History Main / VisualInitiativeQueue

* ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptunia''

** ''AtelierIris3'' Uses a queue of "action cards" rather than the bar from the previous game.

** ''AtelierIris2TheAzothOfDestiny'' This concept is implemented at a bar with pointers siding along the bar indicating the action order. This was also the first game in the series to use the concept.

** ''AtelierTotori''
** ''VideoGame/AtelierMeruru''

* This feature is also in ''VideoGame/MegaManXCommandMission'', aligned along the bottom of the screen.
** Doubles as a quick-glance health bar for each unit!

* ''{{Persona 3}}'' and ''{{Persona 4}}'' both let you view the order of turns by pressing a button. It then shows an overhead view of the battle, with whose turn is when displayed above the figure. However, while ''Persona 3'' and ''Persona 3 [[UpdatedRerelease FES]]'' would display the order of the next complete turn of actions, ''Persona 4'' and ''Persona 3 Portable'' only show the immediate next character to act.

* ''ArcRiseFantasia'' features a {{downplayed| trope}} form of this. Small icons on the bottom right of the screen to reflect action point decisions and give you an idea of how the battle will play out before you commit to the round, but you otherwise can't plan out the battle in other forms of this trope.

[[caption-width-right:256:So the battle goes: TheHero, [[BossBattle Boss]], TheLancer, SquishyWizard, MysticalWaif, TheHero...]]

* ''Franchise/{{Atelier}}'' (and just about every Gust Corporation game)

** ''AtelierIris2TheAzothOfDestiny'' This concept is implemented at a bar with pointers siding along the bar indicating the action order.
** ''AtelierIris3'' Uses a queue of "action cards" rather than the bar from the previous game.
** ''VideoGame/ArTonelico'' Classic horizontal cards in the top left of the battle screen featured in most Gust Corporation games.
** ''VideoGame/ManaKhemiaAlchemistsOfAlRevis'' 16 horizontal cards at the top left of the battle screen.

* ''{{Persona 3}}'' and ''{{Persona 4}}'' both let you view the order of turns by pressing a button. It then shows an overhead view of the battle, with whose turn is when displayed above the figure.

* ''HoshigamiRuiningBlueEarth''

* ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'' does this from ''Covenant'' on, very useful in exploiting the boost system and knowing who to boost above enemy turns in the third game. It also had a Boost mechanic that would allow a character to "cut" in line and take their turn next.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'' trilogy. This had the added twist of having certain turns on the turn wheel grant special effects, such as double experience if you defeated an enemy that turn.

* ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'' does this from ''Covenant'' on, very useful in exploiting the boost system and knowing who to boost above enemy turns in the third game.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'' trilogy

[[caption-width-right:256:So the battle goes: TheHero, [[BossBattle Boss]], TheLancer, SquishyWizard, MysteriousWaif, TheHero...]]

* ''Franchise/Atelier'' (and just about every Gust Corporation game)

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* ''FinalFantasyX''

* ''ShadowHearts'' does this from ''Covenant'' on, very useful in exploiting the boost system and knowing who to boost above enemy turns in the third game.
* ''[[HyperDimensionGameNeptune Hyperdimension Neptunia]]''
* ''AtelierSeries'' (and just about every Gust Corporation game)

** ''AtelierMeruru''

** ''ArTonelico'' Classic horizontal cards in the top left of the battle screen featured in most Gust Corporation games.
** ''ManaKhemia'' 16 horizontal cards at the top left of the battle screen.

* ''RadiantHistoria'' uses the top screen to list the next 9 moves. After a little bit, you can even swap any two turns (hero or monster) to extend chains.

* ''SkiesOfArcadia'', this happens with guns during ship battles, [[DownplayedTrope sort of]]. Whose action goes when is visible, and select-able, but I don't think you can tell whether the opposition or you will go first in any given turn.

* ''PhantomBrave''

* ''DevilSurvivor'' and ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2''

!!Examples

* ''PhantomBrave''

* ''VideoGame/LordOfTheRingsTheThirdAge''. The turn order is represented by headshots of the party stacked on top of each other.
* In the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'' series, pushing a button allows the player to see a list displaying the order the units will take their turn as well as when charged abilities like spells will go off.
** ''{{Final Fantasy Tactics A2}}''

* ''DevilSurvivor''
* ''{{Xenosaga}} III''

* ''VideoGame/WildARMs3'' implements this when battling using the sandcraft.

* ''{{Sands Of Destruction}}'' for the DS puts the character portraits of the party and enemies in order of their turn.
* In ''BlueDragon'', the top of the screen tells the turns of the player and the monster.
* ''{{Monsters Den}} Book of Dread'' shows the queue [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uTcFNO1w29A/Tv3nTFwyabI/AAAAAAAACUI/q8RZtZJp2kI/s1600/monstersden.png with text instead of headshots]]. ''Monster's Den Chronicles'' shows the queue with headshots.

* MARDEK RPG uses this trope as well, displaying several turns worth at the top of the screen at a time.

When the turn order in a video game, usually strategy or {{RPG}}, is shown in a way that shows the next several turns, usually shown with a stack or line of headshots of the characters and enemies.

* Arc Rise Fantasia features a {{downplayed| trope}} form of this. Small icons on the bottom right of the screen to reflect action point decisions and give you an idea of how the battle will play out before you commit to the round, but you otherwise can't plan out the battle in other forms of this trope.

* ''{{Xenosaga}}''

* ''SkiesOfArcadia'', this happens with guns during ship battles, [[DownplayedTrope sort of. Whose action goes when is visible, and select-able, but I don't think you can tell whether the opposition or you will go first in any given turn.

* ''VideoGame/LordOfTheRingsTheThirdAge''
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'', pushing a button allows the player to see a list displaying the order the units will take their turn as well as when charged abilities like spells will go off. Understanding the basics of this is crucial to playing the game with any measure of success.

* ''AtelierSeries''

** ''AtelierMeruru''

* ''DevilSurvivor''

When the turn order in a video game {{RPG}} is shown in a way that shows the next several turns, usually shown with a stack or line of headshots of the characters and enemies.

This can have several effects. One is letting the player(s) plan out the next few rounds instead of one round at a time. Another is that someone's speed stat tends to become more prominent, as not only will faster characters get turns sooner, but can often get multiple turns within a round. Using spells that speed up and slow characters can thus turn a battle even moreso than other methods.

These can involve various amounts of RealTimeWithPause.

Thus if AliceAndBob are at the first and second positions respectively, and the BlobMonster they are fighting is third, then they will each get an move, and then the blob monster gets a move.