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Is it?

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ktay95 on 31 March 2015

Yes and here are some other popular RPGs
Call of Duty
Madden
FIFA
Need for Speed
Actually those 4 have more RPG elements than most Zelda games =P



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RenCutypoison on 31 March 2015

Action/Adventure in a rpg setting with some rpg inspired mechanics



Mnementh on 31 March 2015
RenCutypoison said:
Action/Adventure in a rpg setting with some rpg inspired mechanics

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.



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RenCutypoison on 01 April 2015
Mnementh said:
RenCutypoison said:
Action/Adventure in a rpg setting with some rpg inspired mechanics

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



Mnementh on 01 April 2015
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.



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Samus Aran on 01 April 2015
Maraccuda said:
It is an RPG to me.
You role play as Link and immerse yourself in his day by day life.

It is slower paced, with focus on puzzles rather than heavy combat.

So it's not an rpg as all you do in 90% of the rpgs is combat.

You don't have to take the definition of RPG litteraly, the definition changed when it comes to games.