'turn-based real-time battles'

[MayMayNaenae]

wut?

[Cheet4h]

I don't own the game, but I guess it'd be like in KOTOR or Dragon Age. While you play the battles in real-time, the underlying mechanics are turnbased.
So instead of playing the turn of every single characters the game shows you what they're doing in real-time.
Very visible in KOTOR, when a character ran to an enemy and stood there for a second because the new turn hasn't started yet and he used up his current action by running.

[Cyrus]

actually it's like the old Final Fantasy Active Time Battle system,your characters have a meter that fills up depending on their stats,when it's full they can perform an action
it's neither turn-based, nor real-time :D

[MentatGilbertus]

Anachronox is in the middle of turn based and real time. Every character has actions which has to be charge up (something like cooldown). When they are ready you can use them in battle. Then they need to be charge up again. So if you act fast it looks like turn based, but if you thinking to much oponents will strike without waiting for you.

[exmachinax]

Actually in this game (that is AWESOME and has some incredible characters, story, music and cutscenes) the battles are very much like FF7. You have a timer, enemies have a timer. Your timer goes green, you can attack. When enemis timer is up, they attack.

I suppose the "real time" refers to the fact that if you do not use your abilites when your timer is green, the timer of the enemies continues and they keep attacking, they don't wait untill you attack first.

Anyway, this is my take, and this sentence "turn-based real-time battles" makes little sense regardless. :D

[{SCG} Rowedahelicon]

Think of it this way, it's turned based fighting like in an RPG, but your turn is dictated by a timer, each character's timers may not sync and your enemy can go first if you wait too long deciding an action.

[Antonz]

Also timer stops when you in sub-menus of battle menu but goes if you're on top level. If I remember this correctly.

[Cradicus]

It's also a lot like FF7 because you can buy a huge materia at one point.

[chi]

It's more like chrono triggers combat from what i've seen of it. Which is the base of what the final fantasy active time battles are designed off of. I say it's more like that because it lacks a lot of things that make the battle system in ff7 unique. It really is it's own thing but its core is like the ct active battle mode. At any rate it's a good game even if you aren't fond of turn based combat the rest of it makes it worth playing.

[Elder]

Originally posted by {SCG} Rowedahelicon:

Think of it this way, it's turned based fighting like in an RPG, but your turn is dictated by a timer, each character's timers may not sync and your enemy can go first if you wait too long deciding an action.

The timer is known on these games as INITIATIVE. You can find something similar on Grandia 2 or Heroes of Might and Magic V and Disciples 3 (less similar).

[NormiescOUT]

This thread is almost 10 years onld but I am still going to ask here anyway. Is there a way to charge your turn/NRG before a battle? Or do I HAVE to walk in pants-down?