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Nintendo - Is Zelda an RPG? - View Post

fatslob-:O said:
MDMAlliance said:


The different definitions come from different applications and people redefining it.  Traditionally, a role-playing game didn't refer to video games at all.

That's true but it doesn't necessarily exclude them from been in a different format so the original definition fits pretty well ... 

Some of the nuances were likely varied among people, since the term itself is rather broad.  The reason it's becoming such an issue now has a lot to do with how many different games and sub-genres there are now.  Sweeping terms worked fine then, but now there are so many kinds of games, and many games trying to be different from each other that people will want a way to categorize all of them and separate them from one another.