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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pale Violet Light" data-source="post: 9844507" data-attributes="member: 33929">There’s a vast array of games I would define as RPGs, just not the subsection that we are discussing. You may accuse me of “few-true Scotsmanning, if you wish. If the role-playing is limited to your head, and doesn’t interact with the mechanics of the game at all, I wouldn’t call it an RPG. I might say that Norin Pintchugger, my Dwarf Priest in Angband, likes ale and hates elves, but there’s no way to express that in game.The two genres are so incredibly different, it’s a shame they (almost) share an acronym. I vastly prefer the former to the latter, for precisely the reasons you describe. But you are at least playing a (predefined) character in an jRPG, which you can then guide down the carefully-constructed railway tracks, occasionally making (largely-irrelevant) story choices, so it does qualify in my book. The line for what is and isn’t an RPG is a fuzzy one, on both the tabletop and the computer or console. Clearly you’re a broad church kinda person, while I have a narrower definition. That’s cool. Unless you want an argument, in which case:Your ridiculous assertion that caves of qud is an RPG just prove your willful ignorance. Just because you have fond memories of playing this primitive game, bereft of meaningful choice, while sheltering in your uncle’s basement during the Blitz, doesn’t mean it’s an RPG by any stretch! Things have moved on, grandpa! You need to play some REAL RPGs, like hidden indie gems The Witcher 3 or Arcanum - but you probably haven’t heard of those. And don’t get me started on “so-called” jRPGs - more like [redacted].</blockquote>

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