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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dark Jezter" data-source="post: 2076138" data-attributes="member: 1015">These "tactics RPGs" you are mentioning (FF Tactics, Tactics Ogre, Front Mission, etc) are strategy games with perhaps a few light RPG elements thrown in for flavor.  If you can call them RPGs, then I can call Super Mario Brothers a first-person shooter.Just out of curiosity, what makes BG2's combat "twitchy?"  Is it the fact that it's pausable real-time rather than turn-based?For that matter, why is turn-based automatically assumed to be good while real-time is automatically assumed to be bad?  Yes, I watch movies.  I enjoy watching movies.  I don't like my games to be movies, which also explains why I didn't like Metal Gear Solid 2 (which seemed to have endless CG cutscenes for every few minutes of gameplay).Which is why I liked BG2 and PS:T's combat systems.  They managed to nicely fit the AD&D ruleset into a real-time combat system.You may feel that the BG games are completely without merit, which is your right, but even I can admit that Final Fantasy X had good graphics, animation, music, and storyline (even though it was sorely lacking in gameplay and interactivity).  Still, the Baldur's Gate franchise must have at least something going for it, considering how many copies it sold and how many "RPG of the Year" and "Game of the Year" awards it won.</blockquote>