14th November 2003, 12:20 PM
Quote:Not true. As I said, turn-based strategy games and wargames both well predate the Wars series, incontestibly..
Not TBS's like Famicom Wars. Not even close.
Quote:I'd rather catagorize them by how they play than what system they are on... menu-based, turnbased combat, realtime, pausable realtime, action-style realtime, and variations on those basic types...

That's great, but there is a very specific RPG sub-genre called the "console-style RPG".