concept: fighting game where all the animations and stuff are slow, rather than really fast and hard to react to

i feel like it'd completely change how one plays the game

@Felthry the idea isn't usually to react to things. stuff is intentionally made unsafe and yet unreactable, to reward someone who guesses right

that said

you might like yomi

@monorail oh i just like the idea of a fighting game centered around reacting to things rather than predicting things

@Felthry hm. i don't know how well it would work in practice, it feels like no one would ever do anything unsafe because if everything is reactable, i can see a jab coming, block and punish

but there might be ways to make it work

@monorail@glaceon.social @Felthry@awoo.space i'm not sure if you could ever "force" people to react instead of predict, since the prediction strategy of fighting is also technically about reactions, but preemptively. in both cases the ultimate question is "if they do A, I should do B"

@senbonzakura @Felthry that is true, i assumed it meant reactions in the sense of "reaction time" though

in a slow enough game, the question is never "if they do A" because you can see that they are doing A

@senbonzakura @monorail yeah that's what I meant, like the turn-based analogy would be seeing that an enemy is charging up their ultimate attack, so you could then counter by casting the Ultimate Attack Stopper spell or whatever, but that would also take time to charge up and i dunno exactly how this'd all work out

@Felthry @senbonzakura the issue i can think of with this is that it's hard to incentivize someone to use their Ultimate Attack if they know that their opponent has and will use the Ultimate Attack Stopper

@monorail@glaceon.social @Felthry@awoo.space i can think of two possible ingredients

- meter
- move cancels

@senbonzakura @monorail meter?

@Felthry @senbonzakura super meter, basically just a bar that fills up over time or whenever you land attack or something and you have to spend it on certain moves

@monorail @senbonzakura oh, limit breaks

@Felthry @senbonzakura likely a very similar mechanic but i haven't played anything with a limit break

@monorail @senbonzakura have you not played any rpg made after like 1997?

@Felthry@awoo.space @monorail@glaceon.social hey i've played a lot of RPGs and the only ones I've ever played that have limit breaks were Final Fantasy

@senbonzakura @monorail the Tales series, Paper Mario, and Octopath Traveller all have something analagous that I can think of

@Felthry@awoo.space @monorail@glaceon.social my point is that "have you not played any modern RPGs" is rude and a false extrapolation