| Words Of Wisdom said: Meh. I miss the original base categories (RPG, Adventure, Action...etc). Diablo 2 is a hack'n'slash Action game IMO. The entire story is nothing but an excuse to motivate the player to go out, kill enemies, take their stuff...etc. I also detest the idea that a level-up system is synonymous with RPG. To me that makes absolutely no sense. When did Role-Playing Game suddenly come to mean a Level-Up Game? Going back to my original point, you have real Role-Playing Games like Fallout 2 and Baldur's Gate 2 in the same sentence as a hack'n'slash game like Diablo 2. Seeing them lumped together is painful because they're completely different experiences. |
RPG is a fairly broad genre, but yes, it's defined by a statistical character development. I mean, consider what defines an action game... Fighting things lol. There are a lot of very broad genres out there, and yes, RPG is one of the broad ones.
