On: Fixing the Turn-based Strategy genre

[jacques_chester]

Turn based games let you block other players from taking actions while you decide what to do. Realtime games do not.

That's the distinction, IMO, not turn length.

[saraid216 → jacques_chester]

You're not really disagreeing with me. You get to block other players for the length of your turn; if that length is infinitesimally small, that's still true. It just becomes meaningless; that's the entire point of blitzkrieg chess.

[jacques_chester → saraid216]

By which logic timesharing and batch computing are the same.

What matters is the player experience, not the implementation.