What defines a RPG?

[Jumpin]

adriane23 said:

Jumpin said:
The Adventure game genre is one of the oldest; and was popular in both Japan and North America - but remained much more popular in Japan. The core mechanic of the genre involves players being presented with situations or dialogue, and are given options with how to proceed. An example of a recent adventure game would be Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. Games like Mass Effect 2 are often mislabeled as RPGs, but they are action-adventure titles (due to being dominated by those elements) with traditional adventure elements and some RPG elements.

Never really thought of it like that. Like Choose Your Own Adventure books.

Yeah, you could accurately say that adventure games began in paper form, not unlike RPGs.