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@sapient: Not all of those titles are sRPGs. You're mistaking TBS for sRPG. |
I believe my inclusion of XCOM sparked this debate. I mentioned it as a hybrid strategy/ SRPG game since once you get your soldiers (they are available for hire like FF:tactics or Tactics Ogre) they stay with you and level up until they die. It also has perma death. The soldiers typically don't have a background story (just like FF:Tactics and tactics:ogre) but each one of them has a personality. Personality is defined by the attributes each one has. To me the addition of certain attributes such as Fear which determined how often a soldier would freeze up when faced with an enemy defined their personality.
The reason why I called it a hybrid strategy/SRPG is because (to my knowledge) up till that point TBS games did not incorporate RPG elements that extensively.
SRPG is an RPG game which plays like a chess game and rules determine how far you can move your soldier. I think this definition is the one ALL "tactics" games have in common.
