12 was turn based. But bad. Those were bad changes. FF somehow started going in the wrong direction with that game.
CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I’d love to see another more standard turn based FF, but people also have to realize that the last pure turn based game was X in 2001. FF changing shit with every game is what FF does.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
overload@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
12 is remembered more fondly than maybe it deserves. The Gambit system was interesting though.
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 1 day ago
XIII and XIII-2 were both standard turn based. It just had stacked ATB gauges. But it was still standard menu battling.
I’d argue XII was turn based too, it just let you move while the ATB gauge filled.
Final Fantasy Dimensions and World of Final Fantasy exist too. But people forget those.
Ashtear@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Final Fantasy X was also the first pure turn-based game in the mainline series since 1990.
I keep hearing people cite Final Fantasy nostalgia with Expedition 33, but pure turn-based combat with realistic graphics happened exactly once in all of Final Fantasy. I don’t get it. It’s much more of a thing in the rest of the genre, including SQEX’s other properties.