Article: The Wii's Promising RPG Future - Agree or Disagree?

[Khuutra]

blaydcor said:

Khuutra said:

Torillian said:
health and damage are not "stats" as I am defining them. They are usually affected by them.

Every game I easily define as an RPG has a page for your characteristics in which you can look at stats such as strength, speed, luck, etc.

The only genre I can think of that might cross paths in this regard would be RTS's, but it seems that we should be able to keep those apart through other criteria.

So Odin Sphere isn't an RPG, but every single DS Castlevania is?

Yeah, there are anamolies.

Though yeah, I'd consider Castlevania games Action RPG's, or at least action games with RPG elements.

I think, when in doubt, I prefer to say a game isn't an RPG. So when it's a tie, the winner is the other genre - I'd call Fire Emblem turn-based strategy, and Odin Sphere a sidescrolling action brawler.

Problematic in that my personal ideas about the genre don't fit the general discourse, which kind of renders it moot, but eh!