bouzane on 07 November 2008
Role playing involves making decisions pertaining to allegiance, dialog, character development, approaches to various situations, etc... Zelda has very little, if any, actual role playing. The Zelda series is the very definition of action adventure, it fits into no other genre. Deus Ex on the other hand allows you to choose your skills and augmentations and what dialog Denton says. Also, in Deus Ex, you can take a stealthy or combat-oriented approach to different situations and exploit skills such as lock picking and computer hacking to aid you. These decisions define role playing because they allow you to play the role as you see fit, kind of like D&D which is actual role playing. I hope that provides some clarification.
