Okay, so the combat of CRPGs is more interesting to me than the combat of normal over-the-shoulder RPGs, but the story outside of combat of ugly isometric view and babysitting 3+ idiots that can’t into pathing is misery.
So I’m thinking of outside of combat being 3rd-person with a hot-swappable PC, and then when combat starts having the party fan out and switching to isometric.
Do you think that’s feasible, or are CRPG people too used to being able to micromanage positioning before battle?
Would people be able to adapt to it better if it still had the ability to group-ungroup outside of combat, so that the 3rd person was basically an illusion?