Here's a game that no one ever seems to speak about yet is extremely good and was made by the people who made Deus Ex (no it doesn't play like it):
Anachronox
It's a Sci-fi turn based RPG that plays like nothing you've ever seen before. No need to worry though no random encounters, it's got the Chrono Trigger type of encounters (enemies just sit in a specific spot). Also other than the turn based combat, this game plays nothing like a JRPG(I hate that term) both in combat and outside of combat. The game has a hell of a lot of detail too. It has a massive amount of side quests (not as many as oblivion but still a huge amount per planet), the game is long (in part to the side quests I suppose) , has a great sense of humor (I'm serious this game is one of the funniest RPGs I have ever played), the cities are usually huge. There are plenty of mini games as well as each character has a "world skill" which will be used a decent amount of times such as a lock decription minigame, an enhailing minigame (it's used by an old man character to tell long irrelevant stories to drive people to their wits end, pretty funny stuff) and so on. This is a game where you will probably spend more time talking to people than fighting, think of mass effect without the dialoge tree in this case (you will get dialoge choices many times but not most of the time).
While the combat is fun, this is the kind of game where you play for the story, and humor. Note if you don't like dialogue (voice and text) and just want to kill then this game probably isn't for you. The battle system is by no means bad but the story and parts of side quests that don't involve combat will definitly take priority over the game.
I emplore you, try this game if you like RPGs of any kind as it's an amazing game.
If you're interested in the combat scroll down.
As for the combat, it has the Active Battle Timer system like in chrono trigger and some of the Final Fantasy games. When it's your turn you choose what you want to do such as a normal attack, use an item, use a special attack and two other things. The Special attack can be used over time during a battle. As time goes on during battle your special attack gague will fill up and you will be able to use special moves. As for the other two options in battle you can choose to move or use. Move lets you move one space on the battle field mosly used by melee characters since they need to be next to their enemies to attack, ranged characters do not need to be next to enemies. As for use, sometimes in special battles there will be an object on the field that you may have to or want to use such as a lever that turns something on.
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