Your favourite RPG battle system

[Cartoonmaniac]

*cough* Undertale *cough*

 

[SinkingBadges]

Battle Network is great. The grid system by itself is nice in that battles often have some execution challenge in dodging and positioning yourself for attacks. Chips are nice in that the RNG avoids that you can rely on one strategy and have to try different chips you might not necessarily use otherwise, sometimes even putting you at a disadvantage. The style system in 3 is a nice touch in particular, since that means your options rely on how you play, which differentiates playthroughs. Beautiful.

I haven't played any Paper Mario in a while, but Thousand Year Door's system was nice if a bit simple after a while. Stylish hits and crowd management were things I found neat about it.

Lately I've been playing Deus Ex Human Revolution. Only thing about it that seems RPG to me is spending points on augments, but some of them do let you do things differently over others like jumping high or carrying heavy stuff (some of them are probably obligatory though for all I know). I like how it forces different play styles, although some of them seem like some sort of easy mode, mostly the stealth ones from what I've seen. Haven't finished it but I'm pleasantly surprised so far.

 

[Jamie]

Kingdom Hearts is good, and the Mario RPG games (7 Stars, Paper Mario, Mario & Luigi). I did enjoy Xenoblades, it was a neat take, and obviously the classic Final Fantasy is great.

 

[Draymorath]

Xenoblade Chronicles for its unique MMO-ish system, The Last Story for its cool tactical spin on things (even if tactics were sadly unnecessary in some cases and ofttimes brute force was the best option, still a great game and one of my favorites on the Wii), the Souls franchise for its way of making you truly pace yourself and think about how to overcome challenges, and The World Ends With You for its fun, fleshed out, diverse combat system. Just a few of my favorites.

 

[CrimsonCavalier]

I actually do like Turn-based RPGs. I get they have fallen out of favor of late, but I like the strategy behind them. However, my favorite JRPG battle system is in the Tales series, specifically new "newer" Tales games, like Vesperia and Symphonia.

I liked Xenoblade Chronicles a lot, but sometimes I felt like I didn't have that much to do in battles because of the auto-attack. I'm not anti auto-attack, but I prefer to have more input.

I'm still a fan of turn-based though.