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Message: [QUOTE="tropicalavera, post: 37823, member: 143"] Just a quick post to say that I think it's really a matter of scale. You'll notice that lots and lots of smaller budget RPGs (especially those in the indie scene: Deltarune and Omori por ejemplo) continue to use turn-based combat without anyone raising an eyebrow. But you have to appreciate that as budgets balloon, and get unfathomably big, publisher's need a bigger return on investment and as such aim to appeal to a wider demographic. And I'm sorry to tell you this - but that can include switching to a real-time action combat system. I've no doubt they've [I]done[/I] the focus testing. I will NOT delve in deep into the [I]real[/I] issue of the continued path away from abstraction seen across the board in videogames and will instead invite you to simply read Mark J.P. Wolf's piece 'Abstraction in the Video Game' and use some critical thinking to draw connections to the move towards real-time action combat. [/QUOTE]

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