is why the campaign map on the Total War series is now a behemoth of Civ-esque complexity. By contrast, given an intuitive control system and some good pressuring AI you can get an RTS experience like Company of Heroes and you realise that there is a god.

 

[RAWKSTAR]

I love the pokemon games and I think turn based works in that, although if something like Metriod was turn based it would hardly be exciting.

 

[Antiparticle]

Hm, both are nice. I like realtime RTS games like C&C or StarCraft, but turnbased games give you more time to think and plan. I also like "attack magic item run" games, and with the Paper Mario series for instance I was downright disappointed that they went from turnbased to realtime combat between parts 2 and 3.

 

[Traun]

Have you all forgotten Heroes of Might and Magic?

 

[Danny Ocean]

Wow...
Did I miss the memo, or is it just coincidence that today seems to be Revenge of the versus threads?

I have fond feelings for both.
Turn based gives my dumbass brain enough time to actually think about what I'm doing, but real time looks better.

Oh No No. It's no coincidence. The memo has been placed in your local sub-net planning office for the last 4 of your crab years. You've had plenty of time to prepare so there's really no point complaining about it.

I have no sympathy for them, none at all.

On topic, both. Play a total war game.