richardhutnik said:
And we can go down the JRPG route by saying THIS is why they are awesome: Their linear story and leveling up allow for the argument that any linearly driven plot game with stat-building is an RPG. Thanks to JRPGs, we can argue that "God of War" is also an RPG. Thus JRPGs enable any game short of Tetris to be considered an RPG. Of course, of Tetris had a linear plot and enable you to gain new powers, it would be an RPG to. Thank you JRPGs for broadening the RPG genre so much! Beyond this, one has to say that all videogame RPGs are mere shadow emulations of pen and paper RPG systems, and offer a shadow of freedom to ROLE PLAY, and the system act as a restrictive RPG. |
If you want to be like that, than almost every game is an RPG. In almost every game, you play as a character in the game, in other words, you play a role. Just like almost every game can be an adventure/puzzle/action game.
