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| selnor said: I did say that I dont refer to games as WRPG's. Purely because There is RPG's and games that have a couple of RPG elements. Thats it. 1 or the other. I explained what an actual RPG is. And I said to developers that stick closely to that formula. It just so happens that more western companies make traditional RPG's. I have yet to find 1 eastern made game that is anything remotely close to say Dungeons and Dragons, Mass Effect or Any Elder Scrolls game. There are others, but this was examples. |
Mass Effect and Oblivion are nowhere near good definitions of Role Playing Games. Nor should they be qualified as such. Sandbox Enivornment =/= Role Playing. Otherwise do you think Grand Theft Auto is a Role Playing Game? Actually they probably deviated the most from the original WRPGs. Like Kenryoku said, there isn't one video-based game that fits the perfect definition of a Role Playing Game. Also even in your comparison, the games are different enough to be labeled as different genre's. Oblivion should be an Action-Adventure, Mass Effect is iffy, either an Action-Adventure or Shooter with adventuring aspects. Dungeon's and Dragons depends on the game really. I've see those games everywhere.
Edit: Oh and btw. You don't label games as WRPGs right? Well then you better stop putting non-rpgs into a category called "RPG". Oblivion and Mass Effect aren't "pure" examples of Role Playing games. I like to classify my RPGs by their battle system. Traditional Turnbased(which btw rooted from those Pen and Paper RPGs you are talking about,) Real Time, etc.
