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Even Dungeons And Dragons Online has on-screen combat. But it's a good MMO anyway.

Online-based TTRPGs? The main problem with that is the increased effort a game master has with remembering all the world status (like which door is open or not) and also suffer from being very slow (having to wait until everyone came on and replied and stuff every turn).

Well, in fact there aren't actually many games that combine "battle system" with "multiplayer". Most multiplayer RPGs are action RPGs. Even MMORPGs to 99% don't have a separate battle system, it's all on-screen.

I really wish something like that would be made. Like you play online, join up with someone and then there is a battle in form of random encounter or touch a monster sprite on the map and then you get to a different screen with a real battle system and then you enter commands for your character and the other player enters commands for his character.

Doesn't really happen that often to me once I start making a game because I create extensive game design notes beforehand, of course those notes even get thrown in the garbage and remade until I think they are perfect.

I still get nothing done, but that's because I always lose motivation mid-development, mainly because aspects of game creation I don't enjoy.

Skills don't really need to be just one or all.

If you have a party of 6 placed in a 3x2 field, you could make attack that hit a row or a column or in a 4x4 area or one field and the 2-3 adjacent fields, etc.

author=Sooz
I'd love to see more games with just exploration as an element. Yume Nikki and Symphony of the Night are two examples: there's lots of little neat side areas that have little or no real contribution to the gameplay but look cool and are fun to find. It makes even doing a slog through a game feel rewarding, just because you found something different.

There have been quite some of these types of games recently. On first thought Miserere and Dear Esther come to mind.

This isn't exactly gameplay related, more story-related, but I love when games pay a lot of attention to their NPCs - give them a reason to be there! It really helps the setting and overall atmosphere. I guess what I'd love to see again is a diverse cast of NPCs with quests/backstories that are character-specific and help you discover more of the world. BoFIV and Legend of Mana did this really well (though the latter had a terribly weak main plot). Heck, even FFXII had okay NPCs.

I want to see more effort in world-building and not just in a bunch of stupid logs explaining all the shiz (I'm looking at you FFXIII). It's the old 'show, not tell' thing. NPCs used to help with a lot of the 'showing' but this generation kind of killed them off for obvious reasons - you know a character isn't important when their polycount is low and they're just a recolor of another NPC. XD

I guess these things are all present in many western RPGs. Especially all those 2D-ish ones like the Spiderweb games.

Oh, and hand-painted/pre-rendered backgrounds, please. I miss them. Stylistically it can be a great choice. Solotorobo and Bravely Default had some awesome backgrounds if we're talking about more recent games and how they could be implemented.

I'm not sure if we mean the same thing, but I generally want that old "You walk on pre-rendered pictures" style back. May it be hand-drawn with water colors like in SaGaFrontier 2 or photo-realistic like in FFVII or Star Ocean.
I think that is my favorite "walk map" style. I like it a lot when the camera is fixed than when you have to turn it around all the time.

First: FF6 Multi party battles for RPGs, it could be used even better in games where the plot sets you in a war and you have a verty very large cast of characters as your army (like Suikoden)

True! This idea is pretty cool but not really used too well. I guess that one FFVI Locke-themed bonus dungeon executed it pretty good, though.

Reading FF6 and "multi" makes me think another thing I would like to see:
- RPGs where a second player can take control of half the characters in battle (in FF6 you could set it so that in battles you can enter commands with a second gamepad too)

Also:
- A versus and co-op mode in SRPGs! Shining Force 2 had this as a cheat, but I'd like to see it implemented properly, including allowing the 2nd player to move the enemy forces rather than them being moved by the AI