>>38989235>Not that guy, but I grew up with the old Pokemon games and to me, I always felt like turn based combat was just a hardware limitation more than a stylistic choice. It was the only realistic way to do combats in a handheld videogame like that.oh hell no, pokemon being turn-based was a VERY intentional decision.
pokemon is HEAVILY based on dragon quest, which is one of the most influential and important games in japan, (even the R/B beta was intended to use a dragon quest battle screen before they changed to what we have now), action games even predate RPG systems when it comes to videogames mainly the atari and nes. pokemon has always been more rooted on even dungeons & dragons and roleplaying instead of action or anything like that.
