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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9679763" data-attributes="member: 18">This is correct, confusingly there are three different terms that the industry uses to indicate different things:ARPG - This indicates a Diablo-style game with highly randomized loot, probably randomized enemies to some extent, likely grinding/farming, maybe randomized/procedural levels and so on. Usually optionally multiplayer.Action RPG/Action role-playing game - This means an RPG, usually first or third person, that uses mainly real-time combat - this most RPGs at this point. Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Dragon Age Veilguard, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, Mass Effect, Dragon's Dogma 1/2, Elden Ring, Dark Souls, etc. etc.Action adventure game - Means a game, usually third-person, rarely-but-not-never first person (Indiana Jones was), which is primarily an action game, but confusingly might often have fairly significant RPG elements, like multiple skill trees (or even classes!), dialogue trees, multiple paths through the game, and so on.There's significant crossover between the latter two - and not zero crossover between the former and the latter two! For example, Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, at launch, was an open-world first person shooter, but had several different classes with very RPG-esque abilities, and also featured Diablo-style loot of varying quality, with levels, randomized stats and so on. Some people absolutely HATED that because it was otherwise quasi-realistic, so they patched in a mode where guns didn't have levels or stats or anything, which you could use instead (and managed to balance it so you could play with people using the other mode, which kind of impressed me).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9679763, member: 18"] This is correct, confusingly there are three different terms that the industry uses to indicate different things: ARPG - This indicates a Diablo-style game with highly randomized loot, probably randomized enemies to some extent, likely grinding/farming, maybe randomized/procedural levels and so on. Usually optionally multiplayer. Action RPG/Action role-playing game - This means an RPG, usually first or third person, that uses mainly real-time combat - this most RPGs at this point. Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Dragon Age Veilguard, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, Mass Effect, Dragon's Dogma 1/2, Elden Ring, Dark Souls, etc. etc. Action adventure game - Means a game, usually third-person, rarely-but-not-never first person (Indiana Jones was), which is primarily an action game, but confusingly might often have fairly significant RPG elements, like multiple skill trees (or even classes!), dialogue trees, multiple paths through the game, and so on. There's significant crossover between the latter two - and not zero crossover between the former and the latter two! For example, Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, at launch, was an open-world first person shooter, but had several different classes with very RPG-esque abilities, and also featured Diablo-style loot of varying quality, with levels, randomized stats and so on. Some people absolutely HATED that because it was otherwise quasi-realistic, so they patched in a mode where guns didn't have levels or stats or anything, which you could use instead (and managed to balance it so you could play with people using the other mode, which kind of impressed me). [/QUOTE]

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