the term RPG has been used for what i describe for ages. its just a handful of nerds that like to argue that pretend it isn't. hell, if i go on any gaming site, fallout 4 is listed as an "FPS/RPG". you're arguing with the gaming industry itself, which has been labeling games with progression and levelling, as RPGs for fucking decades.
if you don't like it, too bad, but you don't get to tell most people, and the gaming industry, that they are wrong, because you personally disagree. words and terms and labels take on new meanings as it becomes common usage, deal with it.
you're also creating a strawman by saying quake would count as an RPG. no, it wouldn't. do you level your character and invest in skill points? no. getting better and newer guns is in every FPS.
if you don't like it, too bad, but you don't get to tell most people, and the gaming industry, that they are wrong, because you personally disagree
A lot of games have progression, that doesn't make them RPGs. Again, roleplaying game. I don't give a damn what the industry says, the game industry is wrong. Numbers don't make for roleplaying, roleplaying makes for roleplaying. And if we admit we can roleplay in Final Fantasy, then we may as well admit we can roleplay in Quake, Call of Duty, Mario, and basically most games with a set protagonist.
Laughing it out doesn't make it any less so. The only reason "RPG" is still used to describe JRPGs is because they haven't come up with a better name. "Stat-based adventure" isn't really marketable.
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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '17
the term RPG has been used for what i describe for ages. its just a handful of nerds that like to argue that pretend it isn't. hell, if i go on any gaming site, fallout 4 is listed as an "FPS/RPG". you're arguing with the gaming industry itself, which has been labeling games with progression and levelling, as RPGs for fucking decades.
if you don't like it, too bad, but you don't get to tell most people, and the gaming industry, that they are wrong, because you personally disagree. words and terms and labels take on new meanings as it becomes common usage, deal with it.
you're also creating a strawman by saying quake would count as an RPG. no, it wouldn't. do you level your character and invest in skill points? no. getting better and newer guns is in every FPS.