forest-spirit on 31 March 2015
RPG = Role Playing Game = Game in which you role play
Zelda gives you a pre-defined character that's fully controlled by the story. You don't get to do any role-playing. An experience system, although commonly used by RPG's, does not automatically make a game an RPG so Zelda II shouldn't be counted as an RPG either.
I now this also makes most JRPG's non-RPG's but that's why God gave us the JRPG genre, so we get to call RPG's that really aren't RPG's, RPG's.
