Monster Hunter Stories 3 Almost Became An Action-RPG

A certain subset of the gaming population generally prefers turn-based battle systems over action. We’re a smaller group overall, but with the success of Baldur’s Gate 3 and this year’s Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, we’ve gotten louder again. Perhaps a bit annoyingly so; I’m not going to lie. For all the outcry that turn based is “finally back,” it was never really gone; it just slipped mostly off of the mainstream radar.

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