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.

I have played this game four times, thrice through the expansions and the level of choice is as clear as something like the newer, lighter RPG's like games from Larian studios. It lacks emergent stuff from those games but there's more to this, it is so nuanced here that you can't see the details in choice cause it does it so well. Whole sections of the game will be withdrawn from you depending on your choice, so much change from one playthrogh to the next. Things can happen hours apart that change how the stories unfold, sometimes dozens of hours apart. I've played choice based games like Detroi become human and been less impressed by the sprawl of the choice here. 

I think they done it too well, they didn't make light of it and because it's scripted and not dynamic as with older RPG's nor is there a character creater people write this off. I have spent so much time this playthrough fucking up and the reloading saves cause I know there's a better outcome than I got.

This game had everything that defines an RPG apart from a character creator but fuck silent characters. 

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?

You already asked this before with a full topic and poll. How many Witcher 3 topis do you need? You're now repeating yourself.

Until everyone submits that TW3 is the best game ever, I will never stop. 

... I will stol though. I promise this is the last. 

Not even top 100.  

There, there...you're breaking poor sod's heart here mate.

No he didn't, but you did.