your mother on 16 April 2007
At this day and age, most games are the result of some cross-pollination from different game "genres".
If you limit RPG to its definition, virtually all games are RPGs. Games like Tetris don't make the grade.
If you add in the "leveling up/character development" component, then GTA or Castlevania can be considered RPGs.
If you just include the story element, then Max Payne and God of War are RPGs.
All this is oversimplifying. Most of the time, RPGs (or most games nowadays, for that matter) are a mix of game styles and conventions. Few games are "pure to their roots" anymore.
