Do you think The Witcher 3 is an RPG?

[Trentonater]

LegitHyperbole said:

Trentonater said:

A better game for the debate is mainline series Monster Hunter. The gamess are not considered RPGs in the east and basucally only got the action-rpg label stuck to them inteh west because the west doesn't want to adopt "Hunting Action Game" genre label Japan uses.

So it's a genre that only it and two other games fit into or is there a slew of games like this in Japan? Is RDR2 a hunting action game?

tthe was an army of them launching to fill the void of monster hunter leaving playstation behind. soul sacrifice, freedom wars, toukiden, god eater, wild hearts etc. The closest games in the wesst have come tot he formula are horizon and dauntless but horizon was still a little different by being single player only until hunter's gathering. One key thing about hunting actionn games is actually that they don't have character progression at all which is basically anti-rpg.  all progression comes from gear crafting.