Why Does everyone Hate Turned Based RPG's Nowadays?

[Deneidez]

Turn based isn't mainstream. Everything must be mainstream today. This reminds me one nice article.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/02/01/against-design-decadence-vince-d-weller/

While I’d been following Fallout-but-in-fallout-of-Roman-Empire indie-RPG  Age of Decadence’s development at a comfortable distance, its world collided with Rock Paper Shotgun when Walker posted a little combat teaser the team behind this indie-RPG had released. The thread exploded with readers rejecting its turn-based formality, and then there was a counter-reaction to that.
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Now, let’s go back to the responses to that article and take a look at the points your audience made:

    “I’d rather puke a lung, to be honest. It would probably be more fun.”

    “I am a discerning gamer of the modern age. I demand heads that smush like rotten melons, over then top rag doll death animations and screams recorded live from Nike sweatshops.”

    “They took their combat model from Bookworm Adventure. Snore!”

    “This is for those times when you want to sit back in your chair and only click the mouse once every 10 minutes.”

    “Taking turns fighting may be something “classic” and “niche” audience, but it’s “niche” for a reason, people are looking to new things, and while rolling dice worked for pen and paper, we don’t have to do that anymore and for most people, it’s just not all that fun. Real time is just more immersive for most that want to deal with something that feels more like a real world, not a jumble of numbers and calculations on screen, the illusion is maintained with it off screen, happening in real time while people move and fire freely aiming where they want, when they want, how they want.”

    “Wow, I will never play a game like that, ever. I loathe turn-based games, which is the main reason why I refuse to play any Final Fantasy game. It takes me straight out of the immersion of a game when everyone lines up and takes TURNS swiping at each other. Give me something that involves my skill. I absolutely hate it when my hit chance relies on some random dice roll. That is pure and total BS.”

Yeah, thats just lol, but its unfortunately happening. Fortunately theres a lot of turn based stuff coming for PC actually.