'The prejudice against turn-based RPGs isn’t completely gone': despite Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's massive success, its director reckons real-time action games still have an easier time

Idk if its prejudice, I just find them boring. Been playing turn based games since the 90s, the idea of having to go through menus to resolve conflict is a thing of the past to me.

I hated Expedition 33's combat system, with a particular dislike for quick time event as a primary game mechanic.

FF7 remake combat is a great blend of action, strategy, with just a sprinkle of QTE. DOS II is a great example of turn-based combat.

I'll cop to it, it's me. I hate JRPGs. I think it was Final Fantasy 3 (Technically 6, but I knew it by the US numbering system) which got my hate started. Start a spell or attack, and then go fuck off for half an hour while the attack animation played. This was finalized by Valkyrie Profile. It's over two decades later and I can still hear Lenneth saying, "It shall be engraved upon your soul.

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It's not turn based RPGs I hate. I'm, currently playing through Baldur's Gate 3 again, and loved the Divine Divinity series. It's mostly the mindless repetition of JRPGs that gets to me. Having a 100+ hour game, because 90+ hours are spent grinding random encounters, just isn't fun for me. Especially when that combat is just click a button in the menu and maybe have a timing button to hit as well to extend the attack. Oh and lets not forget the over blown animations where a character needs to spend 90 seconds winding up his dick, screaming like a idiot passing the largest shit of his life, to maybe make the enemy health bar move down a pixel or two.

And the writing, I get that I'm probably too old to be the target demographic. But, the melodrama is thicker than Ishtar's left tit. Maybe it's a translation issue or cultural thing. But ya, not my thing.