Quote Originally Posted by Nethereal View Post
I find a game that did that well was Tera. Yeah you were doing a shit ton of "DEX Checks" but you were actively doing "INT Checks" and if you fucked up you usually had something just as good as what fucked you up to counter it.

I.E. die in 0.5 seconds after the boss turns? Well you have a free revive buff you placed on yourself either before the fight started or during. You also relied a lot more on boss tells, how they were moving and their attack patterns more so than randomly dodging and if the boss did do random attacks then you would know they were going to randomly do it so it kept you on your toes waiting for it. That said Tera is a shit game, but the combat.
I just had one of those intrusive thoughts that's probably hilarious only to me. I imagined taking an action RPG and modding it. Replaced all of the enemy sound files with various speed and pitch-shifted versions of "A TEST OF YOUR REFLEXES", for every single attack