What is an RPG?

What is an RPG?

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role playing game

What qualifies as an RPG?

Rocket-propelled grenade

Role playing.

RPG elements

a) is it a game?
b) do you play a role?
if yes then it is a role playing game

Elaborate.
So are hero shooters RPGs then?

Role playing game. I associate RPGs with having a party of CPU characters. For instance Ghost Recon feels more like an RPG than Yakuza does, yet Yakuza has been mislabeled for over a decade.

Due to the influence of Metal Gear Solid, most action games now have RPG elements.

Rpg is a type of game where you have numbers you can rise to make your character better at something regardless if the game has any features where you take a role and play it in a meaningful way.

You could argue that every video game is an RPG because you take the role of something and play as it. The video game community seems to agree that RPG means upgrades, rising attributes, and having gear.

game has numbers
>rpg elements

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>So are hero shooters RPGs then?
Is role playing the primary focus of the game?

No game has yet to recreate the tabletop RPG experience, its hard to describe how a DnD campaign can be a sandbox and yet linear story at the same time, the story is adapting as you play, its nor like your typical open world RPG where you pick up a thousand quests at once and complete them hours later after you've forgotten about them. There is also how tabletop RPGs allow pretty much anything, if I want to use the sun reflecting on my sword to blind my enemy then my DM just make up rules on the spot. Videogames simply cannot recreate this amount of freedom.

>I'll do it for the good of the land!
>I'll do it if you'll pay me!
>Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!

Well, when you pick a class, you fulfill a specific role, e.g. healers. So would a game like OW be considered an RPG?

>BARGE IN GUNS BLAZING
>TALK TO THEM TO GET WHAT I WANT
>SNEAK AROUND BACK
>YOU'RE THE WRONG CLASS FOR THIS QUEST

Role playing doesn't just come down to classes. The thing thats make a role playing game is acting out. The more you can act out your character the more it is an RPG. In a sense all games are role playing but what makes a true RPG is having little restriction in acting out a character.

A game with similar mechanics to tabletop role playing games such as stats, gear, classes, and leveling up
That's where the term comes from, it's not just "if you're playing a role it's a role playing game" because then literally any game with a protagonist would be an RPG

>What is an RPG?
A game where you're given the choice of playing a certain variety of roles and/or approach game situations with different tools and have the game adapt to your choices in a meaningful way.

An RPG is defined by abstraction of instances through a mathematical approach, furthermore the gameplay and characters are STRICTLY defined by abstract and inherent character skills as opposed to direct player inputs, anything that strays from this rule goes into the simulation territory, which is antithetical to an RPG environment, which thrives on abstraction of reality instead of a complex and accurate simulation of it.
Basically, if it ain't turn based it ain't an RPG, suck it up.

You're all retarded, RPG literally just means stats, level ups, equippables, etc. Back before RPG video games, these systems came from tabletop role playing games and that's the source of the term. That's it.

Literally every game is an RPG by your definitions

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An acronym.
Stands for role playing game.

with that definition, pretty much all modern games are RPGs. Those elements are everywhere now.

And by your retarded logic, every non-turn based game ever could be called an RTS.
The labels get applied for the elements that are focused on the most heavily.