Incline Games with great combat

[kangaxx]

Die Hard Arcade on the Saturn.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

Added a few more options. And realized Codex forum has a limit on number of poll options. Who knew...

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

And realized Codex forum has a limit on number of poll options. Who knew...

Anyone that's ever tried to make a poll like this?

 

[Serious_Business]

This is some stupid ass thread, but I'm sure some sarcastic quip will save it

 

[Morenatsu.]

ur mum

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

Well, the original point of making this thread was that I was of the opinion that very few games actually have really well designed combat systems (in any genre). The vast majority of games seem to have combat designed by some retards who just slap a lot of shit together and hope it sticks. That's how you get the spammy combat of Skyrim, or the prebuff reliant drink 20 potions before every fight combat of Owlcat's Pathfinder games. Or shit like Wasteland 2's cover doesn't matter in a cover RPG after level 10, and distance doesn't matter cause everyone gets 200,000 movement points.

Even when rarely enough you get a decent combat "system", the game often manages to tank it by having shit encounter design. Temple of Elemental Evil is a great example of that, illogically beloved by many here, but really, you are fighting some trash level enemies 70% of the time (bugbears, elementals, some other boring crap), so how can you say it has great combat?

But this thread/poll lists (believe it or not) some games with actually good to great combat.

 

[v01]

COMPUTER GAMES

 

[Kev Inkline]

And realized Codex forum has a limit on number of poll options. Who knew...

Anyone that's ever tried to make a poll like this?

Jason has made too many with too many options, for one.

 

[Hag]

Mechwarrior Living Legends has the best teamfights and skirmishes I have ever seen.

 

[Jason Liang]

No fighting games? :/

NO HOMM3?!?!?!?

Also, Sengoku Rance, Rance X, Dragonfall, and, in some moments, CP 2077 can also be glorious.

 

[Mise]

It's like asking which books have a great story lol. Combat was always extremely present in games as such there are 100s of games with great combat.

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

No fighting games? :/

NO HOMM3?!?!?!?

Also, Sengoku Rance, Rance X, Dragonfall, and, in some moments, CP 2077 can also be glorious.

No.

GALAGA.

/thread

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

All these options and the one right option is missing.

Another accountant that can't read.

 

[Incognito]

What's the point of comparing a frantic top down shooter like Hotline Miami to any turn-based RPG or even any ARPG? List Pac-Man or Asteroids while you're at it.

 

[Ezekiel]

It's like asking which books have a great story lol. Combat was always extremely present in games as such there are 100s of games with great combat.

I don't believe you. "Great" is such a strong word.

 

[NecroLord]

Rather dumb that you chose to lump rpg combat and fps combat together...

 

[Kev Inkline]

Rather dumb that you chose to lump rpg combat and fps combat together...

What's the point of comparing a frantic top down shooter like Hotline Miami to any turn-based RPG or even any ARPG? List Pac-Man or Asteroids while you're at it.

He just wants to rig the poll so that Kingdom Come: D wins.

 

[NecroLord]

Rather dumb that you chose to lump rpg combat and fps combat together...

What's the point of comparing a frantic top down shooter like Hotline Miami to any turn-based RPG or even any ARPG? List Pac-Man or Asteroids while you're at it.

He just wants to rig the poll so that Kingdom Come: D wins.

You mean Witcher 3?

 

[Ol' Willy]

Disco Elysium of course

 

[Just Locus]

Games exclusively about combat (e.g. Hellish Quart, Exanima, Fighting Games) are excluded.

Because they are not real games. [...]

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

What's the point of comparing a frantic top down shooter like Hotline Miami to any turn-based RPG or even any ARPG? List Pac-Man or Asteroids while you're at it.

Because this is not a thread about any specific type of combat. It is about ALL great combat.

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

List Pac-Man or Asteroids while you're at it.

You know what arcade games had great combat? Gen Xers will remember these, but those top down games with the sticks that twisted to turn your torso like Ikari Warriors, Victory Road, and Heavy Barrel.

 

[Incognito]

List Pac-Man or Asteroids while you're at it.

You know what arcade games had great combat? Gen Xers will remember these, but those top down games with the sticks that twisted to turn your torso like Ikari Warriors, Victory Road, and Heavy Barrel.

Played Gundhara just the other day. Great combat.

 

[Kev Inkline]

What's the point of comparing a frantic top down shooter like Hotline Miami to any turn-based RPG or even any ARPG? List Pac-Man or Asteroids while you're at it.

Because this is not a thread about any specific type of combat. It is about ALL great combat.

Why do you then list a several iterations of the same game and leave numerous other games out altogether?

 

[yellowcake]