COMBAT-ONLY RPG'S

Sort of like that flash game on armor games that I think it was called Sonny? It could work but you better have a damned good combat system if you want to pull it off.

That description fits my current project even better than it fits AW.

I don't think it would be very fun to smush all the battles together in most existing RPGs and play that, of course. Care and interesting battles should both be necessary.

I would never play a game that is only battles. My least favourite part of RPGs is the battles! Even when the battle system is good I don't usually have fun for long with it. There are a few notable exceptions, but those are exceptions because they're very fast/unobtrusive.

Eldritch was a LITTLE like this (not that much).

To Arms! will be more like this only the story will be given equal emphasis as the battles (none of that other stuff). The game is basically cutscene/battle/cutscene/battle in the style of FFT. (I have another game that I have not talked about at all that has battles but is entirely based on exploration.)

I was nervous about doing this- I have had people (Brickroad, does he count as people?) say that a game cannot be good without good dungeons, which I guess excludes games w/o dungeons period- so I'm glad someone made a topic.

Also Mage Duel is explicitly and intentionally this.

That's a really cool piece of trivia that I never knew!

I'm with MOG on this, except I like how chaos is doing his current game. Cutscene/battle/cutscene/battle/cutscene/battle/real cutscene/boss/repeat.

are you talking about a game like Riviera? you know, without shitty battles