Is Zelda an RPG?

[Mnementh]

RenCutypoison said:

Mnementh said:

RPG as a classification has no setting. Pen&Paper RPGs (the games which were the inspiration for videogame RPGs) have nearly every setting: Fantasy (Dungeons&Dragons), Science Fiction (Shadowrun), Pirates(Run out the guns), Horror (World of Darkness), Mice (Mouse guard), ...

So a fantasy setting says nothing about a game being RPG or not.

I know settings are different from genre =)

I meant Zelda series uses a lot of tropes seen usually in RPGs

Yes, thats true.