Is ATB Dead?

[felfenix]

I find stricktly turn based system incredibly boring. And yes, FF13 did indeed have a sort of ATB, too bad the AI characters ruined it.

I've never understood that mentality. ATB is basically turn based, but you have to watch a bar fill up between turns, so it actually takes longer. In turn based, you just cut straight to the turn, without any periods of everybody doing nothing, waiting for a bar to fill up. ATB, to me, was the aspects of turn based, combined with the worst aspects of real time.

But this is the best aspect of ATB systems, it did allow you to enhance your own pace unlike turn based (beside FFX) by using accessories or increase your speed stats or auto-mated haste and moving from character menu to another seamlessly.

Yeah, but no matter how fast the bar fills up, it can't get faster then having the turns just go instantly one after the other. As for the "realistic pressure" I honestly just prefer a full real-time game (like Versus XIII or KH) for that kind of thing. I thought it was pretty lame in XIII how I couldn't have one of my party members move out of the way, or move away from the rest of the party when targeted with an AOE. The closest thing to ATB that I really like is FFXII's system, as that was seemless and allowed movement.