jarrod said:
Boutros said:
jarrod said:
Boutros said:
jarrod said:
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And Super Paper Mario is in no way or form a RPG O.o
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Take it from someone who's completed the game, yes it is. In fact, it's more of an RPG than a platformer, the emphasis is squarely on grinding, subsystems and exploration (just like Paper Mario 1-2), only now everything's realtime.
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But the gameplay is nowhere near a RPG.
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Uh, have you played it? All it did is take Paper Mario and make it realtime without a separate battle screen, the structure, subsystems and progression are definitely RPG based. Basically, if Paper Mario's not an RPG, then neither is any action RPG on the list (Fable II/III, Infinite Undiscovery, Folklore, etc).
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"All it did is take Paper Mario and make it realtime"
Thus making it a whole other game and genre. The gameplay is much closer to the platformer genre.
And of course I played it. It's my biggest disappointment this gen.
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So... if a game's realtime, it's not an RPG? Mana, Star Ocean, Tales of, Kingdom Hearts, Dark Cloud, Ys, Fable, MegaMan Battle Network... none of them are RPGs?
I'm honestly at a bit of a loss of how anyone can actually play the game and still say "Super Paper Mario is in no way or form a RPG". Unless maybe they have no idea what an RPG actually is... how exactly would you define an RPG?
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It's realtime and in 2D. It's not because you level up that's it's a RPG.
The gameplay is exactly like the platformer genre and that's mostly how I categorize games.
And it's not because it has some RPG elements that it should be considered a RPG.
And games like Kingdom Hearts and Dark Cloud are much more action than RPG.
There can only be one dominating genre.
