RPG = Role Playing Game.
The Witcher 3 is a RPG because you can influence the story with your actions throughout the whole game. Do you want to be good, neutral, bad, chaotic, etc? Therefore you're playing a role. It's not gameplay wise playing a role it's more story wise you're playing a role. Now this doesn't mean games with different endings are RPGs, it means game where every action and every answer you give influences where you go and what happens throughout the entire game and not just one or a few sections.
Other RPGs everyone knows about like playing one character that you have difference classes with or playing with a party where everyone isn't the same and each plays a different role (or class) instead of just one person playing any (or every) class.
I've seen gamers and even developers call games RPGs where they literally aren't, such as Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West. Those games do not fit any criteria to be call RPGs.
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