Why does every story heavy game have turn-based combat?

[Dirty Wizard]

I don't get why there aren't more games that mix realtime combat and CRPG role playing together. Why do I need to be forced to sit through tedious turn based combat if I want to play a story-heavy game? Why not combat like Exanima or Desperados or Fallout Tactics? Surely there's some market overlap here and as many people would enjoy a faster combat experience?

[chimericDreamer]

Try "Tales of" series, I think they accomplish what you are talking about. (Another similar saga would be Star Ocean)

[LynK]

why is every shooter with guns.. i don't like that..

[Azilian]

Well you have wizards and bard to not to fight and rogues for get objects without a fight)

[Black_Rat]

because this is dnd, not exanima, desperados, or falout tactics.

[Kozzy]

because TB is best tbh

[Paddy]

Only the niche games do. If you want the big TRUE open world RPG games then wait for Starfield. This game game will just keep me busy until Starfield

[Sicho84]

it's based on table top, which is also turn based.
The old BG's were kinda real-time, but with pauses. You could turn on pretty much all the pauses and have turn based that way.
The problem with CRPGs and real-time is that it's gets messy very quickly and virtually impossible to keep track of cooldowns, effects, buffs and debuffs and so on. Especially since you manage more than one character.

[Loketta]

I mean you are posting this in the discussion of a game that is literally based on one of the most famous turn based games of all time... Also this is Larians bread and butter.

Theres many good hybrid and action RPGs with decent stories.

[G.M.O]

while I, a fan of BG since forever, actually love that 3 is turn based so it can play more like tabletop, pathfinder :Wrath has a toggle to switch to either, and that, while probably being difficult to implement and balance, think is the best type.

[Mad Raccoon]

I would suggest Aliens: Dark Descent if you want story heavy real time combat.

[ahsanford]

Because realtime has a TON less strategy / layers to it unless you are constantly pausing, or the game has some DA:O-like programmable logic tree that only the most hardcore players liked. (Subsequent DA games all dumbed down what characters could/could not be programmed to do because people were impatient!)

So most realtime cRPG games (hell -- even BG2 at times!) involved just setting your team loose in combat and just melee auto-grinding down enemies. You don't want to play chess in combat if there are 1000 combats.

Good game systems are deeper than that.

The tabletop experience is also turn-based.

Fewer battles. Better battles. More roleplaying and story. This is the way.

- A

[WeirdWizardDave]

For a long time most CRPGs had realtime with pause combat. Thankfully the likes of Larian re popularised turn based combat which offers (in my view) a more interesting tactical experience that also feels closer to the tabletop game. In the end for the most part devs make the games they want to play.

[RobeRonin]

sooo many story games are not turn based action games ! this is a turn based game based on a turn based table top game lol

[NinjaGrayFox]

I feel the opposite. To many story heavy RPGs have moved away from turn based gameplay.

[Sanjimo]

clearly a troll post lol