WHICH BATTLE TYPE IS GOOD FOR YOU?

there is only one battle: THUNDERDOME

BUST A DEAL, FACE THE WHEEL

Well it had fights that appeared on the field which affected who you fought and where (read: Avoid big open areas because strong enemies are huge) and you could try and evade the last enemy action by moving around (read: know exactly what to do to dodge certain attacks until you get barrier and win the game). Just everything else is absolutely terrible.

More games need the FF10 style of battles: You can change characters to avoid certain ones collecting dust, there's no sitting and waiting for ATBs to fill (or in FF9's case waiting for actions to finally occur so you don't need to worry about queuing actions), and you can see who's going to go when.

I like my turn-based a lot. Coming up with tabletop games like MagicTG, RISK, and other classics where one side acts all at once, then the opposition all acts at once, left me with a good sense of how to utilize it properly.

I tend to gravitate to team-turn based games, like Fire Emblem, most card games, or the PS2 SMTs.

I liked the turn-timed pausable battles in games like KOTOR and Baldur's Gate. I could queue actions for each character, easily hop between characters, and pause it if I wanted to employ a more complicated strategy.

Plus lightsabres are cool.

I like battle systems where you have to press a certain button at the right time, like Legend of Dragoons.

Actually, I didn't like the game.

I just like that type of battle system. There was another game that I really like that has a system like that. I forgot the name of it though. I was another game that started with"Legend of..."

I think it's spelled Legaia or something like that.

There's only one combat system that I absolutely despise as a game designer, and that's the classic dragon quest system. It's not the turn-based aspect that annoys me. It's the fact that you have to put in all your commands in bulk, and then pray they go in the order you want. This is particularly frustrating in boss fights when you want your healer to do a mass healer after the boss's massive Destroy All Monsters attack, and then the dumb broad (of course it's a girl) does it when everyone's HP is fine. FUUUUUUUU-

If it's gonna be turn-based, it needs to be done more like FFX or Super Mario RPG, where you put in commands when the character's turn actually comes around, which allows you to properly react to whatever might have happened previously. The old DQ system is, frankly, tired and outdated and shouldn't be used anymore.

For any real-time system, if you're going to be controlling multiple fully fleshed-out characters, then there needs to be some way to pause combat when putting in more complex commands. FFXII is pretty good about this in Wait mode. FFXII in Active mode, on the other hand, is pure SUICIDE.

Whatever Dragon Age: Origins was, I hated that. I was really set to like it but...

I enjoy real time and I enjoy turn based but I really hate all attempts to hybridize them and I really hate anything that mimics an MMORPG type system.

I don't really have a favourite type of battle, but if I had to say anything it's probably Action RPG systems that I enjoy the most, especially Tales of Symphonia and The Kingdom Heart series ones. Even if it does come down to hitting the attack (And B + Directions on ToS) button mostly, I find them overall enjoyable.
As well as those there's The World ends with You's battle system, which is probably the most hectic, yet fun, battle system on the DS. Keeping up with the action on both screens is fairly tough sometimes, but it all adds up for one hell of an awesome system.

That said, I do have some favourite Turn based battle systems, most notably the Push Turn and 1 More systems in the recent SMT and Persona games, which let you get extra turns if you exploit enemy weaknesses, or let you get your ass whooped if they exploit yours. They encourage you to be more careful, using the right character for the right situation.

So yeah, I guess I really enjoy any type of battle system, just depends on how I feel at the time.

I generally like an action RPG like Secret of Mana or SD3. I don't like when the action gets too much or out of hand, I like when you can pause to see what you'll use for a spell or item. Same with turn based, I like when you have all the time in the world to decide what you'll do, and not an ATB where the enemy will attack you right when you pick the heal spell. I also don't like too many enemies or respawning enemies like Kingdom Hearts has.