Shadowblind on 16 December 2008
| Torillian said: Alrighty, finely got a handle on the difference between the two. Ogre Battle is kind of a mix between RPG and Real Time Strategy. You have two armies battling each other, with routes that your units can go down, and objectives between you and the boss battle that will end out the stage. You have direct control of the route your characters take and the goal they set out to. This has similarities with TLR, but in TLR you set the characters to a person to fight. The difference is that in any SRPG I can think of, you have enough control over you character's movement that you can send them somewhere even if there is no enemy there while in battle. In Ogre Battle you can send a character to a fort and have them defend it, in Valkyria Chronicles you can send a character to a sandbag line and just have them huddle down behind. I suppose the real difference is that in SRPG's there are objectives beyond just defeating other characters, that involve controlling where your characters move. I think that Enchanted Arms has aspects like an SRPG, but the fact that you only use your character movement in order to take out enemies makes it akin to those Megaman RPGs with grids, and not a true-blue SRPG, though it has some aspects like it. |
I'm not a really big SRPG player (I did like Disgaea PSP) but that sounds like the same genre just slightly different mechanics. All games have different mechanics, those just sound like two different games. Same genre, but different games.
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