Is Zelda an RPG?

[Mnementh]

MDMAlliance said:

spemanig said:
No, it's an action adventure game. It's not even a little bit of an RPG. It doesn't even have RPG elements.

And Zelda is not "it's own thing." It's defined by a genre, just like everything else.

I'm sorry for this, but no.  RPG elements you're referring to are just the common thing RPG's have, but not what defines RPG's itself.  As one other has already pointed out, RPG stands for Role-Playing Game.  Break that down, you see "Role-Playing."  I'm sure you know what role and playing mean by themselves, and if one will modify the other what that has to mean.  Yes, it means the game has you playing a role.  I am sure you realize that this suddenly makes RPG's actually quite a bit more broad, which is why we come up with all these other terms to further narrow it down.  Overlapping of genres is inevitable, because they are pretty much simplifications to help identify something.  Calling Zelda not its own thing is incorrect, because Zelda was not made to fit an archetypal genre.  Many games are actually its own thing.  

While you may argue I'm arguing semantics, you were also arguing over these very same semantics.

As I see that you as many here refer to RPG as the player is steering a character (but not actually deciding about the character), do you really say this is an RPG: