At what point do RPG elements = RPG?

[Lurker]

phxprovost said:

Lurker said:
There's more to RPGs than just leveling systems and stuff. They need to be somewhat lengthy, offer sidequests, dialog conversations and choices. Yeah you can upgrade your magic and abilities in a game like God of War, but calling it an RPG would be foolish.

But by that standered what would you consider demons souls?  Theres pretty much no dialog in the game that really has any bearing on anything, you can honostly beat the game while only talking to 2 people.  The game only really has one side quest  and thats to get the northern regalia.  And the only choice you really have in the game is to kill everyone you come across or to  kill almost everyone you come across.  Yet I personally consider the game an rpg.

It's an action dungeon crawler style RPG. You get to create your character, pick from classes and have lots of skills to level. It's definitely an RPG, just not a real story focused one.