Which Combat Style You pref. most in Top-Down 2D Games? Please tell me :D

Which Combat Style You pref. most in Top-Down 2D Games? Please tell me :D

  • Real-Time Action like in The Binding of Isaac

    Votes: 4 33.3%
  • Turn Based without Movement, like in RPG Maker Games / Darkest Dungeon etc.

    Votes: 4 33.3%
  • D&D Turn Based on main map with Action Points / Movement Points ( Combat starts when enemy spotted )

    Votes: 1 8.3%
  • Other ( Please write comment, give Game Example or explain how Your idea would work :P )

    Votes: 3 25.0%

  • Total voters
    12

Tobi/Chaos

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Like in the Title, please vote <3
Also feel free to share what You like or dislike in other combat styles :p

if You never played D&D Games, I get that pretty often, Google: Pathfinder Kingmaker
Good example, of what D&D Games are, I think examples like The Binding of Isaac or Darked Dungeon are known by everyone :p


Thank You for Your time visiting this poll and voting ^_^
 

Pretentious Goblin

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Nov 3, 2017
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Turn-based, but without anything like D&D's dice-rolling randomness for basic mechanics. Doesn't have to be completely deterministic, a bit of damage range is fine. But not freaking 1-20 to hit and then another roll for damage.
 
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amaranta

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Jun 26, 2020
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Turn based, but the further from D&D the better, it`s never implemented in a right way. Something like , a hybrid from western and JRPG tactic games.
 
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eerengrengt

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something turn based like bastard bonds or w40k mechanicus would be nice and I'd imagine be somewhat easier to make instead of something like a twin-stick shooter (also being able to play with one hand is huge bonus)
 

qwoppe

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May 21, 2018
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JRPG-like games are so plentiful that the market's overbloated with 'em, with all kinds of variations of how that kind of combat could work, in a porn game or otherwise. Your game will just get lost in a crowd, and audiences (like me) are exhausted by them. Darkest Dungeon has a very interesting presentation of its system, and doing something like that might help, but I wouldn't trust an average dev to pull that kind of thing off.

There are comparatively fewer pornographic top-down shooter games. These would be my preference out of the three listed.

There are even fewer TRPGs as per option 3 afaik, but those are too involved for me to bother when I can coom much harder for far less effort with almost any other type of game. It's just not a very sexy system the way I've seen it done so far.

What I'd prefer most of all though would be just no combat tbqh
 

MarshmallowCasserole

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Also feel free to share what You like or dislike in other combat styles
Generally I don't like combat with 0 spatial dimensions, so, yeah, RPGM combat is pretty sad unless some other mechanic like deck-building circumvents this flaw.

By the way, DD should not be clumped with it, because it's combat in a 1-dimensional space, not 0-dimensional.

2D, turn-based or real time is probably the safe spot for a porn game, so my answer is 1 AND 3.

3D is too much work both for the dev and the player, so it's probably doesn't mesh well with porn games.