What's the appeal of turn-based RPGs?

>but most games just devolve into mashing the basic attack option
This is something a bunch of retards who have hardly played any jrpgs say, or who are retards who grind out the ass and vastly overlevelled for every single area of the game.
And when it does happen, it's not done for reasons of speed, it's done for reasons of resource management in that you don't want to spend your fucking mp, or tp, or sp, or skill uses or whatever else the game uses when you don't know what's coming up next.

Being good at dark souls is more hinged on the action front, which is why people are hesitant to group it with Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest.

The idea is you have time to input actions for a whole party instead of just one character.

xcom is a jrpg now?

You fags always say this, but in most jrpgs it's actually just faster to grind till your overleveled then to spend time every single random battle deciding what moves to use.

>A. spend half an hour grinding and then smash x for every random battle for the rest of the game
>B. spend a few seconds every turn, every battle for the entire game, totaling several hours of extra playtime

>>A. spend half an hour grinding and then smash x for every random battle for the rest of the game
This happens in zero games unless you follow some kind of guide for grinding bullshit that you would never otherwise do. Standard xp curves do not allow for this kind of bullshit and you have to find intentionally put in, usually hidden, exceptions to make this remotely possible, or abuse bugs or oversights in design a la suikoden 2.

Here's the thing though retardo: people play games to have fun, not to get through it as fast as possible so they can move on to the next game. That means they play the game as it comes and as intended, not wasting their time grinding to make the game easier. And the saga games exist, are jrpgs, and completely shit all over your dumbass way of playing

using buffs and status effects really isnt as mentally taxing as you think it is

they're comfy

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Also, you know what's faster than grinding and then auto attacking your battles? Just running from standard battles like a non retard

>try to run from battle
>failed
>failed
>failed
>GAME OVER