RPGs with really good combat.

After reading through the responses on this thread, I actually just skipped over to Amazon and picked up Resonance of Fate for $17.55 (I don't know if that's a special sale or just a regular low price, but it's still damn cheap).

Mass Effect 2 and Persona 3-4 have very different but great combat styles. FFXIII sort-of meshed them together and came up with something that I found brilliant.

" After reading through the responses on this thread, I actually just skipped over to Amazon and picked up Resonance of Fate for $17.55 (I don't know if that's a special sale or just a regular low price, but it's still damn cheap).

Thanks to everyone who recommended this.  I'm really looking forward to checking out the combat system.

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" @Ubik said:

" After reading through the responses on this thread, I actually just skipped over to Amazon and picked up Resonance of Fate for $17.55 (I don't know if that's a special sale or just a regular low price, but it's still damn cheap).

Thanks to everyone who recommended this.  I'm really looking forward to checking out the combat system.

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also, the game is both super silly and sometimes melodramatic.it's also a little grindy, but I've put 110 hours into 2 playthroughs so far so WHATEVER "

borderlands!
mass effect 2, but some would argue that it is not so great as an rpg
i dont think turn based rpgs play so well because those kinds of games depend on the other parts of the game
but some of them do it really well

Star Ocean 4 has already been mentioned here, but it really warrants a little explanation. First off, ALL the Star Ocean games have really engaging real-time battle systems, but SO4 ups the ante with its Board system. Depending on how you defeat enemies, you get these little emblems on the side of the screen. Those emblems will boost experience, money, health/MP, and skill points--a necessary commodity. Why does this matter? It makes grinding more worthwhile than any other RPG. If you have to grind out a few levels to tackle the next boss--final boss is a bitch and a half--you might as well get some extra rewards as well.

" After reading through the responses on this thread, I actually just skipped over to Amazon and picked up Resonance of Fate for $17.55 (I don't know if that's a special sale or just a regular low price, but it's still damn cheap).

Thanks to everyone who recommended this.  I'm really looking forward to checking out the combat system.

"

" @Marz said:

" The Witcher + Witcher 2

also kinda enjoyed combat from the Tales series of games. "

Are you kidding me? The Witcher has TERRIBAD combat. If enemy is fast, click fast combat stance. If enemy is slow, click slow combat stance. Click on enemy rhythm game style until dead. Rinse and repeat. Personally, I've always enjoyed the Tales games, Star Oceans, and SMT "One more turn". "

I have always liked the combat in Fable, Fallout 3, Borderlands Mass Effect and the Yakuza games.

" Eternal Sonata, you guys? "

I like real-time combat systems. So fable, mass effect, and the witcher are more my thing. I love old-school rpgs like baldur's gate but, generally, I find turn-based combat to be tedious and awful. Weirdly, I actually enjoyed kotor's combat. Maybe because they spent enough time on the animations to actually make it fun to watch. Gothic 3 and risen are cool, but the combat in those games is pretty bad too; awkward animations, stiff controls, weird collision detection, subpar targeting, yeah not good. The exploration and world design is what keeps me chugging in those games. Also a fan of diablo derivatives such as dark alliance and torchlight, despite their simplicity.

" Persona 3: Portable and 4I say Persona 3: Portable because the combat in original 3/FES didn't have some of the improvements from 4 in it, which makes it very frustrating and in my opinion considerably inferior. "

Shadowbane. Goddamn, that game was the best RTS to be an MMORPG.

Star Ocean Till The End of Time. Mix and match different abilities, and cancel into different attacks at the right moment in battle. It's pretty satisfying once you master it.

I dont give a fuck what anyone says about Dragon Age 2, I thought its combat was fluid, exciting, and just straight up fun. I never felt so powerful in an RPG before. 

Tales series for me all the way personally

 They've been mentioned already but I will also say Final Fantasy XIII, Eternal Sonata, and The World Ends With You.

dragon age ii. i think some people who are pissed off at that game for totally unrelated reasons get their wires crossed and complain about the combat in spite of it being better than origins in every way.

Persona 3/4, Dragon Age 2, Mass Effect 2, Final Fantasy XIII (only redeemable quality).

" Mass Effect 2. "

I really enjoyed Gladius and Paper Mario.

There seems to be a lack of old man in this thread. So here goes...

" Demon's Souls "

" @Ygg said:

" Persona 3: Portable and 4I say Persona 3: Portable because the combat in original 3/FES didn't have some of the improvements from 4 in it, which makes it very frustrating and in my opinion considerably inferior. "

I'm hoping you could elaborate on this a bit more. I don't have a PSP so I can't play Portable but I'm wondering what sort of improvements are in P4 that were missing in P3. "

This is a great thread, seeing as how I usually like the idea of RPGs but hate the part where I play it.

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If your answer isn't this,you're wrong. "

Paper Mario

Mario and Luigi Games

Pokemon, seriously. Although the competitive side to it online scares me...

Alot of my choices have been mentioned but:

• Xenogears
• Final Fantasy XIII (The only reason I kept at it)
• Star Ocean: Till the end of time
• Vagrant Story
• Valkyrie Profile

• Parasite Eve
• Persona 4
• Fallout 3
• Super Robot Taisen OG SAGA
  

" @Marz said:

" The Witcher + Witcher 2 "

the witcher had horrible combat and you don't even know how the witcher 2 actually plays (it does look awesome but still)I'd say resonance of fate maybe "

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• Final Fantasy XII

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" @Jeust said:

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• Final Fantasy XII

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I knew that I wasn't the only person that enjoyed the combat in FFXII. "

I may have missed it, but I'm really surprised no one has mentioned Grandia. It's got a fantastic strategic system that's IMO, probably the best rpg battle system.

I'd probably have to say Demon's Souls

I've always liked RPGs where you can see the "timeline" of attacks the enemies are going to do so you can plan out your strategy accordingly. Blue Dragon was good with this, but Grandia II had a great system where you'd choose a critical attack to cancel out an enemy's move if you managed to hit them with it before their turn came up.