Best Turn-Based Combat

[Rathands]

Personally I'm very fond of Lost Odyssey's battle system, and Tales of Symphonia combines both real-time and turn based mechanics in its battles (really recommend that one if you can get hold of it).

 

[More Fun To Compute]

Persona 4?

I've got a game of Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne/Lucifer's Call on the go at the moment and I think that might be a good choice for someone looking for a turn based combat sort of game. It's quite old school and challenging.

Last Remnant and Final Fantasy X-2 are also ones that I had some fun with.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Grandia.

This topic is now totally over if you actually played it.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

Grandia.

This topic is now totally over if you actually played it.

I played Grandia 2 and the combat system was pretty nice but way too easy. Skies of Arcadia: Legends was better, I say, reigniting the old Dreamcast RPG flame war.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Grandia.

This topic is now totally over if you actually played it.

I played Grandia 2 and the combat system was pretty nice but way too easy. Skies of Arcadia: Legends was better, I say, reigniting the old Dreamcast RPG flame war.

Well, 3 and Extreme came and perfected the combat, at the cost of any sort of plot quality.

Especially 3. Regular fights could take 5+ minutes, easy.

 

[Gabriel Majeski]

X-Com: UFO Defense is a pretty mandatory game if your into turn based tactics and combat. Not an RPG, but who the fuck cares... it's X-COM!

 

[Crazy Ian]

Advance wars 2, final fantasy tactics advance, and Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis offered me hours upon hours of fun.I wonder where did my game boy advance get to? Disgaea has always been a solid game series for turn based strategy, look out for other games by Nippon Ichi as well. Can't really suggest anything on the PC front though.

 

[Shock and Awe]

Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones and Chrono Trigger, the best there is.

 

[Lagslayer]

That I've played, Paper Mario TTYD.

 

[FalloutJack]

Jack recommends Persona to the highest degree. Persona good! (So is SMT: Nocturne.)

 

[Yureina]

I throw the original two Fallout games into the ring. :3

 

[Kashrlyyk]

Fallout 1, 2, Tactics

Tactics is real time I hope you know.

No, it is not. You can choose real time, group based turns or individual based turns.

 

[Weaver]

I recommend X-Com... which is kind of sad when a DOS game is beating out any modern examples I can think of.

 

[Lenin211]

Any Pokemon game.

 

[Continuity]

I recommend X-Com... which is kind of sad when a DOS game is beating out any modern examples I can think of.

Yep, it's a damn shame but turn based gameplay went out of vogue a long time ago, these days you only see it on the odd strategy game. A real shame because I think it died before we really got to explore it's full possibilities; in fact I would say that xcom was the first and only child of a new genre, which is ironic when you consider how great it is... Just goes to show, the "money men" have been fucking up gaming for a long time now.

 

[BleedingPride]

never did much turn based stuff, but i liked KotOR's alot

 

[BanthaFodder]

HOW HAS NO ONE MENTIONED POKEMON YET?

Edit: Alright, ONE person has mentioned Pokemon... Also, Paper Mario and Mario And Luigi (Superstar Saga, Bowser's Inside Story, etc.) are all great.

Edit 2: Electric Boogaloo: Also, Civilization V

 

[General_Potatoes]

No mention of Fire Emblem? Wow, surprising.

Eh don't worry. No one has said golden sun yet so im gonna say it. Golden sun.

 

[Archangel768]

Final Fantasy X has my favourite.

 

[Tentickles]

Fallout 1, 2, Tactics

Tactics is real time I hope you know.

There is an option in the menu to switch it to turn based.